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Bain sentencing set for March 6

A” RETIRED North
Vancouver.’ drama teacher
pleaded guilty on Feb, 7 to
two. charges of committing
acts, of gross indecency
against two female students.

_ By Anna Marie D’Angelo
-Newa Reporter

*».". John ‘Alexander Bain, 54, is to
,be sentenced on March 6 in B.C.
‘Supreme Court.
<3. Bain, who-taught school at
Handsworth secondary, is the third

~ North Vancouver teacher to appear .

“before the courts'in the past year

“on charges’ involving. ‘sex crimes -

: ‘against students. :

._.. Daryl’ Samson, who taught at
- Sutherland secondary, is appealing

_ his: conviction in B.C. Supreme
‘Court. Kurt Hueftlein, who taught
. at Carson Graham, will be sen-
_tenced next’ month in North
Vancouver provincial court.

- Bain pleaded guilty +o commit-
ting -acts. of gross indecency
-against a female student over a
‘ two-year period in the late 1970s.

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He also pleaded guilty to the
same charge over a 20-month peri-

“od against another student in the

early 1980s. The students’ identi-

i ties are protected by court order.

Bain was originally charged
with four counts involving three
girls. He faced three counts of
committing acts of gross indecen-
cy ‘and one charge of indecent
assault. He agreed to go to trial in
the higher court on the four
charges on Dec. 12 during pro-

‘ ceedings in North Vancouver. B.C.

Supreme Court Crown lawyer
.Greg Weber said the Crown is pro-
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Friday, February 16, 1996 — North Shore News -- 3

NVD chomps
into sandwich
board debate

A LENGTHY battle over the
use of sandwich boards on
sidewalks is to be revisited by
North Vancouver District staff.

Council voted 5-1 Monday in
favor of Coun. Pam Goldsmith-
Jones motion for a staff review of
the contentious issue.

Goldsmith-Jones is the district
Tepresentative on the North
Vancouver Chamber of Commerce.

A chamber task force recom-
mended the use of sandwich boards
as an advertising device subject to
size, design and placement restric-
tions made in 1994.

North Vancouver City drafted
sign bylaw amendments based on
the task force report but the district
did not.

Bruce Young, owner of
Uniglobe Castaways Travel Ltd.,
appeared before council to urge a
level playing field for merchants
along Marine Drive.

Uniglobe was advised in
January by district staff that its
sandwich board could‘no longer be
placed in front of its; Marine Drive
location.

City businesses east of Mackay
Road on Marine Drive may current-
ly use sandwich boards.

Businesses in the district's
western half of Marine Drive may
notuse them. /

Young told ‘council that his
board sits on his own property 3.6

» metres-(12 ft.) from the curb edge ©

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
By Martin Millerchip

and is professionally designed to
city specifications,

Young pointed out that street
trees planted by the district effec-
tively block the visibility of his
approved signage.

He estimated that his sandwich
board has generated approximately
$500,000 in business since 1989.

“IT hope the district can appreci-
ate the value that sandwich boards
have to the small business owner
and that some reasonable compro-
mise can be worked out so that
small businesses in the city and dis-
trict can have a level playing field
in which to operate,” said Young.

Goldsmith-Jones said that her
request for a review of the sign
bylaws was not meant to be a mas-
sive overhaul.

Only Coun. Ernie Crist opposed
the staff review.

Crist said the issue of sandwich
boards is a political decision for
council to make and had been
debated many times previously.

“We all like to help small: busi-
+ nesses.

“We appreciate the tough times
that small business. faces. But the
fundamental question ‘is whether
sidewalks are for signs or for peo-
ple to walk on,” said Crist. ~

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overall Northlands Community Plan.

Over the last number of months, the project’s consultant team
has been werking closely with District staff and advisory com-
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forms including singie family lots and multi family developments.

A public open house will be held on Thureday, February 22,
1996, at the Ron Andrews Recreation Centre, Windridge
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Please drop by between 6 pm and 9 pm to jook at displays and
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