January 13, 1995 68 pages
inside

the news
 @ Classifieds....................29

a
@ Home & Garden.........15

SE Insights 2B
. @ Inside Storias...........15
BH MaiIDOX.....ccnnceenenne 7

North Shore Alert....10
t- Sports. 44
2 Sunshine Gir!
: B TV Listinge........

a Vandalism spree in
| 2°. North Van schools: 3
= @ Gunmen iecks up
‘employees: 4

@ Weekly Real Estate

section: 37 - 63

va Seeds ~ the carriers of
fe: 15

Weather
‘Saturday:
periods of rain :
High 8°C, Low 3°C.

SOW IT GROWS

Home & Garden columnist
Roy Jonsson examines the
many varieties of seed types

FOAD EXPLORER

Redesigned front suspen-
sion, restyled front end and
four-wheel-drive system

and sizes.

Classifieds 986-6222

NEWS photo Terry Peters

Fiying freestyle

CANADA'S CAROLINE Olivier goes head under heals with her second jump in the.high-fly-
ing aerials event at the World Cup freestyle competition on Sunday at Blackcomb Mountain.

new in 1995 model.

Distribution 986-1337 25¢

Seniors
home

WEST VANCOUVER Coun.
Pat Boname argued vehe-
mently but. unsuccessfully
Monday night against yet
another adjournment of the
public hearing for the con-
troversial 150-bed seniors’
care facility proposed for 419
Keith Rd.

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
By Maureen Curtis

“These efforts to discourage the
GVRHD _ (Greater Vancouver
Regional Hospital District) are dis-
appointing. It is a cruel shell game,”
she said at the hearing, held in. the
theatre of West Vancouver senior
secondary.

The search for an appropriate
site for the mixed-level seniors care
facility has gone on, Boname said, .
for over a dozen. years.

“The need (for such a facility)
has been demonstrated over. and -
over again,” she said.

Boname urged fellow. council
members to make their decision on
the controversial rezoning of the
Gibson estate in the midst of the
Cedardale neighborhood “based on
principle, not on fear.”

Although she was backed up by
fellow councillor.“ Diana
Hutchinson. the rest of council sup-
ported Coun, Allan Williams in his
motion to adjourn the hearing.

The motion followed GVRHD
architect Jerry Doll's explanation
that the hospital district’ was still

See Hospital page 3

NVD councillor finds little support for further restrictions

A LARGE and vocal gun lobby left

Nerth Vancouver District Council

chambers happily Monday after a pro-
posal to ban further gun shops in all
areas of the district was rejected.

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
' ” By Martin Millerchip

Coun. Janice Harris had proposed an amend-
ment to the district’s zoning bylaw in response to

_an announcement that Wal-Mart planned to sell

rifles at its Capilano Mall outlet in North
Vancouver City. . :
Wal-Mart is reconsidering its proposal.
But the possibility of further restrictions on

‘firearm and ammunition availability has united a

cross-section. of recreational shooters and gun

_collectors from as far afield us Abbotsford.

lan Newby. owner of International Movic
Services, which is based on the North Shore and
rents guns to the theatre and film industry, told
council that the industry is already adequately
controlled by existing regulations.

“What we need is less government regulation
and interference in the name of political correct- :

ness,” said Newby.
Others argued that controlling guns was nol

a

the way to tackle violent crime.

Dennis Collins provoked loud laughter, and
tong applause when he asked Harris: “If you were
a sheep farmer and the wolves were eating your
sheep and you couldn't catch the wolf would you
go home and kick your dog?” ;

But Harris stuck to her guns in the face of an
aggressive lobby, maintaining that firearms are

"used in over 30% of homicides in Canada and in

almost 50% of the murders of women by their
husbands. ;

“A home with a gun is five times more likely
to be the site of a homicide than a home without
a gun. We need less, not more, access to guns in

See Gun shop races 5.

at

REACHING EVERY DOOR ON THE NORTH SHORE SINCE 1969