neaenetantrbn AE ATS ~ a . ancy AR . . aw ace as ene TUES Pus? ee a ee NEWS photos &.. 1 Ledwidgs DEONA Blignaut looks on as Greater Vancouver Regionai District staff members clean up the mess east of West Vancouver's Glenmore Drive. The area served as a party !ocale for about 100 Sentinel students ceiebrating tha start of their Grade 12 year. From page 3 right disgusting,” said Beryl! Scott. “Are the police afraid of the young people today?” West Vancouver Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jim Almas said officers were monitoring the situation, burt chose against attempting to disperse the group because of its size and apparent level of intoxication. “We were doing the best we can Deana Larsaster News Reporter deana@nsnews.com. A new North Vancouver City smoking bylaw is proving to be an unexpected boon for a Capilano Mail restaurant. On July 13, the city adopted a new bylaw prohibiting smolung in restaurants. Pubs and cabarets must provide 30% of their space for non- sxiokers until the year 2000, when they will be 100% non-smcking, as will city binge halls, which currently must reserve 50% of their space for non-smokers, Capilano Mall has been smoke- free since the bylaw was passed. “We had been watching to sce whar the new bylaw would be,” said mall general manager Rick Warren. “We were quite pleased actually.” He pointed out that most Lower Mainland malls are non-smoking. Now shoppers in the mall’s com- mon areas, including the food court, must butt out. Bur all is not lost for — I mean you're dealing with a 100 youths who are intoxicated,” said Almas. “What you want to do is make sure nobody gets hurt and no prop- erty is damaged. Unfortunately a lot of people arc upset because of the noise, but it’s not a result of the police not being there. They were monitoring the situation.” Almas added the gathering also included some students from North Vancouver’s Handsworth secondary school. In the aftermath of the party, STAFF and customers at Ricky's Ressaurant in Capilano Mail are GVRD park staff were trying to clean up remnants of the mess left behind which included about 1,500 empties, 2 tent, and, curiously, an oar and an orange buoy. Sentinel secondary schoo princi- pal Brent Speidel said he was aware of the weekend bash and plans to address his students regarding its implications during assemblies planned for next week. “We have to meet with our Grade 12s and go over the whoie responsi enjoying their cigarettes despite a new city bylaw: (from left to right) Danny Eccles, Guylene Leroux and Glen Millikin. mall patrons who smoke. “We're still smoking,” said Guylene Leroux, the supervisor at Ricky’s Restaurant, yesterday at noon. “It brings in lots of people. The smoking section is full BERYL Scott, one of the area’s residents, called the party “downright disgusting.” bility thing,” said Speidel. “Kids get the sense this is a special year and they feel they have all these rights ... and we have to say to them with these rights come responsibilities.” Speidet said Sertinel’s 1999 grad- uating class has about 225 students and some were planning to return to the site of the party during Tuesday’s Junch break to assist in the clean up. “We've had a few no-shows (and) most are prety tired,” said Speidel. Meanwhile West Vancouver sec: ondary school students also held their traditional bash last Monday evening. Almas said officers were sum- moned to the school’s parking lot at 7 a.m. on Tuesday and were greeted by a group of 60 students surround- ed by scattered beer cans and bottles. Two 17-year-old females were picked up by officers for public drunkenness; a third male, also 17, was charged with mischief after he kicked out a police cruiser window following his arrest. right now.” Leroux said thar since the rest of the mall went non-smoking business at Ricky’s has picked up. “Even the staff that work in the mall, they can’t smoke elsewhere, so they’re coming in here for their breaks. The slow time between luach and dinner ... they’re filling it up.” Frances Caouctte of the city's Development Services Department said the city has yet to begin enforc- ing the bylaw because it hasn't sent the information on the new regula- tions out to city establishments. “We're preparing the brochures ard signs sight now. They should go out in the next two weeks.” \iter that, he said, the city is plan- ning an “educational enforcement” campaign: health inspectors will talk to restaurateurs that continue to allow smoking. “Bottom end, though, if someone is saying ‘Nope, we're not going to comply,’ then the health inspector may choose to charge them in provincia! court or issue a municipal ticket.” Smokers stoke Ricky’s business WV park trees fall for toboggan run Catherine Barr Contributing Writer for expansion as outlined in the park’s overall mas- ter plan. The new toboggan area will now have a tubing removed from the site. “My own rough count on the growth rings on one of the felled trees was 875 years,” she said. ON Sept. 2 approximately 100 old- growth trees were cut down to expand a toboggan run in Cypress Provincial Park. The trees, some of them up to 1,000 years old, were logged by Cypress Bow! Recreations (CBR) with the approval oF BC Parks. “This was no big secret,” said CBR gencral manager Wayne Booth. “This work was outlined in a letter to West Vanceuver’s mayor and council car- lier in the surnmer.” Booth said the park’s expansion plans have been clearly outlined in several publicly approved stud- ies. He also said that other areas have been slated chute and a lift ro accommodate more recreational users. Early estimates suggests that this will raise the fee from $3 to $12. Booth said the trees removed from the tebog- gan area were beside provincial power lines, “It’s i area to expand,” he said. * But said the removal of these ancient trees fas upsct several local environmental supporters. “FE think the plans tor the destruction of Cypress Park’s old-growth forests for commercial recre- ation expansion is a terrible loss to Lower Mainland residents and our visitors,” said Friends of Cypress spokesperson Katherine Steig. She was on hand to watch the trees being She questions the logic behind the removal of the trees and the overall expansion of the park. Steig claims that a 1995 study, conducted by Viewpoints research, indicated that people “favored environmental protection over recre- ation” and that “development should not infringe on the old growth areas (of Cypress Park).” Said Steig, “I don’t think people would be pleased if they really knew what was happening.” West Vancouver Coun. Liz Byrd backs Stcig. “I am absolutely staggered at the policies of this (provincial) government,” said Byrd. “What are we supposed to do if they can’t take care of their own backyard,” she asks. “Do we need to bring Robert Kennedy up here?” Power out in storm DINNER was fate for 1,200 North Vancouver households Monday. High winds of up to 65 kilo- Metres per hour knocked trees and large branches on to power lines, cutting power in North Vancouver from 4:27 to 5:38 pm. While B.C. Hydro crews scrambled to fix their problems, Bruce Falkins of the North Shore Lifeboat Sociery said his group's volunteers were kept busy as well. “A kayak was reported adrift and full of water off Point Atkinson so we went out and searched for the occupants for- roughly an hour and a half,” said Falkins. The kayak turned out to be unoccupied. “Lots of residents of West and North Vancouver have boats en the beach. Ar this time of year they start to get blown off and we end up going and searching when somebody reports an upside down canoe or windsurfer,” said Falkins. “Zast year we were called out cight times for what we call derelict vessels and we searched for over 30 hours.” Falkins would appreciate if North Shore residents stored their vessels with more care to prevent wasting scarch and res- cue resources. — Judy Smith Dead man surfaces TWO fishermen plying the waters off West Van’s Amble- side Park made a startling dis- covery last Friday night. The duo were pulling in their nets when they noticed a myste- rious object in the water. It turned out to be a_ body. Attempts to revive the 78-year- old North Vancouver man failed and his body was transported to Lions Gate Hospital. His name was not released, pending notification of next of kin in the Prairies. — Robert Galster Art prints stolen THE North Vancouver RCMP are investigating the theft of $5,000 worth of art work from a parked vehicle. Sometime between Aug. 16 and 19 someone broke into a grey Dodge van parked on Mackay Road in North Vancouver and stole 122 framed prints of work by artists includ- ing Monet, Brandenborg, Medlock and others. . If anyone has information regarding this theft, call the North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1311 and ask for Const. Oullet.