THE HUSBAND of a
who went missing from the
psychiatric treatment facility at
Lions Gate Hospital a week ago is
losing hope of ever seeing his wife
again.

By Michae! Becker
News Reporter

woman

Albert Smith says his wife,
Irene Smith, 55, was admitted to
the hospital Dec. 10, suffering
from chronic depression.

“She just walked out and she’s
gone. She had been going to a
psychiatrist in North Vancouver
before that.”’

She hasn’t been seen or heard
from since the morning of Dec.

“She seemed to be doing real
good,’’ Smith said. ‘‘We were out
for dinner the night before and
she seemed very happy. But ac-
cording to people who are telling
me things now, mornings were her
worst time.”’

Smith said his wife has been
battling depression for a number
of years. And he added that be-
fore she left the hospital she had
asked fellow patients for direc-
tions to Lonsdale Quay.

“A doctor and a nurse went
down there (the quay) early Sun-
day morning and looked all

frene Smith

around there,"* Smith said.

A nurse, he said, had planned
to go for a walk with his wife that
morning.

“I'm very worried. i'm worried
that she’s in the inlet,’’ Smith
said,

The missing Port Coquitlam
woman is described as being 5’
6’’, 140 tbs., with grey-green eyes,
and short light brown hair. At the
time she left the hospital Smith
believes she was wearing jeans, a
green sweater and a grey winter
overcoat.

Information regarding this case
may be forwarded to North Van-
couver RCMP at 985-1311.

Housing project application withdrawn

ENTRE NOUS Femmes have
withdrawn their application for a
variance permit on their Rufus
Drive social housing project, city
clerk Bruce Hawkshaw told North
Vancouver City Council Dec. 10.

By Pamela Lang
Contributing Writer

The scheduled Dec. 17 public
meeting on the project was subse-
quently cancelled.

Public response at the Nov. 26
council meeting indicated that
area residents planned to speak
against the project in general, as
Rufus Drive homeowner Gordon
Marbry urged council at the
meeting to delay the entire pro-
ject.

The application had asked for
five changes to the building
envelopes, or the space between
the buildings or between the
buildings and the street.

The request, as explained by
project architect Linda Baker,
followed the discovery that the
site was three feet narrower than
originally thought. Two electrical

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL

closets also had to be relocated
because the project's basements
were to be eliminated.

But a letter to city hall indicated
that the livability of the suites
could be maintained within the
building envelopes allowed in the
original rezoning application for
the 19-unit subsidized housing de-
velopment, which council approv-
ed in June.

The rezoning approval allowed
the development to proceed.

The variance permit would have
allowed minor changes to the

,duilding’s design, but without it

the project will still proceed.

Council also approved final
adoption of the lease authoriza-
tion bylaw that governs a 55-year
lease of city land to Entre Nous
Femmes for the non-profit hous-

ing development. The bylaw was |:

adopted in a 4-3 vote - with

‘Aldermen Barbara Perrault, Stella

Jo Dean, and Rod Clark opposed.

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