Quality Repairs NEWS .--. to alljewelley G watches \ A- 2, . - Insurance Claims - -Appraisals - Recommended protected areas ROLANDA. BADKE The provincial government- A&B GEM JEWELLERS LTD. appointed Lower Mainland CertiJeii Gentologist regional protected areas com- & Golhmith, Lksigti er CHIEFTAIN CENTRE 892-3002 mittee has proposed that 24 areas, totaling about 137,880 hectares, be protected under the province's protected areas strat- eu- The areas and their approxi- mate sizes are: Bishop River - 20,000 hectares Brackendale - 550 hectares Callaghan - 2,600 hectares Caren Range - 2,825 hectares Chilliwack/ Greendrop - 9,500 hectares Clendenning - 30,500 hectares Confederation Lake - 2,615 hectares Desolation Sound - 20 hectares Duck Lake - 770 hectares Fraser lowlands - 1,000 hectares Homathko estuary - 460 hectares Liumchen - 2,080 hectares Mehatl - 24,260 hectares Mt. Elphinstone - 120 hectares Mt. Richardson - 1,070 hectares IBLACKTUSK R Mystic Lake - size not Affiliated with Royal LePage available Cleveland Am. 38235 a Nahatlatch Lakes - 1,900 892-3335(24 hr), 898- 5941(home} IYW hectares 18924924 12YEARS - A fop performing member of the prestigious President's Club for Rendezvous Island 120 hectares * Sockeye Creek - 6,140 hectares 0 Tantalus - 10,230 hectares Texada Island - 1,000 ii ec t a re s 0 Triangle Lake - 85 hectares Jeff Osterberg, left, and Brad Collins complete the framework for a camping Upper Lillooet - 19,800 at Stawamus Chief Provincial Park. It is one of the Lower Mainland's proter hectares areas, and when completed will have 45 walk-in sites and 15 drive-in sites.E e Yale Carry Oak - 5 hectares. Goldstone photo Kkll this could be just what you have been looking for.The Proposed Stoltmann wilderness fragmentei widor isVERY MOTNATED and has reduced the price to By Ron Em of the vast wilderness. At the south- Carmanah and Walbran. S55,OOO for this busy 50 seat sandwich and restaurant right on Sauamish Chief ern end, and located partially within Foy said the decision to not prc the main street of Squamish. Catering to the Royal Hudson an International Forest Products tree the entire Randy Stoltmann are train and a very loyal local clientele. Excellent opportunity for Conspicuously absent from the list farm licence, the committee has rec- similar to the government's decii ;I husband and wife or family opemtions. INTERESTED? of Lower Mainland areas recom- ommended preservation of the in 1993 to preserve only par1 Give me a call for all the details. mended for protection is the Randy 30,500-hectare Clendenning area. At Clayoquot Sound. Since then, Stoltmann wilderness area. the northern end of the wilderness, government has followed the BEEMERS, Clevland Ave - $55,000 The Western Canada Wilderness the 19,800-hectare Upper Lillooet ommendations of a scientific pl Committee has been campaigning to area has been recommended for pro- to reduce logging in the area e CALLRONNIE MCCARTNEY TODAY! have a 270,000-hectare valley-bot- tection by the committee. more and Foy believes Clayoc tom to mountain-top area north of WCWC campaign coordinator Joe Sound will eventually ail be prot Squamish protected. Foy said is not "something we ed. The Lower Mainland regional pro- haven't seen before." He said "If the environmental moven tected areas committee chose to rec- WCWC lobbied for years before the gets everything it wants, the ma; ommend protecting only some of government agreed to protect the ty of the land is still in the hand the southern and northern portions entire valleys such as the Stein, the forestry companies," Foy sai I1 Relax - Slow down at,.a RACE & COMPANY II mJ TAVERNA DOUGLAS BoCHIASSON For Atmosphere and Great Food! Divorce Trial Lawyer Contested and Uncontested Divorces Cloudy II Steak Sandwich with sunny Child and Spousal Maintenance periods. $6.95 $6.95 Child Custody and Access Separation Agreements Low 15. Zucclhini Sticks Cohabitation and Marriage Agreements Property Division High 24. Hot Chicken Wings Whistler - 3324370 Lorimer Road Squamish - 201-1365 Pemberton Ave. 892-9696 TAKE OUT - 892-9697 932-3211 892-5254/932-6938 THE SQUAMISH CHIEF AUGUST 27, 1996 I3 NEWS TIPS? CA 1L US (604) 892-97 6 7 OR FAX (604) 692-8483 Photo radar back this week After a short break while the equipment wa sed in other parts of the province, photc idar is back on the Sea to Sky Highwa:, Scorpions clean hot0 radar equipment was set up Sunday 01 up town \e highway between Lions Bay anc pamish. It will be in place until Aug. 31. Members of the Squamish Scorpions travel soccer teams spent the month of Hwy. 99 traffic delays August cleaning up the community in a pledge Paving of the new roadway at tht drive to raise money for heakamus Canyon slide site 30 kilometref uniforms and equipment. irth of Squamish began Monday and wil They also sold hot dogs at rntinue through Thursday. Single lane alter Save-On-Foods Saturday. iting traffic will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 7 David Donaidson photo m., with delays of up to 20 minutes depend. g on traffic volume. Ill lanes of Hwy. 99 in the area will be open traffic through the Labor Day long week- [d, from Friday until Tuesday morning. Industrial park hotel laving on sections of road from the ieakamus River bridge to Brandywine Falls I ovincial Park and at Powerline Hill will ce place from Sept. 3 to Sept. 27. Single lane ernating traffic will be in effect from 7 a.m. receives co unc iI ’s ar>r>roval 1I 7 p.m. By Ron Enns debate and the vote, citing a conflict of being updated and council may wish Donated fill aids heritage park Squamish Chief interest. to not consider the application until Council members in support of the the process is complete. ,&A Trucking has donated 100 truckloads of Almost one year after developers of proposal rejected the recommenda- Council and the economic devel- i material to the West Coast Railway a proposed hotel first approached the tions of the planning department and opment committee have reviewed Fritage Park. The fill, piled at the southwest municipality, Squamish council has ignored a council decision to support land-use in the industrial park and mer of the site, will be spread and levelled given the project preliminary hotel development in the industrial council has determined hotel use in help bring the base up to specifications for approval. park only in the northern sector of the southern area is not appropriate. istruction of phase two. But the municipal planning director phase two, which has yet to be devel- * The application may impact other ,mong the projects slated for phase two are recommended against council approv- oped. Mayor Corinne Lonsdale said properties in the municipality current- ull replica of a Pacific Great Eastern two- ing the first two readings of bylaws she does not believe there are other ly designated commercial or zoned to rey station, a locomotive servicing facility required for the proposed 111-room viable sites for a highway-fronting permit commercial hotel develop- me-hectare park area, a fire hall and a industrial park hotel to proceed. As hotel in Squamish. ment. chine shop attached to the carshop. well, council at the same meeting last Coun. Ted Craddock said it is incum- McNeney said according to council’s week approved of an amendment to bent upon council to back the plan- decision on a land-use vision for the Chief office closed Monday the official community plan that ning department, which outlined nine industrial park, hotel development would allow institutional and indoor areas of concern regarding the propos- would be embraced 300 metres to the ?cause of the Labor Day holiday, the office recreational uses in the southern part al. Concerns include: north. And Barr said the immediiite The Squamish Chief will be closed of the industrial park where the hotel The proposal does not meet the high demand for more hotel rooms in Inday Sept. 2. The deadline for classied ads site is, but does not make provision for official community plan amendment Squarnish dictates that council cannot kiday noon. All other material must be in a hotel. criteria. wait for servicing to be completed in 5 p.m. Friday The office will open again Developers Paul Turner and Bruce The site is too small to accommo- the northern part of the industrial isday at 9 a.m., and the paper will be pub- Kehler of Turn-Keh Investments pre- date the proposed development and park. He said the southern part of the Led Tuesday as usual. sented council with a slightly modi- valet parking is being proposed on a park ”is commercial anyway.” fied version of their original proposal lot down the street. Craddock said he is concerned after realizing the required majority of The development has not provided because there are no bylaws requiring Quote of the Week four council members was in support a significant landscape buffer along the developer to complete the entire of the proposal. The difference was Hwy. 99. project as planned. ”We may not get 6‘1 think I would have that Coun. Ron Barr, who originally The application will result in fur- what we see,” he said, depending traded a national opposed the project, changed his posi- ther pressure for commercial uses in upon econ om i c v i ‘3 b i 1it y. tion. the industrial park. Council has requested that the pro- hampionship title any day When council rejected the proposal Increased commercial develop- ponents of the proposed hotel hold a for an Olympic medal?’ in spring, council members support- ment in the industrial park will result public information meeting in ing the proposal were Mayor Corinne in increased servicing demands upon Squamish where COLIricil members - f l0NS BAY KAYAKER Lonsdale, Coun.