a HANDSWORTH JAZZ, ENSEMBLE recently achieved a rare level of success when io echnique at the Now Westminster Jazz Festival. Under the ; A Eemieverth Balahod second out of 60 bands in overall Nicholson was: chosen top brass player of the festival. geen cr at oer placing. Trombonist E By ANDY FRASIER - ‘Sponsors. of. a “sug: - gested ‘North Shore - ! _ “helfway- house” - for: ex-convicts. were \given ; the thumbs-down Sign. 7 remained ° sceptical. of” in no. uncertain: manner - home - majority at Mendey? 8 mesting of ‘Nerth Vancouver District council. | © a 1 139 Lonsdale Avenue, | North Vancouver, B. C.. ' - M7M 2H4. OFFICE/NEWS [604] 980-0511 CLASSIFIED ~ 980-3464: CIRCULATION 986-1337 Publisher . ; oe . ‘Peter Speck... - | ‘ Associate Publisher. Bob Graham . - Editor-in-Chief Lo. Noel Wright. ' News ° Chris Lloyd » Photos . Ellsworth Dickson Advertising . Director ‘Eric Cardwell * Traffic Manager - Donna Champion _ «Classified . ~ Berni Hilliard Circulation Yvonne Chapman Administration BarbaraHaywood ~- Accounts ' Sylvia Sorenson North Shore News, foun- ’ ded In 1960 ac an Indepon- | dent community newspaper: and qualified under Sched- ‘ule 111, Part 111, Para- graph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, Is pubilshod ‘each | Wednesday and Sunday by the North Shore Froe Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North « ‘Shore. Second Class Mall Registration Number 3885. , | 47,001 Entire contenta © 1078 North Shore Free Press. Ltd. All rights reserved. — ee i ~ members a “Despite - ‘the - ‘claim | by. of > the © Leonard’s Society, in. their presentation to council, that they would ‘not: have arson- ists, offenders . nor ~ in halfway council. embers - ‘the ~ while” the © Linawnnn- uOESES, LQ ‘idea’. "Alderman James Ball, ‘who doesn’t hesitate to say he is. against.:the plan, said ‘‘I |” have .so: little faith in the penal system that it scares - _ me to death to think of what. - type of criminal would be foisted } upon us.” elemen Ball “wasn’t the only. objector to the. plan of the’ ‘non-profit society. Gordon Rose suggested that St. — Leonards was giving council. -a “‘snow job’’ with - their presentation. He claimed ihe group had not given enough. . information to the public nor to council. What they had given was being treated with : scepticism by Rose and other aldermen. | A page of questions asking for clarifications. from the group. was presented by Alderman Peter Powell. Powell, who felt that the Society’s original’ submission to council was too~ vague, said that depending on the answers to his questions, he might have another set for the proup. ' The society will be answering the questionnaire. in writing. According to Norm Brown | -of North Vancouver, one of — _ the the ‘spokesman for organization, the most **dangerous’’ type of crimi- nal he would want to see in the halfway home would be . the’ *“‘break criminal. ‘and = = enter’’ ‘However, Lee Downs a resident of East 9th Street, who claimed he was repre- ‘senting “two to three hun- dred neighbors and friends”’ said the St. "Leonard's oe wm wm ewe ey , . ~ St. of “the averfiow — . crowd rejected it completely. "Society 4 did not say’ .y they w were ‘going ‘to keep out drug addicts. ‘‘We don’t need eight. to .ten drug addicts among children” said ‘anyone with a history of: °° violent’ crime © -“We do not have any — - crime in our area,’” he said. The: district. ‘resident told “council that a halivray home -would “bring. a lingering "type of fear ....when you let: your ‘children out: of. doors you would wonder ... they don’t have a right to instill _ this fear.” a AS resident of ‘Bast’ ‘sih: ” Street, Bob’ Phillips, pre- sented council witha. petition | _ of 375 signatures opposing a halfway house. - an . “The © - opponents ‘of: ‘the’ Society: claim’ that: St. Leonard’s’ wanted - to .pur- chase:a home: on East 8th . ‘Street for a halfway house.. | Phillips suggested that the ‘Society shad not given any | written statements that they . would not be housing ‘‘drug traffickers’ or those with a. history, of violent crime. In replying to criticism of the home idea, Hugh Brown. told: council. that the former. criminal would be coming back. to society with or without a_ halfway house to help them re-adjust. “The risk is far greater. if. you treat them Tike: dirt. and .. don’t help ° them,” aan “said : Brown... _ Not “discussed. at meeting was a télegram to. Mayor Don Bell from: the - Mayot of London,’ Ontario, - stating that ‘‘These halfway | wil” in London call work well.”’ Claiming the meeting was “‘a beginning’’ of discussion between the munici ality ‘and the Society, Larry Goble. a spokesman for St. Leonards told council that the Society | was not attempting to "to slip’ anything, in." ae According: to “Society spokesmen | ‘there are six | ‘halfway homies in Vancouver. | ee ee Sn 2 ihe ; . Se ‘natural feeling. mo *. 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