WY boutique
woman not guilty

MARILYN DILIGENTI, owner of West Vancouver's controversial
Champagne Taste ladies clothing boutique, was found not guilty
Thursday in West Vancouver provincial court of unlawfully selling
merchandise in a marina-zoned area,

Diligenti, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, said sie was
pleased with the court's decision. ‘I feel it was a victory for
everybody in the long-run, even for those who werent suppor-
tive."*

The boutique owner was fined last September for selting clothing
out of her living room without a business ficence after complaints
were made against her by a group of West Yancouves retailers, She
thea moved her business to a former boathouse adjacent to her
home at 6223 Imperial Ave, where the boutique currently operates.

Demolition of
St. Alice started

THE ST. Alice Hotel will be demolished with a whisper rather than
a big bang.

Instead of a crowd-pleasing implosion, the cid hotel is going
down piece by piece. Demolition contractor D. Litchfield and Co.
ita, af Fort Coquitlam began work fast week to remove the top
three floors of the historic five-storey building with a Bobcat
mini-excavator.

The remaining two floors will be collapsed with larger cquipment

this week.

Lifeboat society
gets grant

WEST VANCOUVER-Howe Sound MLA and Speaker of the
House John Reynolds announced Wednesday the approval of a
$13,000 B.C. Lottery Fund award (o kelp the North Shore Lifeboat
Society purchase a 26-foot lifeboat and related searck and rescue
equipment.

Said Reynolds, *‘This vessel will replace the 17-foot craft pur-
chased by the society last year for the Deep Cove area. The smaller
vessel has proved inadequate for medicat evacuations and fire-
fighting calls when a great deal of equipment must accompany the
many volunteers."’

The society answers between 150 to 200 calls each year from its
bases hi Fisherman’s Cove and Deep Cove. The Deep Cove base
serves the area from Lions Gate Bridge to Pert Moody and up In-
dian Arm.

NV man guilty of
school disturbance

A 30-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man was placed on probation
for two years after be pleaded guilty Monday in North Vancouver
provincial court to causing a disturbance in 2 Iccst school.

Joseph Roger Michael Landry was originally charged with
mischief sad causing a disturbance in connection with Oct. 4, 1988
incidents in which a telephone at Queen Mary clementary school
was alleged to have been damaged and a disturbance caused at the
schoo} by shouting.

Appearing before Judge J.D. Layton, Landry pleaded guilty to
causing 2 disturbance.

A stay of proceedings was entered in the mischief charge laid
against him.

In addition to the probation term, Landry was ordered te pay
$95 in restiution to B.C. Tel.

N. Shore society
gets grants

THE NORTH Shore Family Services Society has received $5,000 in
Community Action Program (CAP) funding, North Vancouver-
Capilano MLA and Solicitor General Angus Ree announced
recently.

Funds will be used to:
* provide staff with training and consultation to enable them to
serve clients whose alcohol and drug problems are having a nega-
tive impact on their families;
© provide consultation to high school counsellors;
e and develop and run therapeutic groups for adult children of
alcoholics and other co-dependents.

“Alcohol and drug abuse is a widespread problem that can
destroy geople’s lives and incur tremendous economic costs,’’ Ree
said.

This week

NORTH VANCOUVER CITY
COUNCIL, Monday, Feb. 27 at
7:30 p.m.: Taxi standards pro-
gram/ Rezoning application
Esplanade and Lonsdale Ave./
Emergency telephone system
report/ Westview Shopping Centre
zoning amendment/ Proposed
licence to use city lands by
Capilano nurseries/ Application to
rezone 2100-2124 Eastern Ave./

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL, Monday,
Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m.: Application
for Neighborhood pub- Torchy’s
Restaurant/ Task force on single
faynily housing design issues/ Bank
protection works 1458 Kilmer Rd./

WEST VANCOUVER DISTRICT
COUNCIL, Monday, Feb. 27 at
7:45 p.m.: Proposal to upgrade
track and field facility/ Request to
amend development permit
Cypress Bowl Rd./ Building per-
mit application Kiwanis Lodge/

S ~ Sunday, February 26, 1989 - North Shore News

at councils

Motor Vehicle Act-traffic fines.

Agenda items in this column are
included as space permits. For a
comprehensive agenda, interested
Parties should contact the respec-
tive municipal halls.

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RECENT CONVICTIONS in
North Shore courts have resulted
in the following fines and penalties
for drinking and driving related
offences.

NORTH VANCOUVER: Elmer
McNeill, 56, 13013-100A_ Ave.,
Surrey (over .08, $700 fine); Ar-
thur Kirkby, 42, 8593 Bedora
Place, West Vancouver
(breathalyser refusal, $500 fine);
James Greg Donnan, 30, 358 West
15th St., North Vancouver (im-
paired, $350 fine); Michael Philip
Gibson, 29, 544 Amess St., New
Westminster (over .08, $700 fine).

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