“NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL AN OLD-FASHIONED barn-raising at Maplewood Farm. By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer That’s what the non-profit - Sterling Community Service Foundation (SCSF) hopes to achieve on the May | weekend. The stated purpose of the organization is ‘‘To rekindle the spirit of old-fashioned barn-rais- ings.’’ International Community Ser- vice Day (ICSD) has been spon- sored by the foundation since 1986 to create a sense of com- munity spirit. Many parks, playgrounds and schools across North America have been refurbished in that time. North Shore prejects completed under the coordination of the SCSF have involved Chesterfield House, the North Shore Neigh- borhood House and the North Shore Association for the Mental- ly Handicapped. Spokesman Liz Clark said ICSD “is an opportunity of doing what we say about working in partner- ship.” Clark said the impetus behind the foundation comes from the men and women who have taken weekend workshops with the Ster- ling Institute of Relationship, but she added that volunteers who participate in ICSD do not have to be a part of the Sterling Foun- dation. According to information given to North Vancouver District Council on Monday night, the primary goal of the institute, an international organization founded by Justin Sterling, ‘‘is to develop and enhance human relationships through self-awareness, education and community service.”’ District. parks manager Dirk Oostindie said the Steriing Foun- Friday, March 5, 1993 — North Shore News — 3 aplewood Farm Foundation seeks community support to rebuild livestock barn && The last thing you want is a lot of well-meaning community volunteers have half a barn fali on them. 99 dation represents ‘‘a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity for us to get -. a new barn at 10% of the cost.”” The livestock barn at Maplewood Farm had to be closed to visitors last year while bracing work was done to support its north side. Consulting engineers have since recommended that its condition be reviewed annually. : NEWS $ photo Cindy Goodman THE MAGIC Moment Billiard club is protesting a 1973 NVC bylaw prohibiting billiards and ar- cades from being open pest midnight. NV pool-hali owner appeals for business hour extension Business threatened if midnight closing enforced A. 20-YEAR-OLD rule banning late-night billiards in North Vancouver City ‘may be overturned after a pool-hall owner complained to city council Monday night that a large proportion of his customers want to play after midnight. Jeffrey Taylor said that Majid Maghsoudi, owner of the Magic Moment Billiard Club at 730 Marine Dr., would go out of business: if his hours could not be extended. When Maghsoudi was prepar- ing to open his business last Oc- tober, he was told that because he was in a commercial zone, he could stay open 24 hours a day if he wanted to, said Taylor. He added that the Blue Shark Billiards Club, above Thunder- bird Lanes on West 16th Street near Lonsdale, is open until 1 a.m. five days a week and until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, and Maghsoudi wants similar opening hours. Frank ‘Caouette, the city’s _.administrative coordinator for development . services, said a bylaw dating from 1973 pro- . hibits billiard halls and arcades from being open past midnight in the city, and the rule would By Stephen Wisenthal Contributing Writer apply. to all four similar establishments in the city. Caouette said the rule was in- stituted ‘“‘to ensure good order and no undue influences on youth.’’ Taylor said that until Feb. 9, when council issued a letter de- manding the club close at mid- night, Magic Moment was open until 2 a.m. from Sunday to Wednesday, and until 4 a.m. from Thursday to Saturday. He added that the owners were careful not to allow cus- tomers under the age of 18 to stay after midnight. An accountant’s report pres- ented to council indicated that weekly revenue fell by nearly 50% — from $5,105 to $2,755 "NORTH VANCOUVER. CITY COUNCIL —‘in the week after the hours were cut back. Councillors expressed concerns that pool halls had created trou- ble in the past. ; Said Coun. Bill Bell, ‘‘Poc! halls have not gone along with requests from council to clean up some of the problems that occur.”’ Mayor Jack Loucks said to Maghsoudi and Taylor: ‘‘I hope you have more success in keep- ing young people out than grocery stores do in. not selling cigarettes to children under 16.”” But he added: ‘‘This pool hall is in a location where it is not going to cause disturbance to area residents.”” Council voted to send the issue of extending opening hours for billiard halls and amusement arcades to staff for a report, with specific instructions to check with the RCMP about possible problems connected with late-night opening hours. ' assault If the barn is to be rebuilt, farm staff would like it expanded by approximately 1,600 sq. ft. (149 sq. m) to double indoor public access. Oostindie estimates the cost of the new barn ‘‘to be around $110,000"? and has asked council to absorb the cost of $13,000 for roof demolition and new founda- tion work ‘in order to speed up this project.’’ Police nab Council’s operational services standing committee agreed to the request, but council will debate the issue next week. Staff have expressed private misgivings that the projected completion date of May i to 2 would not allow enough time for competent project management. “Tt’s one thing tu go into the community and get money, it’s quite another thing to organize ° and manage a project of this size. The last thing you want is a lot of weil-meaning community. volun- teers have half a barn. fall on them,” one senior manager told the News. Meanwhile, SCSF is anxious to begin raising donations of labor, material and money for the barn-raising. AS project assistant and North Shore resident Jeff Slingerland told the committee, ‘This is not strictly a donation from the foun- dation but a coordinated effort of fundraising.”’ © suspected boat bandit following foot chase in H. Bay A SUSPECTED boat thief found himself in troubled waters on Monday, March 1, at Horseshoe Bay. By Michael Becker News Reporter According to a police spokesman, a 25-foot (7.5 metre) Bayliner cabin cruiser, owned by a Surrey man, was stolen from Sewell’s Marina some time be- tween Feb. 14 and Feb. 28. But at about 3:54 p.m. on Monday, an alert employee at Sewell’s tipped off the West Van- couver Police that the stolen $65,060 Bayliner had just pulled into one of the marina’s berths. A lone male had left the boat and was observed to be attempting to siphon gas from other vessels moored nearby. : The police arrived on the scene and secured the area while the coast guard vessel (Osprey was put on standby alert at nearby Caulfeild Cove. As the police closed in on the suspect he ‘fled on 1 foot. A foot chase ensued. Police service dog Rocky subse- quently apprehended the suspect “in mid-flight’”” between parked cars in‘'a BC Ferry Corp. parking lot. The. suspect struggled with the dog and at one point attempted to strangle Rocky with his . jacket. But the man was caught and escorted to West Vancouver Police department jail cells. An 18-year-old Washington state male, of no fixed address, faces charges of theft over $1,000 and possession of stolen property over $1,000. A Boston Whaler, stolen at the same time as the Bayliner went missing, was later found adrift near.Gibsons. ; Said West Vancouver Police Const. Jamie Gibson, ‘“‘We did receive some great. assistance from Sewell’s and BC Ferry employees. They kept an eye on him (the suspect) and let us know where he was and also helped in the ap- prehension of him. We'd like to- thank. BC Ferries and Sewell’s Marina.”’ Man found unfit for trial in WV sexual assault case. THE TRIAL previously convicted of the attempted murder of a West of a man Vancouver Police officer has been delayed. By Brent Mudry Contributing Writer The Burnaby. man, charged with sexual assault in’ West Van- couver, has been found unfit to stand trial. The B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver was told last week that Mark Napierala had ‘been instiiu- tionalized in Abbotsford. ° The sexual assault charge arises from an alleged August 1991 in| West Vancouver's Ambleside Park, When arrested at the scene, Napierala threatened police officers with a gun. - Napierala.. was sentenced in December 1991 on three counts arising from that incident. He was sentenced to two years in jai! on one count of attempted murder of a police officer. The sentence also covered two counts of assaulting two different police officers with a handgun. The 199) sentence included a three-year probation term and a five-year prohibition on posses- sion of firearms and ammunition. The court was told last Friday that Napierala had shown marginal ‘improvement after one week of treatment with an- ti-psychotic drugs. ; Napierala's trial on the sexual assault charge had been scheduled to run from Marcel: 1 to 5. Crown’ counsel Joe Bellows did not con- test the request for atrial delay. . Associate Chief Justice David Campbell adjourned the case to Wednesday, March 17, to set a future trial date. ;