Saf seer etet ona et be ptf Pn me 7 } ohgreseetg tra 7 Shopping for a car? Ses os aii i A ches es een NORTH SHORE AUTO DEALER PAGE 30 Bie res tite rae NEWS photo Net Lucente THE NEW Hope Community Church in Lynn Valley celebrated its first anniversary Sunday by releasing balloons with special biblical messages into the air. The church has a congregation of approximately 75 members and meets at RecCentre Lynn Valley each week. A VANCOUVER county court jury found former West Vancouver high schoes teacher Daniel Leroy Bristow guilty Tuesday on nine sexual-assault related charges fol- towing a five-day (rial. CRESSEY DEVELOPMENT Corp. has until Tuesday to heights to six storeys may be lifted apply for a building permit to construct a 28-storey com- after city staff submits x view iin. mercial-residential towe ) . 8 . te 3 . puch ana YSIS to coun! . OUuNCL er on the St. Alice Hotel site before ja. committed $25,000 of the 198s North Vancouver City Council restricts building heights in budget and $25,000 from the 1989 The 64-yeur-old Bristow was (he director of the inusic and drama program ut Sentinel Secondary School from [966 to 1978. He was originally charged with nine counts of indecent assault and three counts of gross indecency in connection with incidents alleged to have occurred between January 1968 and June 1979 involving seven adolescent males. The jury found Bristow guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and two counts of gross indecency involving six of the males. He was acquitted on one count of gross iudecency and two counts of indecent assault with the seventh male. Complainants testified during the five-duy trial that Bristow had fondled them, and engaged them in masturbation and oral sex in his bedroom in North Vancouver aud on cainping trips. The defence argued that none of the offences bad occurred, and pointed out to the jury that Bristow's then-wife Dorothy, who could have confirmed or denied the evidence of one comnpiainant, was never called as a witness for the Crown, Bristow will be sentenced on the charges Jan. 10. Lower Lonsdale. After the seven-day grace period expires, the new soning bylaw. if adopted, will restrict building heights between First and Third streets. and Chesterfield and St. Georges Avenues fo six storeys to bring new developments in’ tine with North Vancouver City’s Of- ficial Community Plan (OCP). Council members were also con- cerned about other developers with proposals for the Lower Lonsdale area that have not vet applied for permits. The ftatercon) group of com- panies, for example, bas purchased Se- By CORIN Contributing Writer cond St., subject to approval of a permit to construct a $12 million, 22-storey luxury condominium and commercial development on the hotel's property, which has fron- tage on both Third and Second Streets. “TL hope the developers will see that council wishes to follow the OCP, and will abide by this and not put in those building permits,” said Ald. Bill Bell. budget for the analysis which will be released next March. While Bell supported the rezon- ing, he said he was worried that it may do more harm than good. “It's a shame we can't wait until the view analysis takes place,"’ said Bell. (it) may show that six- storey blocks are not the way (to preserve the view). [t may preserve the view (higher up the hill), but its going to be the people at the bottom of Lonsdale that are suf- fering.”’ But Ald. John Braithwaite said council should forge ahead: ‘‘] feel that we're supposed to be an ac- tion-oriented committee."