NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

JOHN Graham (left) of Montana's Sports Bar recently held a seminar for the staff members of the popular
Lower Lonsdale night spot. The session was put on by Greg Engh (centre) and Rob Allison of NSC Nightciub

Security Consultants.

PR help for sports bar staff

Robert Galster

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com

GETTING a beer mug
smashed across her face
_ was not a North Van
‘woman’s idea of a fun
night out on the town.

* But that’s what happened
last November soon aher she
" joined some friends
Montana's Sports Bar.

The woman was on the
dance floor of the popular
Lower Lonsdale night spot
when a large man shoved her.
She shoved back and continued
dancing.

The next thing she knew,
she was struck on the side of
the face with the mug, Broken
glass cut her face in several
places, just missing her eve.

ar

She wanted to protect her
identity because her assailant
has yet to make a court appear-
ance. While her mishap could
not have been prevented by the
best-trained staff members
unless they happened to be
near the scene, extra training is
nevertheless a step in the right
direction.

To that end, Montana’s
Sports Bar recently hired NSC
Nightclub Security
Consultants, who spent a
vunday afternoon with the
bar’s staff. The six-hour session
covered a variety of topics
including the legal liabilities of
club employees and verbal rac-
tics used to diffuse liquor-laced
situations.

“They've got a good grou
of staff members there, they're
reasonable,” said Rob Allison,
co-owner of NSC.

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Which, he added, is more
than a lot of other places.

“You get into some clubs
and you'd think it’s the wild
west ... they all want to be brass
knuckles champs.”

One of the points Allison
makes is that ifa situation esca-
lates to the level of physical
confrontation, the staff mem-
ber has failed. As a result, the
Sunday session focused on
everything but the physical side
of enforcing bar rules,

“There's nothing we can
really do in a six-hour seminar

that would help them (staff) in
a physical situation,” said
Allison.

Montana’s manager Kim
Graham called the session ben-
eficial. “I think every door
man we had learned some-
thing,” she said.

As for the dance floor inci-
dent, the woman’s assailant will
appear in court later this
month. He had also cut himself
in the aliercation and police
caught up with him as he was in
the process of getting first aid
at Lions Gate Hospital.

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Sunday, January 25, 1998 - North Shore News — 41

NVC provides
cash for youth

justice

Contributing Writer

NORTH Vancouver
City council has agreed
to contribute $15,000
to the North
Vancouver Restorative
Justice Society to get
the youth program up
and running.

The money, granted on
the — condition :
thar the District
of North
Vancouver con:
tributes a similar
amount, will be
spent primarily
ona salary tor
the coordinator
of the program.
The program is
designed te pro-
vide intervention for young
offenders who may not be
properly served by going
through the court system.

“I feel quite strongly,
along with many others, thar
the = Restorative — Justice
Program provides a timely
and useful intervention with
young offenders who require
a productive route ta main-
stream society,” said Mayor
Jack Loucks at a council meet-
ing Monday.

The program is designed
to be volunteer-driven, with
groups of one to three people
helping and guiding a young
offender, thus keeping the
offender out of the court sys-

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