Austrian police
arrest NV men

TWO NORTH Vancouver men have been arrested in Austria in
connection with the seizure of an estimated 142 kilograms of
heroin.

Vancouver RCMP drug squad Staff Sgi. L.D. ‘‘Smokey”
Stovern said Tuesday Joe Janda and former Vancouver Canuck
Jiri Bubla, both of whom live in the Woodcroft apartment complex
at 2004 Fullerton in North Vancouver, are currently being held in
Austria in coniiéction with the drug seizure.

He said Janda, who is well-known to local drug enforcement
agencies, was arrested in mid-February. Bubla was taken into
custody April 17 when he arrived in Vienna, Austria fer the world
hockey championships. He is currently being held on suspicion of
trafficking in heroin.

The arrests of Janda and Bubla follow an Austrian police in-
vestigation into the apparent drug overdose death of a young per-
son in Vienna.

‘Trial date set in
NV teen’s death

ROBERT Dale Ternes has elected to be tried in Vancouver county
court by a judge without a jury on the four criminal charges he
faces in connection with a Feb. 13 incident in which one teenager
was killed and another critically injured, | .

The 33-year-old North Vancouver:mau faces one count of im- ~

paired driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death
in connection with the death of 14-year-old Steven Oakley.

Ternes is also charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm —

and criminal negligence causing bodily harm in connection with in-
juries suffered by Craig Potter, also 14.

The charges were laid against * srnes following a Feb. 11 incident
in which a car jumped a sidewalk in the 1000-block Montroyal
Boulevard and ploughed into a group of students. .

Potter, who suffered multiple fractures and abdominal trauma,
remains in Lions Gate Hospital in stable condition.

Following a two-day North Vancouver provincial court pretimi-
nary hearing into the charges, Ternes was ordered to stand trial in
Vancouver county court.

He will make his first appearance in Vancouver county court
June 19 to fix a date for trial.

impaired driving
charge dropped

A 42-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man. fas been acquitted in
Vancouver county court of driving with a blood alcohol level over
.08 because he had an unusual liver ailment that prevented his body
from eliminating alcohol at the normal rate.

Michael Thomas Middleton was originally charged after he lost
consciousness while driving his car on Oct.6 and slamming into
another vehicle,

Middleton, who suffers from a fatty degeneration of the liver,
had drunk four glasses of rum from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. the
previous evening and had taken some prescription pills the follow-
ing morning before leaving for work.

In his written reasons for judgment, Judge Douglas Wetmore
said that though Middleton's blood alcohol level was registered at
.12, the evidence showed the alcohol would have been oxidized by a
normal person in the 10 hours from the time of Middleton’s last
drink to the time when a biood-alcoho! reading was taken.

The judge said Middleton was not aware of his retentive capacity
for alcohol and did no‘ commit a guilty act that would have led to

Music heard
at Park Royal

MUSIC WILL fill the air over the next 10 days as West Van-
couver’s 75th anniversary is celebrated at-Park Royal by West

Vancouver musicians. . ;
Both north and south malls set the stage for bands, choirs and

dancers including performances by the West Van Seniors Choir, 2 -

p.m. May 30, north mall; West Van Adult Thursday Band, 3 p.m.
May 31, Eaton’s Plaza; Singing Ukeleles, 2:45 p.m. May 31, north
mall; North Shore Chamber Music Society, 3:15 p.m. May 31,
north mall; North Shore YMCA’s square dancing, 2 p.m. May 31,

south mall.

THE FIRST five of 20 lucky win-
ners in the North Shore News
All-Star Basketball and Volleyball
Summer Camps draws have been
selected and will soon be off to
camp.

Winners are Christy Wilson, 12,
from Collingwood School;
Michelle MeWilliams, 16, from
Sutherland Secondary; Christie
Corben, 14, from Balmoral Junior
Secondary; Scott Corben, 11, from
Braemar Elementary; and Wanda
Pedersen, [3, from Maplewood
Community School.

Fifteen more trips to the popular
summer sports camps will be
awarded by the North Shore News

S - Wednesday, May 27, 1987 - North Share News

Sports camp winners named

over the next three weeks, with the
next draw set for June 1.

Entry forms can be obtained
from the May 24 or May 31 issues
of the News and should be sent to
the News office at 1139 Lonsdale
Ave. in North Vancouver.

Founded by Dan Miscisco, the
fun-filled camps centre on skills
and so far have helped $2,000
youngsters to improve their
basketball and volleyball playing.

Winners will be notified by tele-
phone and will be able to select
their choice of basketball or
volleyball camps. Draws are
scheduled for June 1, 8 and 15.

Details on the camps are

available from Doug Downie at
987-3381 or 437-6474.

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