FRIDAY February 23, 1996 nvacder attacks woman A NORTH Vancouver woman was pepper-sprayed in the face by a robber while standing on the balcony of her Deep Cove home on Feb. 16. By Anna Marie D:Angelo News Reporter “He got her hair and when she looked up, the pepper spray went into her eyes,” said North Vancouver RCMP Const. Catherine Galliford. Police say a man, located on the roof above the woman's second-storey bal- cony, surprised her with the blinding spray. . - The 45-year-old woman, whose name was not disclosed by police, had gone out on the balcony to investigate a noise she heard outside her house in the 2400-block of Caledonia Avenue. According to the police, the woman managed to nin back into the house after being hit with the pepper spray. The man followed her. Police say he pushed her to the floor, covered her head with a coat and then stole money from her purse. After the man had left, the woman tried to call the police, but the North Vancouver RCMP say the phone lines had been cut. The woman ran to a neighbor’s home -and called 9-1-1 about 15 minutes after the robber left. North Vancouver RCMP service dog, Storm, and his handler, Const. Ron MacDougall, tracked the man’s scent to Badger Avenue, where the track abruptly ended. ; Galliford said the man may have got- ten into a car and left at the location where the tracking scent ended. She added that the man's scent may also have been overlaid by stronger, newer scents of people or animals that had been in the area in the 15 minutes that elapsed before the police were called. The home invader is described as being a tall Caucasian with a slim build. The woman estimated his age as being between 18 and 30 years old. He was wearing a shirt with a hood that had been pulled tightly over his face. Anyone with information about the Caledonia Avenue robbery is asked to cali the North Vancouver RCMP burglary sec- Uon at 985-1311. Saturday: Mainly cloudy High 7°C, low 0°C. NEWS photo Mike Wakefield FRENCH HORN player Adrienne Wasyiuk reflects on Handsworth Secondary’s upcoming concert, Sound Spectsaculer. The school’s senior band and orchestra perform 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 28 at Centennial Theatre. Tickets, $7, are availabte at the door. FALLOUT FROM the scandal revolv- ing arvund B.C. Hydro has landed at the feet of NDP North Vancouver- Lonsdale MLA David Schreck. By lan Noble News Reporter Liberal North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Dan Jarvis said Schreck should step down from his seat on B.C. Hydro’s board. He added Schreck should have questioned a deal that Ied to NDP supporters and the fainilies of NDP- connected Hydro chairman John Laxton and president John Sheehan getting the inside track on a company expected to provide a sizable - investment return. According to the Libera Party of B.C., B.C.. Hydro International created a corporation called International Power Corporation (IPC) and then sold it to NDP friends, B.C. Hydro insiders, and others. In turn, IPC and B.C. Hydro established a third corporation called BCHIL Power Ltd. BCHIL Power then incorporated a joint venture in the Cayman Islands, avoiding Canadian Libera! says NDP MLA should resign from Hydro board taxes and keeping the names of shareholders and directors secret, said the Liberals. The joint venture was to build a thermal plant in Pakistan. Premier Glen Clark, then the minister responsible for B.C. Hydro, said the return on equity was expected to be 24%. While acknowledging that nothing illegal was done, Jarvis pointed out that a separate company was created and a private — not pub- lic — offering was made. “Schreck should have been watching all this. Schreck was in the chair when [ was ask- ing questions of Glen Clark that brought this all out.” said Jarvis, talking about a B.C. Hydro estimates meeting on June 22 that Schreck chaired, Said Jarvis, the Liberal’s energy and mines critic: “We need a full hearing on this. | think it would be incumbent on (Schreck) at this point to step aside unti) such lime as his name is cleared because right now it’s besmirched as far as I'm concerned.” But Schreck, who's been a B.C. Hydro director since the fall of 1993, said that in sity large organization, such as B.C. Hydro, “it is humanly impossible to know everything that is going on.” tle said the issue of setting up the joint ven- ture was discussed at a B.C. Hydro board mect- ing in May 1995. He said B.C. Hydro cegulations explicitiy say directors are not to be involved as investors in the joint venture. “The minister was asked whether that could be changed and they were toid no. There was no reason to presume when you tell someone no that they are going to (urn around and do indi- rectly what they cannot do directly.” When asked if he felt any responsibitity for the scandal, Schreck said: “In hindsight, ] wish | had anticipated the problem and done some- thing. “But by any reasonable standard | cannot see where anyone would have presumed the instructions would be misinterpreted. So f can’t see where there was any inaction that would apply frat.”