this second instalment of the North Shore News’ two- part Year In Review feature, the newspaper presents a ~ summary of the major news events that occurred on the North Shore ‘from July te December 1993 as recorded in the pages of the News. The first ‘Year In Review instalment appeared in the last issue of the Northlands greens a go: ” After: six. years of lobbying and ~ political wrangling the sod was ‘ tumed at Northlands Golf Course in the’ Seymour area’ of “North “Vane ny r District. a Dangerous offender jailed: “David ‘Alexander 8 Snow, 38, was “deemed-a ‘dangerous offender by North Vancouver provincial court Judge Jerome Paradis. Snow, who was earlier found guilty of sexual assault causing --bodily harm, armed robbery, attempting to choke another person and kidnapping," faces murder “charges in Ontario. ‘He .was-arrested by North aticouver RCMP at the Bridge House éstaurant-on Capilano Road in the early hours of | July 12, 1992, following ‘a week-long reign of ter- ror-on ‘the North Shore, and in West ‘Vancouver Park Royal Towers resident Gerald ©’Grady ‘received a life senterice after being : found guilty. of second-degree mur- -der in connection with the death of vet “his wife Beverley.“ He‘had claimed that a mysteri- ous intruder:may have murdered Beverley on May 18,1992. °° Bes Beverley was struck on the héad -. “w th a blunt instrument more than a 20 times, according to forensic evi- ‘dence presented in B.C. Supreme Court, 8 Teachers talking tough: North Vancouver teachers vowed to extend the summer, holi- days for students if they did not have a new collective agreement in place by the start of the new school year in September. North Vancouver Teachers’ ~ Association president Keith Denley said his membership would strike if no contract was reached: between the union and the North Vaacouver District 44 School Board by Sept. 7. A strike was averted. 2 LGH cuts services: Lions Gate: Hospital (LGH) closed its doors to all non-emer- gency services every fifth Friday. in the wake of employee work-day cuts set out in the provincial Health Care Accord. : .. LGH president Bob'Smith said “that on approximately every. fifth . Friday the hospitat would close what he termed the “9- t0- -5” aspect of hospital operations. | i Murder i inquiry demanded: North - The family ofa Vancouver doctor shot to death last year by aman found criminally insane is demanding a public inquiry into the disturbing buildup ‘to the bizarre events Jeading to the -. shooting. Dr. Verne Flather was shot to death at point-blank range with a gun earlier seized by the North Vancouver RCMP. Flather was Jeaving his hume at 431 East Keith Rd. in broad day- light on April 22, 1992, when he was shot by David Roger Henderson. Henderson calmly directed traf- fic after the shooting, even trying to wave on the first police car to arrive at the scene. “Henderson was just a time bomb that finally went off,” said David Flather, one of the doctor’s three children. Mr. Justice Ross Collver pronounced Henderson not criminally responsible for second- degree murder, after“a ihree-day trial in B.C. Supreme Court, i Reform sweep: Nosth Shore voters sent two Reform party MPs to Ottawa. Capilano-Howe Sound Progres- sive Conservative MP Mary Collins, was soundly defeated in her riding . ‘by Reform candidate Herb Grubel by over 11,000 votes. The Reform success was repeat- ed in North Vancouver where Reform candidate ‘Ted White man- aged to beat Liberal candidate Mobina Jaffer by approximately 4,456 votes. fa Families win court action:. Two Lynn Valley couples whose * homes adjacent to Lynn Creek were effectively destroyed in 1990 after _North Vancouver District failed to Day od TAY NEWS photo Miko Waketietd GLENYS AND Harvey Lawson’ ‘stand c on one of the fault lings near their Lynn Valley home. The crack, 20 feet deep {24 m) and | 200 feet iong (61 m), is just one of the many in the. area sur-* Founding their North Vancouver District property. ms “Psanbo in B.C, Supreme coun ‘The News also learned that the district made a preliminary offer to ° buy out another Birchlynn Place . ‘couple whose house was experienc: _ing cracking problems. take adequate action following two : slides 30 years apart won over ond iere: ES Seria mesa NEWS photo Terry Peters : THERE WERE lots of signs out to advertise the political choices available to voters this year, but os the turnout for the municipal elections, on the North Shore was low. Fund report slammed: An internal West Vancouvez School District administration report, indicating that no misuppro- priation of fuads or theft was involved in the failed Sentinel Development Fund, was called “absolutely useless” by a West Vancouver resident. Clare Baillie, a self-described concerned taxpayer, said she was- suspicious of what she called the ‘school board and administration's ‘attempts to “smooth over” the situa- "tion. She said an internal report by the school administration on an exter- nal audit of the schoo! administra- tion involved a canflict of interest. A West Vancouver School District 45 press release stated that school trustees received an internal staff report concerning the fund “which clearly, shows that there is no indication of misappropriation of v funds or theft. . ‘ ! 8 Voter turnout dismal: Voter burnout was blamed for a ‘ow voter trnout on the North Shore during the municipal elec- tions on 1 Saturday, Nov. 20: : In North Vanceu'er. District,: the turnout of eligible voters in 1993 was © 29%, compared with 29.2% in 1990. - In North Vancouver’ City, the 1993. . voter tumout was only 18%, com: "pared ‘with a 22% tuniout in 1990, 2. _in West Vancouver, the 1993: voter turnout was 30%, compared - : with a-50% voter tumoul in 1990,” Both North Vancouver District Mayor Muriay Dykeman and North Vancouver City Mayor Jack Loucks said the voting public, was tired of elections, having just cast bailots in the Oct. 25 federal election. ~ LGH merging | units: ' Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) will. merge its Cardiac ‘Care'Unit and’ Intensive Care Unitsome, time after April in a cost-cutting measure. LGH president Bob Smith said Monday that 3.5 full-time equiva- lent positions will be eliminated. The move saves the hospital approximately $175,000 annually. i The Sound and the Furry: ... | There’s a new town in town, or at. least, there will be soon. It is called Furry Creek. | It will be about twice the size of Lions Bay'and will be home te . about 2,000 residents. . : , No one lives on the site yet, but’ more than half of the 920 lots up for . sale have already been sold. |,