SEARCH MASTER George Zilahi ...involved in heroic rescue. Hollywood to re-enact N. Shore rescue A FILM crew from the U.S. televisicn show Rescue 911 will be on the North Shore this week to film 4 re-enactment of an_ heroic rescue operation that took place in Cypress Bowl Pro- vincial Park in July. By Surj Rattan News Reporter West Vancouver resident Ar- tl ar Ryckman, 63, had been, hik- ing along the Howe Sound Crest trail with his 15-year-old grandson David James Jr. on July 24 when Ryckman fell 700 feet down a cliff, : His grandson, who thought Ryckman had died, managed to air a call for help on a watkie- talkie he had brought with him on the hike. The distress call was picked up by a man in Horseshoe Bay and another on Bowen Island, who then alerted police and rescue personnel. North Shore Rescue, West Van- couver police and James’ parents stayed in contact with James via the walkie-talkies all night tong. The next day a rescue team managed to locate James and airlifted him out of the park, Ryckman was located shortly afterwards and was taken to hos- pital. He has since recovered from his injuries. The Rescue 915 crew, who spent Friday holding casting sessions for actors, will interview severa! peo- ple involved in the rescue, in- cluding search master George Zilahi. The crew has also purchased news footage of the rescue shot by CBC-TV cameraman Pat Bell. Bell, a North Vancouver resi- dent, first tipped Rescue 911! about the rescue mission. He said the weekly TV show had originally planned to re-enact a rescue in- volving Bell in Lynn Valley. Asked how he felt about a re- enactment of his accident, Ryckman said: **T don’t have any choice. It's a hews event so they can do what they want. They didn’t ask me if they could do it,’’ said Ryckman. **As my wife said, ‘it’s not too hard to take a fat old dummy and throw it off a cliff.’” On Sunday, the film crew inter- viewed members of the North Shore Rescue Team and Ross Peterson, co-ordinator of the North and West Vancouver Emergency Program who were in- volved in the rescue. The actual rescue team will be used to re-enact the rescue mission today using a helicopter, weather permitting. **As far as the story line is con- cerned, they wanted to know about the rescue team and how rescues are done,”* said Peterson. The Ryckman episode will be entitled “Walkie Tatkie Rescue.” A THIEF broke the heart of a North Vancouver woman after her 600-block Est St. James home was broken into on Friday. A'!ong with other more valuable items, the culprit snatched Sylvia Drugge's (right) engagement, wedding ard nursing rings. The engagement and wedding rings were given to her 27 Core. group blamed for In this fourth instalment of North Shore Mean Streets, News reporter Michael Becker looks at local gang-related activity. Is the community living with something more than the random actions of a few schoolyard bullies? T HE CONSENSUS holds that most of the thousands of teens living on the North Shore are ‘‘good.”’ But there is a core group — about 200 according to police — who resolve their differences and impose their attitudes through violence. It is the angry few who bedevil parents, police and politicians. Ask anyone close to the situa- tion for an opinion on why the level of violence is increasing in some areas of the North Shore and what the path to a solution might be and the answers are as varied as the number of people questioned. Some point to dysfunctional home life. Others pin the blame on the absence of support for youth within the community — a lack of alternatives such as youth-run drop-in centres and all-ages dances. Yet others believe police and the judiciary must flex muscle and come down harder on those deemed to be misfits. Alarmingly, some of the vic- timized have chosen to respond in kind: a bat in the face for a bat in the face. The result is a vicious escalation of violence. Said Theresa Campbell, a youth worker with the Seymour Area Youth Services Society (SAYSS) who has witnessed vigilantes fighting teens twice in the past two months, ‘They said to me the community isn’t doing anything By Michael Becker News Reporter about it so we're going to, basically. You have to understand their anger and everything but the only problem with that is that a lot of the wrong kids are getting the payback. That happened Saturday night (Sept. 15) and it happened two months ago near Windsor Secondary. In that inci- dent a kid had to get his jaw wired shut for about six weeks.”’ But some of those inclined to violence are arming themselves with baseball bats, Mace, knives, iron pipes and pellet guns. @ Budget Beaters......... 39 @ Business Mi Classified Ads.......... 43 & Comics B® Editorial Page B Lifestyles Madiahi ‘arent NEWS phato Cindy Goodman years ago by her husband Carl (left). The rings have little monetary value. They do have a lot of sen- timental value. The rings can be returned by con- tacting North Vancouver RCMP Const. LaBelle at 985-1311. NOATH Vancouver RCMP Insp. Dave Roseberry ...‘‘people were being hit over the head with bats, pushed into a fight, beaten badly and had their wallets stofen."" When the traditional imperative of youthful peer pressure is com- bined with the popular cultural glorification of violent action as an acceptable mode of behavior, the stage is set for discord. Said Campbell, ‘‘You’ve got a @ Mailbox @ North Shore Now Wi Dr. Ruth WSports oo... TV Listings @ What's Going On Second Class Registration Number 3885 lot of them that are young, say Grade 8, and are starting their own type of gang. And a lot of them are trying to get hooked in with the other gangs we know of on the North Shore. They’re tracking these guys down, think- ing they will be cool if they can get linked in.” One such gang to thrive on a tough reputation is known as the North Van Locals (NVLs) and has been sustained as an entity for at least the past 10 years. Given the lack of home-grown gangs in West Vancouver, they draw membership from various neighborhoods and their turf covers the entire North Shore. According to North Vancouver RCMP Insp. Dave Roseberry, a core group of local people is responsible for much of the vio- lence. “We are continuing to arrest these people and put them away for short periods of time. 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