NEWS photo Tom Burley RESCUE CREWS pult a youth to safety after he tumbled down an 80-foot drop in Lynn Canyon Park. SURVIVES 80-FOOT DROP Youth rescued from canyon fall RESCUE CREWS were called in to Lynn Canyon Park Monday afternoon to pull a youth te safety after he tumbl- ed down an 80-foot drop near the 30-foot pool of Lynn Creek. NEWS photo Tom Burlay AN UNIDENTIFIED youth is pulled to safety on a stretcher after falling 80 feet. Business .. wee 46 Classified Ads.... -60 Doug Collins Dr. Muth. ............ Editorial Page. . Food....... Lifestyles North Shore Now.... Sports ................ 21 TY Listings... What's Going On The unidentified youth broke a leg in the fall. Said North Van- couver District assistant fire chief Moe Conway, ‘tHe had slid or fallen from a trail and landed on the rocks. We heard he was hors- ing around on the trail with his friend. He was very lucky. Hf he had of ended up landing the other way up (on his head) it would have been a bad start for the season."’ The youth was treated by an ambulance attendant, who climbed down the canyon by way of ropes. The victim was then loaded on toa stretcher and pulled up the slope by firefighters. The canyon claimed two lives last year. Twenty-ycar-old Stephen Lynch drowned in July after a div- ing mishap near Twin Falls. Sergio Vera, 18, died in March after leap- ing over a fence near the suspen- sion bridge and falling into the canyon. WEATHER Wednesday, rain. Thursday, mostly cloudy with showers. Highs near 14°C. Second Class Registration Number 3885 3 - Wednesday, May 17, 1989 - North Shore News NVD PARTY GETS OUT OF HAND Young mob wreaks havoc at Quarry Rock ROCKS, BOTTLES, cans and fists were flying in the Indian River Road area Saturday night after a quarry party at- tended by about 500 youths turned into a brewling free- for-all. Things got especially hot for 16-year-old Doug Lenhart after a mob of angry youths torched his car just after | a.m. Sunday. Lenhart, 2 friend and a girlfriend, drove up a B.C. Hydro powerline right-of-way road to at- tend the party at approximately 8:15 p.m. ‘‘There were maybe 50 people there when we got there,”’ he said. But the crowd quickly grew. ‘‘Later on, at about I! or 12, 1 watched somebody push a friend of mine off a 10-foot drop. I got into a fight, but it was like four to one. We tried to leave and the next thing I knew there were 20 or 30 people throwing rocks at the car. Somebody dragged me out of the car, beat me up and then they roll- ed the car and lit it on fire,"’ Lenhart said. Lenhart said the quarry area, known to local teens as Quarry Rock, is a popular party area. “I've seen parties up there with 800 of 900 people. This on: was just a massacre. 1 heard one guy had his head splic open. When you have that many people tere, you're going to have some eneinies there,’’ he said. North Vancouver RCMP were called to the area at 8:50 p.m. after a resident of the 5400-block Indian River Road complained about the crowd scene at the rock quarry. Police set up a road block on Indian River Road, and while no one was arrested, police made a number of liquor seizures. Said a Nerth Vancouver RCMP spokesperson: ‘‘Some of the youths leaving were found to be By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter bleeding from the head, but they didn’t divulge what had haopen- ed.”’ Police later received a report of a car on fire at the quarry. But when North Vancouver District Fire Department firefighters arriv- ed on scene, Lenhart’s 1977 Ford Pinto was destroyed. Indian Arm Sunshine Falls resi- dent Cathy Michaud was stopped by police at the road block while on her way home at approximately 1:30 a.m. Said Michaud: ‘The police sug- gested we didn't go through because there were hundreds of drunk teenagers and they were throwing rocks, bottles and cans at cars going by. We drove through very gingerly and we were okay. The road was just lined with cars and there were hundreds of young adults milling around.”’ Hiker Ray Miles, who has walk- ed in the area for years, was shocked by what he saw the fol- lowing morning at the party site. “The place just stunk like a garbage dump — a bloody sham- bles. There are garbage cans up there that were empty and we were ankle deep in beer bottles and cans,’’ Miles said. Miles fears for the safety of teens using the area to party. ‘‘It’s a dangerous place. There’s a 200- foot drop off down to the Arm nearby. I'm surprised that no- ” body’s been killed yet,’ he said. NEWS photo Neil Lucente FIREFIGHTERS COMPETE in the hose reel race during this year’s North Shore Firefighters Annual Hose Reel Festival held last Saturday ai Mahon Park. Firefighters from throughout the Lower Mainland competed in the hose reel event as well as a water tower bucket brigade race and a tug o’ war game. A good turnout came out to the races as well as for a hose reel parade, barbecue and dance.