November 3, 1993 60 pages Controversial half- t rr 9 Oftice, Editorial 985-2131 sized facility gets nod for Lynnwood industrial area NORTH VANCOUVER District has approved a controver- the sial half-sized ice rink in an industrial area of municipality near Main Street and Mountain Highway. “I'm ecstatic. This will have a major impact on childhood recre- ation on the North Shore,"’ rink proponent Terry Grimwood said Monday night afier North Van- couver District Council approved second and third readings of bylaw that will allow for the rink's development. Grimwood's “studio rink’’ will provide a varicty of introductory and developmental skating pro- grams at 1385 Crown St. under the guidance of former world fig- ure skating champion Karen Magnussen. Grimwood told the News that the $% million rink is the first of its kind to be built in the Lower Mainland for children’s prograin- ming, But he added that there are “dozens’’ of the facilities in North America. Both the steel fabricated build- ing and the rink's ice-refrigerauon system will be portable. “Tp allows us the flexibility, if and when we want 10 move, not to have everything buried in’ the ground for evermore. Refriges- ution represents 40% of our budect,’’ Grimwood said, Opposition to the rink was raised in a recent public hearing NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL by Martin Millerchip from some local businesses in the industrial area who said the rink would create a traffic danger to pedestrians and lead to the com- mercialization of industrial zon- ing. But Grimwood pointed out that the zoning change would just add the operation of an ice rink to the existing industrial uses allowed so that the hand “would retain its present zoning once the ice rink was no Jonger required in seven or eight years. Coun. Paul Turner described the proposal as a winewin | situ- ation’ with the positives outweighing the negatives. Turner and Coun. Joan Gadsby suggested that the private rink would provide some healthy com- petition for North Shore reere- ation commission facilities. Gadsby also said that the ice rink represented “the wave of the fuiure for Jocal governments.”* “We must he introducing more See Operators pase 9 RCMP drug bust nets $100,000 coke cache THREE NORTH Shore residents face several charges fol- jowing the seizure of approximately $100,000 worth of co- caine by North Vancouver RCMP drug squad officers. An estimated one kilogram (2.2 ibs.) of the drug was seized in the undercover drug operation on Fri- day night. North Vancouver RCMP Sgt. Richard Lawrence, who is in charge of the detachment’s drug unit, said the police purchased the cocaine for $38,000 but that the street-value of the drug is $100,000. The police had been working on the case since July. Lawrence said the North Van- couver RCMP were assisted by the West Vancouver Police and the Burnaby RCMP, The arrests, he said, were made at about 7 p.m. in the parking lot of the Burnaby Villa hotel when an undercever police officer pur- chased a quantity of cevaine. Arrested were: @ Mark Craig Shuster, 20. of West Vancouver — now churged with two counts of trafficking in a narcotic; @ Michael Hauro Matsubuchi, By Surj Rattan News Reporter 23, and Sheldon Frederick Kwan, 21, both of North Vancouver — now charged with one count each of trafficking in a narcotic. Lawrence said other charges are pending against the trio. “hes (drug activity) always been here, but we've now found a new way to target it, We've laid about 25 counts of trafficking in the last eight months," said Lawrence. “This was a majar investiga tion, and we do not undertake ia- vestigations of this size very often over the course of a year untess we have very good informacion.” fe added that the police were first alerted to the drug trafficking operation by a tip from a police source 10 months ago. All three men arrested in the bust appeared in North Vancouver provincial court on Monday. PYLE Se Me PAD Come BE Display Advertising 980-0511 Classifieds 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 ; REWS photo Neil Lucente Blessing ritual A SQUAMISH Band member performs a totem pole blessing ritual last Saturday afternoon at the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver. The memorial totem pole was carved this summer by James Lewis and Wayne Carlick to commemorate the lite of Mary Capilano, a legendary local native woman who died in 1940 at the age of 105. Her grandson, Chief Simon Baker, led the blessing ceremony.