EWS phote Paul McGrath RCHP. AND North Vancouver Districi Fire Departivent Investigators sift through the burnt wreckage of a home loceted in the 4560-biock of Cove Cliff Road. The occupant of the house was awakened by the sound of an explosion at about 4 a.m. Monday. The fire destroyed a gara . The fire caused no injuries. the fire has yet to be determined. The explosion crig*nated from the garage. Mother calls for Lynn Canyon warden = Daughter crushed by boulder in 1982 incident THE NORTH Vancouver mother of a teen who diced in Lynn Canyon Park 10 years ago believes that Nerth Vancouver District should hire a park warden to patrol the more sopular Lynn Creek swimming and diving areas during the summer menths, By Michael Becker News Reporter . Her daughter was not cliff div- ing the day she died. She anda friend were swimming and sun- ‘bathing at Lynn Creek on Aug. 20, 1982. As 19-year-old Jacquie Whit- taker. was sunbathing at a spot north of the suspension bridge a runaway 200-pound boulder rushed her tc death. Said Barbara Whittaker, “‘it’s a beautiful area. AN this publicity generates more people — more kids to take a chance.” Three people have died recenily in Lynn Creek. “We'd like to see a park warden hired to patrol! the area June, July and August. It should be somebody with a professional background, maybe a retired police officer,’’ she said. Whittaker, who belongs to Compassionate Friends, a support group of parents who have lost children, does not support a ban on swimming in the park. “~ don’t think it’s right. The majority of children are killed by drunk drivers, and there doesn’t seem to be an uproar about that.” A park memorial plaque com- memorates the death of Jacquie Whittaker. JACQUIE WHITTAKER... killed while sunbathing In an area north of the suspension bridge. In 1985, her family established the Jacquie Whittaker Memorial Humanitarian Award. The award is annually presented ge and a car and caused considerable damage to the house. An adjacent home was also dam- Firefighters praised the efforts of neighbors whe responded to the amergency. The cause of to a Carson Graham secondary school graduate to ‘‘encourage other students to actively show their love, support and care for human welfare and positively enhance cthers’ lives.”’ Jacquie Whittaker graduated from Carson Graham in. June 198i. She had intended to study law at UBC. This year Carson Graham graduate Kristi Bolen received the memorial humanitarian award. Past recipients include Kathy Campbell (1985); Mary Pedosuk (1987); Debbie Lisle (1988); Sonia MacDoneli (1989); Diane Klimuk (1990); Marnie Bates (1991). Meanwhile, North Vancouver tesident Carole Anne Berten- shaw-Hiatt, who is loodbying North Vancouver District Council to implement an emergency ban on swimming and diving in Lynn Creek, has collected the names of | more than a dozen people willing to volunteer their time to patrol the creek area as part of a watch committee. NV City landmark closes doors after 25 years A FAMILIAR North Vancouver City landmark is about to bite the dust. “After about 25 years of greeting shoppers at the corner of Lons- dale Avenue and 17th Street, the Super Valu grocery store will close its doors. Plans are under way to replace the Super Valu store with an Ex- tra Foods grocery outlet. Both Super Valu and Extra Foods are franchise outlets operated by Kelly Douglas Co. Ltd. “That’s the plan,’’ said Shirley Anne Brown, director! of com- munications for Extra Foods. “We're hoping to remodel the store a little bit, and we'd like to get working on thar as fast as we can.”’ By Surj Rattan News Reporter Extra Foods currently has a total of eight locations: five in the Lower Mainland and one each in Kelowna, Prince George and Whitehorse. “It’s just a fresh new look we hope to give to the store. Our specialty area is produce, and we'll be quite aggressive price- wise,’ said Brown. ‘‘We’re very pleased to be moving into the North Shore market.”’ She said Extra Foods hopes to open its 17th and Lonsdale loca- tien in October. Brown added that the company hed been thinking about moving into the current Super Valu store location for about one year. Brown said she doesn’t know how many people will be employed in the new store and did not know if any of the existing Super Valu staff will be offered jobs. North Vancouver City planner Gary Penway said Extra Foods has made an application to the ci- ty for a permit to make renova- tions to the existing building. He added that the city is in favor of Extra Foods’ p!ans. “We're happy to see a food store go in there,’’ said Penway. Wednesday cloudy with sunny periods, slight chance of shower. High 22°C. Thursday & Friday, sunny with cloudy periods. High 23°C, Low 13°C. Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreament Number 0087238 rescued at Twin Fails TWO VANCOUVER teens swimming in the Twin Falls area at Lynn Creek on Monday night were rescued unharmed after they became trapped in the canyon. By Michael Becker News Reporter Shane Garber, [7, and Alicia Lucas, 15, suffered hypothermia and were taken to Lions Gate Hospital, where they were treated and released. North Vancouver District Fire Department, B.C. Ambulance Service and North Vancouver RCMP personnel were called to Twin Falls Bridge at approximate- ly 8:15 p.m. A large and quiet crowd watch- ed as rescuers extricated the pair by rope. Garber and Lucas were located in the first falls area below the bridge. Said North Vancouver District Fire Department spokesman Gary Calder, ‘She was trapped by her own judgment. She felt that to jump into the pool beyond the next waterfall would have been beyond her capability. I think that’s good. She didn’: respond to peer pressure or anyone else’s urg- ing.”” The creek feeds into a pool that is right below Twin Falls Bridge. The downstream side of the pool forms a rocky cup. Water flows out of that pool in the form of the first waterfall at Twin Falls Bridge. : The creek continues into A SS FES ER CEE Oe 44 She was trappea by her own judgment. She felt that to jump into the pool beyond the next waterfall would have been beyond her capability. #9 ~~ NY District Fire Department spokesman. Gary Calder. another pool; water spills from that pool into a large pool below. Calder said that Lucas had ap- ~ parently gone over the first water fall at Twin Falls. She then climb-- ed up on a rock on the west side’ of the fall. ‘*Phere was a male companion, and he had jumped, I believe, ever the fails — both of them — and he had come back around and sat with her and talked with her. As time passed, and it got darker, it got colder, and I think: he became hypothermic,’’ Calder said. The two were trapped by virtue: of the slippery rock surrounding them. A climb out would have risked an uncontrolled fall into a pool, “| think in this case, although they were unwise to get themselves into the situation they were in, they were wise to stay put,” Calder said. The rope rescue was staged from the west side of the bridge. One man was sent down to evaluate the pair. Garber was brought up to a safer area near the creek; Lucas was given a life jacket and a helmet. She and Garber were subsequently lifted out of the canyon. B.C. Ambulance Service medics treated the two at the scene for hypothermia. They were then- transported to LGH for observa- tion.