Shots | fired, | mother | angry By Al Anna Marie naa Marie D’Angeic News Reporter ROSEMARY Arnold is advising people rot to stand at bus stops any more. Her son was shor at 10 times from a car while he was waiting with his girlfriend ata bus shelter at Hastings and Renfrew in Vancouver earlier this month. “Iam freaked. It is unbe- lievable,” said Arnold. Arnold said two bullets razed her son’s neck and ‘orehead, He did not go to the hospital, said Arnold. “It is very, very scary, I'm at wit’s end and I don’r know where to turn to,” ssid the North Vancouver woman. Arnold said her son, aged 26, had attended a car show on the PNE grounds on March 8. He and his girlfriend went to a gas station store. They passed a car in which a man “checked out” the woman. Arnold’s son made a questioning motion with his arms, said his miother. The couple came out of the store and walked to the bus shelter. “Next thing you know this car comes whipping around. and starts firing shots,” said Arnold. Arnold said there was also an elderly ‘man sitting at the bus stop who was trauma- tized, but not injure Arnold is. critical of Vancouver City Police officers who appeared to do a superfi- cial investigation. She said they didn’t even give her son a file number of the case. ” Arnold said that one of the “car’s two occupants had gone into the gas station store /where he would have been filmed by a video camera. Arnold wonders if Vancouver City Police bothered to get the film as evidence. Vancouver City Police media relations did not return News calls. One of the con- stables who investigated the incident did not return News Arnold said her son looks 16 and dresses a little offbeat. “It seems like police treat all kids like’ they are punk kids,” she said. Arnold said that these types of shooting incidents seem to be played down or hushed up by police. “Isn't it crazy that this can actually happen I think people have a rig ght to know what is going on,” she said. “He could have been killed. Like now. They obvi- ously aimed at him,” said Arnold. The suspects were driving a white Ford Escort with a model year between 1985 to 1987. The suspects are described as being: Ma Caucasian male with some facial hair, wearing, a basebai cap and a gold chain, @ a black male aged 17 to 19, extremely thin with very short hair. The suspects were also described as being “rich young punks who had noth- ing better to do.” —anuamaric@usews.com NEWS photo Terry Peters THE new $300,000 bridge over Lynn Creek, part of the Cycling Network Program, was installed recently. It provides cyclists and pedes- trians with a much-needed link between Lynn Valtey, Capilano College and other North Vancouver neighborhoods. New Lynn V $300,000 Lynn Creek By Jotanda Waskito Contributing Writer SEVEN dogs and their five owners were the first to walk across the new bridge at Lynn Creek March 24. The 45-metre (150 feet) long steel span is espe- cially designed for pedestrians and cyclists. “It’s been a two-year process of d redesigning,” North Vancouver Bicycle coordinator ley | bridge for bikers, hikers Emma Dai Santo said. “It's S great to See it going in and see it being used straight after.” The bridge will provide a “non-vehicle route for igning and people to get from Lynn Valley and north of 20th, to come across to Capilano College withoui going over the suspension bridge or Keith Road,” she said. Access te the bri ¢ trail from Arborly: nn Drive to the west and InterRiver Park to the east is still being builr. Completion of the new trails is targeted for the first week of June, Bike to Work Week. They will be in place in time for use by Capilano College students attending the fall semester, Dal Santo says the bridge was made possible as part of the Cycling Network Program. Funding for the $360,000 bridge and crail improvement project was split 50-50 by North Vancouver District and the provincial government. WV sailor seeks redress _ | Rescuers find for sailboat sunk by sub By Jolanda Waskito Contributing Writer ALTHOUGH B.C. Supreme Court again found the Chilean gov- ernment responsible for destroying Jory Lord’s sailboat, the fight doesn’t seem to be over vet. “It’s great, but they (Chile) seem to think that it will just go away,” Lord’s dad Bill satd. “They should just pay tor his boat and get it over with.” Jory Lord, of — West Vancouver, filed a civil lawsuit against the Republic of Chile, the U.S. and Canada last June. The 28-year-old’s 15-metre (50-ft.) wooden ketch Afoonglow collided with the Chilean subma- rine Thomson, near Sheringham Point in Canadian waters off Vancouver [sland on Sept. 11, 1994. Since then, Lord has repeat- edly requested an explanation ‘ompensation for the sinking of his $300,000 sailboat. fn court on Thursday in Vancouver, the Chilean govern- ment tried to appeal a default judgment in favor of Lord. But B.C. Supreme Court JORY Lord wins lawsuit against the Chilean govern- ment for the second time. Madame Justice Risa Levi found that Chile’s failure to appear in court on Nov. 19, 1996, was “willful and delibe: ” said one of Lord's lawy Jones. The failure to appear meant Chile had to pay damages, inter. est and costs associated with the lawsuit. The South American republic refused to settle out of court, Jones said. A date can now be set for a hearing to assess the damages: the value of the boat, injury and loss of possessions. “It’s not necessarily over,” Jones warned. Chile will most likely Y appeal the judgment in the B.C. Court of Appeal, he said. fr has 30 days to file the appeal. {f the appesl is granted, the lawsuir may go to trial. Lord was unavailable for comment to press tine Tuesday. His father said the veteran sailor is out of town, having recently delivered a yacht ro Canada from China. Lord had lived aboard the Moonglow and had also sed it for business purposes, including kayak expeditions in the Queen Chsrlotte area and Clayoquot Sound. The Chilean submarine col- lided with Lord’s boat under foggy conditions in the Juan de Fuca Srrait. Lord was rescued by the sub- Marine crew after he was found clinging to a floating propane tank. American naval personnel were aboard the submarine at the cme. The sub bad been participat- ing in military exercises near Nanoose on Vancouver Island. snowboarder THE North Shore Rescue Team was called in to locate a missing snow- boarder March 28 at Cypress Bowl. Searchers were contacted by West Vancouver Police at 8:30 p.m. to find an out-of-bounds snowboarder who had been reported overdue by friends. Cypress Bowl ski patrol members initially found tracks and follewed them into ¢ Montizambert ba Search teams eventually located the 32-year- old man at 2:13 a.m. at the 650-metre (2,132 ft.) level of the north fork of the Montizambert Creek basin. Richard Willoughby, of Vancouver, was found to be slightly hypothermic, cold , wet and tired. Rescue ream: members treated and evacu- ated Willoughby back up the mountain to the Cypress Bow! ski area, The evacuation involved a 270-metre (886 ft.) climb in heavy wer snow. The very was completed by approximately 6 a.m. Tweaty North Shore Search and Rescue vol- unteers and numerous Cypress Bowl staff were engaged in the operation. Our-of-bounds snowboarders have searchers busy at Cypress throughout thi ski season. On Feb. 12 Brittany McDowell, 17, was snowboarding, out-of-bounds at Cypress with two friends when an avalanche swept her 213 vertical metres (700 ft.) down a mountainside. The Point Grey teen was recovered unconscious, hyvothermic and without a detectable pulse. She was pronounced dead at Lions Gate Hospite1. Snowboarder Simon Whitehurst, 25, was found dead a the bottum of a waterfall cast of Cypress on Feb. 9. kept rs — Michael Becker