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Assault
nets six
months

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

THE only adult to be
charged in a brutal
attack at a 1995
Lynn Valley party has
been sentenced to six
months in jail.

Ali Alamdari, 19, formerly of
North Vancouver and now a
Vancouver resident, was found
guilty of the aggravated assault of
Brent Swatridge.

Alamdari also found
guilty of possessing a knife tor a
dangerous purpose in) connec-
tion to the same Sept. 29, 1995,
incideni.

During the attack, a 15-year
old youth hit North Vancouver's
Swatridge, then 19, at feast three
times with a solid metal bar in
the face and head

The North Van youth hit
Swatridge “as if swinging a base-
ball bat,” according to previous

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$2.8m upgrade uproar

By Jolanda Waskito
Contributing Writer

DESPITE two councillors storming out
of Monday night’s meeting, North
Vancouver City council approved a $2.85
million renovation to its municipal hall.

Stella Jo Dean and Bob Fearnley left the in-camera m
Monday night, upset that the issue of spending millions of dol-
lars on city hall renovations was not discussed publicly.

The two councillors made a motion to have the discussion
moved onto the agenda of the public meeting later that night,
but were turned down.

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in-camera discussion riles
North Van council members

Dean brought the item up for discussion during the begin-
ning of the regular meeting, although what was talked about
behind closed doors wasn’t revealed.

“Councillor Fearnley and I thought this would be dealt with
in public instead of in-camera,” Dean said. “How much is this
going to cost taxpayers? We're spending money when people
don’t even have jobs.”

Renovations to the 22
Ba nvo-storey addition;
Ba basement,

year-old city hall include:

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B a first aid room;
Bnew ventilation and heating systems;
B bigger mecting rooms for events such as public hearings;
@ replacement of original carpe
@ and, if possible, showers for employees cycling to work.
The renovations would add 13,500 square-feet (1,254 sq.
m)to the existing 27,000 (2,508 sq. m).
n said that hundreds of thousands of dollars has also
been spent on architects, with no regard to any calls for tender.
City administrator Ken Tollstam said n> tender was called
but the same architect has been used for planning and that his
cost was “under budget.”
“This whole project is because they're looking at the (North

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