High adventure «2 Skirting the issue Teens travel to Nepal on humanitarian project APRIL 4, 1999 say. Bright Lights eee 12 + celebrations 28 Classifieds 09 35 Crossword oor &2 eee 26 eee 2] Shoe Free Prags Ltd Putty Peter Spek nsdaie Avenue fewtn vancnuer § COM Jed anadan Pubicaburs Mari Seles Praga: Agreement 48 Pages Es 2 aeahiaaipcomenantend NEWS photo Terry Peters BEVERLEY Matishak, her five-year-old son, Christian, her son Matthew (far right), 14, and his friend, Kitt Matkaluk, were traumatized on March 25 after police cars surrounded their Land Rover on Marine Drive near 17th Street. A West Van Police officer pointed his gun during the chaotic incident. Look Ma, no trousers! A kilt’s stiff statement. Flowering plants bring Easter displays alive Home ideas p26 FREE WV Police’s actions draw criticism Anna Marie D’Angeto News Reporter dangclo@nsnews.com BEVERLEY Matishak had the most frightening experience of her life on March 25. The West Vancouver resident tound herself looking into the barre! ofa gun held by West Vancouver Police officer lan Morris “Ht’s been a few days now and T can’t get rid of that fear. P keep seeing that gun in my said Matishak. “People need to be teld how they (West Vancouver Police) are jumping the gun around here,” she added. The incident began when Matishak dropped her 14-year-old son and his friend at the ft apartment in the 1700-block of Marine Drive. The friend needed to change for baseball practice. Matishak, 39, then drove her daughter to dance practice. The time was shortly after 4 p.m. Matishak went te pick the boys up about five minutes later, She planned to drive them to practice, Matishak didn’t know that the teenagers had ound themselves locked out of the home. The boys tried to See Compliant paaz Doug Coliins appeals human rights decision RETIRED North Shore News columnist Doug Collins has launched an appeal against the human rights verdict that found him guilty on Feb. 2 of violating the B.C. Human Rights Code. The judicial review was tiled Thursday with the B.C. Supreme Court by lawyer Doug Christie. It is a direct challenge to the code, which Collins says is unconstitutional. If successful it would render null and void the code’s i rovisions. In 1993 changes to what was then called the Human Rights Act includ- ed for the first time newspapers and other publications in the act’s discrimi- natory publication prov s. The amendments, now embodied in the Human Rights Code, pro bit the publication of any statement that “indi- cates” discrimination or is “likely” to expose a person or group or class or persons to hatred or contemp The Feb. 2 buman rights verdict resulted from) complaints brought against the News and Collins by Jewish businessman Harry Abrams of r Action page 10