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Sunday, March 8, 1998 - North Shore News — 3

Ice Sports - North Shore leaves some with a cold, corporate impression

Andrew McCredie

Editor andrew@nsnews.cam

“ICE Sports — North Shore.”
Vancouver District and

ean come up with a
na slat-

Surely North
Canlan Investments Lid.
better name tor the new three-rink ar
ed tor Mount Sevmour Parky

Paul Kariva Arena would be a fitting tb
ute to the world-famous North Vancouver
hockey plaver, in the same way Cam) Neely
Arena and Larry Walker Field are tributes to
the professional athletes who grew up in

ple Ridge.

Or what about Malcolm Lowry Arena, tor
the famed poet and writer who galled the
Deep Cove watertront home for many vears?
(Trac, there’s no proof Lowry was a hockey
fan — after all, he was a Brit — but since our
national game, when played at its best, is often
referred to as “poetry on

And if vou don’t think an
idents, be they living or dead, warrant such
recognition, what abour plain old Sevmour
Arena? Or the Parkway Ice Palace?

Instead, we get a corporate moniker in the
romantic tradition of the lyrical “GM Place.”
Call it the Greening of the North Shore.

Long the established Way to recognize out-
standing and community-minded individuals.
the naming of municipal buildings, especially
recreation facilities, has fallen on hard umes. A
quick fook through the telephone book's Blue

Lone driver
trapped in
flipped van

Fram page 1

afternoon.

Carol and Jessica Hill saw a van overrus ned ina
ditch off the cast lanes of the Trans Canada
Highway near the Cypress Bowl turnoff.

By the time Jessica and her mother parked their
Jeep and made their way over to the van, there v
several men standing at “the scene ready to help.

*s mother had picked up a rock with inte
tions to break a window to help get whoever was
inside the van out.

The van’s fone driver, a teenage girl, was: still
inside, suspended by her seat belt. Some of the
windows were already smashed as a result: of the
accident.

“There were a little bit of flames and smoke
coming out of the van. That’s why we had to get her
out,” said Jessica Hill,

Hill told the people around the van about how
to remove the driver wirhout causing additional
injuries. A caller to the News said Jessica Hill's
actions Were commendable.

When the driver was out of the van, Hill said she
was surprised to realize that the driver was someone
she had gone to school with.

“fe was casier to be calm with someone you
know, 1 talked to her to keep her conscious,” said
Hill.

“It was really good) she recognized me or}
would have been more panicky.

Hill saiel she directed the bystanders to help her
ensure the driver's airway was open without moving
her neck and check the d blood circulation
and wrist pe Hill asked a bystander to call 9-1-1.
By this time, someone who was parked across the
road velled out that 9-1-1 already called on a
cell phone. Hill's mother got a blanket for the
injured girl trom the Hill's Jeep.

Inabout 10 minutes, the ambulance arrived and
the injured driver was taken to hospital, said: Hill.

“ft was really rewarding, [had older people lis
tening to me and | was telling them what to do.”
said Hill.

She has completed a number of first-aid: courses
and has aff her certificates for swinming instruction
and life guarding,

The van driver, Erin’ Robinson, ES, of West
Vancouver, sustained bruising in the accident.
Robinson did not wish to talk about the accident
when contacted at her home on Thursd,

A West) Vancouver Police spokesman was
unavailable tor comment to press time.

B.C. Ambulance Service spokesman Bob Pearce
said ambulance attendants appreciated the comfort
Hill was able to give to the injured driver.

NEWS ANALYSIS

sls just how many North Vancouver
facilities have been named after such individu
> Lonsdale recreation centre, Wiliam
ffin recreanon centre. Atickey Me Doug {
ation centre, Murdo Frazer Par 3) goir
course. Ron Andrews reereation contre.
And, of course. Karen Magnussen Arena.
In 1972, Magnussen was the country’s daring
asshe skated away with the ser medal atthe
Winter Olympics in) Sapporo, Japan. “The
North Van native returned to the North Shore
a here. and anew recreation centre was sub
sequently named in her honor.
Ywenty-four years later,
Alison Svdor wins the uber medal at the
Summer Olympics in Atanta. A seconda
weight-room ina North Van recreation centre
is named after the three-time world champion
What's the des
According to North Vancouver District
parks manager Cameron Cairneross, the dis-
trict has a policy When it comes to naming
parks, but not one tor buildings and reere-
ation facilit
“The naming of buildings kas to come
directly from “council,” Caimneross said,
adding that while parks are most often named
for a geographical feature (ic. MeCartney
Creek Park) there is a procedure whereby an
individual’s name can be considered.
Called Friday morning to comment on the
Ice Sports — North Shore name, Coun. Ernie

North Van's

shouhd be named ater
In tact, he did

ony
athlete

Crist aprecd the
a North Vancouver
more than rust ag

“Pwill draw up a meten today that ecoun
ci sets up a task toree to attach an appropri
ate name to the new tee mak op Secmoar”
Crist said. adding. “ae should name fachnes
after heroes

Crist said he will present. the
counaibatats March Lo meeuny

But North Vancouver District Maver Don
Bell has no problem with the proposed name.

Increasmeh. were Urving not to name
mulities atter people, * Bell said. “Instead, we
preter to name them afer a weographical area
so that it will be semplter ter the public to tind
them.”

Ice Sports -- North Shor

Bell added thar since the arena deal with
Canlan Investments is a0 private company
operanng a private taality as opposed te a
municpal meilty rus by a private contractor
— the naming af the arena ts the company’s
prerogauve

Canlan Investments vice-president Pat
Dovle said the “Tee Sports” name is Cantan’s
trade name, citing rinks in Ontane as exam

s ee Sports - Oshawa. lee Sporty —-
Erobicoke).

“We feel the new rink will draw people
from across the North Shore so the name
fits,” Dovle said.

He added that the company’s Burnaby
Kighe Rinks might saan be renamed Ice

Mote tO

ed to be a lifeguard and swimming instructor.

NEWS photo Terry Peters
JESSICA Hill holds badges she received after completing the first-aid courses need-

NEWS photo Brad Leawidge

KAREN Magnussen's portrait serves
as inspiration to many young skaters
in the arena that bears her name.

Sports — Eight Rinks to tit into the compa-
nv’s name profile.
ff Crises motion to form a “Name the
rena” task force wins council faver, and if
that task force can’t come to a decision as to
w ho to name the arena atter, what about nam-
gg it after the hard working sports editor at
the local pap
McCredie Arena has a nice
wouldn’t you sav?

Man with
knife sent
to hosnital

A drunken man picked up a
knife in his home and made
gestures to hurt himself in
front of police on Feb. 25
in the 300-block of Moody
Avenue.

North Vancouver RCMP Const.
Tom Seaman said police tirst learned
there were problems at the house

receiving a9-1-1 “hang up” call.
Background “phone voices indicated
hing was wrong.
police arrived at the
‘found the man, age 42,
and a feartul woman present, accord:
ing the North Vancouver RCMP.

The Mounties used a police dog
to arrest the man, The man was taken
to Lions Gate Hospital for psychiatric
assessment. He was wanted on a war-
rant and larer turned over to
Vancouver City Police

Const. Seaman said police have
been called again to the residence in
relation to the man’s behavior since
the Feb, 25 incident. The name of ure
man was not released Ly police.

— Anna Marw D'Aunlo

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