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Youths’ fate to be
decided next week

THE THREE youths charged in connection with the
Pattison kidnapping will find out whether they are to be
tried in adult court on April 12,

Judge Sonny Stromberg-Stein sat through a four-day
hearing last week in North Vancouver youth court,
listening to three defence lawyers and two Crown counsel
argue the application.

The three male youths, whose identities are protected
under the Young Offenders Act, sat quietly throughout
the hearing.

Hf raised to adult court and found guilty, they could
serve a maximum jail term of 10 years; if tried in youth
court, they face « maximum penalty of three years in a
youth detention cenire.

The youths, all aged 16, are charged with crimes rang-
ing from unlawful confinement and kidnapping to
possession of stolen property.

The charges stem from the Dec. 21 abduction of Cyn-
thia Killburn, daughter of West Vancouver millionaice
Jim Pattison, from her North Vancouver home.

Fire damages house
on holiday morning

FIRE DAMAGED the basement of a North Vancouver
City house on Good Friday.

North Vancouver City Fire Department firefighters,
called to 2028 Chesterfield Ave. at about 7 a.m., found
flames shooting out of broken windows.

The house, in the process of being prepared for an
April I occupancy, was empty at the time of the fire.

Fire damage, estimated at between $10,000 and
$15,000, was contained to the basement. The upper floor
of the house sustained smoke damage.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

NV man sentenced for
stolen credit card

A 21-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man was sentenced
recently in North Vancouver provincial court to 21 days
in jail for possession of a stolen credit card.

Appearing before Judge Doug Moss, Ashish Latit-
chandra Derodra pleaded guilty March 22 to being in
possession of a stolen Mastercard on March 13 in West
Vancouver.

Derodra also received a suspended sentence and was
placed on probation for one year after he pleaded guilty
to two additional crimes: on Oct. 26, 1990 he used false
pretences to obtain merchandise from Eaton’s in Park
Royal and on Sept. 3, 1990 he stole some Nintendo

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MacPherson: Council’s motion should
send a message of support to union

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Clark was presupposing Versatile’s
death.

“Pm not buying into the
hypothesis that it is not a viable
shipyard,”’ she said.

Perrault added that she did not
see the need to reaffirm the indus-
trial zoning because no rezoning
application was before council and
because the Official! Community
Plan (OCP) backs up industrial
use for the Versatile property.

Her optimism was shared by
Mayor Jack Loucks and Ald.
John Braithwaite.

Braithwaite said council should
stand pat and deal with the future
use of Versatile lands as it comes
before them.

The city has the OCP and zon-
ing bylaws that assert the Versatile
land as industrial, said Loucks,
adding that he has no intention of
voting in favor of change.

“We should not accept that the
shipyard is dead,"’ he said.

Loucks suggested that if Ver-
satile fails in its financial restruc-
turing, the city should support the
shipyard workers in their effort to
be treated equally with those in
eastern Canada.

But Sharp said her motion is
not premature: ‘‘ft is not
premature to develop further
strategies to save the shipyards.”’

“The shipyards can be saved,
but we need help from all levels of
government,’’ MWBIU president
George MacPherson told council.

He said that because the union
membership does not understand
the process involved in the city’s
discussions regarding the future of
the Versatile fands, he believed
council’s motion would send a
message of support back to the
shipyard workers.

MacPherson added that Ver-
satile has indicated to the federal
government that the city wants to
redevelop the property.

But Loucks said, ‘‘l know
that’s what they want, but they
have never approached us.

When questioned by Clark,
MacPherson said the motion be-
fore council had been drafted by
the union.

But Sharp later said the union
did not draft the motion. She said
she approached the Vancouver
and District Labour Council for
input on a motion that she wanted
to put before council.

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