Lo AS GRR Neate a ITD a. GD RATE uit ane f ah BEM ile aae eaten tard fe ae oF ” iON Pat ray nee 2 papsrg: ahs! maa 4 z # g y i € eet a pero FEL Urgent prec SES, Re ter or See anh eB Asati? Canada’s Number One Suburban Newspaper Call for death penalty: THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER September 20, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 60 pages 25¢ Mushroom pickers may Frenck . talent % showcase PAGE 49 get more than mouthful MUSHROOM PICKERS will get more than a mouthful if they keep picking | on Rick Frost’s oppled over ‘while’ the gulfur car came to rest on a + 45 degree angle against. a B.C. Hydro pole. There were no injures . and, the renegade rail car escaped unscathed. THE SUPREME Court case to decide whether North Vancouver City Council has the right to call escort operator Carol McNeill before it, has been held over until October 8. Ald. Stella Jo Dean made a July motion and a September motion to bring McNeill, operator of In- terlude Escorts and Comfort Zone Escorts, before council to show cause why her business licences should not be revoked. But MeNei!ll and lawyers Tim Maledy and Nancy Wilhelm-Morden filed a petition with the Supreme court saying the city’s re- quest was out of order. Wilhelm-Morden told the News Thursday the two hours set aside for Wednes- day’s court case did not allow for the estimated three to four hours needed to properly hear all arguments, so the case was rescheduled. Wilhelm-Morden said that although ‘‘the facts in the case are straight forward, the law is not always straight forward. We will be making a technical legal argument.’’ Wilhelm-Morden said the city was out of order in property. The Grouse Woods resi- dent says he’s fed up with youths picking magic- mushrooms {containing the hallucinogenic drugs psilocybin and psylocin) off his lawn, getting stoncd.and yelling abusive language when asked to leave. ‘*] paid too much for my home to put up with this kind of crap,”’ Frost said. ‘‘! want an end to this. It’s just not right. I don’t want to contribute to someone else’s drug problem.” Frost’s new neighbor Bjorg Magnussen says she sees pickers all about, on her front lawn and her back Jawn, Pickers usually leave when Magnussen asks, but she always takes her large dog along when confronting them. she said At six foot four and 235 pounds, Rick Frost should be enough to scare off most intruders, but mushroom pickers know their rights, While possession of or trafficking in magic mushrooms is illegal! under the Food and Drug Act, all residents can do is ask the pickers to leave, said North Vancouver RCMP Cst. deciding to ask McNeill to appear before council to show cause, after council had discussed the matter in private with two police of- ficers. McNeill was excluded from that meeting. “The argument will be made on the ability of North Van city to make a judgment when Carol McNeill was not present,’’ she said. But Ald. Stella Jo Dean said, in referring to recent publicity that Interlude Escorts is a front for pro- stitution, ‘“‘There have been some pretty serious allega- tions. But we’re willing to give her a fair hearing. I’m not going to make any deci- sion until then.”’ Alison Irons. If they don’t leave residents should phone . the police, she said. But Frost said RCMP can’t help. By the time the police arrive, he said, pickers disappear into the woods. While most of the pickers are’school aged, Frost said, there are older pickers. too, some with Alberta licence plates. Frost wonders. what parents would think if they knew their children were trespassing for a ‘‘quick stone’. Last year Frost went to the television media, which agreed to broadcast the neighborhood’s plight. But other residents, fearing reprisals from the mushroom picking youths, convinced Frost not to go through with it. Frost has thought of photographing young of- fenders but says, ‘‘ Why should we have to go through all that to protect our own property?’’ ‘Others have gone to great lengths to rid their lawns of See Annual Page 11 ‘News’ special“ two-week -edition of .TV. listings’ ‘and feature articles is enclosed within today’s paper. . But if:your paper does’ f not have the TV News enclosed today, - please call. our Circulation department at 986-1337 to “help. ensure “regular delivery.