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Gadsby asking municipal affairs minister to investigate

DEFEATED NORTH
Vancouver District Coun.
Joan Gadsby has blamed
the North Shore News for
her failure to win re-election
on Nov. 20.

ASANTE
' NORTH VANCOUVER
' DISTRICT COUNCIL
by Martin Millerchip

“I have lost as a resuit of the
North Shore . News,’’ Gadsby
charged Monday night at her final
meeting of North Vancouver
District Council.

Mayor Murray Dykeman of-
fered Gadsby and ~. unsuccessful
mayoralty candidate Coun. Paul
‘Turner an opportunity. to address
“council. for the last. time at the
beginning of the meeting. ”

On a. night when the official

results of the 1993 local govern-
ment election confirmed that she

had polled a distant eighth in her
bid for an eighth term on council,
Gadsby lashed out at the News for
the ‘‘abuse of its power.”

'” Gadsby was furious with a Nov.
12 report card on the incumbent

council ‘published eight days: be-
fore the municipal election.

Gadsby received a D, the lowest
‘grade on council.

The grades were presented as
part of the newspaper’s opinion

a and analysis Series on the incum-

Turban ruling riles some legion members

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District coun. Joan Gadsby...
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bent council members and trustees
in all three North Shore
municipalities andthe area’s two
school districts.

The grades were based on
reporters’ observations of council
and school board incumbents in
action at council and school board
meetings over the previous three-
year term.

“This election was shabby,”
charged Gadsby:

She said she would be discussing
charges of. ‘“‘slander’’ with a
lawyer and asking Municipal Af-
fairs Minister Darlene Marzari to
investigate.

Gadsby said she had declined to
cun for the leadership of the pro-
vincial Liberal party and refused
both Socred and Reform party
nominations ‘‘in order to better
serve’ her community.

Turner told council that he had
“*no regrets,’’

“Being here has enriched my
life. ] don’t begrudge an instant of
it,” he said.

“Personally, I think I should
have had a B+ (he got a B-), but
I won’t sue you (the News),’’ said
Turner with a smile.

He said he looked forward to
watching street trees being planted
and would be watching closely to
see whether ‘“‘you will continue
open government.

“For me it was an_ intense
pleasure and I thank you,’ con-
cluded Turner.

Dykeman commended both
councillors for initiatives under-
taken ‘and offered a ‘‘personal
congratulation for the way in
which you have approached your
work.”’

Dykeman said he had received a
letter from: Coun. Rick Buchols,
who was absent from the meeting,
which expressed his thanks for the
opportunity to serve for two terms
on district.

Buchols, who was elected to the
North ‘Vancouver District 44
School Board in. the Nov. 20
municipal elections, expressed . his
excitement at continuing his public
life as a school trustee.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

WEST VANCOUVER firefighter Cary Manns (left) and North
Van City colleague. John Clemente display: some. of. the”
clothing they have collected from fellow Lower Mainland
firefighters. They've collected approximately 30 to 40 bags of

goods which will be distributed to the homeless.

Head- dress approval gets mixed reaction from North Shore branches |

SOME MEMBERS of the North. Shore’s three Royal
Canadian. Legion branches do not like a recently released
order; from the legion’s top ranks in Ottawa approving

‘the wearing of turbans on their premises.

A national policy. statement,
issued! Sunday. by the Dominion
Executive Council of the Royal
Canadian — Legion. (Dominion
‘Command), approves ° religious
head-dress, including Sikh tur-
bans) and Jewish yarmulkes
(skullcaps), i in legion premises.
The religious symbols, ac-
cording to Dominion Command,
do not constitute head-dress in a
‘traditional’sense, |”
, policy may become

a national: legion bylaw at a con
~ vention. in Calgary in: May, .ac-
* cording to Dominion Command.

But said West Vancouver

Legon Branch 60 president Dick
. Davenport, ‘SThere. are very
‘mixed feelings. {« leans: more one
way than the other.

;"*There is very minor. support
(of Dominion Comimand’s new
policy),’’ he added,

Davenport said) the branch
membership voted approximately
two years ago to ‘maintain its
‘standards" and keep its tradition

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of allowing no headgear.
“Weare a
organization. » That

said Davenport,

Meanwhile, North Vancouver
118 president

Legion - Branch

non-sectarian
means no
politics or religion in the club,"

She said. the headgear bylaw
was reviewed two years ago to
accept turbans on the premises.

But she said that some Branch
118! members have strong feel-
ings about the issue.

“Th think the general - feeling
could be that they are not too
happy about it,’ said Lucas,

At Lynn Valley Branch 114,
branch president Jim Thompson
said turbans are permitted, but
the issue has never arisen at the
branch, ;

“We have a tradition on
headgear, however, I believe a
turban constitutes something

44] don’ t know why a Sikh would

want to come in here anyway .

_—~Lynn Valley Branch 114 president Jim Thompson

Chris Lucas said turbans

branch.
“thas
problem,”

never arisen,
said Lucas,

are
acceptable according to bylaws
in place at the West 15th Street

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different,"’ said Thompson from
the branch at 1630 Lynn Valley
Rd.

Thompson said, on the whole,

the branch membership does not:

have a problem with turbans

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‘with one or two exceptions.’’
Said Thompson, ‘“1] don’t

know why a Sikh would want to’,

come in here anyway to have a
drink, but he is certainly wei-
come to come and have whatever
he wishes.”

Lucas and Thompson = say
there has been too imuch em-
phasis put on the turban issue.
They point out the beneficial
volunteer work done by legion
members in communities.

The issue arose on Remem-
brance Day when several Sikh
veterans ‘who. had served . with
British Empire: forces attempted
to enter a Surrey legion branch
wearing their turbans. :

The Sikhs, including .a deco-
rated veteran, were denied entry
because legion officials said (ur-
bans violated a) no-headgear
bylaw at the branch.

Baptized Sikh men wear tur-
bans daily for religious reasons.

The Dominion Command said
legion members. and branches
must “reassess their practices in
view of the changing composi-
tion of our nation and our
membership’ when it announced
the religious head-dress policy,

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NV student

stabbed in

face during
house party

CHARGES ARE pending
against several youths after
an 18-year-old Argyle sec-

ondary school student was .

stabbed in the face during a
house party in North Van- -
couver on Saturday night.

By Sur] Rattan
News Reporter

Jamie Murphy, 18, was- trans-
ported to. Lions Gate Hospital,
where he received 85 stitches and
underwent. five hours of
reconstructive surgery to his face.

North Vancouver RCMP Const.
Mare Boland said Murphy. at-
tended a “grad-type’’ party held
for several Grade 12 Argyle stu-
dents, The group had gone on a
chartered boat cruise before going |
to a house at 4639 Valley Rd.

But Boland said two other
youths, who do not attend Argyle,
attenipted to join the party.

“Drinking was involved. and
they (the uninvited) were thrown
out. They were in the driveway
and that's when the tide turned on
them, They were ont-gunned by
the people in the house and feared *
they would get pounded on.

'“One of them then produced a
knife and slashed the victim, Mr.
Murphy in the face,” said Boland.

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