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June 2, 1989 News 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

Distribution 986-1337 96 pages

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Residents give input |
on community plan |

APPROXIMATELY ONE thousand people filled the.
Balmoral Junior Secondary school gym Tuesday night-
to tell council to ease off on development planned for .
North Vancouver District. The public hearing on the
district's new Official Community Plan provided resi-:
dents with an opportunity to address development
issues in the community. A controversial proposal to
build 1,900 units of housing in the wilderness area be-
tween Lynn Creek and Seymour River was a: major
point of contention. Umeeda Switlo, president of the’
North Lonsdale Ratepayer’s Association, (abuve left):
addresses council. North Vancouver Mayor Marilyn.
Baker end council (abuve) face the public. The crowd
(left) cranes necks to view one of the visual pres-
ettations made at the meeting. See story page 3.

NORTH VAN RCMP_INVESTIGATES GUN SHOT
Fish farm tension grows

A SHOT was fired and a sea chase ensued as simmering itl
feelings surrounding a controversial Indian Arm fish farm
site boiled over Tuesday afternoon.

North Vancouver RCMP and
Ports Canada Police were called at
around 3 p.m. to the farm. sife,
which is near Orlomah Beach ap-
proaimately five kilometres north
of Deep Cove harbor.

RCMP Insp. Dave Roseberry
confirmed Wednesday that a shot
had been fired, but declined to give
further details, saying the incident
was still under investigation.

He said a rifle had been turned

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Ry TIMOTHY RENSHAW

News Reporter

over to police, but no charges had
been laid to press time Thursday.
Insp. Roseberry added that
RCMP had been called to the site
one month earlier to settle a
previous dispute between the fish
farm operators and local residents.
Tuesday’s incident underscores

the increasingly hostile relation-
ships oetween area residents and
Pacific Aquaculture Lid., the
coinpany that has leased the
Orlomah Beach fish farm site since
1985 from Indian Arm resident
and original fish farm owner Tom

Hopkins.
The shot was fired while
Pacific’s general manager Jim

Malamas and company employee
Jim Shaw were removing an
estimated $200,000 worth of
Pacific’s fish farm equipment from
the site as required under a Van-
couver Port Corp. (VPC) 5 p.m.

Wednesday deadline.

**} was seconds from the surface
when I heard a crack like a stick of
dynamite go off by my head,”’
Malamas said Wednesday. ‘‘It’s
unbelievable. This whole thing has
been petty up io now, but getting
shot at is not petty. It’s gotten
tight out of hand.”’

Malamas said he had since in-
formed VPC that he would not be
able to remove his equipment by
the Wednesday deadline.

“I'm not going up there until |
find out what's going on,”’
Malamas said. °°

North Vancouver
District advised Pacific that it
would have to move from the
Hopkins site because its expanded
on-shore operation did not comply
with area single-family zoning.

The company had also faced
continuing opposition to its opera-
tion from area residents.

Pacific appealed to the district
for an alternative, and a new site
two kilometres north, with the ap-
propriate district zoning, was sug-
gested.

In March,