Rejection Urged:

The GVRD Board has recommended to the B.C. Land Commission
that an agricultural land reserve appeal on a 47.7 acre parcel in
East Delta be rejected. It was felt that the applieation to sub-
divide the site into three parcels would not improve farm viability.
The property is at the southeast corner of Highway No. 10 and 104th
Streets

Mayor Tonn Heads Group:

Coquitlam Mayor Jim Tonn has been named Chairman of the
GVRD's newly established Water and Waste Committee. The five
members of the committee were appointed by GVRD Chairman Allan
Kelly. The committee replaces the former 17-member Water and
Sewer Committee.

Other members of the new committee are Mayor Gil Blair

of Richmond, Mayor Don MacDonald of White Rock, Ald. Fritz Bow-
ers of Vancouver and Ald. Cliff Wyatt of West Vancouver.

Coquitlam Hospital:

 

The GVRD has approved a further $525,000 to covetplanning
and related expenses for the new Coquitlam and District Hospital.

Total cost of the hospital, which will be located in Port
Moody, is estimated at $17.6 million. It should be under construc-
tion within» a: year:

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WILDERNESS CORRECTIONAL COMMUNITY
PILOT PROGECT.

Intends to establish “self-supporting communities in rural
areas for parolees and ex-offenders in the belief that this type
of minimal stress situation will assist people to make the trans-
ition from Institutional life to Community with a lower failure
Paces

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related industries such as tree planting, shake splitting, etc. We