WITH AN AMBITION to travel around the world, Helen should have no trouble
finding places to enjoy her pastimes of swimming and skiing if her dream comes true.

Born and raised on the North Shore, our Sunshine Girl has studied acting and
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COUNSEL DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ON

MDA case adjourned

A man facing six drug
charges dating back a year
ago still didn’t) get a
preliminary hearing to set a
trial date when he appeared
in provincial court in North
Vancouver last week.

A detention order was
made in respect of 42-year-
old Dale Stuart Elhout for his
return to Vancouver Island
Regional Correction Centre
when his case was adjourned
to February 21 for a trial
date to be set

Elhou had been brought
back to North Van and
various police witnesses also
attended the court, ready fof
the hearing to go ahead

But as the court opened
Elhott told the court he had
learned hs lawyer in Viec-
toma, Peter Freeman, had
not turned up as he had been
unaware that the hearing
had been set for that day

Larry Kancs appearing as

agent for the attorney
general of Canada advised
the court the case would be
techmeal ino nature. involv-
ing the manufacture of
methylene dioxryam
phetamine (MDA) and
would take about two days to
hear

Two trunkloads of
aparaAtus, were IN COUFT as OR

hibits and Crown said an

analyst was also present
Kancs told the court he

felt it was probably a case

where Elliott would want to
be represented by counsel
and Elliott told court that he
did indeed want to be.

The drugs charges against
Elliott relate to February 2
last year.

He faces two counts of
trafficking in MDA. two
charges of possession of the
drug for the purposes of traf-
ficking, one of possession of
marijuana and one of
possessing cannabis resin.

By CHRIS LLOYD

The ‘letters to the
editor’ column appears
to be becoming the new
channel for North
Vancouver District
council members both
present and past to vent
their accusations
against one another.

Alderman Ernie Crist's
letter to the News - featured
front page February 6 - was
written as an open letter
accusing Mayor Don Bell of
“playing God” by hushing up
.he dangers of chlorine spills
facing the area and not
making public a consultants’
report on the subject.

Now the News
received another open
letter, im which former
District alderman Marilyn
Baker has issued a scathing
attack on Crist for his action.

Her letter accuses him of
“playing games” with

“political one-upmanship” in
“an attempt to create the
illusion of leadership with
slurs and innuendos” which
she calls “unwarranted,
damaging and _irrespon-
sible.”

And in a reference to
George Orwell's Animal
Farm she talks of Crist’s
“swinish wallowing in visions
of Big Brother.’

has

‘MISTAKE’
Baker's final jab 1s that
whereas she supported

Crist’s candidacy last year,
“after only two months I'm
beginning to think I made a
mistake.”

She calls his action
“shooting from the lip” and
says it leaves her to conclude
“that it is more important to

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headlines than to work a
difficult problem to = an
agreeable conclusion in a
quiet responsible manner.”

Whereas Crist’s letter
made demands for him to be
able to see the Beak Report
into chlorine’ hazards,
received by the Dhistrict
August 1978, Baker says she
does not recall Crist
previously ever having asked
to see it or making mention
of it.

She says that as an
alderman Crist has direct
access to the report.

Baker also defends Mayor
Bell for not overruling A
decision made by the
majority of council members
not to publicise the report.

In her letter she also
attacks Crist, “who claims to
be so in favor of public

LETTERS VOICE ALDERMEN'S WAR OF WORDS

ear Ernie,
Stop wallowing.
Yours, Marilyn

meetings for public in-
formation and input” for not
pressing for a public hearing
into the proposal to locate a
firehall in Seylynn Park.

“Why were the citizens
not aware of the issue until
the first tree was cut?” she
asks.

“You were certainly in
touch with

those same
citizens two years ago,
voicing support of their
opposinon to the iand ex-
change with the Winter
Club.

“Why did those same
citizens have to come to you
to suggest a meeting - a
delegation?

“Where was your initiative
seemingly in the
newspaper - after the fact -
bemoaning the decision of
the - big, bad council on
which you have to sit?”

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