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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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April 14, 1982

Tel. 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

Stats only hint at the problem

WHAT concerns the
RCMP most from their
statistics of sex crime
trends in North
Vancouver is that there
appears to be less of a
problem now than in
the past.

Police detectives feel
certain that sexual abuse is
occurring no less now than

at any other time - only that
in the vast majority of cases.

By CHRIS LLOYD

vicoms feel unable to report
their ordeal to the
authorities.

The statistics point to sex
crimes in North Vancouver
as being very much a
minomty problem and one
that is on the decline - 17
rapes in 1981 compared to 16
in 1980, 23 indecent assaults
on females in cach of those
years, seven on males in

1981. as against just one the
previous year. and a drop in
“other” sex offences to just
six last year, compared to 35
in 1980.

But a spokesman for the
RCMP detective office in
North Vancouver says: “I
would hesitate to say this 1s
indicative of a declining
problem.”

Included in the category
of “other” sex offences is
incest and other family

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RESIDENTS STILL WANT ANSWERS

ignores the issues

A SCENIC river, intertidal waterfront, medium
and low cost residential housing and a heavy port
industrial area .... it has and continues to add up
to an explosive community confrontation bet-
ween the people who live there and some of the

industries
community.

weather

WEDNESDAY
Rainy ward Cored

THURSDAY

Partial clearing

operating within the

Maplewood

That high
frontation
Maplewood
Canadian
Petroleum

pitched con
between the
residents and
Occidental
(Hhooker)
cutminaated in
North
Poastricet Counce

Chem tls
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of the Ntaple wed offte ral

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floor thes Decry

The vbpertee nee gat was
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Complaints

By BILL BELL

that council had not given
the residents enough time to
digest the information Tt has
been rescheduled to May 18
at the North Van District
hall

The Maplewood = official
Communny Plan expresses
councils social, economic,
and environmental  ob-
jeu tives and poltores
respecting the peneral form
and character of future land
use patterns in the area

The Distracts stated
coomomtie obyeotives are lo
stimulate cconomie yrow th
broadening of the tax base
and the  cfeathon of ein

ployment opportunities an

approach that Some
residents belbheve will come
rn conf h owathh othe sc ral

and cnvironmental ob

pec lives of the sauice phan
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protection ol Seymour

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ie CRIMES HIDDE

SECRET ANGUISH

ANXIOUS DAYS for 74-year-old North Van widower Jim Curtis continued as he
wahted Tuesday for news from the Falkinad Islands of son BIH, daughter-in-law
Barbara and thelr children Jimmy and Annette (all pictured above). External Aftairs
informed Mr. Curtis Monday that the young family had clected to stay on the islands,
where they settled last fall, but BUI's father cabled Monday night urging them to leave
as soon as possible. “1 can't understand Kt at all,” he told The News. (lan Smith photo)