and s could BCED tudio mix, says BCE DEVELOPMENT Corporation is committed to pur- suing a shopping centre proposal for the Park and Tilford site, but a film studio could complement the plan, the com- pany said Monday. General manager of shopping centre development: Wayne Kno- wiles said the centre would provide many of the services needed by the new film production facility. ‘Yd think they could both fit on the site,” said Knowles. BCED is presently redrafting its plans to comply with a condition set by North Vancouver City Ald. Elko Kroon that the proposal in- clude some industrial use. Kroon, the deciding vote on the centre, agreed to send the plan to the city planning and design bodies if the plan were to include five acres of industry. Knowles said BCED has not considered » movie facility as the industrial use. “Iv’s a major change to 15 acres,’’ he said of the revised pro- posal. Earlier, the company had proposed a 20-acre complex cn part of the 30-acre site. With Kroon’s condition, the space for a shopping centre is reduced to 15 acres. The most recent plan for the shopping centre includes an 81,000-square-foot Save-On- Foods, a multi-screen cinema complex and about 40 small retail units. The revised proposal will likely come before the advisory planning commission and the advisory design panel sometime in January IN BARKING News Reporter TON 1987, Knowles estimated. But BCED recently renewed @ contract to purchase the property from owners Park and Tilford, something that) could stall any development of the property as a movie studio. Knowles refused to details of the contract. “We very much want to puta shopping centre on a postion of the site,’ said Knowles. ‘My understanding is that a film studio could work with 1S acres."* In a telephone interview from Toronto, Schenley Canada repre- sentative Mort Bistrisky said he was not aware of the site’s poten- tial as a movie studio. He confirmed site owner Schenley had a contract with BC- ED that was renewed in June after an earlier contract expired. ‘We are bound by that agreement."’ Bistrisky also refused to discuss details of the contract. He did say that the expiry date was not specifically fixed, but would de- pend on developer BCED. “There is a flexibility, but it’s definitely not indefinite,’’ he said. The matter should be resolved in the next few months, said Bistrisky. discuss 3 - Wednesday, December 10, 1986 - North Shore News JUSTICE OF the Peace € NEWS photo Tom Burley srandison swears in West Vancouver's new mayor Don Lanskail at West Vancouver council's inaugural mecting held at municipal hall Monday night. North Vancouver District also held an in- agugural meeting Monday, while the City of North Vancouver's Mayor Jack Loucks gave his mid-term ad- dress on the same evening. See stories: page 1 CNesth City): and page Lo (West Vancouver). Mian pleads guilty to manslaughter THE MYSTERY surrounding the death of a woman whose body was found near a radio transmitter on Seymour Mountain in 1973 was officially solved when a 38-year-old Ontario man pleaded guilly to two charges of manslaughter in Vancouver county court last week. Cecil Paul Gillis pleaded guilty to charges laid against him in con- nection with the deaths of 17- year-old) Barbara Joan Statt, whose nude body was found on Seymour Mountain July 29, 1973 and a 15-year-old Coquitlam girl, whose partially clad body was found on Burke Mountain in Co- quitiam on July 7, 1974. Gillis was permitted to plead guilty to the lesser charges of man- Vancouver District); page 12,13 (North Vancouver slaughter because he i already serving a life sentence in a max- imum security institution in On- tario. He was seutenced to one day in jail on each of the manslaughter charges. Gillis was originally sentenced after an April 1975 trial in which he was found not gnilty by reason of insanity in the murder of a 34- year-old Ontario woman. TWO NORTH Vancouver paramedics attend to a 51-year-old North fa Vancouver woman after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing & Lonsdale Avenue at 11th Street at approximately 12 noon Tuesday. fe The woman was thrown approximately 27 feet into the intersection m after being hit by the vehicle and was taken to Lions Gate Hospital B with undetermined injuries. North Vancouver RCMP are investigating m the incident and are asking witnesses to call them at 985-1311. Charges ie are pending against a Burnaby resident. Weather: Wednesday and Thursday, mainly sunny. Highs near 6°C. INDEX Auto.............. 22 Business..... Classified Ads. . Doug Collins .. 70 Comics .. Editorial Page. viene Entertainment Bob Hunter Lifestyles .. Mailbox....... Sports........ TV Listings.... What's Going On... NEWS photo Stuart Davis