NEWS photo Cindy Goodman Lynn Canyon tumble lands man in LGH intensive care NORTH VANCOUVER District firefighters and B.C. Ambulance Service crews carry a 25-year-old Delta man out of Lyin Canyon Park Tuesday. The man is listed in critéeal condition in the intensive care unit of Lions Gate Hospi- tal after suffering serious s:2ad injuries in an accident in Lynn Canyon Park late Tues- day afternoon. North Vancouver Fire Department Chief Bruce Ramsay said the man had been swimming with a friend in an area known as 30-foot pool and was climbing up a rock cliff when he lost his footing and fell backwards for about 35 feet before hitting his head on a rock and falling into the pool. Others in the poo! pulled the man out of the water. **it was a very serious medical injury ,"’ said Ramsay. Tim Jones, spokesman for the North Vancouver unit of the B.C. Ambulance Service, who attended the accident, said the man suffered severe head injuries. “This guy was a very serious head injury patient. He was sedated because fhe was very combative,’’ said Jones. North Shore weekly THE WEEKLY North Shore To- day has temporarily ceased opera- tions until Aug. 25, according to the newspaper's publisher. (RI RATTAN Reporter Ron Hopkins said Thursday that the newspaper's management felt it needed to come up with a new business plan. “We're dawn bul we're not out,’ said Hopkins. ‘We're restructuring because of the past experiences we had. We just couldn't get a handle on things. We're coming up with a new business plan, and we'll be back on Aug. 25. That's the official statement." Hopkins would not elaborate on reports Ghat most of the Today's employees had been laid off and Se suspends ure not getting paid. But Mark Wilken, the Today's former operations director, said he would not be returning to the newspaper. Ina June 22 column, Hopkins announced that Community News Today Lid., publishers of the To- day, had joined forces with Van- couver-based Shoshoni Gold Inc. and that the new arrangement “will provide the Today with the 3. Priday., duty 20, 1990 - Nocth Shore News 271 Jumpstreet back on track 22 NEW EPISODES TO BE SHOT THE LOCALLY-produced TV series 22 dump Street is back on track for the 1996-91 season. Cannell Productions announced the resurrection of the presiousty-cancelled show follow ing an ayreenient on oa tirst-tun syndication package with telesi- Sion statians across the country. Both 22 Jump Street and the PV series: Booker, produced by Cannell Films at) North Shore Studios, were recently cancelled after the Fox Network dropped the shows from its prime-time television fing-up. “The demand tor the continua- tion of this series (2/ Jump Street) has been loudly voiced by stations and audiences throughout the country, and we are eviremely ex- cited about this new venture." Peter Roth. president of Stephen J. Cannell Productions, said of the film) company’s first first-cun syndication production packige. Twenty-two episodes of 21 Jump Street are scheduled to begin filming in’ August. said a Cannell Films spokesman. While a similiar deal has not been worked out for Booker, a new pilot, Broken Badzes, will begin filming in August. Vhe canceliation of both shows last month, plus CBS's decision to cut back Cannell’s Wiseeuy from 22 episodes to 13, sparked fears about local job layvelts and possi- ble financial hardship for the local film industry. North Vancouver director Peter Marshall was reported as saying at the time that the Cannell cancella- tions, coupled with CBC's deci- sion to drop the Beachconibers and Danger Bay, meant that mil- lions of dollars would be Tost to the Vancouver film) and service industries, both directly and in- directly. But cancellations the were Cannell Films — said and cutbacks “just the nature of the (TV episode) game.’” and thar they would have no negative impact on its operations or on North Shore Studios, Ralph Alderman, general man- aver of North Shore Studios, said despite recent negative reports in the local media, B.C.°s) film) in- dustry is enjoying a better year than ot had in 1989, He called the media ‘‘irrespon- sible’’ for blowing the Cannell cancellations out of proportion, but conceded that ‘tone of the difficult. aspects for the media is having to report on an industry about which they know lite.’ such as the nature of episodic TV, which often experiunces sudden cancellations of shows and the creation of new ones. He added that CBS* cutbacks to Wiseguy, Cannell’s critically ac- claimed series which starred heart-throb Ken Wahl, doesn't mean it won't eventually te ex- tended to 22 weeks. Robert Dubberley, executive director of the B.C. Motion Pic- ture Assocation, said the restora- tion of 2% Jump Street is “good news** for the industry. He said that while cancellations of TV episodes are ‘ta fact of life,’ B.C.'s film industry gener- ally has a ‘*ereat ability to bounce back."* “T would think we will enjoy a year as big or bigger than last year,”’ he said, noting that pro- ducers spent $202 million on features and TV series last year in B.C. Don Ramsden, president of local 891 of the International Al- liance of Theatrical Stage Employees (LATSE), said he was delighted with the reinstatement of 2! Jump Street. “lL was pretty sure the Cannell people would be able to pull off something. They're pretty clever folks.”* he said. Firefighter funeral teday A FULL emergency services departmental funeral will be held today at 2 p.m. for West Vancouver firefighter Rex Neff at the West Van- couver United Church, 2062 Esquimalt. All fire, police and ambulance departments in the Greater Van- couver region will attend the funeral for the 45-year-old firefighter, who was found dead Sunday morning in the Hope area. Neff had been missing since June 14, West Vancouver firefighter Bob Davidson, a good friend of Neft’s, said the Richmond resi- dent was ‘‘one of the mainstays of the department." ‘There isn’t a guy in the department who had a bad thing to say about Rex, and | can’t say that about everyone,”” said David- son. ‘*He was just one hell of a operation necessary funding and support to compete in’ the rapidly growing conmmunity newspaper industry.” “We are here to stay.” Hopkias stated. Gordon) Awde, who has five Vancouver Stock Exchange-listed companies, including Shoshoni Gold, did not return News phone calls, The Today published its first edition Feb. 2. Rex Nuff good guy."* Neff is survived by his wife, Karen, son, Ryan, 17, daughter, Nicole, 18, and his 65-year-old mother Rose. 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