Drug squads seize $150,000 cocaine cache Numerous arrests made in North Shore investigation A THREE-week joint forces investigation by West Van- couver Police and North Vancouver RCMP drug squads has resulted in numerous arrests and the seizure of cocaine with an estimated street value of $150,000. According to West Vancouver Police drug squad Det. Doug Bruce, police executed a search warrant Wednesday, seized a quantity of cocaine and arrested several people. On Thursday night another search warrant was executed. Police made more arrests and seized approximately 1,100 grams of cocaine. Numerous people have been charged with various offences stemming from the drug seizures, including charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking and trafficking in cocaine. Among those facing charges are Oscar Perez Moreno, 33; Timothy Douglas Tweed, 35; Paige Pad- dington, 24; Kelly Lea Hood, 25; Daniel Neuenschwander, 30, all of North Vancouver; and Perry Thomas Karsonas, 24, and Tara By Michael Becker News Reporter Lee Bradley, 22, both of Van- couver, According to an investigator, in the case of Morena, the accused was initially arrested Wednesday. He appeared in court, was releas- ed and arrested a second time when police made the farger co- caine seizure on Thursday. Bruce said the police expect to make more arrests in connection with the investigation. Police ex- ecuted a total of three search war- rants on the North Shore and in Vancouver. Investigating officers also seized @ quantity of cash and related drug trafficking material, in- cluding scales. NV City alderman named NDP flack DURING THE current provincial election campaign, the North Shore News will be running regular excerpts from its Election Notebook, a roundup of news tid- bits from the local campaign trail: FROM FREELANCER TO FLACK A North Vancouver City alderman has been appointed the official voice of the New Democratic Party. Bilt Bell has taken a leave of absence from his public affairs job at New Westminster’s Douglas College to work as the official media coordinator for the NDP during the current provincial election campaign. Bell, a former North Shore News freelancer whc covered West Vancouver District Council, West District 45 School Board and North Vancouver District 44 School Board meetings for seven years, said the most common request he receives from the media is ‘“‘who do 1 talk to.” A WRIGHT WORD HE MAY not know it, but News columnist Noel Wright has lent a helping hand to the campaign of West Van- couver-Capilano Social Credit candidate John Reynolds. Vancouver . ln a recent newspaper ad, the Reynolds team, under a picture of their leader, used the following quote from one of Wright’s News columns: **Straight-talking, tough- minded Reynolds...is richly endowed with political smarts.’’ SIGN SINS WHILE THEY may be on op- posite sides of the political fence, North Van- couver-Lonsdale Socred can- didate Marilyn Baker and North Vancouver-Lonsdale NDP candidate David Schreck have one thing in common: they’re both breaking a North Vancouver City bylaw. That bylaw prohibits “tsandwich board’’ signs from being displayed on city side- walks. Both Baker and Schreck have sandwich board signs in front of their campaign offices. Index 8B High Profiles BB Cocktails & Caviar ® Comics @ Fashion M@ High Tech @ Horoscopes Lifestyles... ........... 39 B® Spiritually Speaking @ Travel Weather Monday & Tuesday. sunny. Highs 17°C, Lows 8°C. Second Class Registration Number 3885 Sunday, September 29. 1991 - North Shore News - 3 NEWS photo Neil Lucente SHELIMAR TEENA turned six-year-old Jamie Southam into a Ninja Turtle at the Bavarian Festival earlier this month. See Kids’ Stuff page 43 for all the weekend activities. Park Royal plans revealed Council learns details of $20M upgrade AS PART of the initial steps to rescue Canada’s oldest shopping mall from its current ‘‘time warp,’’ Park Royal’s new owners recently presented ambitious plans for a $20-million ‘‘revitalization and retrofit’? for the property to West Vancouver District Council. As reported in the Sept. 8 News, the Larco Group of Com- panies’ revitalization of the 870,000 square-foot West Van- couver mail will be phased in over atwo- to three-year period. At Larco’s Sept. 16 presentation to West Vancouver Council, Ian Thomas of Thomas Consultants Inc. said the upgrade will return Park Royal to its former shopping mail retail! dominancy. Larco’s plans were presented by a team of local consultants that included Thomas, architects Clyde Brown and Brian Wallace and landscape architect Don Vaughan, who was invoived in the Ambleside revitalization project. Thomas promised a relatively small ‘‘quality rather than quanti- ty” revitalization of just 30,000 square feet; the project, he said, should not upset the current hier- archy of West Vancouver's retail market. Brown said the revitalization and expansion scheme would tie Park Royal’s north and south sides closer together to ‘‘create a new gateway to West Vancouver.”’ A row of new, outward-facing shops would be added to both sides of the mall: out to the edge of the parking overhang on the north side and out to the edge of the covered parkade on the south side. By Maureen Curtis Contributing Writer “We want to bring life to the facade,’ said Brown. The plans would also place more emphasis on public walkways and a pedestrian con- nector between the mall’s north and south components. The two mall halves would also be brought together through the eventual removal of the proper.y’s various existing outbuildings i:- cluding restaurants and the nor- th-side gas station. Brown described the stretch of Marine Drive that fronts Park Royal as ‘‘chaoti: and dismal’? ir. its visual impact on the counmuni- ty. He said the mall overhaul would change that impact. The Larco plans call for install- ing mall wiring underground and moving the north-side B.C. Tran- sit centre right into the mall. Removal of the mall’s more westerly vehicle ramp is also being considered. Inside the shopping centre changes will be made to support the gateway and urban concepts emphasized by the mall's exterior. The mall's dated north-side en- trance will also be upgraded. Park Royal’s design consultants WEST VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL are also planning to develop a winter garden market on the mall’s south side between Super Valu and Eaton’s, with a food court above. Browa said Park Royal will be looking for new tenants that would exemplify a sense of quality and lifestyle appropriate to West Vancouver. Individual local fashion shops, he said, would be preferred over large chains. Thomas concluded that West Vancouverites would be able to feel justifiably proud of their im- proved mall. “We're sure that West Van- couverites will start shopping locally once more,’’ he said. Park Royal is submitting an application to council for the mall’s north-side improvements; the owners hope to begin con- struction next spring. The plans are now being exam- ined by West Vancouver’s adviso- ry design panel, but former alderman Doreen Blackburn urged council to send the plans to the advisory planning commission as well, The advisory planning commis- sion docs not automatically get to look at renovation projects, but Blackburn said a project of the inagnitude of Park Royal should be presented to the commission. Mayor Mark Sager indicated that this could be arranged.