NEWS BRIEFS Crashes kill TWO MEN died in North Vancouver this week after succumbing to injuries sustained in two separate motor vehicle accidents. Randall Ian Ross, 24, of Coquitlam, died after the new Suzuki 600 motorcycle he was driving on Mount Seymour Park Road failed to negotiate a sharp curve and crashed over a barrier en the west side of the read- way. The accident ov curred at about 7:30 p.m. on June 18. According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, Ross’ companion, Greg Pearson, had just made the sharp tura on his motorcycle. He aoticed Ross was no fonger behind him and discovered that Ross had gone over the barrier. Ross died later at Lions Gate Hospital. Meanwhile James Oltenberger, 32, of Vancouver, died Wednesday at Lions Gate Hospital following 2 May 31 single motor vehicle accident on an off-ramp near the Upper Levels Highway and Lonsdale Avenue. According to the police Ollenberger’s 1979 Mustang left the highway at the Lonsdale exit, struck a barrier, overturned and struck several trees. The driver sustained head and spinal injuries. Ollenberger was welterweight boxer. a former Canadian junior Charges dropped CHARGES against a veteran RCMP officer stemming from a March 1990 incident in which a North Vancouver man was shot in the chest during a North Vancouver RCMP drug raid have been dropped. On March 19, 1990, David Lorne Glover was shot in the chest. Glover was holding a TV remote contro! when confronted by police. He was subsequently charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. In August, Cpl. Glenn Magark was chsrged with crim- inal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated assault as a result of the shooting. The indictment against Magark was not proceeded upon following a judicial finding that his actions were not unlawful. Glover has launched a civil suit against Magark seek- ing damages from the shooting. NV board introduces new smoking policy Seniors concerned A CHANGE in the 1991 provin- cial supplementary homeowners grant has decreased the difference between homeowners grant money available to seniors and handi- capped people who own homes and homeowners under 65 years of age. By Michael! Becker News Reporter North Vancouver District senior Patricia Dunn said her tax bill “just didn’t look right’ when she went to check the figures. “t's to do with the school taxes. I thought we seniors didn’t pay school taxes. The seniors grant has always been there and now they are taking it away. I'm upset because the grant is going down. What they’re doing is transferring the difference some- how to those who are under 65, My girlfriend’s son, he’s got a $200 credit this year which sur- would have paid in 1989. But the difference in 1991 has been reduced to $135. Added upset 76-year-old North Vancouver District homeowner Enzi Mueller, ‘‘Apparenily there’s nothing we can do — the school tax benefits. You assume you get the deductions. They didn’t even warn us old-age pensioners. I’m certainly angry.’’ But said North Vancouver District assistant treasurer Nor- man McCormick, ‘‘What rhe seniors are complaining about is that there always was a spread of $270 up until the supplementary grant was introduced (in 1990). So the seniors don’t benefit propor- tionately. The seniors see themselves losing owt because the spread betwezn the two grants us- Atshar 5'x?7" 1eQ_$3t50— Now $ 599