THE FOLLOWING is a brief sum-
mary of agendas for North Shore
municipalities and school districts
and new business licences:

MEETING
AGENDA

North Vancouver = City
Council; Monday, March 28,.7:30
p.nt.: Election signage policy;
building permit contravention for
535 West |4th St., rezoning 247
East 6th St., 249 East 8th St.

North Vanceuver District
Council: Monday, March 28, 7:15
p.m. Building permits for 1383

East 29th St. 4855 Shirley Ave;
3733) Mountain Hwy.: 982
Wavertree Rd; $383 East 29th St.

West Vancouver District
Couneil: Monday, March 28, 7:45
p.m: British Properties delegation
on wood-waste disposal; blasting
permit for 5483 Bre Pl.

West Vancouver School
Beard: Monday, March 28, 7:45
p.m: Computers and theatre sound-
system upgrade for West
Vancouver secondary.

North Vancouver School
Board: Next meeting: Tuesday,
April 12.

North Van special
effects expert dies

THE FILM industry was left a
little poorer fast week when
John Thomas, one of North
America’s most respected spe-.
cial effects men, died after a
brief battle with cancer at the
age of 46.

The North Vancouver resident
and his company, Thomas Special
Effects, was a byword of movie
magic and on-set safety in B.C. and
in Hollywood. ;

One of his earliest “gags” to

. thrill audiences created the illusion
that a young Clark Kent could out-
_tun a speeding facomotive in the
original Superman (1978).

The. stunt. was accomplished by
suspending an actor trom the side

. of a moving camera truck... .

. Although Thomas was most
proud of creating invisible effects
(the phony lurnber thai threatened
to crush Richard Dreyfus in the cli-
max for Stakeout and which experts
assumed was the real McCoy), he
and his company engineered some
of the most. hair-raising stunts in
modern times. :

A. brief resume includes the
climbing and falling scenes in

. Cliffhanger and K2; the airplane
-crash in Alive; and assorted may-
hem in Bird on a Wire, Shoot to
-Killand The Fly 2.

JOHN THOMAS

Although Thomas was interna-

“tionally renowned, he nurtured the

growth of the local industry and
went out of his way to create local
movie magic. Case in point: rigging

‘a 426-foot (130 m)} back-fall last

year for the opening titles of Neort
Rider.

Veteran stuntmen and executive
producer Danny Virtue, who per-
formed the ‘stunt in downtown
Vancouver, told reporters:

“There are very few people who
I would trust my life to, ur anyone
else's.

“He was a miracle worker —
accident free.”

Man fined for intimidation

35-YEAR-OLD North
Vancouver man was recently fined
a total of $1,350 in connection
with charges of intimidation and
breaching probation.
' Darrell Peter Atlay pleaded
guilty to:

& intimidating a man with violent
threats to him and his children on
Aug. 30, 1993, in Powell River;

& breaching probation by failing to
attend counselling between Oct.
27, 1992, and Nov. 16, 1992, in

DAG!

Powell River:
breaching probation by contact-
ing a woman on Feb. 8, 1993;
breaching probation by conduct-
ing an unsupervised telephone call
with the same woman on Sept. 22,
1993, in Powell River.
Atlay also received 24 months’
probation in connection with the
charges.

Judge Bill Rodgers sentenced
Atlay in North Vancouver provin-
cial court on Feb, 22.

BUSINESS
LICENCES

North Vancouver City: North
Shore Brewco Lid., wine and beer
kit sales; Perfect Blends, retail trad-
er; Ramona Original Designs; day
table at Lonsdale Quay; Screaming
Mimi's, retail seafood trader.

North Vancouver District:
Loonie Plus Store, retail general
merchandise: Lorne W. Knowles &
Associates Ltd., consulting;
MacDonald Trucking & Bobcat
Service; M.T.Autobody, autobody
repair.

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