SUNDAY February 11, 1996 imside the news & Bright Lights 8 Business..418 @ Celebrations & Classifieds.. @ Crossword @ Entertainment... B Gotaways. & Horoscopes..................28 B Inquiring Reporter..12 ts) ne @ Neighborhoods...........3 BN. Shore Alert.............9 Wh Sports... eS Telking Personals....38 TY Listingg..................32 @ Vintage Years. | Sd fashion & WV panty panderer plays cupid’s heiper: 15 NV designs show up Chinese New Year: 16 features & Neighborhoods recognizes heroes: 3 & North Shore News 1995 Baby Aibum: 43 INCREASE YIELD. DECREASE RISK. Retirement Planning RRSPURRIFs Retirement Savings Bunds LET US FIND YOU THE RIGHT RRSP. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 925-9220 MIDLAND _WALWYN A8LUE CHIP FHINKING™ NEWS photo Brad Be my valentine SWEET ADELINES chorus members (front to back) lrene ingraham, Kelly Yamauchi, Sylvia Laight and Jan Wray sing a love-song mediey to raise funds for upcoming competitions. Vaientine-o-grams can be booked to Feb. 14 by phoning 986-7864. Weather Monday: Sun and cloud, High 9°C, low -3°C. in club battle Cap Sportsmens facility at issue WEST VANCOUVER will go to court in an effort to remove the Capilano Sportsmens Club from its municipally owned Ambleside digs. By lan Noble News Reporter A writ of summons filed Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court names West Vancouver as the plaintiff and the sports- men’s club as the defendant. West Vancouver is seeking an injunction to restrain club members and guests from using the premises and wants damages for trespass and costs. The district plans to turn the clubhouse into a youth outreach centre. The club is supported by 240 members. District lawyer Paul Wilson said the issue is simple. The club’s occupancy was terminated Dec. 31, 1995 and it hasn’t been given a new licence to occupy the premises. They no longer have any right to be on the premises, said Wilson. “It's up to the club to say whether anything else is involved and prove it,” he said. “Courts are the proper place to deal with the dispute.” Added West Vancouver Mayor Mark Sager, “It’s a shame to waste taxpayers’ money, but if we have to do it, we have to do it. We have every confidence our posi- tion is correct.” After the club did not leave at the end See Cap Ciub page 4 J, Van murder trial to jury A B.C. Supreme Court. jury is expect- ed to begin deliberations Monday in the case of a West Vancouver man charged with killing his 83-year-old live-in mother. By Brent Mudry Contributing Writer Mr. Justice Wally Oppal will outline to the jury what they must consider when deciding whether lo acquit Michael McCune, 56, or con- viet him of cither second degree murder or manslaughter in connection with the Jan. 29, 199%, death of his mother, Barbara McCune. In closing defence testimony on Wednesday, a forensic pathologist told the jury that Barbara McCune's injuries could have been caused by _accidental falls, not stomping as the Crown alleges. “In my opinion, the fall ... is a much more likely explanation,” Dr. Jennifer Rice testified. When West Vancouver Police responded to McCune’s 9-1-1 call at 3. a.m. on Jan. 29, 1993, they found him and his dead mother outside on the front porch. Inside, the house was a4 mess. Under cross-examination by prosecutor Joe Bellows, the defence pathologist agreed that the McCune residence was so crowded with stacks of rubbish that even an able-bodied person walking the hallways could fall down. Rice noted that Barbara McCune was frail, afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, had tunnel vision and was almost meapable of walking on her own, “The very narrow passages ... piled high with material possessions would present a haz- ard to a healthy person,” she testified. The defence pathologist claimed the elderly woman's injuries were consistent with McCune’s claims that he fell on top of his 84- pound (38 kg) mother twice with his full weight of 145 pounds (66 kg) from behind, as he manoeuvred her back from a visit to the wash- room. Pathologist Dr. James Ferris. testifying for the Crown, earlier told the court that the cause of Barbara McCune’s death was a liver lacera- tion, likely caused by being stomped on in the abdomen, But Rice, under questioning by defence lawyer Michael Bolton, noted the elderly woman had ve broken ribs, which would have resulted from being stomped upon.