66 Over the years we’ve changed drastically. It gets a little sweatier and a little louder. Now it’s Just turned into a monster. 99 — Big Sugar guitarist Gordie Johnson on the band’s shift in sound from a whisper to a scream. See music page 37. 8 Classifieds........ @ Croseword... @ Fashion... WN. Shore Alert... @ Sports... @ Travel........... TV Listings................24 & Vintage Years...........28 @ Weddings... 12 hatin business @ Bach & Hoagy swing on CD-ROM: _ 314 Martall Bros. racaive internat’ honors: 31 ws 7 @ - Capilano aE Pure At CRReG ET aie See Fr AS ts Argyle socks SEYCOVE SECONDARY'S blue-clad Molly Rae got her foot on the ball in front of Argvle’s Gill Hicks, but Hicks and her teammates finished the game a step ahead with a 5-1 victory at Loutet Park Wednesday. Hicks scored Argyle’s first goal. NORTH VANCOUVER City’s get- tough approach to dealing with Capilano Mall’s decision to force all its tenants to remain open until 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday evenings seems to have worked. NORTH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL By Robert Galster In a move aimed to appease both the mall's small independent merchants and several city councillors who have championed their cause, Mall's management company, Cambridge Leascholds Ltd., has backed down from its original position of forcing ali mer- Weather Monday: sunny with cloudy pertods, High 13'C, low 4°C. NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge it to Seycove chants to adhere to the mall's new extended hours. In a March 23 letter, Cambridge Regional Director Pau! Fairbridge informed Mayor Jack Loucks of his company’s decision to allow indi- vidual merchants freedom of choice in deciding whether they want to participate in Monday and Tuesday extended hours. “We propose to continue with the extended hours on Monday and Tuesday evenings, how- ever provide our retailers the opportunity to choose for themselves whether they will remain open ar not,” wrote Fairbridge. Council originally took steps to re-regulate store hours in the city after hearing a delegation of independent Capilano Mall merchants last December. The merchants told council the new hours were not only unprofitable, but also tax- ing on their personal lives. Since then a second delegation representing Ex-lover talks of 2-year obsession IT WAS a case of fatal attraction, the jury was told in the first- degree murder trial of Dale Paterson. , By Brent Mudry Contributing Writer After a two-month fling, the West Vancouver man stalked his former British: Properties lover for more than two yeurs, “He said they were perfect for each other,” recalls one witness. After relem- less rejection, Paterson finally took mat- ters into his own hands. He bought a shiny new baseball bat at Eaton's Park Royal. Then he clubbed and strangled his ¢x-lover before con- fessing to the deed to a 911 operator. Paterson, 33, stands charged with the first-degree murder of 31-year-old Scott Kraft in Kraft’s British Properties home in 1993. A former lover of both men described Paterson's: unrelenting obsession, in a B.C, Supreme Court trial this week. The medical doctor's identity has been shielded from publication by. a court gag order. The man began dating Kraft. a Hongkong Bank computer operator, sev- eral months after Kraft’ dropped Paterson. He is convinced Paterson followed their movements closely. The morning after the new couple's See Accused page 15 store owners supporting the extended hours appeared before council and presented a vastly different picture that, ameng other things, included profitability. In spite of Capilano Mall's new-found will- ingness to let their tenants choose their own hours, Mayor Jack Loucks and the rest of coun- cil plan to proceed with a previously scheduled April 3 public meeting on the proposed bylaw regulating store closures. “We've already advertised it ... so anybody wishing to speak may do so,” said Loucks, “If Cambridge has done what they said they did not many people will show up.” Loucks also told the News that council will have to decide whether to rescind the bylaw regulating store closures or simply leave it as is with only two of the necessary four readings See City page 5