Beach stabbings THREE PEOPLE were sent to Lions Gate Hospital Wednesday night after being stabbed during a gang- related fight at Ambleside Beach. A West Vancouver police department spokesman said a group from North Vancouver and a second group from East Vancouver had gone to the beach to watch a fire works display. He added the iwo groups are loosely associated with gangs. A argument ensued and. three people from the East Vancouver group were stabbed and suffered non-life threatening injuries. All but two had been released from hospital to press time Thursdsy. Members of the North Vancouver group sustained lacerations and cuts from broken beer bottles. Police have one suspect in the incident and the in- vestigation is continuing. Credit card scam THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP are warning businesses to be aware of a credit card scam currently operating in the area. A police spokesman said stolen credit cards are being used to purchase merchandise over the telephone. A per- son will phone a busitiess and order merchandise using a stolen credit card number. The merchant in turn will phone the credit card com- pany and obtain an authorization number. The suspect will teli the merchant that he will send someone down to pick up the items purchased. Because the merchant has not used proper procedure ia making the sale, the merchant is responsible for the loss. Police advise merchants not to accept telephone orders and to ask the caller for the name of the person who will be picking up the merchandise. Store owners should also tell the caller that the person picking up the merchandise will have to show some iden- tification as well as the credit card. The merchant should then complete the usual pro- cedures io accept the credit card and have the person picking up the goods sign the form. GVRD celebrates THE GREATER Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) has just celebrated its silver anniversary. Officially incorporated on June 29, 1967, the GVRD today bas 18 member municipalities including all three from the North Shore, and three unincorporated areas jn Greater Vancovver. The GVRD delivers services such as bulk water to member municipalities, sewage (treatment, sewage disposal, hospital planning, coordination of regional de- velopment along with transportation plarning. The GVRD is made up of the Greater Vancouver Water District, Greater Vancouver Sewage and Drainage District, Greater Vancouver Regional Hospital District and the Greater Vancouver Housing Corporation. The GYRD board is made up of mayors and aldermen from member municpalities including West Vancouver Mayor Mark Sager and North Vancouver District Mayor | Marray Dykeman. Vancouver Mayer Gordon Campbell heads the GVRD Families supportive of home year-old schizophrenic man who was a resident at Fairway Place From page 1 for additional group-home beds on the North Shore. Said Jaworsky, ‘There has never been any abuse in my facili- ty. P’'m not new in the business and I believe I give very good ser- vice. After so many years the allegations they are putting against me are totally. unbelievable. ~“*f think there is an underlying political issue. We're under-fund- ed and there is a feeling they want to get rid of the private opera- tor,’” she added Jaworksy said she had subsidiz- ed the operation of Fairway Place out of her own pocket ‘‘to the tune of $8,000 to $10,000.” . She said the allegations that resulted in the loss of her licence at. Fairway Place were brought forward by two ‘‘disgruntled’’ former employees. Throughout the investigation Jaworksy has been supported by the families of the clients she has cared for and the North Shore -branch of Friends of Schizophrenics (FOS). Said Norah Hutchinson, the West Vancouver mother of a 37- for more than five years, ‘It’s “devastating —- North Shore Health is even apologizing for this. All I know is that we as relatives had no complaints whatsoever here. But we weren’t contacted to see if we had any apprehensions about this place. We weren’t contacted individually.”’ Said FOS member Sylvia Rewald, ‘‘The family members came forward with testimonials in favor of Lydia — they didn’t ac- cept this as evidence during the hearing.”” Said B.C. Association ~ of Private Care spokesman Ken Easdown,. ‘‘The atmosphere in mental health is poisonous. They’ve pressured us on tighter Standards and at the same time we've been funded less and less — it's downloading. “In this case there is an impor- tant principle here. There seems to be an inherent requirement on the part of an accused owner to prove their innocence. That seems to me to be a very profound reversal on ‘what legal rights are all about,” Easdown said. IT MAY have Advisory Design Panel approval, Friday, July 3, 1992 - North Shcre News - 5 “Wall of glass’ raises concerns Building design proposal for old Odeon Theatre site but the design of the building proposed for the Odeon Theatre site at 1563/65 Marine Drive had a few members of West Vancouver District Council a Jittle concerned. An interesting feature of the design, presented by architect Chris Bozyk on June 29, was a plane of glass panels that would be placed to the front of the building in the centre. The vertical element is meant to balance the horizontal planes of the three terraced floors of the building. Mayor Mark Sager questioned Bozyk on the impact of the ‘‘waill of glass’? on the streetscape, while Ald. Diana Hutchinson was con- cerned about the reflection of the sun of the glass. Bozyk said that the plane of glass was not that wide and that it would be made up of several pieces of glass that would act more like ‘‘a series of facets’’. “I live in this community and I will have to drive by this building twice a day,’’ said Bozyk in defending his design. He felt that the proposed build- ing would introduce an element sorely lacking in this area of West Vancouver. “It is a positive step for West Vancouver. It should help the de- velopment of West Vancouver,”’ he said. Ald. Rod Day said that the Ad- visory Design Panel likes the design and noted that while the building has three stories, it will not appear that high because the second and third Moors are pro- gressively ‘‘stepped back'’ such that pedestrians in the immediate areca will only be able to see one and a half to two floors. The official community plan allows council to approve a three-storey building in this arsa if it passes a number of criteria, such as a ‘‘meritorious design’’ and keeps to the same total square footage as a two-storey building. While a two-storey building in this density can tend to look blockey and boring, the three storey option tends to allow a more interesting design according to the architect. In this case, the architect pro- vided a featured entrance both on to Marine Drive, and on to Clyde Avenue. 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