NEWS BRIEFS

Marine Drive fatality |

under investigation

THE WEST Vancouver Police have yet to lay charges in
conrection with a fata} March 30 motor vehicle accident
on Marine Drive in West Vancouver.

Ingeborg Von Schiack, 54, died after she was struck
by a car in the 1900-block of Mgrine. She had bcen
walking on the sidewalk.

The vehicle went on to crash into a gas pump at a
nearby gas station. The car was gutted by fire. The
driver and a passenger in the car escaped with minor in-
juries,

Said West Vancouver Staff Sgt. Gunther ‘Vahl,
“There will be charges laid, when... don’t know yet.’

The police say they are awaiting laboratory blood
analysis sesults. They have not rejeased the name of the
driver,

Trial date to be set
for weapons charges

A BURNABY man will appear May 8 in B.C. Supreme
Court to set a trial date for possession of restricted
weapons charges.

Taras Filonov, 24, was ordered to stand trial following
a recent preliminary hearing in West Vancouver provin-
cial court.

He is charged with being in possession of an Uzi
machine gun and a .22 semi-automatic rifle in connection
with a September, 1989 incident in West Vancouver.

Filonev was originally arrested along with 10 other
Lower Mainland residents in connection with seizure of
cocaine wozth an estimated $9 million, luxury vehicles
and guns.

Filonov is the younger brother of Sergey Filonov, a
man shot to death last year in Vancouver.

Two youths arrested in

West Van auto theft

TWO PORT Coquitlam youths face charges of theft
over $1,000 following the theft of a vehicle that had been
parked at the Gleneagles golf course on April 13.

According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman,
two vehicles were damaged after suspects attempted to
steal them at about 5:30 a.m. A third vehicle, a 1972
Datsun 240-Z, was laicr stopped by police on Bay Street
in Horseshoe Bay.

Charged are 18-year-old Robert John O'Toole and
18-year-old William James Mutch.

WY police dog tracks

escapee from Langley

WEST VANCOUVER Police dog Trooper was called in
on his day off to catch a youth who escaped from
Langley RCMP on April 22.

According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman,
Trooper took over the pursuit in Langley when the dog
and his handier Const. Rick Grindrod happened upon
the chase scene at about 10:15 a...

The youth bolted from a police car after he was ar-
rested on weapons and assault charges.

Open houses scheduled to show
Porteau Cove marina proposal!

THE PROVINCIAL ministries of
transportation and lands and
parks will hold two public open
nouses this week to show plans
for a new $3.6-million emergency
mooring facility and park
enhancement program at Porteau
Cove Marine Park near Squamish.

The first open house, set for
today (May 1), will be held at the
Highlander Hotel in Squamish; a
May 2 open house will be held at
West Vancouver Secondary
School, 1750 Mathers Ave.

Both open houses will run from
4 p.m. to 9 p.m. A formal pres-
entation and question period on
the Porteau Cove project is set for
7:30 p.m.

The transportation and high-
ways ministry will also present in-
formation on its new five-year
Highway 99 Slope Stabilization
program. Phase one of the $3.5-

million project is now under way
at Brunswick Point, 20 kilometres
north of Horseshoe Bay. The se-
cond phase will be done this fall
at Porteau Bluffs.

The Porteau Cove emergency
mooring facility and the Slope
Stabilization Program are key
components of the highways
ministry’s plan to maintain the
vital transportation link between
Horseshoe Bay and Squamish.

The Porteau Cove park
enhancement program is designed
to improve recreational facilities
for park visitors.

Staff from both ministries will
be at both open houses, and, ac-
cording to highways spokesman
Jim [iavis, the public input from
the open houses will help in the
final design of the emergency

mooring facility and recreational.

enhancement program at Porteau
Cove.

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