itage and’ cultute of of the North
‘Shore has Received’ a $288, 575 i in

Goverrinient support: for: the Project,
called. Visic sof the North Shore, is pro-

‘the Canada: Millennium .

econd highest i in the
pl fora projéct in phase three ¢f the
= program. in. the. areas history and arts
and ‘culture, ‘said: Linda - Feil,” exscutive

¢; North Vaneau ern ceth

‘ity Arts Council, the project’s

ig agency. Feil is also co-chair-
ae ‘steering committee.

the announcement ‘Tuesday

ss° conference: at. ‘North

ram funds up to one-
le costs of millennium

proj The ‘arts

council has: projected. $1 million in costs

‘th ‘project. Each of the three North .
Shore mu icip: ities has Ph dged $90 000

. hai lived with Diicharme fora”

in a mixture of capa racing and cash
towards. the project. The stecring com-
mittee will be looking to the province,
corporations and individuals for the rest.
“What's really. wonderful about this

“project is that it's come from the grass-

roots. It gives us an opportunity to cele-
brate the truly wonderful place we live in
by using art and heritage,” said Feil.

. The project will “embrace the new
millennium through a heritage and visual
arts collaboration celebrating 12 sites that
have significant historical, natural and cul-
tural relevance to the communities,” she
said.

- Oksana Dexter, cultural services super-
intendent for West Vancouver District ind
the project's co-chairman, gave credie fer

hé idea to Trevor Carolan. The North
Vancouver District councillor had: pro-
posed a similar preject two years ago to
celebrate the Year of the Asia Pacitic.

‘The proposed sites are:

ii Cates, Lynn Canyon and Carisbrooke”

parks and: Maplewood Mud Flats in

~ Worth Vancouver District;

@ Grand Boulevard, Mosquito. Creek,
Lower Lonsdale’ and Victoria’. Park or
Moodyville in North Vancouver City, and
@ Ambleside and John Lawson parks,
Dundarave Pier and. Horseshoe Bay ir ia

NEWS photo Mike Wakotield

THE three North Shore municlpatities, First Nations and a iiest of aris and heritage organizations have lent iheir
“support to Vislons of the North Shore, a millennium project headed up by Oksana Daxter (left) and Linda Feil.

West Vancouver.

The project will see 12 artists create
new works of art for cach site. On-site
interpretive displays will include archival
photos, historic narrative and the First
Nations place name and stary associated
with the site.

The 12 North Shore artists invited to
participate are: Nancy Boyd, Taiga Chiba,
Pierre Coupey, Wayne Eastcott, Damian
George, Bonnie Jordan, Jean C.
Morrison, Setsuko Piroche, Gordon
Smith, Joan Smith, Arnold Shives and
Xwa Lack Tun (Rick Harry).

Said Shives: “For me to be a part of it
is thrilling. Look forward to doing some~
thing that will demonstrate my great
affection for this beautifill, scenic part of
the world.”

Visions of the North Shore is expected
to begin next summer and continue to the
summer: of 2001. Museum exhibits,
school programs, a series of community
celebrations, and coinmemoarative pubii-
cation and CD-ROM are planned.

‘Initial partnezs in the project are: the: -

museums of North and West Vancouver,
the Squamish Nation, Capilano Colle:
North and West Vancouver ‘school is

tricts, Ferry Building Gallery, Artists For _

Kids Trust and the Seymour Art Gallery.

‘connection | with Duggan’ 's
murder. The North Vancouver

1997.

5 resident’ Welden Congdon, who. said “th:
“rolling”

few fonths before she was_

killed.

_ According to court infor:

«, ‘mation, ’a' drunk Groham killed
. the 41-year-old mother of four
“chiidren after she “told him to

"get out.”

: River townhouse. "

: -Graham‘ 's appeal of his scc-
“= Ond degree murder sentence
was dismissed by the B.C.

~ Court of Appeal last year.
.’ Graham’s lawyer appeaicd
further to the Supreme Court
of Canada, the highest court in
a a the land. That ‘appeal was dis-

“missed yesterday. Graham must .

’ continue to serve a life sentence
for Ducharme’s murder that a

. She was found dead .
+ +s... the bathtub of her Campbell:

“jade imposed
am is cligible f for parole in

less than eight ye:

In 1993 Groham was dating
Lyan Duggan.-

” Duggan, 34, was Killed
around june 16, 1993, in her
St. Georges Avenue a ent,
one block from he North
‘Vancouver RCMP detachment.
~  Duggan’s bedy, a. shower
curtain, towels, bedding and
curtains were removed from
her blood-stained apartment.

Duggan’s skull and jaw
bone were discovered a year
tater in the Lower Seymour
Conservation : Reserve.
body has never been found
despite extensive searches.

No one has been charged in

Her |

RCMP have. never ‘confirmed
that Graham is a suspect in the

Graham appealed: his
Ducharme murder conviction,

in part, on the basis that the.

original trial judge erred “in
refusing a motion for change of

venue. The change of venue -

was requested by Graham’s
lawyer after a Campbell River
newspaper published informa-
tion about Graham and
Duggan’s unsolved killing
three days before his trial’ by
judge’ alone. The newspaper
_. article referred to police state-
ments that Graham was
“extremely dangerous.”

ed that any creation of greater access district, water!

Friday, November 19, 1999 —- North Shore News - 3

Citizens group
nicked district
slate secretiy

Katharine Hamer
News Reporter katharine@nsnews.com

IN the beginning, there was the West
Vancouver Citizens for Good Government,
advising the good burghers of the munici-
pality on the electoral candidates they
should vote for.

Sorth Shore Concerned Citizens

Now comes the fledgling *
Association — a group few voters know anything about.

The group has been mailing pamphicts to addresses through- .

out North Vancouver District advocating a slate of the following
candidates tor council: incumbent Mayor Don Bell and council-
Jors Lisa Muri and Janice Harris, and would-be councillors Doug
MacKay-Dunn, Bill Denault, Maureen McKeon-Holmes and
Heather Dunsford.

The pamphiets | arrived wrapped in a sheet of paper advising
voters to say “no” to the waterfront referendum. It displays a
photograph of highrise build-
ings along the West Vancouver
seawall, and claims to have
been paid for by “a Discrict-
wide coalition of ‘concerned
citizens against uncontrollable —
development.” .

The Concerned Citizens
have also been running news-
paper ads and displaying sig-
nage recommending — thar
North Vancouver District vot-
ers oppose the adoption of the Waterfront Task Force ‘Proposals
at tomorrow's municipal elections.

Bystanders and some council candidates are curious as to the’
group's true motivation.

“I think this group has an agenda,” said Dalia. Gottlieb: :
Tanaka, who is running for district council-

“Most of the candidates (on the slate) are trom East Seymour”
and they don’t support the w2tetfront access. Is this considered a
well-balanced representation of the district?”

Gottlicb-Tanaka wondered why the ‘Concerned ‘Citizens’.
Association had “never called me, never interviewed’ me about
my opinion, never asked me to join. It’s because they know how.
L feel abour the waterfront.” :

Said Doug MacKay-Dunn, “They sent me a fax saying they’
were endorsing me. I’ve never "been to any of their mee! ings, | but’
I think they like the issue of fiscal responsibility. ”

He said he had no other information available on the group. |

Council-watcher and Edgemont’ Community ‘Association
member Gary Hawthorn — who is against the waterfront devel- «
opment proposals — said the g group was “almost certainly a slate:
designed to defeat the Waterfront Task Force.”

“The Concerned Citizens Association have “concealed thei
agenda,” Hawthorn said, suggesting it.was no coincidence thai
Hesther Dunsford lived “right.on waterfront property in Deep
Cove.”

Dunsford_ his repeatedly: confirmed her ‘antipathy, to an
waterfront. development when questioned at -all-candidate
mectings, but “she never, ever said,.“Pai_ a waterfront resident |
and I'm concerned about my property rights’ —— ‘nor that they
would be affected anyway,” said Diana Belhouse, past chairman:
of the Waterfront Task Force. “I doubt very much: if Heath 7
would have run otherwise.” ;

“I don’t. understand what all ‘the. commotion’ S. - about,
Dunstord said.

She referred té the Concerned Citizens as “a group of pe
who are against the Waterfront Task Force plan,” although :

sissue_is nox mentioned specifically onthe. ‘pamphict en

candidates.” .
Dunsford _said she “knew some of the membe: ‘

for the group with the North Shore News althoug
made the inquiry before she decided tore A
'. The group appears to have. béén fourided in May by. Delbroo
lf just .
across the district until the organization reached its
rent si
Fundi mB for the group’ "5 campaign had come from a ‘collection

of “friends and neighbours,” he said. “We? re nota licensed soci-

ety. We can’t issue tax deduction receipts.” ;
Congdon ‘said he was worried about’ fiscal responsi ity. i

council and insisted the $53 million cost suggested for. the .50
They. haven’ ts

car waterfront pin must. be “felonious (sic
looked into it with due diligence.”

nsford’ said all the candidates: recommended by : he

Concerned Citizens were against the Waterfront Task For e plan, ;
and “against targeting people’s personal property.”

Dunsford said there was no need for the district to expropri
ate” people” 's waterfront homics.. “There’s already’ ton: of public
access” to the waterfront, she said... -..- :

But both the Waterfront Task Force and May ‘or Don Beil hai
repeatedly said that the district has plans only to purchase prop-
erty already on the open market if the task force plan is approved

Opponents to che Waterfront Task Force plans have ¢ suBEest
nt woul