r Ball p18 Family Services of the North Shore celebration each resigns p44 Nor-Wes Caps’ 2-22 record takes its toll DECEMBER S, 1998 Bright Lights soo 18 E Business one 23 Classitieds eee 50 Cressword eve 56 : Exploring Horizons ++ 50 North Shore Alert «+8 | Sports one Al Table Hopping oe 2 Morty Shere Free Hoss 11) Pugster Fete Sout 1939 Lonsctale Sauer Nice. dane AC Canachar Putecators Val Sales Proauct Agiertart fe SE 738 60 Pages Businesses thrive on Deep Cove’s Galiant Commersial Avenues 123 FREE ‘Violent’ man lived in Lynn Valiey Anna Marie D’Angeto News Reporter dangclo@nsnews.com AN American fugitive, described by United States police as extremely dangerous and violent, has been living quietly in North Vancouver for several mouths. Robert V. Trevines, 34, escaped on July 11, 1996 from Baca County jail in Springtield, Colorado. Trevino was arrested by North Vancouver ROMP ata Matsqui Hall craft fair in the Abborstord area on Saturday. Trevinia was selling crafts including leather masks he made at the fair. He was accompanied by a North Vancouver woman who police decline to identity. At one time the woman had a personal relationship with Trevino. Police say she had since ended her personal affair with Trevine, but was involved with him selling cratts. She was unaware of his past. “She is now, This woman is quite upset.” said North Vancouver RCMP Const. Tom Seaman on Monday. “We believe he (Trevino) has just been fying ow here and trying to live seme sort of 2 normal life, bur always watching over his shoulder,” said Seaman. Two and a half years ago, Trevino escaped trom the Baca County jail by climbing two razor-wired iences. Baca County Sheriff Willard Goff said Trevino used 4 sweatshirt to protect himself from the razor wire. at the time of Trevisie's escape, he was charged with first- degree (violent) sexual assault and theft. Trevino was given a “sentencing enhancement” designation as a “violent offend- er.” After his escape, Trevino was charged with second- degree kidnapping, first-degree aggravated motor vehicle theft and assaulr during an escape and robbery. United States law enforcement agencies received a tip that Trevino was in North Van after the America’s Most Wanted television szries aired a segment in October about his escape. Seaman said the phone tip came from Canada. The tipster recognized Trevino as someone living ia North Vancouver who was “associating” with a woman also living in ACCUSED violent U.S. fugitive Robert V. Trevino found in North Van. oy os eon, NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Crane crusaders NORTH Vancouver City Coun. Stella Jo Dean joins Seaspan International's Debbie Tardiff at Vancouver Drydock near the base of the Colby crane recently donated to the city. In exchange for the landmark, which is to be moved to the adjacent Versatile See Wanted page 3 Shipyard site once it is developed, the city issued Seaspan a $25,000 tax receipt. School zone hearing to continue Soa nlag Wie? West Van school district THE power struggle for control over clainis it could lose $165M if council bylaw proceeds West Vancouver’s school properties will continue into the new year. public-private partnerships. Council rejected the school board’s arguments, claiming that a rezoning process is already required for such partner- ships. Bue school trustee Erica Bell-Lowther disagreed. “If this is so simple, why is the municipality targeting only schools?” She said council was employing a “double-standard” and that On Monday, West Vancouver council held its first public hearing into the rezoning of all district school properties. Concerned parents packed municipal hall to witness all of the district’s five trustees approach the microphone to ask council to reconsider a bylaw that proposes to change the zoning of all schools and places of worship from single and two-family residential to public assembly. Ifa school were to be demolished, the school district would have to go before council for permission to develop the fand with anything other than a schoo! or park. i The school board believes the proposed “down-zoning”™ will devalue its properties by approximately $165 million. This figure, according to trustees, was supplied by consul- rants Jim Moodie and Jonathan Huggett. West Vancouver board chairman Clive Bird was the first to urge council to postpone the matter until further studies can be done. He said the board feels “obliged to protect” the school lands from any possible devaluation. “We need to maintain the Sexibility to make use of our properties,” he said. That flexibility would include future it ought to be looking at some of its own lands as well. She offered Gleneagles golf course (which is zoned single family and not park) as an example. Ever since the demolition of Hillside secondary school approximately two and a half years ago, land use and school property zonings have been a hot topic. Revenues from the subdivision and private sale of the Hillside !and went into funding, Rockridge middle school. See Hearing page 3