~ | ‘ BA tne tien tee ee Se EW: NEWS photo Cindy Goodman LYNN CANYON cliff divers take their lives into their hands when they venture past posted safety boundaries and dive into the canyon’s many natura! but treacherous pools. The canyon claimed two more tives on Thursday. Driver’s licence suspended in Burrard band death case NV man must perform 100 hours of community work THE DRIVER of a Toyota truck that killed :: Bur- rard Indian Band member on Doliarton Highwa. last fall received a six-month driver’s licence suspension recently in North Vancouver provincial court. Jack Richey Daigle Jr. of North Vancouver pleaded guil- ty Aug. 2 to a speeding charge that was laid against him in connection with the incident. Daigle, 30, was driving the Toyota truck last Sept. 9 that struck 28-year-old Murray “Moe”? Guss, a nephew of Burrard Band Chief Len George. Another man was also struck by the truck, but was later released from Lions Gate Hospital with minor injuries. According to an earlier News story, Guss was among seven By Elizabeth Collings News Reporte Burrard Band members at- tempting to divert traffic in the 3400-block of DolHarton at 1:15 a.m. to enforce the area speed limit. Judge J. Godfrey ordered Daigie to post a $5,000 bond to keep the peace for six months and also ordered him to per- form 100 hours of community service for either the benefit of Guss’ family or the Burrard Band. North Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Eric Brewer said the charge against Daigle was laid under the Motor Vehicle Act because there was no evidence of criminal intent. George refused to comment Thursday on the case which he said was too close to him. “tv's been a hard and long year,”’ he said. George added that the band members had not set up a roadblock as reported in the North Shore News. The media, he said, fatched on to the “*roadblock’’ idea because of the events occurring at Oka in Quebec around the same time. But Brewer said the band members were diverting traffic from Dollarton Highway. “Whatever you want to call it, the people who were actual- hy being turned back called it a roadblock,”’’ Brewer said. NVD democracy threatened - Crist Ald. accuses mayor of withholding information NORTH VANCOUVER District Council must deal with **the mother of all issues’’ or a decade of democratic rights will be lost, Ald. Ernie Crist said this week. And Crist has also accused North Vancouver District Mayor Murray Dykeman of withholding information from council and fal- sifying the minutes of council meetings, a charge Dykeman has denied. Crist said he is upset at a coun- cil policy that requires any alder- man wanting to attend a commit- tee meeting of council to first ask the alderman chairing the commit- tee for permission to attend. “If, as an elected official, | want to go to any meeting, [ have to ask the alderman chairing the necting if | can go," said Crist. “dt is absurd, anti-democratic and ridiculous. “This is the mother of all issues. The mayor has been withholding information from CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees), the district firetighters union and council. By Surj Rattan News Reporter He’s (Dykeman) falsifying the minutes, It’s illegal and it has to be exposed.”’ Crist said if the policy that re- quires aldermen to ask permission before attending council commit- tee meetings is not revoked then “it's 10 years of democratic rights down the drain.”’ But Dykeman said he is not do- ing anything wrong and denied that he has been withholding in- formation from council. “It’s not a new policy of coun- cil. The policy has always been in place. [t's just an outlin: of the procedures,’’? said Dykeman. “Ernie’s been making statements that I haven't been giving council information. That is not true. “A lot of it has to do with tim- ing. If f don’t get the information by a certain mecting, how can I give it to council? Nothing is be- ing withheld. | can’t zive Ald. Crist’ yesterday’s news,’’ said BDykeman. But in a legal opinion sent from Robert Bauman of Vancouver's Bull, Housser and Tupper law firm to the district’s municipal clerk, Bauman said that aldermen are free to attend council commit- tee meetings. “tn our opinion, an alderman enjoys no greater status than that of a member of the public. He is entitled to attend the committee meeting so long as it is open to members of the public’? wrote Bauman. In an open letter to Dykeman, Crist called on Dykeman to revoke the policy that requires permission to attend council committee meetings. “Tt must insist, however, that you cease what I perceive to be a politically-motivated — campaign,” wrote Crist. et Sunday, August 25, 1991 - North Shore News - 3 Moth menace Spreads south Three more gypsy moths found on N. Shore; 16 THE GYPSY moth threa: to port operations is sprea-ting North Shore. Agriculture Canada’s Owen Croy said Thursday that another three male gypsy moths had been trapped on the North Shore be- tween Aug. 12 and 21 and five times that number had been trap- ped on the port's south side thus far this month. The destructive insects have been found every year on the North Shore since a single male European gypsy moth was found in the British Properties area in 1988. Attempts since that time to pinpoint the source of the North Shore moths have been unsuc- cessful, In May the threat to local forests and forest products in- dustries from Asian gypsy moths was added to the original threat posed by the moth’s European counterpart. On May 15, two Soviet freighters were ordered out of Canadian waters after live Asian gypsy moth caterpillars were found aboard the vessels during special inspections in English Bay. + in Vancouver local forests and Vancouver south from Burrard Inlet’s By Timothy Renshaw Managing Editor sorts of resources to find the epicenire.”” On the North Shore, Agriculture Canada will initiate saturation trapping around the latest gypsy moth findings: © near Lynn Creek at Keith Road; *near the top of Lynn Valley, west of Lynn Creek and north of Lynn Canyon Park; *and just east of Taylor Way, south of the Upper Levels High- way in West Vancouver. Croy said Agriculture Canada had not yet determined whether the moths trapped most recently were Asian or European. European gypsy moth caterpil- lars, now firmly established in southern Ontario and Quebec and the eastern United States, have a voracious appetite and are known to feed on the foliage of over 500 tree and shrub species. The Asian strain also feeds on the new growth of conifers. PRK paced photo submitted The Asian gypsy moth had, unti! May, never been found in North America. Both gypsy moth varieties are considered to be a serious threat to B.C.'s $2 billion forest industry. Both ships, infested with unhat- ched pypsy moth eggs, had previously called at North Van- couver grain elevators. The Asian gypsy moth had, un- til May, never been found in North America. Both gypsy moth varieties are considered to be a serious threat to B.C.’s $2 billion forest industry. In addition to the three moths found on the North Shore, Croy said Agriculture Canada in- vestigators had found 16 male gypsy moths along the south side of the harbor, in locations from North Burnaby to English Bay in Vancouver. “We are finding more gypsy moths along the waterfront than we have ever found before,’” Croy said Thursday. He added that the most moths oreviously found in a single year in the Vancouver area was five in West Vancouver in [98y, “This is a huge concer to us.” Croy said. 'We are capending ail Infestations of the moths are normally spread by the wind, which picks up the silk threads spun by young gypsy moth cater- pillars, but the Asian gypsy moth female, unlike its European counterpart, can fly, which dramatically increases its mobility. Croy has said in previous News articles that it is imperative to stop the moth from spreading into the North Shore’s watershed areas where pesticide spraying to control any infestation would be extreme- ly difficult. A local gypsy moth infestation would also have a serious impact on the North Shore and Van- couver port trade. Because the moth is an interna- tional pest, countries importing such B.C. products as wood could place trade embargoes on agricul- tural and forest products origi- nating or being processed through Vancouver's port if a gypsy moth infestation were to break our here. cree