NEWS BRIEFS Heavy snowfall causes hazardous conditions NORTH AND West Vancouver police and municipal crews were bracing for hazardous road conditions Friday night as an expected 10 to 15 centimetres of snow was expected to fail on the North Shore. To press time Friday, heavy snow was falling on the North Shore. An RCMP spokesman reposted no problems with road conditions, at the time, but the spokesman added that if the snow continued, conditions would likely worsen. The North Vancouver District Fire Department, how- ever, reported at 2:20 p.m. Friday that steep hills in the Delbrook area were causing a problem and advised that all department veticles be outfitted with siiaw chains. A spokesman for the West Vancouver Police Depart- ment reported no problems with road conditions to press time, but added that rush hour and evening commuters could face problems if the snow continued and if road conditions iced up. The West Vancouver municipal works department sent some of its employees home early on Friday afternoon so that they coufd be called back later Friday evening to begin snow removal on area streets. “*We're chaining up right now,”’ said the spokesman. Diamond theft lands Vancouver man in jail A 28-YEAR-OLD Vancouver man was sentenced Feb. 27 to one year in jail for theft over $1,000. Appearing before Judge Doug Moss, Stephen Lioyd Haines pleaded guilty in North Vancouver provincial court to stealing a diamond, the property of North Van- couver’s John Bishop Jewellers, on Jan. 10 In addition to the jail term, Haines was placed on probation for 13 months. Power outages hit North Shore areas SEVERAL NORTH Shore areas were withou: power from Thursday afternoon until carly Friday morning as high winds downed B.C. Hydro lines. B.C. Hydro senior communications coordinator Verne Prior said all of Bowen Island was without power Thursday from 12 p.m. te 5:30 p.m. About 400 Hydro customers in the British Properties lost their power at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and did not have it restorzd until 12:30 a.m. Friday. Appreximately 40 British Properties residents had to wait until 4:45 a.m. Friday before their power came back on. Also in West Vancouver, approximately 1,000 Hydro customers went without power from 9:20 p.m. Thursday to 10 p.m. Thursday, except for a small pocket of resi- dents who waited until 11 p.m. before power was restored. In the Blueridge area of North Vancouver, about 1,500 Hydro customers lost their power from 7:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. Thursday. The high winds brought colder temperatures and snow to the North Shore. NV man fined for tax violations A NORTH Vancouver man was fined $2,300 in North Vancouver provincial court Feb. 21 after pleading guilty to various Income Tax Act violations. John B.L. Robertson, 53, pleaded guilty to failing to supply Revenue Canada with information requested from him in connection with the operation of his law practice in 1990. Robertson was personally served a letter on Oct. 11, 1990 detailing information needed by Revenue Canadze about his personal and business finances. Drivers guilty of drinking RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in fines and penalties for drink- ing and driving related offences: NORTH VANCOUVER: Lora Lee Fox, 26, 423 East 4th Street, North Vancouver, (impaired driv- ing, 14 day jail sentence); Salim Sayani, 19, 3580 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, (driving while over .08, $500 fine); George Dorais, 52, #-1923 Purcell Way, North Vancouver (impaired driv- ing, $300 fine). WEST VANCOUVER: Douglas Earl McRae, 41, 1935 29th Street, West Vancouver, (impaired driv- ing, $550 fine, one year driver’s licence suspension); Robert Wayne Shillitto, 28, 135 Churchill Ave., New Westminster, (driving while over .08, $500 fine, one-year driver’s licence suspension); Stephen William Randall, 30, 7240 Union Street, Burnaby, (driving while over .08, $470 fine, one year driver’s licence suspension); Gilbert Roland Schultz, 26, no fixed address, (impaired driving, $700 fine, one year driver's licence suspension); David Weightam, 53, 201-6544 Silver Ave., Burnaby, (impaired driving, 3400 fine, one year driver’s licence suspension). Residents reject Ferguson’s AN attractively designed replace- ment for the original Ferguson's Moving and Storage — building, which was destroyed in an Oct. 18, 1990 fire, has been proposed for the 2232 Marine Dr. site in West Vancouver, but some area residents are against having Ferguson’s back into the neighborhood. By Maureen Curtis Contributing Writer Architect Karl Gustavson pres- ented his design at a Feb. 25 West Vancouver District Council public meeting. He stressed that the new two- storey building would be a head office for Ferguson's, which has a number of other locations. Ferguson’s owner Paul Reano said, ‘‘We could go into North Vancouver and build twice the building for the same money, but my gut instinct is to stay in West Vancouver where the business has been for 30 years.”” About 40 per cent of the new building would be for storage, which Gustavson said would comply with the allowable amount for an office on the commer- cially-zoned site. But Capt. George Murrell of the Ambleside & Dundarave Ratepayers pointed out that it would be storage for a company whose business was, in part, storage. While Gustavson pointed out that the development would actu- ally be smaller than the old one, residents argued that the use of the building would conflict with the area’s residential nature. They voiced concerns over in- creasing congestion on the one- way lane between Marine and Bellevue, which will be the only access to several residences and the Ferguson’s building. But Gustavson said he was sur- prised that the rebuilding proposal had brought so many complaints about the business out in the open. He said that Ferguson’s would have dealt with the problenis earlier, had they known about them, Area resident Eric Anderson said Ferguson’s moving vans use the entire area for their parking spots, “Ferguson's is a moving com- pany and the storage aspect is in- cidental. The trucks sometimes come in late at night and can’t unload, so they park,”’ he said. But Gustavson pointed out that the development’s new under- ground parking would free up several parking spots in the area, while the loading bay would ac- commodate no more than two moving trucks at one time. The rest of the trucks will be a: the North Vancouver location, at a Lions Gate storage site or in use. 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