26 — Friday,

NVD proposes
talks among
three councils

Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer
miller@nsnews.com

THE persistence of
one North Vancouver
District councillor may
yet see the three
Nozth Shore munici-
palities debate the po«-
Sibility of a unified
response on transit
planning to the
Greater Vancouver
Regional District

Passing the buck

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Transit meeting endorsed

(GVRD).

Coun. Ernie — Crist’s
request for Mayor Don Bell
to arrange such a mecting
was defeated in a close 4-3
vote Nov. i0.

The motion included
invitations te North Shore
MLAs, members of the dis-
trict’s newly — formed
Transportation —_ Advisory
Planning Committee
(TPAC) and municipal staff
from all three jurisdictions.

Bell asked Crist to explain
why the issue should be
reconsidered but dismissed
Crist’s reasons (“urgent,
important issue” and “TPAC
has given you this advice”) as
@ restatement of comments
from the previous debate.

However, Bell said he had
been in contact with West

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Vancouver Mayor Pat
Boname, who indicated a
willingness to explore a joint
meeting.

Bell suggested to council
that he should attempt to
arrange a meeting of the
three councils rather than
reconsidering, Crist’s original
motion. Crist and council
agreed and Beli’s suggestion
was adopted in a unanimous
vote.

As previously reported,
the GVRD and the province
have suggested the creation
of a new Greater Vancouver
Transit Authority (GVTA) to

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oversee local control of
regional roads, bridges and
transportation systems.

The entire North Shore
would get one vote on the
GVT.

¢ the -promise of
increased moncy for transit,
many questions have been
asked about the present and
future debts to be assumed
along with the buses, trains
and traffic jams.

Despite the cnormity of
the issues involved, the
municipalities are expected
to vote on the issue by the
end of February.

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Mummy and [|
daddy are
ffensive

LONDON’S Daily
Telegraph reported in
October that a Catholic
Church-supported
teaching program for
schools in Ireland and
Northern Ireiand has
suggested eliminating
references to “daddy”
and “mummy” in lesson
plans, for fear of con-
fusing or offending kids
ages 4 and 5 who are
not raised in traditional
homes.

Suggested alternatives
include “the people who look
alter you.”

In September, inmate
Michael F. Schmitz, 45, serv-
ing two vears in the Kentucky
State Retormatory for drunken
driving, filed a $1.9 million
lawsuit against the Lexington
(Ky.) Police Department com-
phining, that officers were too
nice when they arrested him in
1996.

According to the lawsuit,
when police found a loaded
assault rifle in his car and could
not figure out how to disman-
de it, they uncuffed the obvi-
ously inebriated Schmitz and
had him take it apart. Schmitz
said he “could have shor most
everyone standing around
watching this escapade” and
thus contends that the police
endangered the public.

At a September meeting of
Christian Coalition leaders in
Atlanta, founder Pat
Robertson said the religious
group should raise its political

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

intensity by looking to the
notorious machine politics of
Chicago and New York’s
Tammany Hall as models, and
that it would be God who
would personally select the
Republican best suited to
advance the coalition’s agenda
in the next presidential cam-

paign.

Robertson had begun his
remarks by noting that he
assumed he was talking only
“in the family” and that if any
members of the press were
present, “would you please
shoot yourselP” (The speech
was recorded withour his per-
mission and: Icaked to the
press.)

Shawn S. Warren, charged
with arson in June in
Anderson, Ind., denied he
actually started a fire in a
garage.

Instead, according; to the
town's chief fire investigator,
Warren said, “I probably
thought about that fire, and it
just happened.” Said the inves-
tigator, “(Warren) did tell me
sometimes he thinks about
things and they happen.”

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