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Rec centre staff next in line for vax mandate BRENT RICHTER
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North Vancouver Recreation and Culture staff are the next to face mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 to stay on the job.
Following decisions by all three North Shore municipalities and the West Vancouver Police Department, North Van Rec leadership told their 650 full-time, part-time and casual staff and volunteers last week they will need to have two doses of vaccine by March 31 if they want to keep working. North Van Rec director Heather Turner said the intent is to maximize the health and well-being of staff, who will now face the same rules as most clients coming to use North Van Rec facilities or classes, and to minimize staff downtime due to illness or hospitalization from COVID-19. “Being a responsible employer, we want to make sure that we are doing everything that we can. We’re following all the orders. We’re doing all the health and safety protocols. This is one more step in that process,” Turner said. Continued on page 16
HIGHER LEARNING Sarah Peden and her two-year-old son Hudson play at the Capilano University child-care centre. A new oncampus facility for child care and early childhood education was approved last week. Read our story on page 5. MIKE WAKEFIELD/NSN
REAL ESTATE MARKET
Assessed values in some neighbourhoods up 40%
JANE SEYD
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High demand for real estate combined with lack of homes for sale has made for a hot pandemic market on the North Shore, with sale prices and assessed values in some neighbourhoods up substantially more than the
average in 2022.
In North Vancouver, while an “average” single family home was up 22 per cent in assessed value this year, an average assessment in Westlynn Terrace, bordering Lynn Canyon, was up almost 45 per cent, jumping from approximately $1.3 million to over $1.9 million, according to data
provided by Landcor Data Corp., which analyzed information from BC Assessment. Homes on the Deep Cove waterfront were also up about 45 per cent in assessed value, rising from an average of $2.5 million last year to $3.7 million this year. Homes in Grousewoods, at the very top of North Vancouver, were also up over 40
per cent in value, according to Landcor data, going from an average value of $1.6 million last year to just under $2.3 million this year. Single-family homes in many other areas of North Vancouver also showed an increase in average assessed value of more Continued on page 14
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