NEWS BRIEFS Jewels grabbed THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP and Crime Stoppers are seeking public assistance in catching the crooks who who broke into a Berkley Road apartment on June 30 and made off with a large quantity of jewelry and some household items. The total value of all goods stolen is approximately $100,000. According to the police, the thieves pried open a door and found jewelry in 2 bedroom closet. The stolen jewelry includes: @ a ladies’ 18-karat white gold sapphire and diamond ring worth $1,500; @ a ladies’ platinum diamond ring (five diamonds) worth $3,000; @ a ladies’ platinum diamond ring with a 4.25-carat diamond worth $27,000; . @ an 18-karat yellow gold, turquoise and four-diamond bracelet worth $3,000; @a 14-karat yellow gold, six-marquise-cut diamond ladies’ ring worth $3,200; @a pair of white gold earrings with four diamonds worth $2,200; @ a ladies’ platinum ring with one round and 12 barguette diamonds worth $4,500; @ a ladies’ ring with six rouad diamonds and one aquamarine worth $2,460; e@ a 14-karat yellow gold brooch with nine dizmonds worth $3,600; @ an 18-karat yellow gold brooch with three marquise emeralds and 13 diamonds worth $4,000. The thieves also took an answering machine, a cordless phone, 2 smafl Minolta camera, approximately 20 com- pact discs and an assortment of other jewelry. Information regarding this crime and the location of the jewetry may be forwarded to Crime Stoppers at 669-8477 (TIPS). Crime Stoppers will pay up to $2,000 in cash for an anonymous tip that leads to the arrest and conviction of crocks in this case or any other crime. ood Local educator dies JAMES INKSTER, a veteran North Shore educator and the first prin- cipal of North Vancouver's Carson Graham secondary school, passed away on July Mr, Inkster was 79, Born in Saskatchewan, Mr. In- kster began his teaching career in Nanaimo before moving to West Vancouver District 45 School Board (WVSB) in 1939 to work as a teacher at the former West Vancouver high school. He was appointed vice-principal of the schoo! in 1946 and became its principal in 1948. In 1958, Mr. Inkster was ap- pointed the principal of West Vancouver secondary school. And in September 1963, he joined the administration of North Vancouver District 44 School Board (NVSB), where he helped plan for the opening of Carson Graham. He was appoinied the school’s first principal in September 1965 and returned to his school board administration post in 1970, During his career in education, Mr. Inkster received an honorary doctorate degree from the Univer- sity of B.C,., was made an honor- ary chief of the Squamish Indian Band and received the Fergusson award, which is the highest award offered educators by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. NVSB assistant superintendent Tom Carlile, who served as Mr. Inkster's vice-principal at Carson Graham, said Mr. Inkster was respected by both students and teachers. wets De _ JAMES INKSTER... first orin- cipal of NV’s Carson Graham secondary school, passed away on July 17. “He built the foundations for a very strong and unique school at Carson Graham. He was one of the giants of his era in education. He was an awfully fine man and much beloved by his students. “He built West Vancouver high school into one of the top aca- demic and athletic schools in the province. One of the things Jim always believed in was living where you worked,’’ Carlile said of the long-time North Vancouver resident. Mr. Inkster is survived by his wife, May, son, Sandy, and daughter-in-law, Mary, brothers, Don and Cam, sisters-in-law Bet- ty, Jeanne and Marg. Mr. Inkster was predeceased by his brother Trial Lawyer Over 20 years experience in the trial of major injury cases © Contingent Fees 687-0258 © We handle all costs 926-4133 Sunday, July 26, 1992 - North Shore News - 5 Group home may appeal closure THE RECENT shutdown of a privately-operated group- home care facility housing five mentally-il! adults in Deep Cove was done impurtially and without a hidden agenda, according to North Shore Health's chief public health in- spector Bill Kimmett. A North Shore Health licensing worker pulled the licence at Fair- way Place on June 26 following an investigation and hearing held by health officials to determine whether the group home operator breached ierms of her licence to run a specialized residential-care facility for adults. A provincial adult-care facilities licensing board unanimously agreed to cancel the licence of Lydia Jaworsky after finding that the operator had _ breached numerous conditions of the Adult Care Regulations that allow a fa- cility to be licensed under the Community Care Facility Act. Allegations found by the board to be regulation breaches stemmed from assertions that: @ the 15-yezz-old daughter of Jaworsky was sometimes acting as the person in charge of the facility and dispensing medication to clients; @ the facility was insufficiently staffed; @ a client was emotionally and verbally abused and physically restrained without authorization from a physician. But Jaworsky’s supporters, in- cluding her lawyer, the families of some of her clients and repre- By Michael Becker News Reporter sentatives of the North Shore branch of Friends of Schizophrenics and the B.C. Association of Private Care, claim the closure is indicative of a hid- den agenda to replace privately- operated group-home care facili- ties with group homes operated by non-profit organizations. But said Kimmett, ‘Basically there were several referrals of in- fractions at the facility that we received. They alleged that the Operation was not being run in accordance with the Community Care Facility Act. There were some things that just weren't right. Our staff investigated very thoroughly, and they did it from an unbiased viewpoint. “We have no hidden agendas, and we have no plans to force people out of business.’” he add- ed. 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