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Contributing Writer

NORTH Vancouver
City Coun. Barbara
Sharp should be
disqualified from
holding office,
according to a
notice of motion
submitted at
Monday night’s
council meeting.

The bombshell was
dropped by city Coun. Bol
Fearnley, who accused Sharp
of contlict of interest: because
she allegedly voted at least 14
times in the past two years on
matters pertaining to the

couver City Fire
Departinent.

Sharp is married to Brian
Pollitt, a firefighter who is
president of the firefighter’s
union focal.

Fearnley also alleged that
Sharp vored four times on
matters pertaining to the hir-
ing of a new city fire chief,

Bur = Sharps said) she
declared a cuntlict of interest
when any matters relating 10
the International Association
of Firefighters Union or any
relevant collective agreement
arose. She also denied having
been involved in the commii-
tee to select a new fire chief.

But Fearnley charged that
“Coun. Sharp, until this
eveni has been involved in
the fire fconmitree.”

Sharp questioned why
Fearnley didn’t bring the alle-
gations forward before the
Oct. 15 deadline for filing
nomination papers for the

November election.
“You'll have to ask him

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FOR commuters who walk or
cycle across the Lions Gate
Bridge, time is running out.

‘The B.C. ‘Pransportation Financing, Authority
(BCTEA) intends to close voth bridge sidewalks for
nine months beginning in January 2000.

And if North Vancouver's Joint Bicycle Advisory
Committee (JBAC) has its way, the sidewalks will
close even sooner.

“In the last month they’ve only had one side-
walk open, and it’s less than one metre wide.
Pedestrians and cyclists can’t even get by cach other

ers

Alternatives sought for
bridge cyclists, walkers

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— never mind the workers on the bridge,” said
long-time commuter and IBAC member Brent
Habbs.

JBAC members are also concerned about being
blinded by oncoming headlights as winter
encroaches and darkness comes carlier in) the
evening.

“I rake the SeaBus now,” said Hobbs, a regis-
tered nurse from North Vancouver. “I'd love to
take the bridge but safety is a concern — and I
promised my wile.”

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$19 per month. fo qualify the family membors must reside at the same ockiress as the original member.

North Vancouver City Coun. Darrell Mussatto,
JBAC co-chairman, said the committee was form
ix months age to deal with transport and safety

Vancouver J

Mussat id JBAC members had resolved to
ask the BC to close both sidewalks.

“With people going two ways on the same side
of the bridge, it’s getting quite congested,” he said.

Mussatto said the committee was hoping to see
a free shuttle service put in place to ferre cyclists
and pedestrians across the bridge.

“It should be part of the cost of redoing the

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