Bere Tea to Te Suly 24, 1985 ae ae Canada’s Number One ‘Suburban Newspa er Shopping vote waits: THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 40 pages 25¢ NEWS photo Mike Wakefield “who operates - Escorts and Comfort Zone ty Prostitution allegations incite controversy ESCORT SERVICE operator Carol McNeill must convince council her operations are not fronts for prostitution if she wants to keep her business licences. In response to a motion by Ald. Stelia Jo Dean, North Vancouver City Council voted 5-1 Monday to have the local business woman, Interlude Escorts, appear before council August 12, Dean said the operator of Interlude Escorts had assured council October 29, 1984 that she would recognize and not hire pro- stitutes. Dean said in her motion that McNeill’s promise caus- ed council members to vote in favor of issuing her a business licence. But with recent publicity about escort services being a front for prostitution, name- ly Interlude Escorts, Dean proposed the company rep- resentatives meet with coun- cil to show cause for why the business licences should not be revoked. said Det. Garnet Salmond from the Van- couver Police Vice-Squad would also be appearing at council, as he is the detective who has been involved in the escort service investigation.. Said Ald. Ralph Hall: “It’s important to say some- thing. We're not a court of law or a Spanish Inquisition. We have the right to bring Dean people before us to show cause why their licence shouldn't be revoked. I feel very strongly about this. It’s a good recommendation.”’ Ald. John Braithwaite proposed an escort service motion that had been earlier tabled be lifted from the table, whereby escort ser- vices would be eliminated through the business licence. But Dean said, ana direc- tor of development and licensing Frank Morris con-- firmed, ‘‘the business bylaw cannot prohibit, it can only regulate.”* . Morris said escort services would have’ to be banned from the zoning bylaw, not just controlled under the business licence, to eliminate them. Council agreed to defer Braithwaite’s motion until after hearing McNeill and Salmond. Mr. Balloon Man. “GIANT GRAPES they aren’t, but this colorful mass of balloons on legs was an eye-catching | sight af the 23rd annual Sea Festival parade. The parade was just one of this year's many § events that attracted huge turnouts thanks in part to the magnificent sunny weather and § high temperatures. The entire five-day festival, including waiters’ race, bathtub race, and ) sandcastle building contest was a ballooning success. r contamin resulted in petitions IrHE CLOSURE of Eagle Harbour Beach by the _ Eagle Harbour was closed Worth Shore Public Health Department was a Result of the boats moored there, discharging sontaminates. B That information was Beleased Monday night in a Report to council from the Birector of Parks and Rec- Seation Frank Kurucz. M Kurucz told council ‘‘the Pnly conclusion he (a Public Hicalth official) could come Zo was that the next logical Bause of the contamination ELLNN TARA MCTORE was the boats moored in the bay: he feels that it cannot be a coincidence that the beaches which were closed on the North Shore -- Eagie Harbour, Deep Cove and Panorama -- house yacht clubs."’ July 8 to 12 by the North Shore Health Department due to high coliform counts. That situation according to Mayor Derrick Humphreys has since been cleared up. The engineering depart- ment had sent a letter zo Eagle Harbour Yacht Club and other yacht clubs in the community asking for their cooperation in informing their members of the danger of flushing toilets into the ocean, and asking for their help in eliminating this pro- blem. *“*T also had a meeting with the President and Com- modore of Eagle Harbour Yacht Club, and = they assured me that the club pol- icy is net to allow any boat moored in their facility to flush toilets into the infet but to use the clubhouse facilites on shore,’’ Knrucz said. The closure of the beach being submitted to municipal council. One of those petitions alleged that Eagle Harbour Yacht Club’s septic holding tank can be discharged into the bay. That, stated Kuruez, was ‘‘not true** “The clubhouse is con- nected onto the municipal sewage system and cannot be discharged into the bay.’ Kurucz also informed council that the club was go- HDR INES pues Pe aed eee ing to police the regulation forbidding the discharge of toilets from the boats into the water, ‘‘even more strongly than in the past.”’ Club Commodore John Rawsthrone maintained, ina letter to council, that “I's purely en assumption that the on-board toilets are be- ing discharged into the bay and to the best of our Knowledge there is ne evidence to support the assumpdon."* ee: