1 NEWS BRIEFS Liquor lifted A WEST Vancouver man awoke early Tuesday to find two youths armed with golf clubs stealing liquor from his home. The West Vancouver Police. subsequently arrested three West Vancouver youths. A 16-year-old male and two 14-year-old males face charges of break and enter and theft under $1,000 in connection with: the incident. According to a police spokesman, the incident occur- red at 1:40 a.m. in the 1400-block of Mathers Ave. The theft victim chased the youths out of the home. West Vancouver Police dog Rocky and his handler Const. Jeff Young were called to the scene and located the trio after tracking two blocks north to a residence located in the 1400-biock of Ottawa Avenue. The 16-year-old suspect also faces five charges of theft from auto. The police recovered five hood ornaments —- Chrysler, Cadillac, Mercedes, VW, and Buick — taken from vehi- cles. Gun pointed A 14-YEAR-OLD West Vancouver youth faces a weapon-related charge following numerous complaints to the police on Aug. 25 by people who claimed they had bad 2 guo pointed at them by a passenger in a passing According to 2 West Vancouver Police spokesman, a Hoilybura Country Club security guard reported to the police that a youth riding inaJeep Cherokee pointed a ‘gevolver at him at about 7:20 p.m. .. The police received three additional complaints during thelr investigation and eventually stopped the vehicle at -.. gnapoint in the 2900-block of Marine Drive at about * 8:30 p.m. Four maie youths from West Vancouver —a Ii6- : year-old, a 15-year-old and two 14-year-olds — were ar- One of the 14-year-olds now faces a charge of posses- ston of a weapon dangerous to the public peace. The revolver turned out to be a replica of a .45-calibre Smith and Wesson handgun. Gas station burns A-LOCAL gat, ‘Station sustained fire damage Aug. 23 in - what fire investigators are calling a suspicious fire. . Fire hit Super Save Gas, 350 Low Levei Rd. in North * Vancouver, at about 4:20 a.m. - An RCMP officer who was driving by the location saw . the fire in the gas station office and called North Van- ‘couver City Fire Department firefigisters. As firefighters ““gesponded, the police officer attempted to control the ‘fire with a portable extinguisher. Damage was contained to the gas station’s office area. The cause ‘of the fire fs under iuvestigation. " “THE FEDERAL Bureau of Competition Policy will ap- peal a ruling made earlier this year by the Federal Com- petition Tribunal that allowed Southam Inc.’s purchase “of. thé “North Shore News, the Courier and the Real ‘Estate Weekly. aes Southam bought.the publications along with a number of - newspapers. belonging to the Lower Mainland’ oy Publishing Ltd. (LMPL) group. ; - Sodtham: also. owns the Vancouver Sun and The Pro- vince.” : “The tribunal rejected ‘a bid by lawyers for the federat ". “director of investigation and research te force a media : “gell-off of the three publications.on the grounds that the ! purchase would concentrate local press ownership. “Federal lawyers ergued that Southam’s purchase of a controlling. interest in LMPL harmed competition for newspaper advertising in the Vancouver area. But the '~ federal tribunal ruled against that argument. The original hearing into the matter cost more than $3 million and took 37 days. Drivers guilty of drinking “RECENT CONVICTIONS in “Worth Shore courts have resulted “in -fines and penaities, including a ‘driving suspension, for drinking and driving related offences: "WEST VANCOUVER: Ronald - Edward Masi, 39, 2779 Graveley | St., Vancouver - (impaired, $750 = one-year driver’s licence suspen- A fine, one-year driver’s licence “suspension);. Stephen Andrew “George, 51, 211 Lawa, West Van- *eouver (over .08, 30 days jail, J one-year licence’ suspensicn). NORTH VANCOUVER: Garry Michael Baroni, 53, 101-124 West 18th St., North Vancouver (over .68, 15 days jail, two-year driver’s licence suspension, one-year pro- bation); James Gordon Lyall, 51, 224 East 24th St., North Van- couver (impaired, $1,000 fine, sion); Donna Louise Flamant, 36, 210-326 West 2nd St., North Vancouver (over .08. $600 fine, one-year licence suspension). Council endorses affordable housing A ET CD NOATH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL NORTH VANCOUVER City Council enthusiastically endorsed Monday a set of recommendations on af- fordable housing that are to be submitted to the Provin- cia! Commission on Hous- ing Options. &y Layne Christensen Contributing Writer The submission, Enhancement of the Municipal Role in Afford- able Housing, was prepared by municipai staff following council’s endorsement of the Affordable Housing Strategy report last July. According to the report to council that outlines the proposed submission, the brief ‘‘seeks to assist the commissioners in recommending to the provincial government ways in which municipalities can be supported in Ongoing efforts to retain and in- crease the supply of affordable housing in local communities.’ Affordable housing is defined as housing that is affordable to those households that would otherwise require more than 30% of income to obtain adequate shelter. The initiative stresses the need for senior governments to retain primary responsibility for housing concerns. “Only the senior governments are able to comprehensively plan, fund and deliver affordable hous- ing,’ stated the report, Some of the recommendations outlined in the initiative include: @ the reinstatement of federally- sponsored co-operative housing; © the development of a revised provincial building code that ° would legalize secondary suites in existing dwellings; @ the introduction of stronger municipal powers to prevent dem- olition of affordable rental hous- ing; @ an increase in funds allocated to the province’s non-profit hous- ing program. While counci! applauded the staff’s recommendations on co-op housing and secondary suites, Coun. Rod Clark questioned the submission’s request for more provincial funding. “Tapping the governmeni on the shoulder and saying ‘We need more money,’... that approach Goesn’t work,”’ said Clark, who suggested it was more appropriate to outline some solutions that work within the current budget. Coun. Barbara Perrault called the federal government’s Feb. 25 decision to eliminate funding for. co-op housing ‘‘unconscionable.”” “The elimination of co-op housing not only takes away a means of housing for thousands of people, it also terminates construction jobs-at a time when unemployment is at a high,’’ said Perrault. Vivienne Taylor, a spokesman for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. 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