NEWS photo Mike Wakefield : DAVID Raht deft) and Ron Slinger, owners of Lynn Valley’s Black Bear Neighborhood Pub, have proposed opening a charity casino at the site of the Seven Seas Restaurant in Lower Lonsdale. ir city atertront casine ‘sembfing ec combined with stunning of the Vancouver waterfront, alla o Lower Lonsdale casino is lacking is the itical will to see it materialize. Ron: Slinger and Dave Raht, owners of Lynn Valley’s Bear pub, have done the rest. They have taken out aption on the Seven Seas Restaurant location and put ‘together a proposal for a $2 million to $4 miillion facility = would include 25 to 30 gaming tables and 180 to 230 ~-slot machines.“ But last Monday night, North Vancouver City council ‘didn’t give their charity casino proposal the time of day. 2tWe didn’t even look at the proposal,” said North couver., City Coun. John Braithwaite. “We weren’t looking at the application, per se.” Indeed, the duo’s scheduled appearance before coun- cil during an in-camera session was to discuss the lease of land owned by the city near the proposed charity casino site. Slinger and Raht were hoping to discuss the propos- al, but city council decided against it. Instead, council - chose to discuss its existing policy of opposing expansion of gambling i in the city. Aker some discussion, council voted to adhere to that poli icy. But Slinger and Raht aren’t discouraged by the brush- off, although time is not on their side. According to a time frame set out by the provincial government, all potential casino operators are required to secure a general resolu- tion of support from their host municipalities by Nov. 28. Slinger and Raht don’t understand the city’s reticence on the subject. “They have to be brave. They have quite a decision to See Debate page 5 Sunday, November 9, 1997 — North Shore News ~ 3 Body found behind log in Lynn Creek Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com A body was found lodged behind a log at the edge of Lynn Creek in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park on Friday. To press time, the body was believed to be the remains of North Vancouver resident Anne Brown. Brown, 50, fell into the raging creek on Thursday. On Friday, North Shore Rescue Team members were invuied in a limited search for Brown in “high probability” areas between the park carctaker’s hut and the first c ean on, Where there are log jams. ly was found by someone con- nected to Brown's family, south of the caretaker’s hut on the east side of the creek, which was flowing at closer to average levels Friday. The day before, Brown was hiking with her husband Chris and their two poodles in the park. She apparently slipped on a rock near the water’s edge and fell in the creck. Chris Brown risked his life while he tried to rescue his wife. He was bashed around in the surging river. A search official said it was a miracle Chris Brown was able to make it out of the powerful torrent. While walking his German shepherd Thursday in the park, News pho- tographer Paul McGrath passed the couple and said hi about 20 minutes before Anne Brown fell in. McGrath later saw the Browns’ two dogs on the trail and then saw the distraught and injured Brown come out of the water. The two men quick- ly looked for Anne Brown, but did not find her. On the way to the caretaker’s hut, McGrath dialed 9-1-1 on his cellu- lar phone, but the operator could not hear him. At the same time, a park visitor alerted GVRD park staff that he saw a body go down the river. They called 9-1-1. On Friday, friends and family of Anne Brown were in shock. Friend Merilyn Hicks said Anne Brown was a wonderful person and dedicated mother to daughter Sarah, 17. Anne Brown had many interests and loved the outdoors, especially hik- ing on North Shore trails with her dogs. She was recuperating from a bro- ken leg and was happy to be able to go for a walk on a trail on Thursday. Meanwhile North Shore Rescue’s George Zilahi said the river water appeared like a “boiling torrent” on Thursday. Zilahi, who was the search manager, said that a witness who saw Brown’s body in the water described the body going by “like a bullet.” Zilahi said that heavy rains added to the river’s volume. He described the water’s motion from the edge to the middle as having a coil or spiral effect. ANNE Brown, 50, believed drowned in Lynn Creek on Thursday. See Body page & oa experience mgge’s world peace crusade hima, he must be 65, but she doesn't look a day over 30 when she is duced to the room full of students and guests. some of the 12 plastic surgeries she endured at the age something to do with preserving the tightness of her face. iy teers it is the vitality, the “works to preserve living history in her tiny body. ion, tie size of the heart that -This year she has taken her message to Germany and the United , Seats, as Yell as Canada. Last week alone she made 13 presentations in Nelson. ‘When Miyoko Matsubara dies who will tell her story? Her sister-in-law a year later, her father a year after that from stomach cancer. * Matsubara herself has biad an operation for breast cancer. Polyps in her stomach are checked regularly for signs of cancer. She began her work for world peace and nuclear disarmament in 1962 when she was chosen as one of the members of the first World Peace Pilgrimages She has not stopped since. She says her mission makes her strong. When she talks to Japanese students who visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial she relates stories of Japanese war crimes to illus- trate that Japan may have been aggrieved but was also an aggressor during the Second World -War. Her voice shakes not with weakness but passion as she reaches the climax of her speech. ‘ Behind the microphone she enacts a portion of her drama. She lifts her hands to cover her face, just as she did at the age of 12 when she saw the flash of the first nuclear bomb to be used in warfare. “ We see the missing digits. B: That action saved her sight, just as her white underwear pre- vented total body burns once the bla blast tore off her clothes. Her friend Michiko was not so lucky. - They met in the river into which many survivors had jumped to Surrounded by dead and dying bodies they decided to walk to school. their For Michiko, it was too far. As she sank to the ground she told Matsubara, “Mivoko, go away and tell the people that I am here.” Said Matsubara: “Yet she pleaded with me with her eyes to take Sher with me. “J had to say goodbye. I think of her. If I could have helped her walk further she might have lived. My heart always aches.” Ir took Michiko’s parents three days to find their daughter’s amid Hisoshima’s 13 square kilometres of total destruction. Only 35 out of 250 of Matsubara’s fellow students survived the blast. Most still bear the scars. NEWS photo Satta Wakefield HIROSHIMA A-bomb survivor Miyoko Matsubara addressed a class of students at Canadian International College on Thursday. It would be eight years before Matsubara would be able to stretch her crooked fingers or close her burned eyelids. During that time she was treated as an outcast in society. “No one would sit next to me on the train because of the fear of catching radiation.” No man would marry her for fear she would be barren or give birth to mutants. Surgery helped, but mankind has been unable to call back and cure the sickness it released so easily from the bomb bay of one American B-29. At first, it was not understood that hair loss, combined with bleeding gums and diarrhea, was ongoing nuclear fallout — leukemia. Other sicknesses manifested themselves more slowly. Matsubara’s brother died first, from valvular disease of the heart and a liver cancer. “Nuclear weapons do not deter war. Nuclear weapons and human beings cannot coexist. Use of nuclear weapons is a crime against humanity.” She asks for questions. There are none. Just silence. What is there left to say? Keiji Takahata later tells the News his mother is now 52 years old: just a baby a the ona of the war He wonders if the reality of war is receding for the people. His knowledge of the war was one page ina high school text book me “We never considered it seriously. We never discussed it. There was always pressure of other work and exams. “Tonight 1 have seen some of the reality of war that was kind of invisibie for us. lewh dth “These le who experienced the war are very important. Downstairs: in the vending machines there is a eecton of Japanese candy. Outside the North Vancouver rain still falls softly. In Hiroshima, a black rain seemed a blessing to burn victims and fire fighters who did not yet know of the high level of residual radioactivity it spread. Lest we forget, the inscription on that poor city’s cenotaph reads: “Let all souls here rest in peace; For we shall not repeat the evil.”