it-and-run victim fu Wednesday, September 21, 1994 - North Shore News - 3 es over car driver’s sentence Cyclist still recovering from bike- car collision A NORTH Vancouver man nearly fell off his seat when he heard the judge give the impaired driver who ran him over last year a $500 fine and a three month driver’s licence suspension. By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter Two of the charges against John Vincent Less, 53, relating to the incident were stayed. A third charge was amended so that it didn’t apply to the hit-and- run accident. Cyclist Stephen Bain was rid- ing his mountain bike to work when he was hit by a car near Shavington Strect and Keith Road last Sept. 30. The former marine mechanic, who is still recuperating from the accident, had waited a year for justice to be served. “t thought that (the court pro- ceeding) was unbclicvable,” said Bain, who was in North Vancou- ver provincial court for the Sept. 1 sentencing. “He left me there to die,” added Bain, 25. Less, a Deep Cove resident, pleaded guilty to impaired driving on Deep Cove Road. The charge was changed so that “causing bodily harm to Stephen Bain” was deleted and “on Deep Cove Road” was added. The stayed charges were: failing to stop at an accident where cyclist Stephen Bain was injured and appeared to need Shipyard eyed for museum NORTH VANCOUVER City Council has been urged to consider moving the city’s muscum to one of the vacant buildings on Versatile Pacific Shipyards Ltd.’s abandoned North Vancouver waterfront site. SE NORTH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL by Glen Anwick In a preliminary muscum report presented Monday night to council, muscum director Robin Inglis said the museum could be relocated at Versatile’s old Coppersmith Shop at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. See Cost page 9 CALL US: 883-2208 Pi" A NEV:S photo Paul McGrath NORTH VANCOUVER resident Steve Bain shows pictures of how he looked last year after being hit by a car while cycling near the Shavington Street and Keith Road intersection. assistance with the intent to escape civil and criminal fiability; and @ driving while having an alcohol blood content of over 80 mil- ligrams in 100 millilitres. Crown lawyer Mark Rowan said there was no evidence to show that Less was impaired at the time Bain was injured. Rowan said two witnesses to the incident gave no indication that the driver was impaired. “It was a very good police investigation. No stones were feft unturned,” said Rowan. Meanwhile Bain said he was suill recuperating from the acci- 66 He left me there to die... | was uncon- scious for about an hour. | woke up in the hospital. My whole face was basically one big road rash. 9 — Accident victim Steve Bain dent that left him with broken bones and teeth. He was hospitalized for one week and says he could not walk for three months. “LE was unconscious for about an hour. | woke up in the hospital. My whole face was basically one big road rash,” said Bain, who is working ata local recycling plant. He said he is unable to handle the demands of his former occupa- tion. An ICBC spokesman said a victim in an impaired driving case is compensated through the “no- fault benefit” part of the driver's insurance package. Although the impaired driver’s insurance is void for him, if some- one is hit by an impaired motaris1, the victim may make an ICBC claim. ICBC will “go after” the impaired driver for the money the insurance company has paid the victim. Meanwhile Judge Doug Moss levied a $75 victim surcharge dur- ing sentencing on Sept. 1. Longtime North Shore newspaper owner dies VETERAN LOCAL newspa- -perman, Cloudesley Shovelle Quintin Hoodspith, died on Sunday in Squamish. By Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter He was 75. Mr. Hoodspith was at various times the owner of the Lions Gate Times, the North Shore Times, the Squamish Times and the Whistler Citizen. North Shore News publisher Peter Speck fondly remembered his first boss in the newspaper business. “Claude knew everybody. He was a real old-time newspaper man,” said Speck. “Pm ever grateful to him for giv- ing me my start in this business.” Mr. Hoodspith was born in Winnipeg and rtised in Langley. He came to the North Shore in the late [930s and bought “the remains” of the Lions Gate Times. He liked to tell people he was named after a European admiral. VETERAN NEWSPAPERMAN Claude Hoodspith died on Sunday at age 75. Known for his sense of humor, Mr. Hoodspith was a fitness propo- nent long before it was fashionable. His wife of 51 years, Dorothy, said her husband always retained his sense of humor, even after a tragic car accident left him a quadriplegic in January 199f. Mr. Hoadspith was injured after an oncoming car slid on black ice and hit his vehicle on Highway 99 neat Squamish. After the accident, Mr. Hoodspith sold his remaining newspapers, the Squamish Times and Whistler Citizen, but never lost interest in the goings-on of the newspaper business. Mr Hoodspith was in Squamish Hospital for five weeks before his death, which was attributed to pneu- monii. His family includes two sons, Robia and Reid, and (vo grandchil- dren. A funeral service is scheduled to be held at EH] a.m. on Friday, Sept. 23, at St. John’s The Divine Anglican Church, 40285 Diamond Head Rd. in Squamish. In ficu of flowers, the family requests donations to the B.C. Paraplegic Association. inside the news & Eagles steal win in fourth quarter: 18 & Kearney explains Canadian drought: 19 S Hons improvement guide for fail: 31 ®@ Hire a contractor right for the job: 36 @ Budget Beaters.. @ Business................... sone AT f8 Classified. Community @ Crossword... 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