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WAYNE LLOYD got a good return on his $250 investment at the Lynn Valley Elementary School auction.
He bid the money on a two-minute shopping spree donated by the Lynn Valley Steng’s grocery store, and
managed to gather $544.69 worth of goods in the 120 seconds alloted to him.

Biker, gang connections investigated

WEST VANCOUVER Police investigating the May 9
murder of 48-year-old John Raymond Ginnetti are follow-
ing up on evidence of bad blood between the Hell’s Angels
biker group and the Russians, a group described by police
as involved in the local cocaine trade. ;

The move comes in the wake of
Tuesday’s shooting death of 28-
year-old Sergei Filonov outside the
Trev Deeley Harley Davidson
dealership in Vancouver.

Filonov, a former West Van-
couver resident, was charged Sept.
7 with cocaine trafficking and con-
spiring to traffic in cocaine.

The charges followed a police
seizure of 13 kilograms of cocaine,
a large quantity of cash and two
guns.

On Thursday, Vancouver Police
charged 53-year-old Shannon

By MICHAEL BECKER
Aldridge of Burnaby and Delta
resident Mirosiav Michal, 33, with
second degree murder in connec-
tion with the death of Filonov.

West Vancouver Police are also
investigating a statement reported-
ly made by Filonov claiming that
“‘we did Ginnetti,”’ just before he
was gunned down with bullets
from a .380-calibre semi-automatic
pistol. .

Ginnetti was found in the
bedroom area of his Caulfeild
heme shot through the head.

‘Yhe dead businessman was in-
volved in the resale of B.C. lottery
tickets abroad.

Although West

GINNETTI
MURDER

police aren’t connecting Ginnetti
with the Hell’s Angels, bikers had
been seen visiting his $750,000
Almondel Court home and attend-
ed Ginnetti’s funeral on Tuesday.
According to a News source,
Ginnetti rode with the Hell’s
Angels ina biker funeral procession
through Vancouver streets several

Vancouver

years ago.

West Vancouver Police Staff
Sgt. Frank Aikenhead said the
five-man team of local police in-
vestigating the Ginnetti killing
have made no firm connections be-
tween Filonov and Ginnetti.

But he said, ‘‘We only know
from some of our sources that
there is an indication there could
be some bad blood between thein
(the Russians and the Hell's
Angels) in terms of drug dealing.’’

Meanwhile, charges against
Sergie Filonov’s brother Taras
Filonov, 23, and Aleksander
Alekseev, 22, and Eugeniy
Alekseev, 23, have been stayed in a
case involving the alleged attemp-
ted confinement of a man in West
Vancouver in December. Assault

Public get chance to give OCP input

EXACTLY ONE year after
the public hearing on North
Vancouver District’s Official
Community Plan (OCP) was
originally scheduled to be
reconvened, speakers will
finally have their chance to
comment on the municipali-
ty’s ‘‘broad vision of the
future’’ on June 12.

By MA
Contr

MILLERCHIP
a Writer

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL [|

Debate will start afresh then on
the arnended OCP after North
Vancouver District Council
reconvenes and then closes the old
public hearing in order to defeat
Bylaw 6000 (the old OCP) at a
special meeting of council im-
mediately foliowing.

The bylaw manoeuvring became
necessary after council incor-
porated substantial changes in the
OCP relating to:
the designation of five industri-
ally-zoned parcels west of Cates
Park as Parks, Recreation and
Wilderness;

New plan

to cover
Lynn Canyon,
Cates Park

ethe designation as Conservation
Area of a proposed mixed-use site
owned by the Vancouver Port
Corp. in the Maplewood area;

ethe elimination of proposed resi-
dential areas in the Inter-River
area;

*the- recommendations of the
North Vancouver Transportation
Network Study.

The draft OCP now states that,
“The Lynn Canyon Park lands
will be established as a district
park in accordance with the ex-
panded boundaries determined by
council,” and while the specific
properties to be included have yet
to be identified, council moved on
Monday night to use Section 532
of the Municipal Act to reserve the
land.

Once in place, the reservation
can only be removed by a two-
thirds council majority and
minister of municipal affairs ap-
proval. Anyone opposing removal
of park status may appeal to the
minister for a public vote.

A new implementation policy in
the amended OCP plan will in-
vestigate the feasibility of
establishing a new parks centre in
the expanded park north 3f
Capilano College to provide «&
focal point for the four Inter-River
parks.

Transportation changes included
in the amended OCP include:
edeleting the proposal to reserve a
route connecting central Lynn
Valley with Lillooet Road and
Blueridge forest;

*inserting a proposal to reserve a
route across Lynn Creek north of
the Upper Levels Highway near the
B.C. Hydro right-of-way to serve
the Capilano College area:
*inserting a proposal to reserve a
route across the Seymour River
above Capilano College as a long-
term option for an upper crossing;
*encouraging the provincial gov-
ernment to improve the Fern Street
and Main Street interchanges, to
add two lanes to the Second Nar-
rows Bridge, preferably for high-
occupancy vehicles, and to im-
prove lane capacity north of the
Second Narrows Bridge.

Other minor changes in the draft
plan were made to increase clarity
or remove redundancy, such as
deleting an option to locate a
commercial centre in Maplewood
to serve Seymour West.

The change follows council’s
decision to designate the

Maplewood Mudflats as a conser-
vation area.

Also under the amended OCP:
*the North Shore Arts Commis-
sion is recognized for the first time
as the principal coordinating agen-
cy for the arts and culture on the
North Shore;
sthe municipal hall complex is
designated as the site of a district
archives;
eand the Parkgate Centre is no
longer the specific site for a library
branch.

A new commitment was also
made to protect and conserve
“buildings and sites of value to the
cultural heritage of the communi-
ty” and to include protection of
old-growth forest and lands sup-
porting rare species or endangered
habitat.

While the OCP precludes coun-
cil from actions contrary to the
plan or from proceeding with a
project until the usual require-
ments for a public project have
been met, a new preamble spells
out that council is not committed
“to embark on any project includ-
ed in the plan’’.

There will be a May 26 open
House at district hall to discuss the
new draft of the OCP and the June
12 public hearing is set for
Balmoral Junior Secondary
School, 3365 Mahon, North Van-
couver, starting at 7:30 pm.

and concealed weapon charges,
faced by Aleksander Alekseev,
were also stayed.

The three were charged Dec. 2
with attempting to confine and at-
tempting to obstruct the course of
justice.

According to West Vancouver
Police, the three allcgedly attemp-
ted to abduct a man at a service
station located at 19th Street aad
Marine Drive. Police allege the
altercation broke out over a drug
deal,

Taras Filonov is set to appear
May 28 in West Vancouver pro-
vincial court for a show-cause
hearing on two charges of posses-
sion of a restricted weapon. The
charges stem from a Sept. 8 inci-
dent.

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