Strong turnout for Al White and Reynolds split over race leader Jan-Christian Sorensen Contributing Writer NORTH Vancouver MP Ted White is eagerly anticipating the Day of reckoning for the Canadian Alliance party. On Saturday, party faithful across the coun- try gave insurgent Stockwell Dav the nod over former Reform Party leader Preston Manning in the first ballot of the party’s leadership race. Overall, Day received 44% of the party votes, while Manning trailed at 36%. Ontario hopeful Tom Long placed third with 18% of the vote. White, who earlier this month pledged his support to Day after years of open criticism of Manning's leadership, said he was pleased by the results. ‘To was surprised to see the way that Stockwell scooped Alberta,” said White. “1 would have thought he would be running ata disadvantage on Mr. Manning’s home curt.” Manning claimed victory in British Columbia, garnering 5,843 votes to Day's 4,399. Leadership candidates Tom Long, Keith Martin and John Stachow filled the third, fourth and fifth place slots, respectively. Manning also posted wins in) New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Day, however, captured the more populous regions of Ontario and the Prairies, where he handily defeated Manning by a total of nearly $000 votes. White said he was surprised to see Day do so well in Ontario, widely considered to be a Tom Long stronghold. “Winning Ontario was very encouraging,” he said. “The only blip on the map was British Columbia.” Wednesday, June 28, 2000 — North Shore News - 3 The party’s second ballot will be held July 8, again at the Holiday Inn on Old Lillooet Road. In North Vancouver, 83% of the party's constituency members —- roughly 716 people — turned up to vote, Manning received 307 votes to Day's 304 in the riding, with Long tin- ishing third with 93. Martin brought up the rear with £2 votes, while Stachaw claimed zero. That does not include the remaining mem- bers who cast their ballot by telephone. In the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, the 4pproximately 1,500) members all cast their votes via phone. A breakdown of leadership support for telephone voting was not available. White condemned the infighting which has dogged the party since the results of the first ballot, He said it will likely prevent Manning and Day from joining forees in the future. “There was an opportunity on Saturday night for the whole party to come together under a new leader but it didn’ t happen and it’s getting very divisive now.” ance vote Vest Vancouver-Sunshine Coast £2 John Reynolds, who was backing Manning, said his candidate can still mount a comeback and claim vitory, “EP think we're strong and we'll be even stronger on the {second ballet),” said Reynolds, who pinpointed voter apathy as a possible reason why Manning didn’t receive more votes, He suggested that if more members went to the polls tor the next ballot, Manning would come out on top. “I think it’s going to be a very close race,” he ssid. “They're both excellent candidates, but Preston has always come back in these types of things and I think he will again.” White believes that Manning would have to stage an irapressive effort to bridge the 8% that separates he and Pay in the polls. “Miracles do happen,” he said, “bur I would be extremely surprised if he managed to close the gap, especially with the messages that are our there now, Wanted man sent back to England A former North Shore man acquitted of first-degree “ murder was deported from Canada on June 16. ~ convicted 2, Caster i in the North Vancouver Jon Moroury, 21, was escorted onto a plane by immigration * officials after it was determined at a hearing that he was illegally in . Canada. The hearing and deportation took place on the same day, «, according to an Immigration Canada spokesman. Moroury and his family were under a removal order from Canada in 1997 when he was * charged with allegedly helping shooter. Michael “murder of |= Mohammad : Mirhadi. Moroury was acquitted of ‘the erime fast December, He ~ Jet Canada on March 30. Less: than three months ,; later, Moroury was allowed to “return to Canada on a visitor $s ~ permit fram June 7 to June 14 = an immigration warrant fer his : ~ England,:whete he was born. - arrest was issued on June 15 “when he didn’t leave the coun- = try. That evening, Moroury svas ~ atrested | at. his _ girlfriend's . British Prdpertics home by ~: North Vancouver RCMP. Morourj was returned to 5 In 1994, his timily was denied ea refugee claim in Canada based FORMER North Shore resident Jon Moroury was deported. on the family’s inability to eee themselves. The Moroury fam- ily lived in California for cig * Deana Lancaster * News Reporter ‘« dlancaster@nsnews.com 7 “WEST Vancouver’s Canada Day celebration on Saturday * will include the kickoff for . flower power 2001. * Despite a funding fallout with the * federal.government, the municipality is going ahead with its millennium pro- “ject: a floral clock ar the foot of L5th - Street. .... “When we started this six months ago the plan was the municipality would 5 put in $25,000, we applied to the fed- eral-government for $25,000 and we hoped to raise $25,000 from the pub- lic,” said Mayor Ron Wood. When the government didn’t allo- cate any of its millennium project fund- “ing to the concept, the municipality was 1, forced to turn. to. its residents — and ‘ they came through. To! dite,, the ‘public has donated more ‘than 550, 000, for: the, flowery ht years before coming to Canada in 1994, Morouty’s father, > fader, is Iranian and his mother, Franca, is Traian. Moroury. has a younger sister, Natasha. —Anna Marie D’Angelo Floral clock to tick in next millennium timepiece. The project is inspired by a similar clock ar Niagara Falls. The timely garden, is to be 20 feet (6 m) in diameter and slanted at a 25 degree angle toward Bellevue Avenue. The cight-foot (2.4 m) hands, designed and constructed locally, will be powered by a timepiece hidden beneath the flowers — bedding plants all native to che West Coast. If there is money available the clock will also include water flowing from the top of the clock to surround it. Landscape architect Peter Kreuk has been chosen to design and create the clock. The committee felt the plans he pre- sented illustrated a project that would ‘ fit i in well with its surroundings. - There ‘are also plans to include a time. capsule,” created by the district's schoo! "NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Summer visitors / children, in the base ot the’ ‘clo : “School children-will open it in 25 or 30 years and see how life wasjin West Vancouver a quarter of ai conti ury, oo , said Wood. «PREG LEE He hopes the clock \ ail provid: ben- efits beyond keeping t time. ; “We hope it will attract: pcaple’ into the community. : Fifty per cent of the people who visit Ambleside don’t come into West Vancouver.” District council hopes the visitors will walk the extra two blocks to see the clock — and maybe stop to buy a coffce or a sandwich in the business communi- ty. . ” The clock is scheduled to start tick- ing : at midnight on Dec. 31, on the eve of “the real millennium,” ‘as noted by the mayor at a recent council meeting. On Saturday at 2 p.m., Wood and councillors will be on hand "for the sod- turning to mark the start of the clock’s construction. ’ The .seremony_ “will be followed by * the cutting of Canada’s birthday cake at John Lawson Park at 3 p. m.' weekly at Lions Bay. PATRICK Mooney, with Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia, showed: a F visiting Korean environmental dele- gation the Mapiewood wildlife sanctuary during a June 21 tour of the‘’North Vancouver waterfront area. - First water advisory issued From page \ samples taken late last week in Lions Bay tested “strongly posi- tive” tor E. coli and fecal coliforms. “The fecal coliforms is really what concerns us,” Blatherwick. He said fecal coliforms indicate contamination from things such as sewage and animal waste. Subsequent water testing results were not available to press time” Lions Bay Mayor Brenda Broughton said the positive col- iform water sample. came from water originating in Harvey Creek. Most Lions Bay residents get their drinking water from the creek. Drinking. water is also obtained from Magnesia Creek, on the northern end of Lions Bay. . Broughton said the municipality’s water is chlorinated. Chlorine is supposed to kil coliforms, Broughton ‘said the chlorine levels were tested yesterday and Monday. The chlorine levels were OK, said Broughton. “What that means possibly is that the coliform count is fine too (now),” said Broughton... To press time on ‘Tuesday, no one had reported any illness associated with the. drinking water. Broughton said residents were calm, but. concerped. “The protective system is at work in as much that it was North Shore Health’ let us know’ rather;than any sickness i in the community, + said Broughton? 3 vil bi bfiy ‘. i Broughton ° ‘said that residents will t ive hand delivered notices when the water is safe to drink without boiling. The boil-water advisory applics for people and animals. Bathing in the water is. considered safe. ‘ Broughton said the area has never had a boil-water adv sory for drinking water. before. Drinking water testing tsually occurs Testing is is now being conducted daily. said