NEWS photo Cindy Goodman THE EXTERIOR and interior of the Coach House Inn in North Vancouver will change dramatically if approval is given for an estimated $2 million in proposed renovations that would see an end to the hotel's strip shows and the addition of a beer and wine store. The proposal is currently be- fare North Vancouver District Council. NV strip shows to go Coach House proposing $2M np upgrade, end to nude dancing STRIP SHOWS will be a thing of the past on the North Shore if the operators of the Coach House Inn in North Vancouver District have their way. The Coach House is now the only North Shore hotel that offers the exotic dancers in its bar. But the operators of the Coach House want to drop the strip shows, reduce the size of its bar, open a beer and wine store and turn part of the hotel “We'd still have the pub, into a convention centre. but it would be down-sized. The Coach House was The girls (exetic dancers) bought by Sierra Blanca Ltd. would be out,” said Alibhai. on Dec. 1, 1989. ; “When we bought this hotel, Its co-managing directors, our immediate priority was to profits fost from shows, Alibhai said that over the past 21 months the Coach House owners have spent $450,002 on upgrading its 97 rooms, created additional meeting space, improved the landscaping, put in new carpets and obtained a Quality Inn franchise designation which allows it to tap the lucrative U.S. marvet. The provosed Coach House renovations, he said, would cost over {2 million and take between two and five years to complete. “The idez is to make this in- to a major convention centre because we have the room. Our plans are to promote the Coach House as a full-service destina- tion resort which will have strong appeal to families, con- vention groups and package tours,”’ said Alibhai. Kabir said the Coach House wants to promote the entire North Shore; he zdded that while tourists visit such North Shore facilities as the local mountains ‘‘that money doesn’t stay on the North Shore, it goes back downtown because there is no convention centre here. **With the exotic dancers, we may see,the dollar value that generates, but on the other hand we'll save money because that form of entertainment’’ costs a lot. The booze business is the hardest business to run. He added that the Coach House has met with - local neighborhood representatives and that some of what the hotel is proposing is based on feedback from those meetings. Alibhai said an application for rezoning and for a beer and wine store has been before North Vancouver District Council for over one year. But Paula Hubert, district planning assistant, said all li- quor-related applications are on hold pending a staff report to council. By Surj Rattan News Reporter the exotic dancers account for between 50% and 60% of the hotel’s profit margin. THE OWNERS of the Coach House inn are proposing some major changes to the North Vancouver hotel. if those changes are approved, then patrons will see a new look to the hotel, including changes to the existing design of the building, the end a the strip shows in its bar and the addition of a beer and wine store. Bahaduralli Alibhai and Kabir Kabir, said they want to turn their hotel into a ‘‘com- munity-oriented”’ facility; they said the strip shows, which have long deen associated with the Coach House, do not fit in with their new plans for the hotel. But the pair also admit that turn the facility around. Our main problem has always been the image of the Coach House, especially with the type of entertainment we have in the bar.’” He added that a beer and wine store, which would be built at an estimated cost of $500.000, would help offset the Index @lLifestyles..0 0 0. @ Miss Manners . . ..38 MW Spiritually Speaking... 26 Sports . 31 What's Going On ... .. 32 Second Class Registration Number 3885 @ High Profiles .... &% Cocktails & Caviar i Comics & Fashion... . 88 Horoscopes . . . Weather Monday and Tuesday, rain. Highs 11°C, lows 6°C. Sunday, November 17; 1991 ~ North-Stiore News -'3 The sad end of Mary Anne Medwayosh 31-year-old convicted in murder of native woman A 31-YEAR-OLD man was recently convicted of first- degree murder more than 10 years after a native Indian woman was assaulted and left to die in the waters of Lynn Creek on the North Shore. A B.C. Supreme Court jury trial culminated in the sentencing of Jean Victor Beaulac. Following an initial mistrial fast December, the defendant faced a second jury trial on the first-degree murder charge and was sentenced earlier this month to a term of life im- prisonment without parole for 25 years. Mary Anne Medwayosh lost her life on Feb. 18, 1981. A member of the Perry Sound Indian Band in the Hamilton area of Ontario, Medwayosh was a mother of two at the time she was murdered. She had been adopted at age 15 and was also known as Mary Anne Costin. Medwayosh lived with her adopted family for a number ef years before striking out on her own. After turning her two children over (to social services in Ontario, Medwayosh made her way to Brit- ish Columbia in search of a better life. The police believe she arrived in Vancouver in October 1980. Her case was one of a number investigated by an unsolved female homicide task force that included the participation of several Lower Mainland police departments. The task force operated from mid-1987 until it was disbanded earlier this year. Police in- vestigated the suspected murders of 17 women. North Vancouver RCMP Sgt. Randy Bennett was a key in- vestigator in the Medwayosh case. The dead woman had remained unidentified for seven years, Said Bennett, ‘‘The North Van- couver RCMP did everything they could at the time to attempt to identify who this victim was. They felt she was from the downtown core, probably on welfare. They did all the checks at ali the local bars and establishments, used the press. They just uncovered no leads.” At first the task force looked for a link pointing to a single serial killer. It was established through their findings that they were looking for several killers. Investigators then focused on the cases that seemed to hold some hope of resolution. The Medwayosh case was one of them. Several members of the task foree joined with North Van- couver RCMP investigators to follow up leads. The names of two possible suspects surfaced through infor- mant information, and Med- wayosh’s identity was established. By Michael! Becker News Reporter But establishing that identity had more to do with the tenacity of the investigators than with pure tuck. Police sifted through thousands of welfare files searching for the names of native females who had dropped off social assistance around the time of the homicide. Several names surfaced. One by one police sought out the women to establish their whereabouts and well-being. But Mary Anne Costin had not been located. Bennett travelled to Ontario and checked family and lriends, medi- cal and dental records. With den- tal records he eventualiy linked her name to the body found in North Vancouver. Police subsequently initiated an undercover operation in which an undercover officer posed as a mob man seeking new associates. Said Bennett, ‘We iniroduced an undercover operator to the key player, the main person believed responsible for the murder. It was during that operation he made ut- terances to the effect that he was responsible.’’ In October 1988, North Van- couver RCMP arrested and charg- ed Jean Victor Beaulac and John Eldon Norris. But said Bennett, ‘‘The Crown's case was limited against Norris. He was believed to be a lesser player in the offence. Because of the lack of evidence specifically against him, the charges against him were stayed by the Crown and he was subsequently sub- poenaed as a Crown witness.”’ Bennett said police were never able to establish the exact nature of the relationship between Beaulac and Medwayosh. The court heard the murder had been preceded by a day of drink, drugs and sex. Medwayosh was then beaten, placcd in the trunk of a car and taken to Lynn Creek by Norris and Beaulac. Nerris testified that Beaulac beat Med- wayosh’s head with a rock before dumping her into the creek. Although she had sustained mortal wounds as a result of ex- tensive and severe blows to the head caused from a beating she received by being hit with a rock at the scene, a pathologist deter- mined that Medwayosh drowned to death. : Sager votes against motion From page 1 North Vancouver City Mayor Jack Loucks voted to terminate logging at the end of 1992. But Sager voted against the mo- tion to allow the logging contracts to expire in 1992 because he wanted them to expire earlier. The loss of logging revenue, he said, would be ‘‘minor’’ if’ the costs associated with the logging program are calculated into the revenue figure. However, Sager said he was confident the GVRD board would support the more restricted logg- ing approach for 1992 recom- mended by the committee. “At least it is terminating next year and we have essentially suc- ceeded in changing the direction of watershed management to a more sensitive program,’’ said Sager. “*It’s much closer to a vic- tory than a loss."’ The GVRD board will consider the committee’s recommendations on Nov. 27.