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North Van seeks cultural revolution
Consultant recommends new homes for Presentation House’s three tenants Benjamin Alldritt
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THREE of the North Shore’s foremost cultural institutions should be moved into new, multi-million-dollar buildings over the next two decades, according to a yearlong study commissioned by the City of North Vancouver. The purpose of the study was to determine the best way to house the Presentation House Gallery, Presentation House Theatre and the North Vancouver Museum. The consultants, Proscenium Architecture and Lydia Martson-Blaauw and Associates, were also tasked with researching the best use of the current Presentation House site and ways to develop Lower Lonsdale into a “cultural neighbourhood.” All three institutions are currently crammed into the elderly and quirky Presentation House complex. That building started life in 1902 as the city’s first schoolhouse and was later the city hall. But despite several generations of add-ons, the limitations of the structure are a major barrier for development and expansion of the arts in North Vancouver. The solution offered by the consultants’ study is to move all three bodies, one at a time, into new facilities. See City page 3
Tinder dry conditions spark wildfire warnings James Weldon
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FIREFIGHTERS are calling for caution from hikers and other forest users after dousing a grass fire Thursday afternoon and fighting a substantial brush fire in a North Vancouver park Sunday.
District of North Vancouver firefighters were called to McCartney Creek Park near Northlands Golf Course at about 8 p.m. Sunday when passersby reported signs of a blaze. Directed by a Coastal Fire Centre helicopter, the firefighters arrived at a rocky bluff deep in the park to find a quarter hectare of woodland in flames. The area, some distance from roads and even from walking trails, proved inaccessible to pumper trucks. Instead, the firefighters attacked the blaze
NEWS photo Lisa King
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FRANKIE Vass with Flowriders demonstrates his mountain biking skills to a crowd at Mahon Park in North Vancouver during Bikefest on Sunday, July 25. The event included bike demos, adult and kid safety courses, bike maintenance, yoga and helmet fitting.
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