NV man guilty of sex assault A 46-YEAR-OLD man is slated to return to North Vancouver provincia! court Noy, 23 for sentencing after pleading guilty Friday to two counts of sexual assault. The North Vancouver man — whose name cannot be published fn order to protect the victims’ identities — was charged with sex- ually assaulting a female member of his farnily between Jan. 4, 1983, and Dec. 31, 1987; and sexually assaulting a male member of his family between Jan. 4, 1983, and Aug. 1, 1983. Both charges were laid In connection with incidents in North Vancouver District. |}Community open houses held NORTH VANCOUVER District's planing department is hoiding two open houses next week to allow residents an opportunity to : respond to the municipality’s draft officiat community plan. Flyers containing highlights of the plan — which sets out the distvict’s broad land use objectives and policies for the next 20 years — are being distributed to all district households this week. The fisst open house has been scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Windsor Secondary School, 931 Broad- view; the second open house wil! be Thursday, Oct. 20 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at North Vancouver District’s municipal hall, 355 West Queens Ave. “Residents can attend either or both open honses. For more details, call the district planning department at 987- Bulky W. Van lhomes bemoaned WEST VANCOUVER is losing some of the residential gardens it Is fataous for because of the influx of new, ‘‘bulky’’ houses, accor- ding to longtime resident Naomi Gilllson. . In a letter received by West Vancouver District Council last Monday, Gillison bemoaned the loss of the gardens. “Every day, it seems, older houses (often with these charming gardens) are being knocked down, the gardens bulldozed, the top . soil buried under yards of rubble and every tree felled,’’ wrote Gilson. ‘In their place arise iuge housing taking up every legal inch of the property,’’ she continued. Complaints over this phenomenon ied council earlier this year to call for a study of housing bulk — a study that recently drew fire © from representatives of the real estate and builder sectors, Giliison said ‘allowing the building of bulky houses to continue wi! -cuwd houses too close to each other, “and the whole charm of this area will have gone.” Council asked staff to send Gillison a copy of the bulk housing study and inform her that it is currently under review. sulle lady gets heip THE NORTH Vancouver woman struggling to launch a fund-rais- ing effort to establish a het lunch program for trngry Vancouver school children has found a place to plant 2,100 tulip bulbs donated to her program. Joanna Tudan-Sainberg, 46, is hoping te aise $200,000 by soliciting individuals and businesses for $100 donations. In return, the supporter would receive a tax break, a lunch bag, and a tulip bulb, which would be planted in a public garden. Tudan-Sainberg ssid she had made tentative deals with SFU and UBC campuses for garden spaces to plant the bulbs, but the gard:..8 didn’t get off the ground. But the Vancouver Art Gailery agreed late last week to have the bulbs planted on its grounds in downtown Vancouver. Tudan- Sainberg was on hand Thanksgiving Day to watch a sign with the inscription “Nourishing Dreams With Hope’’ erected outside the allery 8 “The idea is that the bulbs will be there and people can donate per bulb,” she said. She hopes to have the bulbs planted by Oct. 15. For more in- formation about the program call Tudan-Sainberg at 985-6242. Parking lot opposed LIONS BAY Village Coun- cil’s proposed solution to parking problems at the foot of the Lions hiking trail has left local residents fuming. 5 — Wednesday, October 12, 1988 - North Shore News GOLD WANTED We buy karat gold; old rings, chains, charms, etc. plus dental gold. THE GOLDPOST end of the road into a chifdren’s playground, said he was also wor- tied about the added amount of traffic on a street with several children living on it. Although he agreed with By PEGGY TRENDELL-WHITTAKER News Reporter 1207 W. 16th St., NN. (at Pemberton behind McDonalds) Open Mon. - Sat. 14am — 3 pra Closed Wed, & Sun. 937-8731 Prescott that some of his concerns would not be the direct result of having a parking lot constructed, In response to Sunset Drive res- Sen Residents idents’ complaints of hikers’ cars being left in no-parking areas in front of their houses, village Mayor Gordon Prescott requested the provincial forest department provide a parking lot at the end of ‘ the street. But Sunset Drive homeowners appeared at council last Monday night to protest the plan. *‘Just the thought of a parking lot there and their blood pressure rose,’” Chris Page of 55 Sunset Drive said of his neighbors’ reac- tion to the plan. ‘‘It’s not that we don’t like hikers, it’s just that one out of 10 is a bad apple.”’ Among Page’s concerns were the noise generated by hikers and the risk of increased vandalism that could arise once the secluded park- ing lot is built. “You get a couple of kids with a couple of drinks in them and you might have potential problems,”’ Page said. Page, who has in the past of- fered to help turn the area at the © ANTIQUE PINE over 200 Pieces Over 206 varieties iu stocks. RED EMPEROR TULIPS 10 for *4°° ASSORTED TULIPS 10 for $a*° MIXED NARCISSUS 10 for 99° Nursery Stock Sale All Trees & Shrubs Reduced Example: Azalea japonica reg. 6.99 1 gallon size 50% OFF Greenleaf Bone Meal 1821 Marine Dr., West Vancouver —_- 922-4171 922-3968 |