AUGUST 29, 1999 Bright Lights Celetrations 21 Classifieds coe 37 Crossword ooo 4G Home & Garden eee 22 Seniors soe 18 Travel ose 30 Talking Personals eee 42 HCN Pwthcatos Compan, Pubsinet Pelet Speck 7199 Lonsduie Avenue, North Vancouser BC V7M 2H4 Canadan Paicatons Mal Sales ProuxtAgeement No 0087232 52 Pages Teens rob teens, cops get serious Katharine Hasner Contributing Writer SUMMER seems to have brought out the worst in some teens. last week, three teenage girls, aged 13, 14, and 17 attacked and robbed three girls aged 11, 14, and 15 on Westview Drive The attackers, who didn’t know their victims, got away with a total of $5 cash. For the privilege, they spent a aight ina North Vancouver jail cell after being picked up by police. The North Vancouver girls have all been charged with robbery. Asa condition of their release, they must see 3 probation officer and have been forbidden to see cach other. None of them has yet graduated from secondary school. Over the last month and a half, North Vancouver RCMP officers have come up against at least onc teen-perpetrated robbery a week. Police say they find the trend alarming. “It’s not that kids haven’t robbed cach other before,” said Const. Heidi Hoffman, “but the level of violence seems to have been increasing.” Aside from smashing cach other's teeth in, more teens are producing knives and in one instance even a gun — all for the sake of a cheap thrill. Hoffman said she doesn’t know which form of attack is worse — having a knife waved at you or being strong-armed and punched. “They're both equally traumatic,” she said. See Incidents page & Bob Mackin ‘News Reporter roberi@nsnews.com NAN Hartwick says she'll continue with her daughter Dianne the battle to build a ski resort near Whistler. They were shocked Tuesday when a B.C. Supreme Court judge dismissed her lawsuit against the provincial government and former Premier Bill Vander Zalm. ; “We must’ve been ina different court room, because we know we proved our case and we have total faith in our lawyers,” said * Hartwick, a real estate agent who was active in the Social Credit learn about hip replacement surgery organized by LGH nurse-clinician Heather Alliston-Perry. Fashion p15 Exquisite boutique closes out an era The Voice of North and West Vancouver s nce 1989 Molson Indy 023 Six pages of info on race weekend Special centrefold: Capilano College has great connections Capilano College FREE Surgery school West Van mother and daughter to challenge Powder Min. ruling Party during its heyday. “After they read it we immediately launched an appeal. It’s my belief thar it’s for the good of British Columbia.” Hartwick, of West Vancouver, assisted a client in planning a pro- posal for a ski resort at Powder Mountain, 15 kilometres southwest of Whistler in the Callaghan Valley in the late 1970s. Her client went bankrupt, but gave her the information needed to continue. Hartwick's Powder Mountain Resorts was the only bidder in mid-1985 and began lease talks with the government. The propos- LOOKING like a row of Florence Nightingales, a group of Japanese student nurses visiting Lions Gate Hospital from peri-operative manager Susanne Loven. Their Canadian tour was co- al was later rejected in a letter by lands minister Jack Kempf “because it lacked compliance with major elements of provincial ski policy with respect to land arrangements, rental rates, and approval proc: Ss. But Kurt Hohenwarter, a former parmer of Hartwick’s in a pre- vious, ill-fated bid, made his own proposal. It was approved by the lands ministry but cabinet rejected the development plan in 1989. Premier Bill Vander Zalm resigned in April 1991 and the NDP came to power in the fail of 1991. The Hartwicks tried to lobby the new government, especially Vander Zalm’s foc Moc Sihota. But the upper Callaghan Vailey became a provincial park in 1997. See Province page 4 it aS =e ‘Fqular 24 memh Funes Betore-September