By Myke Clark
" Contributing Writer

AN 18-year battle for residents
of Garden Avenue may be near-
ing an end,

North Vancouver Distriee Council will

spend $24,600 to find a tratfie study of

the street by consulting engineers
Hainilton and Associates,

| ‘The fong-awaited study follows a fatal
“aceldent at the corner of Garden Avenue
and Hope Road and Is the result of input

from Mayor Dort Bell, distrler staff and
residents,

Garden Aventte resident Chris
Cottkell is sorry It took so long. “It took
somebody getting killed there to spur
peuple into action, " he said, adding the
route is used as a shortcut,

“Living on that corner, at Hope and
Garden where the aceident had occurred,
1 see a residential street that's being used
— as ft call it — the Garden Avenue
speedway,”

Fle added: “te's being used asa high-
speed cut-off by people who don't live in

the neighborhood.”

Seven areas will be examined in the
study, whieh Is expected to take abot
two months to complete;

Ma review of intersections in the Garden
Avenue neighborhood;
Man analysis of callision data;
Moa review of lane configuration on
Garden Avenue, Capilano Road, and
Marine Drive;
@a review of vehicle volumes
Mian analysis of possible optians;
Wa public consultation process;,

Shand the costs of potential changes,

Good news story turns bad

| Pot rap mars .
= man’s history

By Anna Parle D'Angelo b

~« News Reporter ee
- dangelo@nsnews.com a
: ‘THE same day the.”
' News ran a pictury: of
_ Wayne Jackson
- Campbell painting over
graffiti on a Lower
., Lonsdale wall, he was
” “sentenced to conditional
- jail for marijuana traf-
,_ ficking. eh

Campbell,’ 20, of North
Vancouver, received - 2. three-
“month conditional jail sentence
, on July 2: “for \trafticking 571)
_-Brams (two ounces) of manjua-
na.on two occasions last year.

s Bach’ ounce “was sold : for

7 ‘contin to Crown infor

/

mation, the first drug deal took
place on March 26, 1996, after
-an_-undercover North
Vancouver RCMP officer called

ai pager number and contacted

Campbell’s then: girlfriend,
Christie Lynn Sharpe, 21.
Campbell sold the manjuana to
the cop in the 700-block of St.
Davids Avenue in North
Vancouver, = * ;

About two weeks later, the
same undercover Mountie
bought another ounce of mari-
juana from Campbell,

This time the meeting
. between the -Mountie and
. Campbell took place: at the
Starbucks. coffee bar at Park
and Tilford Centre. From
there, they walked to a nearby

- sandwich shop where the plas-

tic bag of marijuana was
bought for $250.
During sentencing in North
Vancouver provincial court,
Campbell! s lawyer, James
Sherran, argued that his client
had turned his life around since

he was arrested for trafficking
more than a year ago,

The defence lawyer handed
Judge Ian Walker a photocopy
of a News article showing
Campbell on one knee painting
over graffiti at East. Ist Street
and St. Andrews in Lower
Lonsdale.

The defence lawyer referred
to the article when explaining
to the judge that Campbell had
a full-time job now for which
he was paid $1,000 a month.
The job was part of a federally-
funded program for unem-
ployed youth.

“He alsa does volunteer
work,” said Sherran.

Judge Walker promptly
asked why Campbell was doing
volunteer work when he hadn’r
completed community work
service in connection with an
unrelated charge. (Campbell
was charged with breaching a
court order by not finishing the
community work service.)

The defence lawyer said his

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client was not aware that the
volunteer work could be used
as community work service,

Federal Crown lawyer Jay
Straith asked for a three: to six-
month jail sentence,

“His record says that proba-
tion doesn’t work,” said
Straith.

But Campbell’s lawyer
pointed out that his client had
already had a taste of jail after
spending two and a half
months in = custody in
December awaiting a bait hear-
ing

* Sheeran said Campbell | had
had problems with his mother
but she was in court that day
supporting, her son.

He described Campbell's
relationship with. Christie
Sharpe as “disastrous” and
noted that it had been “termi-
nated,”

’ Besides the conditional jail
sentence, the judge ordercu
Campbell to do 75 hours of
community work. He was
placed on 18°months’ proba-
tion.

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