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September 1993 WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICALSOCIETY Page 7 West Vancouver Foundation â€" Starting to Hit Its Stride few years were mainly fanning the embers to keep the flame alive.” Today assets are around half a million, and the West Vancouver Foundation is able to make annual contributions of about $20,000 to West Vancouver activities. The activities of the West Vancouver Foundation are directed by local men and women who donate their time and professional expertise in the interests of the community that they love. The West Vancouver Foundation can be reached through Box 91447, West Vancouver B.C. V7V 3P1 The West Vancouver Foundation, a non-profit, non-political, voluntary organization formed to enhance the enjoyment of life by the people of West Vancouver, began in 1979. Derrick Humphries, elected Mayor of West Vancouver in December 1978, reminisced recently about the circumstances leading up to the development of the Foundation. He had thought for a long time about the disproportionate flow of inheritance money going out of West Vancouver as compared to the little coming back to the community. He thought perhaps the establishment of a Foundation would help. West Vancouver citizens would then have the opportunity of leaving tax free legacies to worthy causes in West Vancouver. The Mayor at this point asked three West Vancouver citizens to study the subject and bring in a recommendation - the late Bill Hyndman, the late David Mathieson and Gordon Rowntree. After a positive report, the Foundation was then established, the first meeting of the Directors was held in 1979, and the organization was incorporated in 1985. It takes time to make the The Board of Directors of the West Vancouver Foundation after the inaugural meeting name and objectives of the in 1973. Seated, leftto right; Mrs Kay Meek, Mrs J.Pattison, Mayor Derrick Humphries, local Foundation known, and Mrs. Hank Sager. Standing, leftto right; Chas. Hopkins, Gordon Rowntree, David as Derrick puts it “the first Mathieson, Bill Hyndman, and Frank Griffiths (representing his father). \NEST VANCOUVER’S SEA WALK Continued from Page 6 The Municipality’s owm work crew won the contract for Stage 5 of the Sea Walk and the extent of the Walk rests there in the meantime. To ensure privacy, great care has always been taken to lower the Walk and plant a “barricade” of beautiful plants and shrubs to act as a baffle between walkers and tenants. Now many people walk there simply to enjoy the lovely flower and shrub displays - which are always superbly kept by the Parks Department. At the present time Council is continuing to acquire waterfront property. Now' more than 2/3rds of the necessary ground has been acquired: John Lawson Park has been extended and an Organic Garden - which has aroused much public interest - has been set out. Negotiations are “on course” with the Capilano Band for a strip of land alongside the River so that the Sea Walk can be continued to Cleveland Dam. Further progress must now wait, maybe for a further 10 years, before sufficient waterfront land can be acquired. The outlook is hopefiil and it would seem that Don Lanskail’s dream of a continuous walkway from Dundarave Pier to Qeveland Dam - a distance of 10 kilometres in all -looks as if it may come true in his lifetime. That would be a well-earned bonus for a man who has lived for over 40 years in West Vancouver and served its citizens so well.