contract as shipping NV teen centre providing social programs for youth slowdown hits firm | Mak Swe | 3 incidents tend to take the spotlight, there are people at CLAIRE JOHNSTON was looking for answers on : work on the street level who in a slump and that the volume Friday morning. of freighters and cruise ships calling on the Port ef Van- couver is down this year by about 16% compared with 1992, Cates had already spent 10 months designing its new tugboat. Bids on the contract closed on Oct. 10. But Johnston said the com- pany realized during the sum- mer that the contract would have to be put on hold until the shipping industry improved. “The downturn in the ship- ping industry started in mid- June,” said Johnston. _Asked if the contract's post- ponement will hurt Cates’ business, Johnston said the shipyards that bid on the con- tract will be hurt more. Cates has held a monopoly on docking freighters and cruise ships in Burrard inlet since 1889, But on Sept. 15, another North Vancouver tugboat com- pany,. Seaspan International Ltd., located at the foot of Pemberton Avenue, decided to compete with Cates for Burrard Inlet ship-docking contracts. Seaspan built. two heavy- duty tugs to compete against Cates. And while Cates is feeling the effects of a depressed ship- ping industry and the local competition for ship-docking contracts, Seaspan’s business is booming. John Barker, Seaspan’s vice-president of marketing, are making positive con- tributions daily to turn things around. By Michael Becker By Surj Rattan News Reporter News Reporter — Youth worker Michel Pouliot, 23, is one such person, He works for the Capilano Community Services Society to’ coordinate the operation of the Griffin Teen Centre at the Wiliam Griffin recreation centre in North Vancouver, Pouliot agrees that over recent years the community has seen an escalation in the degree of violent expression among some young people. Last month’s Together Against Violence campaign brought to light some common themes as North Shore residents collectively grappled with the issue of violence within the community. The youth worker was in atten- dance when psychologist Dr. Gor- don Neufeld examined the roots of violence in a discussion held at Handsworth secondary school. Neufeld contends that frustra- tion sits at the roots of violence. The psychologist proposes that: in children, the frustration stems from a lack of strong and mean- ingful relationships with parents and other adult role models, Said Neufeld, ‘‘Thwarted prox- imity is the biggest source of frustration. ‘When there isn’t proximity — with the preschoolers and it goes on and on, in terms of when it When contacted by the News ‘about his company’s decision to shelve a contract for a new tugboat, the president and ‘general manager of North Vancouver-based C.H. Cates and Suns Ltd., was more in- terested in news on the future of the shipping industry. “Have you heard anything?’’ _ Johnston asked the reporter. ‘*We’re asking everyone,” Johnston‘ has good reason to worry about the future of the ‘shipping industry in Burrard Inlet. © Cates, which has been based “at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue “in North Vancouver City since 1889, has. laid .off 25 people during the last two months — the first. layoffs in the com- ’ pany’s 104-year history. : And now more. bad news has hit Cates, a ‘The company had: been plan- ‘ning to build a new Z-peller tugboat to. add to its. current -15-vessel fleet. “Two North Vancouver ship- _ yards — Vancouver, Shipyards Co.Ltd. and Allied Ship- builders Ltd. — had bid on the “$4 million contract ‘to build the ~ tug. But the project has now been _ put.on hold. “NEWS photo Cindy Goodman WILLIAM GRIFFIN recreation centre youth worker, ‘Michel, Poullot helps to make good things happen for teens at a ‘drop-in: cenirs. -“Tt’s been postponed and the “reason is the downturn in the. -shipping, industry. and . the forecast. There doesn’ t-seem to ‘-be.any, relief. in sight. :-“There. doesn’t seem to be ‘any increase,”’ said Johnston. ° -He added that. the shipping ue industry worldwide..is currently said his company has been ag- gressively pursuing ship-ber- _ thing contracts as ships come into Burrard Inlet. . Ironically, Seaspan cwns Vancouver Shipyards, which -had bid on the contract. to build the new tugboat for Cates. IV Proposed - replotting. bylaw to be reintroduced, says municipal planner Irwin Torry APPROXIMATELY . $20. MILLION in land sales was -stopped ’ in’ its: tracks by North | Vancouver — District Council on Monday. NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL by Martin Millerchip In a surprising move at its last meeting of the present term, council voted “1-2 against pro- ceeding with a replotting s for the Mitchener Way Creek lands. The area is located to the west of Fromme Read between Demp- sey Road to the north and Well- ington Drive to the south. With the exception of 11 pri- vately held lots, the land is owned by the district. The proposed. replotting scheme ‘would -have redefined the. land area and. ‘‘adjusted ownership of the lots around ‘the creek,’’ ac- mer CALL us: cording to municipal planner Ir- win Torry. ! “The lot. scheme as originally drawn by the province bears no telation to the topography of. the land and of course made no al- lowance for the protection of the stream bed and banks (of Kilmer Creek) as required now,’* said Torry. Municipal manager Mel Palmer reminded council the replot was the end of a four-year devel- opment process that had involved a Jengthy neighborhood consulta- tion process. Palmer said the original pro- posal of 426 RS3-zoned lots (7,104 sq. ft. or 660 sq. m) for all of the Braemar subdivision had already been scaled back to 217 RS2-zoned (11,840 sq. ft. or 1,100 sq. m) and RS3-zoned lots as a result of neighborhood wishes. But Coun. Janice Harris argued the district could do better with its Jand-use planning. She called for a more sensitive ‘low. impact’’ scheme that might concentrate isn’t there — psychologically through rejection, disapproval, shame, this is the biggest source of frustration,’’ he said. Neufeld argues that ‘‘thwarted proximity’? fuels adults as weil. “‘When I deal with adult clients, I. deal with a lot of parents who are reacting to their children in attacking ways. frustration in_ teens. “T often ask them, f frustrating you?’ First of all they say, ‘Well my child doesn’t do this and doesn’t do that.’ ‘No,’ I say, ‘What’s really frustrating you?’ ‘Well my .marriage isn’t going so good.’ ‘I thought so.’ “Thwarted contact and .close-__ 66 Ifa guy has $700,000, he doesn't have housing needs — he has housing wants. 99 density while preserving more of the land in its natural state. Coun. Ernie Crist agreed and pointed out that it was unfortu- nate that townhouse or con- dominium co-op proposals always seem !0 Suggest cheap or sub- sidized housing to some people. Crist said the development scar caused by the Braemar-Dempsey connector could be seen from Vancouver and Burnaby ‘and now that somebody has put up their red Christmas lights you can view it for 24 hours a day.”’ Continued Crist, ‘‘! am not prepared to make the same mistake again. It’s an insult to my —Paul Turner esthetics. | don’t want to see the same sort of development as Mar- tint Hill (Caulfeild) in West Van- couver.”” Coun. Paul Turner also voted against the replot asking director of development Richard Plunkett a series of ques- tions on land-use philosophy. and getting what he later described as a ‘‘non-answer.’” Turner said council, rather than a handful of potential owners, should decide the best use for the land. “Some of those properties will go for $700,000. If a guy has $700,000, he doesn’t have housing THES WEEK’S QUESTION: 983-: 2208 What do you think about renaming 2nd Narrows Bridge? ‘What is- bylaw after - .bylaw. proposal. The Griffin Teen Centre is a popular. spot for North Vancouver ness, leading to. all kinds - of at- tack, Displaced in terms’ of the | children. It goes on | and on. and... on,”’ he said. By Pouliot concurs. : “A Jot of it. is true. Frustration 0 “See Henor. page 8 needs — he has housing wants,” ~ said Turner, Mayor. Murray Dykeman! argued unsuccessfully’ that: council had already made a’ ‘commitment to the: - replot proposal. “The replot finishes off the : Kilmer/Dempsey , package. The neighborhood asked for a certain type of housing and a road link to Lynn Valley (the Braemar-Demp- sey connector). Once you’ve made those terms I think you’ve estab- lished some sort of commitment-to the people of the neighborhood,” said Dykeman. Meanwhile, Torry said council acted without the benefit ofa staff report as backup ‘to the Staff will be bringing back the replot bylaw to the new council. ‘Basically we were trying to do one thing and council was talking about something else,’’ said Torry. ‘It was part of our 1993 land development package that council approved.”