The City Beat Linear park gets close THE CITY is close to getting its hands on a strip of CN land along the highway to create a linear park. City planner David Trawin said the land involved is a 50- foot wide strip of land north of the railway wacks from Eby St. all the way to Kalum Lake Dr, The city hopes for a deal in which CN turns over the land to the city in exchange for consideration on other properties CN wants to subdivide. ‘*The tentative arrangement looks good,’’ Trawin said, The planned walkway would involve a 10-foot- wide meandering asphalt walkway about 20 feet away from the highway, There would be a divider line on the path, creating one section for walkers and another for bikers and rol- lerbladers. The surrounding land would be grassed and there would be a solid landscaped buffer between the park and the railway tracks, The city would pay the basic costs of developing the park, Trawin said. After that service clubs might install benches and the Beautification Society might put in flower beds, College cuts raise alarm CITY COUNCILLORS are concerned about proposed cutbacks to second-year university transfer courses at Northwest Communily College. Councillor Val George sald the college has been here 30 years now if you count its early history as a voca- tional scheol. In that time, he said, this is the first occasion in which there’s been any talk of a decrease in programs or ser- vices. “This is a very serious retrograde step,’ said George, who was himself president of NWCC from 1976 to 1989. ‘“We have not had to face such a step be- fore in this community.’’ He was responding to a delegation to council of in- structors fighting the course cuts. Instructors’ union spokesman Rocque Berthiaume told council the cuts to 37 courses here basically slashes the second-year scicnces program and turns the college into a one-year institution. Berthiaume said those cuts will only save $275,000 — a far cry from the total $800,000 accumulated deficit. ‘‘It’s a small cost relative to the service pro- vided to our region,”’ he said. Dart service improves RIDERSHIP on the HandiDART bus service rose 21 per cent in 1996. The total number of rides climbed from 5,487 in 1995 to 6,952 in 1996. Meanwhile, the number of requests the service was unable to accommodate fell from 190 to 153. Pas- sengers are tumed away at some peak times when the single pawatransit bus is overbaoked. Coastal Bus Lines manager Mike Docherty said the result — improved service at no increased cost to the city — is the result of ideas of his staff and drivers to make the service more efficient, Public to get say in plans for recreation A COMMUNITY SURVEY of recreation facility needs will go ahead this year. Council has yet to deliberate on mayor Jack Talstra’s promise to try to develop a consensus to-do list of major projects. But the city’s advisory parks and recreation commission has begun working on the problem already, ‘*You're about three steps ahead of council,’’ Talstra told the group recently. Yet city councillors said they had no problems with the commission’s proposals. The commission suggests using several, methods to gauge the city’s recreation priorities, A voluntary public opinion poll, random telephone sur- vey, public forums, special interest group interviews and written submissions are some of the tools it proposes using, ’ The exercise stems from the so-far failed efforts to build a second sheet of ice. Voters in 1995 defeated a proposal for a city-buill second arena with a price tag of $2.8 mil- lion, About $2.1 million would ‘have been borrowed, with user groups raising $750,000, <.-‘ +. Council in 1996 then moved to, explore the possibility of having a private company build and operate the facility, with the city buying a guaranteed amount of ice time each year. ; That was scrapped early this year after councillor con- cluded the city would be taking on tod. much risk and get- ting too little benefit. pores Council now hopes a community. consensus of what's needed in the city can be developed, and thereby gain ma- jority support for whatever facility is‘to be built first. Commission chairman Art Erasmus said the’ process will “not take a narrow definition of what constitutes a recrea- . tional facility. a ; “We will consider athletic as well as cultural types of facilities,” he said, That means people who want a theatre or art gallery or . community centre should also make their views known, and not assume that the process will focus on strictly sports facilities like the second sheet af ice. Erasmus said the same applies to ideas that don’t involve ,, buildings — like a bicycle trail or a walking trail. “We want to get the widest possible idea of what people “ want to see in town — for a number of years to come,’’ Erasmus said. . He predicts the group will be prepared to start collecting the public’s ideas in abouta month, ==} Erasmus said the group will provide council,with a prog- ress report by June 30, although it does not expect to com- " plete the process by then. Councillors said they look forward to seeing not only what people want but how much they’re prepared to pay in higher taxes to see it happen. Talstra said council will look at extending a small budget y to the commission to ensure it can do the job well. - “There’s a great expectation in the community that - something is going to be resolved,”’ said councillor Val George. Easter Sunday Doors open at 4:00 p.m. Book your table today! 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