Your Number One Suburban Newspaper Distribution 986-1227 NORTH Vancouver District Council iras requested a cor- oner’s inquiry be held to inve at Lynn Canyon. Mayor Marilyn Baker said she expects the request, sent Tuesday, will be approved by the coroner's office. “To have two within a week has obviously raised sufficient con- cern. An inquiry will look into not only the cause of death but the igate the two recent tragedies surrounding circumstances.”" she said. On Sunday, 26-vear-old Kyle James Mallach, formerly of Kamloops, slipped from the can- yon wall and fell 15 metres into raging waters in an area of the creek known as 90-foot pool. AX paves 2c Catch sports action PAGE 33 boaters race PAGE 37 By KIM PRAIBERTON News Reporter His body was recovered by an RCMP dive team and members of the North Vancouver District Fire Depariment a1 around 6 p.m. On July 7, a 22-year-old Bus- naby man drowned after he jumped into Lynn Creek waters with two friends. All three were swimming in the creek. Robert Grant had tried to save at fiend who was having difficulties fighting the current, but was swept under himself, His two companions survived. Witnesses repert the latest: inci dent occurred after Mallach had chmbed over a safety fence and was looking over the canyon, Baker said in the past 10 years there have been five fatalities at Lynn Canyon — three of which were considered possible suicides. District of North Vancouver Parks Department Superintendent Dirk Oostindie said Jast week that the park isn’t dangerous if visitors Stay on the trails and walkways. He said the parkway has been fenced completely and warning Signs posted, Coroner Bart Bastien, who is investigating both deaths, was not available for comment to press time Tuesday. team performs gruesome job The body of K fe James Matlach, 26, is hoisted from Lynn Canyon Sunday by members of the North Van- couver District Fire Depart- ment. Mallach, a former Kamloops resident who had been living in Vancouver for the past five months, had chmbed over a safety fence and was looking over the can- you wall when he slipped, ac- cording to witnesses. North Vancouver District Council has requested a coroner's in- quiry be held inte Mallach's death — the second at the North Vancouver canyon within the past week. NEWS photo Neil Lucente