Clean sweep

FROM leit, Carol Maloney, Allison Gedey and Jennifer Taylor were three members
of the Toronto Pominion/Canada Trust team that participated in a weekend Save
our Shores event held ai Cates Park.

Arson fire at NV apartment locker

POLICE are looking
‘for the person responsi-
ble for a storage locker

_arson fire on Sept. 15
in Lower Lonsdale.

According ‘to the North
Vancouver RCMP, someone

apparently intentionally set
fire to papers and documents
in an apartment’s storage
locker in the 400-block of
Lonsdale Avenue at approxi-
mately 5:30 a.m.
Const. Heidi Hoffman
said a police officer happened

to be driving by and spotted
smoke.

Two lockers were dam-
aged,

The arsonist had pried
open doors to the under-
ground storage before setting
the blaze, according to police.

LIVE LOCAL.

Ci

on Grand

Catherine Barr
Contributing Writer

GRAND Boulevard
residents are tired of
life in the fast lane.

For several years now
Sherran McKinlay and Joy
Cowie have watched as cars,
trucks and buses rush
through their busy North
Vancouver neighbourhood.

The women live in the
lower Grand Boulevard area
and have spent vears fighr-
ing for better traffic controls
in what they say is an effort
ta save lives,

Now it looks like their
wish may come true.

Last week, North

Police are asking anyone
who may have scen anything
suspicious in the area between
4:45 a.m. and 5:30 am. to
contact Const. Tony
Farahbakhchian at 985-1311.
Callers are asked to refer to
case number: 2000-31058.

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Vancouver City councillors
listened as the two women
delivered separate reports
about bad drivers, car acci-
dents, frightened school
children and terrified pedes-
trians.

McKinlay, who lives on
East 15th, wants a four-way
stop at the corner of Moody
and 15th Street and a 30
km/h speed limit around all
of the adjacent: boulevard
play parks.

Cowie, who lives on East
Keith Road, proposed plac-
ing traffic lights and pedes-
trian crossings at the inter-
sections of East Keith,
Queensbury and Grand
Boulevard.

According to McKinlay,
it’s a miracle that someone
hasn’t been killed already.

For close to seven years
now, this mother of two has
feared for the lives of all the
neighbourhood children as
they walk to school and play
in the nearby park.

“We're getting more
than our fair share of traf-
fic,” she said as she present-
ed a petition for her cause to
council.

Meanwhile Cowie, armed

i .

THE following people i

appeared in North
Vancouver court in —
connection with drink-
ing and driving related
offences: .

“Jonathan Manuel “Yepez..
' 37, of North Vancouver, was:

fined..$1,500, received nine
months probation and had his

driver’s licence suspended for .

18 months after. he. pleaded

pully to having a blood alco--..

ol level greater than:.08. :
ee ¢ 8 :

Kevin John Gartanid; - 36, ie
of Surrey, was fined  $900,-

.

» impaired drivin:

ty to slow traffic
Boulevard

with stacks of accident
reports, detailed charts and
another separate petition,
told a similar story.

Coun, Barbara Perrault
and Mavor Barbara Sharp
live in the area and were
immediately supportive of
the plans, “Traffic is out of
control on Grand
Boulevard,” said Perrault.

Council voted Sept. 11
to support the installation of
a four-way stop sign on 15th
and Cowie's suggested traf-
fic light on East Keith.

But nothing will be
installed until the engincer-
ing department gets a
chance to examine the over-
all traffic situation with a
hired consultant later. this
fall.

Still, according to coun-
cil, safety measures are defi-
nitely. on their way and
motorists. should expect
some significant. changes
along the Keith
Road/Grand Boulevard cor- -
ridor. ;

Said Coun. John
Braithwaite, “If this. city
becomes a gridlock of stop
signs for safery, then that’s
what it has to be.” :

jailed 14 days and had his dri-.-
ver’s licence suspended for 12
mronths after he pleaded guilty
for : 2
@ impaired driving on May ©

16, 1999 in West. Vancouver;

Bi driving while prohibited on
the same day. :
- The jail sentence was rec-

‘ommended served by. elec-

tronic monitoring -
2 ® e. e

; Martin |» Douglas

‘Robertson, 44, of no fixed.
‘address, was jailed 30 days
‘and had his driver’s licence”

suspended for 12° months“

after he pleaded ‘guilty. to -

impaired driving. 0) 0
. @ eo 8

and had her’ driver's: licer
suspended . for 12° months
after she pleaded. guilty: t
ae

Robin William’ Carter, 33
of. Burnaby, was . fined - $800
and_ had ‘his: driver's licence

* suspended |: for..12.; months

after he ‘was found. guilty’ of
having a blood. alcohol level

_ greater than 082°": -