“WORKERS CEMENT over a natural spring atong the Squamish Highway,

HEWS photo Nei

tive’ kilometres (3.1

‘miles) north of Horseshoe Bay. Local residents, who used to take water from the spring, are
“angry that it has been blocked off. But municipal officials said they were concerned about safe-
ty because motorists would park their cars along the highway when siopping to get the spring

vaater.

DEEP COVE

eedle ja jab ticks off mother

LA DEEP’ ‘Cove mother is angry that someone left a syringe
in her backyard which her six-year-old son Trevor pricked

~ himself with on Aug. 15.

S “Pm just really. angry that
somebody would have done that,”
_said Kelly Chronister.

“What people do to themselves, .

that’s’ their: business,” she said.
“When it. ‘starts affecting six
year-old: children,..f' have a real
problem with that. an

“The: incident : “occurred when
Trevor: was: ‘playing. ‘in the
backyard with his cousin.’ :
: Chronister: said her: son’ came

ito :the. house holding a sysinge, ws

and his thumb ‘was bleeding. “.

‘He. said--he . had poked his.

The -boy, . ene ‘also §i suffers ‘from '

asthma,. received ‘a shot protecting
against’ Hepatitis,.B at ‘a North
Vancouver medical clinic. .°
Chronister said. that’ she - had
never. talked: to her son about the
dangers of syringes:
“] ‘thought “it -couldn’t happen

By Chris Wong
Contributing Writer:

here - this is Deep Cove. But it
did. ss 1
Covecliff elementary school ‘is

* on the other side of bushes located

behind Chronister’s- fenced-off

_ backyard.

Now the concerned mother

‘wants to’ warn others about the

hazards of discarded syringes.

She — has © already ..
neighbors and the local daycare.:

“1 just want people to talk to
their kids.”

The : potential health, risks of
getting pricked by the: needle of a
discarded - “Syringe nelude
transmissic Hepatitis B or

“HIV.

Brian O’Connor, North Shore
medical health officer, said in the

talked to”

vast majority of cases, no such
transmission will occur.

“A whole constellaticn of
things would have to come
together,”’ he said.

But O’Connor added: “Clearly,
there is a risk.’’

He also applauded Chronister

- for warning others of the risk.

“That might be a way of deal-
ing with it — on a community.
level.’”

‘Sgt. Richard Lawrence, who
heads the North Vancouver
RCMP drug section, said it’s
highly unlikely that a heroin user
left the syringe behind.

“They won’t go into an area
where they can be picked out,”
Lawrence said: ‘I think this’ is
just an isolated incident.”’

Last February a girl acting as a
referee for a ‘children’s soccer

_ game in. North Vancouver found
several discarded syringes - when:

the ball was kicked out of bounds.
The game was held at Seylynn
Park in the Lynnwood area of
North Vancouver.

Youths brawl in WV parking lot

‘ABOUT 40 youths + were involved in a brawl Thursday night
in the parking. lot of the McDonald’s restaurant at 1455

Marine Dr. in West Vancouver. :

A resident who witnessed the
“brawl said ‘disturbances involving
“youth are ‘becoming more and
more. frequent in the area.

. The brawl started at about 9:30
‘p.m, in the parking lot off Clyde
Avenue, said Anita McGee, who
_ lives in an apartment on the same
street.

McGee said at one point she
"saw. about 10 youths assaulting

: one person. ;

: _ “They were just beating him up |

With
public disorder in the area, which

By Chris Wong
Contributing Writer

really badly,”’ she said.

Someone wielding a stolen road
sign also assaulted a person trying
to aid the sole combatant, she
said.

McGee said she is getting fed up
the ongoing problem of

is especially acute on weekends.

“It?s constantly happening.
Every weekend is the same thing.”’

She said there should be a secu-
rity presence in the parking lot.

“I'd like to see McDonald’s get
their own security in there.”’

Const. Jamie Gibson of the
West Vancouver Police Depart-
ment said a foot patro! has been
added in the area.

“It has been a problem area,
but we’ve stepped up _ patrols
there,’’ he said.

Gibson said no charges were
laid in connection with Thursday
night’s brawl.

yan Valley team wins nat’ title

“LYNN VALLEY defeated
‘Quebec 2-1 Friday to win the
. National Little. League Cham-

“pionship in St.. John, -New
. Brunswick,

Lloyd _Haggard’s solo home
‘run in-the fifth inning was the
_ winning run.

The team now. roves. on to

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to
represent Canada in the Little
League World Series.

Blake Anderson scored on a.
wild pitch in the third before’
Haggard hit his home run.

Lynn Valley reached the final
after compiling a 4-1 record in
the round-robin portion of the

‘tournament by beating teams

~ representing the Prairies, Ontario

and the Maritimes while losing
to Quebec. ~

The Lynn Valley Little League
team is’ the first North Shore
team since 1972 to ‘represent
B.C. at the national. champion-
ship. ;

Sunday, August 22, 1993 — North Shore News - 3

Jancer angered

by

unicipal al

TS

funding cutbacks

Judith Marcuse Dance Co. among

‘groups denied °93 assistance

AN INTERNATIONALLY
acclaimed dance
choreographer has vowed to
fight the North Shore
municipal governments’
decision denying her funding

- and in doing so has revealed

a funding process in disar-
ray.

’ By Evelyn Jacob

News Reporter

Judith, Marcuse, who has
worked on the North Shore for 12
years as a teacher and as artistic
director ‘of the Judith Marcuse
Dance. Company, was one. of a
handful. of Vancouver-based arts
organizations whose request for a
1993 arts assistance grant was re-
jected.

Other groups affected include:
The Canadian Craft Museum,
Carousel Theatre Society, . the
Vancouver’ Opera, Vancouver

Playhouse and Vancouver Youth.

Symphony Orchestra.

‘It comes as such a shock to us
to be turned down,’’ Marcuse said
Monday after learning her request
for funding had been refused. ‘It
doesn’t seem quite fair to those of
us who have been committed to
North Shore work.

“This year. we had planned to
work with the local schools and
conduct extensive workshops on
the North Shore. Now we’re com-
pletely cut off. It’s quite hurtful.
It means all of the work we’ve
done here has meant nothing (in
the municipalities’ eyes).’”

Last . year’ Marcuse
$9,000 from the arts assistance
grants program, which .is ad-
ministered by the North Shore
Arts Commission and funded by
all three North Shore
municipalities.

This year, knowing that times
were tough, she lowered her re-
quest to $7,000. But late last

-month both North Vancouver City

and West Vancouver District
decided that taxpayers’ money
should go only to North Shore-
based groups.

(Marcuse works out of a studio
in Vancouver but still maintains
an office in West Vancouver). .

“It’s unfortunate when people’
like Marcuse are denied, but these’
grants were originally designed for |

fledgling arts groups on the North
Shore... there are all kinds of
youth groups who need funding
and we have to look after our
own,”’ said North Vancouver City
Coun. Barbara Perrault.

But North Vancouver District
Coun. Ernie Crist called the deci-
sion to cut off Vancouver-based
groups “‘illogical and clueless.”’

received |

grants

JUDITH MARCUSE...
her request to $7,000.

lowered |

He argued that it is impossible
to draw an artificial line at Bur-
rard Inlet because -North Shore
residents are benefiting from
regional arts facilities like the
Playhouse. '

Perrault ‘acknowledged that part
of the confusion, stems from the
fact that the criteria for deciding
who qualifies. for funding has
never been clearly spelled out.

In the-past, grants were pro-
vided to Vancouver groups who
offered a service to the North
Shore that was not being provided

_ by local groups.

West Vancouver ‘District Coun. -
Pat Boname described the. whole
process of aliotting arts grants this
year a ‘‘mess.””

She said that. councils must

establish a clearer definition of ; a

what “service to the North Shore”
means. | ,

‘There was a lot of pressure to .
get it (grant recommendations}:
finished off as soon as possible
because they. were; late in coming. -
from the Arts Commission... .

“It’s not our finest hour,”’ she.
Said. ‘It’s not something we want ©

to see happen again. We’re going ©
to meet. again in late August or ©
September and try and work out
what we. mean by service to the
North Shore and get that on to
the application forms. We need a
much better scale of judging
that.”

‘ While North Vancouver District |
Coun... Paul Turner agreed the .
criteria must be ironed out for. ,
next year, he said for the .time
being, it is more important for the '
municipalities to preserve consen-
sus.

Meanwhile Marcuse, who is
about to begin shooting a dance
film (on the North Shore), said
the cuts have thrown’ the com-
pany’s 1993-94 North Shore per-
formance schedule into jeopardy.

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