2-North Shore News -- Friday. September 29, 20

Debt dispute simmered

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cOntnators attonaps te fase Pe
Page. whe Changed his name trom Mev Geer
had promised to pay the debt sedis age
“We qust abour went under and he Ke
telling us he was gomg te pay us. sd Kirk
Kirk sand they went te the band administra
tion tor help, but they could: rot assist
On Sept. T4. Bell pard a) bait and) way
attempting, to seize Wwo vehicles under Alex
George’s name as per the court order.
he shooting occurred less than two weeks
late
North Vancouver Mounties
are conducting an internal
mnvestigation of the conduct of
the four officers (a corporal and
three constables: Hyobed in
the shooting. Their names
were not released. Caner.
Heidi Hottinan said the con
stables had about three te 13
fans experience cach.
i fox Page said
ars band reaction to
the shooting will force him off
the reserve. “You think { am
gry? Dann right Fim angry.
You think Tam going to be
able to Hive in this community?

Mare acknowiedges that a court crdered han
teeopay ins debt te the clectncal company |
contends the work was substandard. Kirk. im
while, disputes duit and sass Page actually pranscd
the werk

Meanwhile Kirk deserbed his deceased triend
wan expert in cectncal power anal ss and well
versed in hus trade.

“He yust vast some dumime palling wires in
a house.” said Kirk. i don’t haow what we are
going to do without hime asa business or a
tend.” Kirk sad fis trend used to love te hunt
and knew how te use aorile. Kirk Knew on

NEWS photo Mike Waketieid

1 don’t think so. ‘There are WAYNE Kirk is the business partner and friend of
these people here on this quict, — shooting victim Allan Bell.

laid back reserve and now you
have some guy shot here and whe looks: bad?
Alex Page looks bad. Alex Page is the bad guy.
Well vou know what? Pm not running around
with a gun trving to kill somebody,” said Page.
“Ehaven’t spoke to Allan Bell since we walked
out of court. To come to my house with a gun
and tell me he was going to kill me is just an
absolute crazy man... To go out and get an Uzi
and to have me run around my house and fear
for my three-year-old son... of course he just
ed to blame it on the Indian thing because |
just happened to live on a reserve,” said Page.
He said people are phoning him to say “this
wouldn't have happened if you paid your bill.”
Page feels sorry for Bell’s wife and children,
but believes that Bell must have been “messe
”

traffic to Burnaby when he heard a 7:10 am.
radio report.

“As soon as | heard a 42-vearold man on
Dollarton Highway 1 radioed his brother to
check his room and he wasn’t there,” said Kirk.
Kirk went to police. “Lam very bitter that it had
to come to this and at the system that failed —
but why did it fail, because he had Indian statas
and we couldi’t get our order eniorced,” said
Kirk. *He (Bell) was a very. very, honest man,”
said Kirk. Bell was originally trom England. He
lived near 19th Street and Mahon. Bell and his
wife Karen were separated for more than 10
months. They have three children —~ Allison age
seven, Jennifer. four, and Logan three months,

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

THE spot where locaf Mounties shot and killed an armed North Vancouver man

was marked off on Dollarton Highway.