NEWS photo Terry Peters

& tire on New Year's Eve destroyed the venerable Paine Hardware store in North
Vancouver City. The fire hit the Lonsdale Avenue store and several suites.

THE North Shore News pre-
sents a summary of seme af
the kev events that shaped lite
onthe North Shore during the
firsr half of 1998, January
through fime:

JANUARY

Heritage building burned

@ A New Year's Eve fire gat-
ted a North Vancouver City
Lower Lonsdale heritage land-
mark.

The blaze started shortly
before 10 pan. in the base:
ment of the venerable Paine
Hardware store. The tire hit
the Lonsdale Avenue store and
several suites and offices locat-
ed upstairs.

North Vancouver City tire-
fighters, joined by back-up
crews from the distnets of
North Vancouver and West
Vancouver, fought the blaze
into the wee hours of New
Year's day asa crowd gathered
to wateh their efforts.

North Vancouver City
chief fire prevention officer
Dave Burgess said firefighters
tesponded to the emergency
call wichin four minutes. They
could see light smoke in the
store and the apartments over-
head upon arrival, The hard:
ware store quickly filled with
heavy black smoke and tlames.

Park announced

@ The ritt officially ended
berween the Tsicil-Waututh
Nation (Burrard) Bandi and
the provincial government

over BCs 199K decision to
turn native-chaimed land inte a
park .

Vsteil-Wauruth
Leonard George and
Munivipal rs Minister
Mike Farnworth signed an
agreement to joindy manage
Indian Arm provincial park
during a ceremony heid ina
band school room.

The 9,300-heetare wilder
ness park will also be known as
Save Nath Khaw-Yum which
means where the serpent
touches the cart.

The remote park is 20
times the size of Stantev Mark
and centains land that
belonged ta she Crown,
North Vanceawer District and
the Greater Vancouver
Regional District (GVRD),
Vhe park is locared northeast
of Deep Cove around Indian
Arotoos- betwee Mount
Sevmour Provingial Park and
Cognitlin.

FEBRUARY

Judge gives Rezaci 14 years
for *acts of a coward’

A Mani Rezaci was jailed 14
vears on Feb, 2 fora crime a

judve called norhing short of

an act of cowardice.

Reeaci, 21. pleaded: guilty
to shooting and attempting to
kill his best friend Siamak
ZAamedi on June 25, 1996.

Zahedi was shor while
reclining ona bed ina base

ment suite in the 300 block of

Wesr 21st Street in’ North

Chief

Vancouver.

B.C, Supreme Court: Mr.
Justice Wally Oppal said
Rezach committed the “acts of
a coward” when he went into
the suite wearing aomasky ran
off after the shooting and
blamed “black pimps and East
fndian drug dealers” for the
crinie,

Health board fired

wees bite
Noone Phaets
heb &
But daators warned: that
mochich cvecutive
Schamberzk: ats
altie Minister Jon

actions wouldnt
sole the aerumen berweca
doctors aad the ChO that led
te the bear's dismissal,

Dr Doughe Melaggart,
the North Shore Medteal
Socigth’s view president, said
fulure te reniove the embar-
ded CEO will “ful to resolve
the difficulties completely.”

MARCH

Health Region CEO fired

G North Shore Health Region
chief executive officer Inge
Schantborski follows in’ the
footsteps of the region's board
and is likewise sacked on
March 2.

uniess
otneer dr

North Van District

wins forest fight

@ North Vancouver District
wan a major court battle with
Canadian Mortgage and
Housing Corporation

(CMHC) over the rezoning of

lands in the Northlands and
Mountain Forest
Seymour,

Ao three-vear-old dispute
that saw a federal agency suc a
muntipal government with
Faxpaver Money ta a ray-sup-
ported justice svetem was
resolved March 13 when
Madam Justice Marv A
Humphries released ber rea

sons for judgment in tavour of

the district.

The tive das, carly January
hearing in the BoC. Supreme
Court will likely cost the
municipality. approximately
SSO.000,

North Van hotelier

cleared of sex charge

Bookarly in’ March,
Hutchinson, the
North Vancouver's Avalon
Hotel, received word that. a
human rights council decisian
dismissed a complaint by a for
mer emplovee charging him
with seaual assanh, Although
it took the council more than a

ken

areas of

owner oF

NEWS photo Terry Peters

DR. Phil Nuytten, Nuytco Research Lid., sold
Newtsub DeepWorker 2000 technology to the
National Geographic Society.

year te reach its verdies. it mir
rored the decision delivered in
B.C. Supreme Court in 1996
over similar allegations.

“Tm just glad ifs over and
Pye been vindicated in these
tribunals or forums,” said
Hutchinson, a ficher of tive. “4
won this thipg im criminal
court and now Pee wor it in
the human rights (councib.”

‘The human rights council
decision, 4 43-paye decumens,
we written by Douglas
Eastwood, the council aen-
ber who heard the complaint
during its 19-day hearing.

APRIL
Super bug strikes
B fe was revealed thata patient
with an antibiotic resistant
super bug was in Lions Gate
Hospitals extended care unit.
Hospital spokesman Dr.

NEWS photo Terry Peters

NORTH Vancouver RCMP auxiliary peace officers voted to stop working patrols
without guns. The 21 auxiliary officers made the decision after the provincial
government removed their pistols.

Stewart Madill said the woman
had been at the hospital for
two years. The woman was liv-
ing in the kvergreen House, a
haspital wing for the elderly
and chronically it,

The super bug is a bacteria
which is methicillin: resistant.
The bacteria Staphlococeuy
aurcus (MRSA; responds (can
be treated) by ane antibiotic,

Avorelative of another
Evergreen patient: was) con-
cerned thar he was not told
about the super bug.

Auviliary cops lose guns

B Ausiliary peace officers
working oar othe North
Vancouver ROMP voted
unanimously to stop working
parrols without gums,

The 22 auniliary officers
took avote ater the provincial
government removed their
pistals in oan unexpected
announcement,

Auxiliary Mounties said the
Streets were unsafe for some-
one a police uniform to be
unarmed, No specific incident
appeared te prompt the gav-
emment’s move againse the
provincial-funded: program) of
volunteers,

Obscene calls from jail

Bo Mississippi calling. An
inmate oof the | Delta
Correctional Facility. near
Greemvood Mississippi made
davens of obscene collect
phone cally ote North
Vancouver women in the pre-
vious several weeks.

Mont of women thought
they were accepting a cotleet
call trom Delta, Warden: Don
Grant of the 1,000 inmate pri
vatized jail said that he would
make sure harassment of peo
ple “on the ether side of Uhis
fence” would stop.

MAY

Sub deal seated
@ A North Vancouver deep:
sea technology company was

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