SEPTEMBER 27, 1998 ry Celebrations ooo | Classifieds ooo hy Fit for Fall Home & Garden | North Shore Alert Renshaw i Sports Wright North Shore Free Press Lt Pubiester ? tet Speck 1139 Lonsdale Avenue. Noth Vancouver BC Y7M 2H4 Canadian Puticatons Mad Sales Produc! Ageement iz 0087235 56 Pages Tough Cuff Stand Rohert Galster News Reporter robert@nsnews.com WEST Vancouver Mayor Pat Boname stands by her munici- pality’s decision to withhold portions of a recently completed report on the district’s operations. The report, prepared by George Culf and Associates, was edited by the district’s lawyers so it conforms with provincial freedom of information and protection of pri- vacy legislation. As a result, the released version includes gaps, missing paragraphs and blank spaces. “Tf thought he (Cuff) was going to do an audir of how we did business at the hall,” said Boname. “It’s (the report) not as structure-oriented, more persem- ality-oriented.” The report was edited by David Loukidelis of Lidstone Young, Anderson, West Vancouver’s solicitors, who removed portions that referred to specific positions and as a result identified individuals. “We advised (West Vancouver) on it, and I think it’s fair to say the version that was released to the public was a result of our advice,” See Uncut page § Newsroom 985-2131 Newsroom Fax 985-2104 North Shore News Website www.nsnews.com <>, ‘ ar MP’s perspectives p3 White, Reynolds return to Ottawa for new session Be a ice of North and West Vancouver since 1969 Lions Gate Hospital hosts annual marathon Back in the . Highlands again Adventures in the Great Glen p36 FREE Bubble boys THE North Shore Indoor Tennis Centre Association serves up another winter season under the four-court bubble in North Vancouver beginning tomorrow. Association directors Frank Gartner (left) and Elmer Helm invite all interested players to call 986-5639. Cop dogs get bit NV judge views RCMP use of police canines as ‘street justice’ Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com NORTH Vancouver Mounties were in court Tuesday to support one of their own. Const. Ron MacDougall was in North Vancouver courthouse to be sentenced for assaulting a hand- cuffed burglary suspect. Several North Vancouver RCMP officers, including junior and senior members, were dressed in casual sports shirts. One officer was wearing shorts. The police officers chose not to wear uniforms following a B.C. Supreme Court judge’s remarks criticizing officers in uniform for sitting in a public court- room at the hearing of a convicted cop killer. fyou’re not completely satisfied we'll give you your old body back! {5 + OuLAD" Go Ii The local Mounties did not want to provoke North Vancouver provincial court Judge Jerome Paradis. Some of the officers in previous court proceedings went as far as waiting in a halkway instead of going into the public courtroom and possibly antagonizing the judge. Paradis fashed out at police last week in court, saying he was “at the end of his rope” regarding the North Van Mounties’ use of police dogs for what the judge felt was “street justice.” A week later officers witnessed Paradis ignore the Crown’s position on MacDougall’s sentencing. The judge gave him a tough sentence, one that car- ries a criminal record. Paradis fined MacDougall $500 and placed him on nine months’ probation for assaulting Barmack Kasarei. Kasarei, 19, was suspected of breaking into Carson Graham secondary on See Inspector page § AY AS YOU GO! 41 MONTH FREE (OD CHILDMINDINGa(? GALL TODAY. 986-9177 - 125-949: W 3rd Street North Vancouver (7 Block South at Capilano Mal). |