Music 23 The Smugglers write home from the road APRIL 7, 20 me Auts = Bright Lights Massifieds t ross ord Lautens Mercer ooo] Real Estate ooo 53 Talking Personals eco 44 HON Pubtcation Company Putistes Peter Speck 1135 Lonséale Avenue Nom varcene SC VTM 2S Canadan Puoucations Mai Saies Pinouct Agreement a 0087238 The Voice of North and West Vancsuver since 1969 RASHIDA KI an: charged with assauiting a govern- ment worker. | Assault charge Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter adangelo@nsnews.com RASHIDA Khan is charged. with allegedly assaulting a government work- er who came to apprehend Khan’s six-year-old grand- daughter in February. Khan, a North Vancouver resident, was convicted and then acquitted of the 1993 murder of the child’s mother. Khan’s husband Abdur, is serving, a life sentence with parole eligibility after 10 years for the crime. Unlike Rashida Khan, Abdur’s second degree murder conviction was upheld cn appeal. The mother of the child, Naazish Khan was a Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporters adangclo@nsnews.com A year’s worth of coho went down the drain on Wednesday Coho and chum lost after hatchery water supoly cut newlywed 23-year-old when she was strangled with speaker wire, Naazish was killed in the Khan home on Whitby Road in West Van's _ British Properties. Naazish’s daughter was two months old at the time. The child’s father, Faisal, See Seuffle page 2 after someone tampered with the water supply to a salmon hatchery near Lynn Creek. About 28,000 tiny coho and 7,006 of the hatch- ery’s 37,000 chum fry were killed. “They (the chum) were going to the occan tomorrow. It’s nor a pretty sight,” said Zo Ann Morten on Wednesday. Morten has worked on a project to restock Lynn Creek with salmon for 11 years from a hatchery housed in a trailer. Her efforts in cleaning up a small poltuted “ground water run-off” area next to Lynn Creek caused officials to name a new creek after her. Morten Creek is used in the salmonid enhancement project which is located northeast of the old Premier Street landfill and south of North Vancouver cemetery. On Wednesday, Morten Creek was teeming with oy VINYL-DEK FOR Open Road p35 Chrysler’s PT Cruiser looks back for style After dark: the carnival comes to Capilano Mali This Week p13 FREE NEWS photo Paul McGrath ZO ANN Morten holds some of the 7,000 dead chum killed on Wednesday near Lynn Creek after someone tampered with the water sup- ply to the hatchery trailer (background). The salmon were to be released yesterday into Lynn Creek. 3,000 one-year-old coho. The 10 cm (four inches) fish will all be heading into Lynn Creek and into the ocean by the end of the month. As soon as the coho had left Morten Creek, the coho in the trailer hatchery that were killed were supposed to have replaced them in Morten Creek and in other Lynn Creek tributaries. Although about 20 coho survived, the fish kill has set back work for one life cycle of the fish at the Morten Creek Salmon Project. The coho killed were at the alevin stage, which is just past the egy stage. The small coho came from fish caught in Morten Creek, Lynn Creek aad from See Fish page 3 LESS! VINYL OVER- © Self priming synthetic rubber : © Woterpe wt & permanently flexible © Unotfected by weather : reg $33.92 ,-9nml . SALE @ 1-e Homebuilders. sia fi 915 West ist St., N Van © Shength & durokty af a vinyl (behind Capitano Mall) $ - - 985-3000 Se visit at www.homebuilders ca SELECTED DU DECKING PRODUCTS