APRIL 8, 1998 Bright Lights T—"} Business q eee 1D ooo f7 oes 38 see kh eee 35 oon 8 eee 37 OK y4 ' Classifieds : Crossword = Food é North Shore Alert = Sports 4 Table Hopping Non Shoce Free Press Ud Pubbster ?. 1339 Lonsdaie Averus. Nath Yanonuver OC v7 He Canachan Puokcatens Mas Sales PraguctAyeemant No C6723 48 Pages Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com A patient with the antibiotic resistant “super bug” bacteria is currently in the extended care wing of Lions Gate Hospital. Lions Gare Hospital chief administrator Dr. Stewart Madill said the woman with the super bug has been in) Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) for about wo years. The super bug patient was first admitted to the hospital's main acute care arca. Madill said the woman, in her 50s or 60s, had the antibiotic resistant bacte- dain her system when she first entered the hospital. The patient was later trans- ferred to Evergreen House, which is the hospiral’s extended See Hospital page 3 ' Catherine Barr Contributing Writer LARCO executives confirmed Tuesday that. the final terms of a lease with Home Depot have been agreed to. “We have finalized all the terms of the lease and it's being typed as we speak,” said Larco Development: Manger Rhys Duggan regarding the pending arrival of a new, 120,000 sq. ft. Home Depot store at Park Roval shopping centre. The store is part of Park Royal/Larco’s Phase [V south malt ‘expansion plans that would sce the introduction of three large format retail stores, including Home Depot, PetSmart and Toys R Us. The proposal calls for the removal of the Park Roval bowl- ing lanes, theatre and golf driving range. pee aT - Leaky condas 113 Getting someone to fix it is one thing, but paying is another CAPT, lar, Mackinnon awaits word about an asbestos scare on board the Queen of Coquitlam last Sunday. Mackinnon and hun- dreds of passengers were delayed at the Horseshoe Bay terminal as a result of the cancellatien of the 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. sailings. The asbestos scare proved to be just that and the vessel returned to duty. See page three for more coverage. West Vancouver’s Park Royal will be new home of a large Home Depot store Public outcry against the proposal has been significant. A petition gathered by the Coalition for a Healthy Community (CHC) shows that approximately one third of West Vancouver's 42,000 residents disapprove of the company’s plan. According to the original plan, the golf centre was to be demolished in] November of last year, bur the project has dropped several months behind schedule. This is partially duc to West Vancouver municipatity’s rehuctance to grant any permits or agree to any new road and traffic signals in the area. Council, in an effort to calm public fears over potential gridlock, called for check us out at www.pacifie-honda.com Block watch 017 Coffee chat brewed new business on West 15th Vegetarian cafe _ goes green in West Van Table Hopping 132 $1.00 NEWS phato Cindy Goodman an independent waffic study on the area. The results are expect- ed any time now. But Duggan said thar the company is ansious to get things moving. “The lease arrangements with aue tenants are in place and we would like to begin construction in the near future once the required approvals are in place.” . He said the bowling alley, golf range and theater will remain in place for now since they are still gencrating some revenue. “We're going to leave those facilities in place until demolition is required as part of our construction plan.” he said. Said Duggan of the rumors about native plans for a hotel and casino in the arca, “As far as we're concerned they're false.” He said the plans for the Phase [V mall expansion “remain very sim- ilar, in fact no change “The next step for us is to, as we have since early fall, wait for See Environmental page V4 ee