Mayor Loucks
set for third

decade in seat

By lan Noble
News Reporter

ONLY one member of
the present North
Vancouver City council
is still deciding whether
to run in November’s
municipal elections.

The rest will once again
toss their fedoras to the elec-
toral winds.

Bill Bell, the only council
member to vote against a
bylaw prohibiting video lottery
terminals in the city, said he’s
still in the decision-making
process.

Family and work comn
ments have to be taken into

consideration, said the father
of four and owner of a public
relations firm.

“I fove being on council,
but it is very time-consuming,”
said Bell, who worked as an
NDP strategist during the
recent provincial election cam-
paign.

Other council! members,
from Mayor Jack Loucks on
down, told the News they will
run, [If Loucks wins a new term
as mayor, he will embark on his
third decade in the office.

“I enjoy it,” he said. “it’s a
constant challenge.”

John Braithwaite is another
longtime council member who
will make a stab at re-election.

17 years under his belt, a

year term will see him hit
the lofty 20-year plateau as
well.

Coun. Stella Jo Dean is
looking to keep her promise to
herself'to serve the city’s citi-
zens for 25 years. With 24

years of experience, another
term is needed to reach her
goal.

Barbara Perrault, who
moved to the district: during
the present three-vear_ term,
said she lived in the city for
more than 30 years, su that’s
where shell run

“I know the city very well
and T think it would be a lial
hypocritical of me to run in the
district when T have spent most
of my life in the city,” she said.

She cited the number of

shared programs and costs
between the district and city
when she said her resid
shouldn’t be an issue in th
campaign.

Darrell Mussatto will seek
his second term as.a councillor,
while Barbara Sharp will try for
another term as well.

The city will begin accept-
ing official candidate applica-
tions for counci] and mayor
Oct. 1.

Gun suspect caught on the run

A Capilzno mall shopper had
her purse taken on Wednesday
by a man brandishing a hand-
gun. .

Immediately. after the |
p.m. armed robbery, the
woman: approiched a police
officer’in the mall, according

to a North Vancouver RCMP
spokesman.

The officer radioed for
more police. The officers were
helped by mall security guards.

Guards spotted a man
matching the suspect’s de-
scription running east on

Marine Drive.

The man was arrested near
the corner of Fell Avenue and
Marine. Police say he possessed
a replica, semi-automatic

handgun and a knife. Charges

are pending against a 27-year-
old man of no fixed address.

Stool smasher heiped

A 40-year-old) North
Vancouver man was ordered
to “partake and complete”
aicohol counselling after he
pleaded guilty to smashing a
bar stool at Jack Lonsdale’s
Pub in North Vancouver.
Murray Shawn Blanchard
pleaded guilty ta the mi
chief charge stemming from

a May 20 incident.

North Vancouver provin-
cial court Judge Jerome
Paradis placed Bianchard on
nine months’ probation dur-
ing sentencing last month.

Blanchard was to take
counselling under the direc-
tion of his probation officer.

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