August 26, 1992 60 pages

Lucky horseshoe

BERNICE GOTTO hurls a horseshoe at the stake at Saturday’s North Shore
Open Horseshoe tournament at Mahon Park in North Vancouver.

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A PARK ranger program
for Lynn Canyon Park was
approved in principle by
North Vancouver District
Council on Monday nigii.

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

The pronosal was endorsed in
preference to a legislative closure
of the canyon.

Coun. Jim Cuthbert told coun-
cit that he hopes to chair a
meeting of the reconvened Lynn
Canyon task force ‘“‘within the
next three weeks’? to refine the
proposal which he sees as en-
couraging ‘‘safe and informed use
of the canyon."*

The task force brought council
memters, staff and = school
children together with police, fire
and emergency-response repre-
sentatives for several months last
year in an attempt to define,
publicize and restrict the dangers
of Lynn Canyon.

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NOATH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

The meetings culminated in a
secies of recommendations in
January that were approved by
council in April.

While those recommendations
did not include the establishment
of a park ranger program, the
conccpi was discussed.

Cuthbert said the task force will
discuss the number of rangeis to
be hired, their duties, the type of
message they would deliver and
who would monitor their perfor-
mance.

The suggestion to re-cxamine
the idea of a park ranger force
came from John Bremner, the
district’s director of parks and
engineering services.

In a memo to Cuthbert,
Bremner stated, ‘‘To be most ef-
fective, in my opinion, the patrol
would function somewhat in a

See Bremner page 3

Woman recounts
night of horror

A FEMALE employee of the Bridge House restaurant
testified in North Vancouver provincial court Tuesday that
she thought she was going to die the night she was attack-
ed outside the North Vancouver restaurant last month.

The woman, whose name can-
not be published under a court-
imposed publication ban, testified
in the trial of David Alexander
Snow, 37.

Snow is being tried on seven
charges, including attempted
murder and sexual assault.

He was arrested at about 4 a.m.
on July 12 outside the Bridge
House restaurant on Capilano
Road after the police found a man
attempting to strangle a woman.

The woman, who broke down
several times Tuesday during her
testimony, said she had just lock-
ed up the restaurant when she was
accosted by a man who shoved a
gun into her chest.

She said the man forced her to
go back into the restaurant and
demanded money. She said there
was no money in the restaurant.

The woman added that the man
asked her if she could turn off the
silent alarm in the restaurant, and
when she said she could not, he
told her to telephone the alarm
company, which she did.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

‘*He kept saying: ‘I am desper-
ate. I need money, and I don’t
care how I get it.’ I dialled and
they (alarm company) answered. I
said who I was and said that I was
sorry that | was in (the restaurant)
again.

“The voice said: ‘Oh, you
forgot something?’ I became like
a frozen robot and said: ‘Maybe I
did, maybe | didn’t.’ They said:
‘Oh, you'll be right in and right
out again?’ [ said: ‘Maybe I will,
maybe I won’t,’’’ said the
woman.

She added that the man then led
her out of the restaurant and ask-
ed if she had a car.

She said she did not and was
going to take a taxi home.

The woman told the packed
courtroom that she had a car

See Victim page 3