Numbered
company
asks opinion.
Martin Mitlerchip

Contributing Writer
miller@nsnews.com

NORTH Vancouver
District Council has
stopped short of press-
~ ing for a tri-municipal
meeting on the subject
of gambling but
.. ‘remains opposed to

- casino operations on
- the North Shore.

Coun. Trevor Carolan
-introduced the idea of a joint
meeting with the mayors and
‘councils of North Vancouver
City. and West Vancouver
_, District at Monday’s council
- meeting.
' “Pm becoming concerned
about the tempo of events
- around the gaming issue from
- Victoria,” Carolan told coun-
“cil.
~- Carolan said district resi-
dents have a stake in terms of
the public fallout and social
problems. connected with
gaming.
.He said it would be “a
neighborly policy to hear
‘what our sister municipalities
May be thinking on this.”
‘North Vancouver City has
just rejected a proposal for a
waterfront casino at the Seven

Coun. TREVOR Carolan

Seas site at the foor of

‘Lonsdale Avenue.

Meanwhile the district has
received a letter dated Oct. 24
from a numbered B.C. com-
pany asking: “Could you
please advise us at the earliest
possible date if the district
would consider a new charita-
ble gaming facility in an exist-
ing hotel located in your
municipality.”

Council unanimously sup-
ported Mayor Don Bell's
motion:

“In recognition of recent
inquiries regarding the estab-
lishment of gaming opera-
tions on the North Shore, the
District of North Vancouver
communicate its opposition
to North Vancouver City and
West Vancouver District.”

The motion went on to
direct district staff to inquire
from the provincial govern-
ment as to the status of any
current applications and
report back te council.

Kidney sold to pay
gambling debt |

: From page 14

y to speak. We also believe

at the public, on both sides

of the issue, need to be
_ heard.”

:° The two men presented
_ council with a list, obtained
from the B.C. Gaming
Commission, of the 141 non-
profir groups on the North
Shore who benefited about $3
million in the 1995-96 year
from charitable gaming. They

include: Deep Cove Youth.
Kiwanis -

Services Society,
Clubs, Lions Clubs, North
Shore Neighbourhood House
and. the West Vancouver
Pavilion Society.

' Raht and Slinger’s presen-
tation did not move council
from its stand to banish casi-
nos from the city, and even
made some councillors angry
that they were “plying their
wares.”

“I was very surprised the
applicants appeared here
tonight because we've already
endorsed the status quo,”
Coun. Stella Jo Dean said.
“And here they are plying
their wares. They're very arro-
gant. They know we’ve been
against it.”

Coun. Barbara Perrault
said she researched casinos
and gambling on the Internet
recently and hasn’t changed
ber mind.

“(Casinos) have a negative
social impact and the possibil-
ity of increasing criminal activ-
ity,” Perrault said.
“Compulsive gambling is a
real and acknowledged med-
ical symptom: Is it fun when a

family’s money is gone? When
the loan sharks call? When the
bank calls?”

She also said she has read
how a man sold his kidney for
$30,000 to pay off his gam-
bling debr.

Coun. John Braithwaite
said he agreed with a large
part of what Perrault said. He
said that Lower Lonsdale is a
“focal point of our communi-
ty” and “we can do better
things down there than have a
casino.”

Braithwaite also said that
non-profit groups can find a
better way to get money than
through casinos.

But Coun. Darrell
Mussatto said it wasn’t fair to
the 141 local non-profit
groups who must go out of
the North Shore to earn
moncy through charity casinos
and accused fellow councillors
of NIMBY-ism (not in my
backyard).

“We should ban all non-
profit organizations from rais-
ing money through casinos if
that’s the way council feels,”
said Mussatto, who later made
a motion that “non-profit
groups no longer receive
tunding from the city unless
they stop receiving money
from charitable casinos.”

His motion had no secon-
der and therefore couldn’t be
voted on. Dean's motion to
receive and file Rahe and
Slinger’s request to consider a
gaming, casino in the city was
passed 5-1.

Mussatto was opposed and
Coun. Barbara Sharp was away
on vacation.

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