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if the opposition delays passage,
your security is guaraniced by the
retroactive provisions of the
amendments.”

North = Vancouver — District
Mayor Murray Dykeman said the
district's housing staff is looking at
how the new legislation will affect
Jocal bylaws and how the district
will deal with fractional-interest
issues,

Critics of fractional-interest
transactions say such sales gobble
up tental stock in areas already
experiencing extremely low vacan-
cy rates,

Proponents argue the transac-
tions provide affordable home
ownership in municipalities with
expensive housing,

Murder

From page 1

en‘her in Vancouver, then bashed her with a reck on the

North Shore.

Beaulac took the stand as the defence opened its case

on Thursday.

Defence lawyer Peter Leask read his client’s lengthy
criminal record to the jury. Beaulac's credentials include
numerous lesser charges, leading up to an assault with a
weapon in Nanaimo in 1985, four years after Costin's
death. The next year, he was convicted of an aggravated

“assault in New Westminster, He was given a 90-day sen-

tence.

Beaulac told the court he met John Norris, a Crown
. eyewitness to the killing, in early 1980. He hired Norris to
help him sell drugs on credit to addicts on social ussis-

tance, a

Colliers Macaulay Nicolls Inc.
areal estate firm, said owners had
been increasingly attracted to trace
Wonal conversions “as values after
conversion are typically 20% to
30% higher."

The Residential ‘Tenancy Act
and Canada Mortgage — and
Housing Corporation's (CMHC)
policies already give some protec-
tion to tenants,

However, after a meeting with
the CMHC, Jordsvar said she is not
convinced the CMHC is looking
out for the best interests of the ten-
ants,

Fellow tenant Larry Stinson
said: “We wanted a clear response
from CMHC that they would not
endorse fractional-interest conver:
sions, and we hid to settle for a
qualified maybe,

DISTRICT MAYOR Dykeman...

housin

staft looking at new

legistation’s impact.

defence begins

Beaulac chiims he met Costin in early January 1981,

They drink every day at the Aleazar Hotel, and soon
began a relationship.
Beaulac described his activities on Feb, 17, 1981, the

day leading up to Costin’s murder. Ne met her at about

recalled.

930 a.m, picked up some “hard stuf?” at the fiquer store,
and went back to his apartment for a couple of hours. “We /
drank, we smoked some hash, and we made love,”

He then dropped her off and met Norris at the Cobalt!
Hotel, “We played pool, drank some beer and watched thd

dancers for a couple of hours,” Beaulac testified. The twa

men then did the same at the Drake Hotel, before leaving
in the early evening for Beaulac’s apartment.
Beaulac claims he began injecting cocaine, while

Norris snorted the drug. The trial continues,

Hotelier set for B.C.

Supreme Court trial |°

AVALON HOTEL owner Ken
Hutchinson was ordered to stand

trial on Wednesday on four charges”

2 sexual assault.

News Reporter

A three-day preliminary hearing
~ “into the charges was held this week
“in. North Vancouver provincial
“court.

Court information from prelimi-
nary hearings i is banned from publi-
cation. A/ preliminary hearing is
held to determine if there is enough

evidence for a trial.
“.~ According to an Aug. 24,-1994,
News story, Hutchinson was origi-
nally charged with eight counts of
sexual assault in relation to inci-
dents alleged to have happened
between 1985 and July 1993. The
charges were laid after a West
Vancouver Police investigation.
Two more sex charges were laid
in. October 1994 = against
"Hutchinson, then 46, who lived in
West Vancouver...
_ According to the August 1994

AVALON HOTEL owner Ken
Hutchinson to stand trial in
B.C. Supreme Court,

News story, at least two of the
female complainants worked at the

North Vancouver Avalon Hotel,

1025 Marine Dr.
Hutchinson’s trial will be held in
B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

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The open house runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Mount
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