Burglar sentenced

A 19-YEAR-OLD man involved in the Jan. 17 burglary
of a North Vancouver church that resulted in the
shooting of another suspect by the police has received a
nine-month jail senterice.

Michael Ronald Arnold, of no fixed address, pleaded
guilty April 3 in North Vancouver provincial court to
breaking into a chapel at 630 East 19th St. in North
Vancouver. He also received 12 months’ probation.

Another man facing charges in connection with the
burglary, Shayne Hawkes, 18, of North Vancouver, was
shot in the shoulder at the scene of the crime by a police
officer.

Hawkes and 21-year-old Randy Wanek, also of North
Vancouver, were charged with break and enter of the
chapel.

In addition to handing down the jail term on the break
and enter charge, Judge Jerome Paradis sentenced Ar-
nold to 2 concurrent nine-mouth jail sentence after he
pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on Chesterfield
Avenue in North Vancouver District and City on Sept.
22, 1991.

Arnoid also pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen
Toyota 4x4 on the same day.

Kitchen fire

AN OVERHEATED kitchen exhaust fan has been iden-
Ufied as the probable cause of an April 11 kitchen fire at
415 West Second St. in North Vancouver City.

According to a North Vancouver City Fire Department
spokesman, firefighters were called to the home at about
8 a.m. ,

An occupant of .te house had woken up at approxi-
mately 7:30 a.m. to (he smell of smoke. The source of
the smoke was located and extinguished with water prior
to the arrival of a fire crew.

The fire department spokesman advised that fans in-
stalled above stoves should be monitored and cleaned

regularly to remove grease.

‘The fire caused about $10,000 worth of damage. The
house was not equipped with a smoke alarm. .

ASIAN GYPSY MOTH
ERADICATION PROJECT 1992

THE NEXT round of aerial and ground spraying Is expected to

start in about 10 days.

SPEC tracking those who
are affected by spraying

From page 1

The helicopter, working from a
base in the Maplewood area,
holds about 1,100 litres of Btk
and covers approximately 300 hec-
tares.

Agriculture Canada is permitted
to disperse a total of 347,166 litres
of Btk on the Lower Mainland
target area.

D’Andrea said people living in
the spray area have generally been
“quite understanding’ about the
controversial moth eradication
program.

“There have been some occa-
sions where people objected. We

' do keep talking to them. The
Plant Protection Act gives us the
obligation to do this. So far we
haven't had much in the way of
problems,”’ he said.

But said Seymour area resident
and Citizens Against Aerial Spray-
ing (CAAS) spokesman Moira
O'Neill, ‘‘I’'m so mad. They said
they did the Seymour area and
35,500 hectares of the North Shore
on Sunday, and I thought, ‘Oh
good, now I can go home.’ I was
out in White Rock. And then this
morning (Tuesday) they sprayed
us. One of my neighbors saw the
piane fly over and the fog come
down.

“How can you go out of the

area then? They are so vague.”’

West Vancouver-based
Worldwide Home Environmen-
talists’ Network (WHEN) director
Sue Cameron and her family had
planned to leave the North Shore
during the spray applications.

But she said, ‘‘We tried to leave
the first night we thought they
were going to begin. But it was
such a confusing report we decid-
ed that rather than be out in the
car trying to find a safe place we
decided to stay indoors for the
whole day. We’re keeping the
doors and windows closed and
upping our son’s (who is
asthmatic and allergic) medica-
tion.

“It’s not our preference, but
obviously the practicality of get-
ting out of town for the numbers
of days is not possible,’’ she said.

Cameron said her group is ad-
vising people who believe they are
deing affected adversely from ex-
posure to Btk to see a doctor or
go to a hospital and then phone
SPEC (Society Promoting En-
vironmental Conservation).

Said Cameron, “‘SPEC is trying
to keep a record of people. The
{Agriculture Canada) medical
surveillance is just PR. It’s so in-
effective.”

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