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NORTH VANCOUVER resident Faizel Jadavjee surveys the charred remains Wednesday of
a 1976 Mercedes 300D he had just brought back to near mint condition. The car was tor-
ched in the middie of the night while parked outside the mechanic shop where he had teft
it for some repair work. North Vancouver RCMP are investigating the case.

Two Lynn Canyon rangers to be hired as educators rather than enforcers

TWO PARK rangers will be hired by North Vancouver
District to act as educators rather than enforcers in a bid
to discourage young ‘‘risk-takers’’ from diving into creek
waters and swimming in often treacherous canyon pools.

The Lynn Canyon Safety Task
Force met Monday to define the
workings of a park Tanger pro-
gram to improve safety in the
canyon next year.

In the last 12 years, 18 people
have died in Lynn Canyon Park.

Greater Wancouver Regional
District (GVYRD) park officials
were on hand Monday to explain
to committee members how the

GVYRD patrois its park

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

GVRD West Area Supt. Mitch
Sokalski, a North Shore native
familiar with the tricky Lynn
Creek waters, toid the committee
members to expect a three- to
four-year ‘“‘horizon’' before a
park ranger patrol program could

be assessed as to its relative suc-
cess in deterring risk-takers in the
park.

According to GVRD parks ad-
ministrator Robert Gibson, five of
16 regional GVRD parks ~— in-
cluding Capilano River and Lynn
Headwater regional parks — have
“similar management problems."’

With terrain much like that of
nearby Lynn Canyon Park, the
GYRD-managed Capilano River
Regional Park has had relatively
few accidents and deaths in its
waters.

Although the park has signs and
fences to keep park-users safe,

6 You put a Stetson on and usually
that’s enough

of a deterrent. 99
- GVRD West Area Supt. Mitch Sokaliski

genera)ly the river is not out of

bounds to the public.

But said Sokalski, ‘‘If we see a
kid going in at high water, we iell
them it’s dangerous. We haven't
at this point had to write cita-

tions. You put a Stetson on and
usually that’s enough of a deter-
rent,”’
GVRD park rangers are trained
to be “‘coasistent, fair and firm.”
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