Montreal porn merchant targets North Shore residents A NORTH Vancouver women got a junk mail jolt Thursday when she opened an ordinary envelope and found it full of sexually explicit material. By Kate Zimmerman News Reporter The plain white envelope with a Montreal return address contained graphic promotional material for sex videos catering to various proclivities. These included a tape called Half & Half, featuring the escapades of “She-malcs” and hermaphrodites. The brochures, which were peppered with phovos, also featured adver- tisements for sexual aids such as Ms. Perfection, a portable plastic vagina. . The envelope from Groupe BAI was addressed to a name similar to that of the woman's husband, who has been dead for years. The surname had been mis- spelled. The woman, a grandmother who lives off Capilano Road and did not want to be named, said she wasn't so much shocked herself as concerned that other house- holds might receive the same mail. “I’m thinking of the latch-key kids,” she said. “It was pretty darn explicit and horrible to get at the door.” : A receptionist for BAI said the company purchases mailing lists from other publications. But the North Vancouver woman said the only subscription she had was to The Vancouver Sun. bee Te Heavily The envelope came to her house via bulk post, which is a common method of mailing in large vol- ume. The mail is pre-sorted and shipped to Canada Post and gets a discount on that basis, said Doug McClelland, manager of communications for the Pacific Division of the organization. “Canada Post's job is to deliver the mail, and not to censor it,” he said. According to McClelland, Canada Post's customer service department has received several dozen com- plaints from across the province about the Groupe BAI mailings. Last week in Ontario receipt of the innocent- ly packaged pornographic brochures prompted numer- ous news stories. “Y guess it was a fairly large mailing,” said McLelland. “It’s safe io assume that there was more than one recipient on the North Shore.” Although McClelland admitted that delivering such mail reflected badly on his organization, he pointed out that Canada Post's charter says letter carriers must deliver any matter which has been properly paid for. If they didn’t, they'd be breaking the law, he said. McClelland also suggested that most Canadians would not want Canada Post to function as a censor. He said if people consider the material obscene they can file a complaint with the police. If they think they know how they got on Groupe BAI's mailing list they can contact the company which sold their name and address to the group, he said, not- ing that a name misspelled similarly on several pieces of mail is a clue. Recipients can also call Groupe BAI directly and ask to be taken off the list. . armed gunman caught by WV police A DERANGED North Vancouver man carrying 58 rounds of ammunition for his loaded .303 rifle walked directly towards the main entrance of a packed White Spot restaurant on Marine Drive in West Vancouver at dinner time on Friday. and to his left. By Anna Marie D’Angelo 200 people. News Reporter West Vancouver Police Cpl. Dick Clancy had just finished paying his bill at the popular restaurant and was getting into his unmarked police car when he spotted the distraught man dressed in battle fatigues and camouflage paint. The 24-year police veteran saw the man rack two live rounds into the powerful rifle. “I was about 4.5 m (15 ft.) behind him: when suddenly the portable radio. on my belt sound- ed,” said Clancy, 45. The dispatcher broadcasted that a suspicious male with a gun had been seen in front of the CIBC bank at Park Royal's south mall. “This was the first that I knew that any reports had been made concerning this individual,” said Clancy. The 48-year-old suspect, whose family lives in West ground. said Clancy. CALL US: $83-2208 Vancouver, also heard Clancy's radio and spun around, directly facing the police corporal. The insane man’s rifle was “at ready position,” pointing forward In a decisive move that fellow police officers say saved lives that Friday evening, Clancy never pulled out his gun. The man was within shooting range of at least Instead, Clancy spoke to the man using military style ques- tions, orders and jargon. “He told me that his com- manding officer had been killed and that he thought that they had been betrayed,” said Clancy. The situation went from | extremely dangerous to bizarre when the deranged man obeyed Clancy’s order to secure his weapon and place the butt on the _ Clancy continued to speak mil- itary style as he took away the gun and cautiously eyed the man’s knife in a chest holster. “Incredible at that point I stepped back because he still had the knife and this woman bumped into me which I found really annoying. She was oblivious. | Mean, Can we not pay attention to what is going on just a little bit?” Clancy doesn't have a military background and was sunning out See Woodcroft page & THE NORTH Shore News won first place for general excellence in the 1994 British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association’s (BCYCNA) Awards. By Kate Zimmerman News Reporter The News won in the category of Tabloid Format. circulation 25,001 and over. Second and third place were picked up by White Rock's Peace Arch News and Victoria’s Monday Magazine, respectively. There were 20 entries in this category. “I'm very pleased,” said News publisher Peter Speck, noting that the award recognizes a team effort. “It’s a reflection of the pride that the employees have in the prod- uct.” In addition, News photographer Cindy Goodman took the first and third prizes for Feature Photo Color in the BCYCNA’S circulation over 10,001 category. Goodman beat out 48 other con- testants to win with a shot of a litue girl wearing her “It's Raining Cats and Dogs” T-shirt in a water foun- tain at Mahon Park. The photo was taken in August 1993. Her third-prize winner was a picture of a young man playing an upright bass beside a white wall on which are silhouetted four musi- cians. Coincidentally, Geodman won a SANEN AN ARO" MEWS photo Torry Psters A NORTH Vancouver *oman was shocked to find in her letter. box last week a bulk-riailed envelope loaded with advertising selting pornographic materials. NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER Cindy Goodman scooped two photo awards at this year’s BCYCNA competition. Suburban Newspaper’s Award last year for a photo of the same male Handsworth school student running through water with a couple of friends. “Pm thrilled that Cindy won the awards,” said Speck. “She’s got a great eye.” Goodman originally came to the News seven years ago as a Sunshine Girl. While chatting with photo editor Terry Peters she men- tioned her interest in photography. She happened to have her portfolio in her car. Her work impressed Peters enough that she wound up with a THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Do you think euthanasia should be legal in Canada? NEWS PUBLISHER Peter - Speck says that the paper’s general excetience award is a refiection of siaff pride. part-time position which has since become permanent. She will receive $150 for her first prize photo and $50 for com- ing in third. The News also received an hon- orable mention for an ad created by ad consultant Antony Hutton for Gerber Home Fumishings. Entries to the BCYCNA Awards reached an all-time high this year. Earlier this year, the News won four awards for genera) excellence from the Canadian Community Newspapers Association, including second in the Best All-Round Newspaper category.