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CLAIRE, A strawberry blonde student studying to
become a motivational psychologist, likes rent-
ing movies, swimming, skiing, travelling, hiking,
and gorillas. She enjoys the mellifiuous tones of

Tooi.

New committee tackles
Caulfeiid Plateau site

COUN. DIANA Hutchinson
has been appointed West
Vancouver District Council’s
representative on a new com-
mittee that will work to resolve
issues arising from the devel-
opment of the Caulfeild
‘Plateau school site.

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
By Maureen Curtis

The committee, which will also
include school . board
Michael MacDougall as chair, plus
staff from council and the board,
will mediate and assist with the res-
olution of issues of concern to the
local community.

The need for this committee
became apparent months ago when
the design and planning of the
school and its site led to consider-
able public constemation.

Residents have been primarily
concerned about the location of, and
access to, the site.

Councillors Allan Williams and
Diana Hutchinson, who sat on a
traffic parking committee over the
past months, presented a report to
the June 6 meeting of West
Vancouver District Council.

Last year, the committee came
up with a list of recommendations
that were approved by council in
December 1993.

The school board also approved
the recommendations but advised
that it could not address those rec-
ommendations that carried associat-
ed costs,

Estimates of some of these costs
now include $75,000 to develop the

trustee:

FORDER EARLY

Caulfeild Drive entrance as the
main entrance plus parking spaces
for a playing field.

The $10,061 originally estimated
cost of rock removal and otherwise
improving the sight lines at the
Timberfeild and Headland intersec-
tion could be reduced to $8,061.

The December recommendations
called for a two-way vehicular
access from Caulfeild Drive; cne-
way vehicular access from
Headland at Timberfeild; design of
the Headland-Timberfeild intersec-
tion for safety; location of staff
parking lot to the south of the
school; and safe location of side-
walks and crosswalks.

Murder |
acquittal |.
follows a
day of
decision

A B.C. Supreme Court jury
deliberated for one fil day
before acquitting Darryl!
Christopher Kirby in the stab-
bing death of Darren James
Ford.

Brent Mudry

Contributing Writer

The verdict, tendered Thursday
afternoon in Vancouver, ended a
three-week murder trial.

Kirby, 22, formerly of North
Vancouver, was charged with the
first-degree murder of Ford, 21, of
Burnaby, when the trial started. He
was the prime Crown suspect in the
murder, which took place during
brawl on Robson Street.

At the time of the event, police
reported the fight as a confronta-
tion between members of an East
Vancouver Hispanic group of
youths and a North Shore group of
youths.

After the prosecution closed its
case, the judge directed the jury to
consider a reduced charge of sec-
ond-degree murder. Justice H.A.D.
Oliver ruled Crown prosecutor
Kerr Clark failed to prove premedi-
tated planning.

Ford bled to death on a busy
sidewalk in downtown Vancouver
on Nov. 14, 1992. He was stabbed
by a knife in the heart in the fight.

In recent years Robson Street
has become a popular cruise strip
for well-armed youth gang mem-
bers looking for a fight.

Several suspects in the execu-

‘tion-style shooting of reputed drug

lord Jimmy Dosanj were arrested
recently just blocks from Ford’s
own death scene. They were armed
with semi-automatic weapons.
Several witnesses testified that

“some men jumped out of a car to

pursue Ford and his friends, but
amazingly nobody saw Ford being
stabbed.

One witness told the jury that

- Ford was beaten on the sidewalk,

but everyone appeared to have
looked the other way in unison
when the knife made its move.
Prosecutor Clark had little com-
ment on Kirby’s acquittal. Defence
lawyer tan Donaldson argued the
charge involved mistaken identity.

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