NEWS BRIEFS

Drugs seized

A BRIGHTON Beach resident faces drug-related charges
following the April 23 seizure of 100 marijuana plants by
North Varcouver RCMP drug section members.

According to 2 police spokesman, John Dosh faces
charges of marijuana cultivation and possession of mar-
juana for the purpose of trafficking.

The police found the plants growing in a garden shed
at Brighton Beach in the Indian Arm area.

The estimated street value of the plants is pegged at
$100,000.

Brighton Beach resident Louise Ann Manelia was
charged with possession of marijuana after six plants
were seized from her residence.

Meanwhile, a North Vancouver man was arrested on
April 14 at Jack Lonsdale’s Pub in North Vancouver.

Nickie Kranicz, 25, was found to be in possession of
77 grams of cocaine with an estimated street value of
$7,700.

The police also seized $3,866 in cash. A charge of
possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking has
been laid against Kranicz.

Hearing set

A JUNE 22 preliminary hearing date has been set for the
mao charged with second-degree murder in connection
with the shooting death of Dr. Verne Flather, who was
killed in front of his East Keith Road house on April 22.

The hearing is set for five days, but as yet, no judge is
available to hear the case.

The accused, David Roger Henderson, 49, of North
Vancouver, was in court briefly on Friday to set the
hearing daie.

Henderson’s lawyer, Elaine Ferbey, said her client was
“getting very anxious’’ because a preliminary hearing
date had not beer set.

Henderson, a grey-bearded man, watched his lawyer
speak and briefly looked at spectators during his court
appearance. He quickly averted his cyes after looking at
a group of Flather's relatives seated at the closest point
to where Henderson was standing.

Wreathes laid

A WREATH-laying ceremony will be held today at the
Sailcr’s Memorial in the North Vancouver City Water-
front Park in remembrance of the many Canadian
soldiers who served during the Battle of the Atlantic.

The year 1992 marks the 50th anniversary of the
deepest enemy attacks conducted into Canadian territory
in modern times. In 1942, German submarines sank 23
ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and its appraoches.
During that time 250 Canadian and Allied soldiers lost
their lives.

A contingent of HMCS Discovery, naval officers and
veterans associations, commissionaire corps and military
associated groups will participate in the commemoration.

The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m.

A 200-BED multi-level care
facility proposed by the
Kiwanis for a four-acre site
located on the south side of
Mount Seymour Parkway
just west of Berkley Road
got the go ahead from
North Vancouver District
Council on Monday night.

But an adjacent one-acre site
that was to have housed the first
commercial centre in the proposed
Windridge Development will go
back to the drawing board.

In order to allow the Kiwanis
project to proceed without further
delay, council will pass all the
rezoning bylaws and amendments
to the Official Community Plan as
set out at the public hearing but
has instructed staff to bring back
additional bylaws that will then
reverse the process for the com-
mercial site. :

Provincial funding for the in-
termediate care facility will likely
go ahead now that the district has
committed to the land designation
for the site.

‘“Phere can be no question of

North Shore
drivers guilty
of drinking

RECENT CONVICTIONS
in North Shore courts have
resulted in fines and
penalties, including a driv-
ing suspension for drinking
and driving related of-
fences:

WEST VANCOUVER: Ernest
Arne Hautamaki, 42, 396 East
[Sth Ave., Vancouver (over .08,
$750 fine); William Maxwell Ker-
tuish, 22, 978 Frederick Place,
North Vancouver (impaired, $400
fine); Russell Merle Bartel, 26,
217 Copper Beach Estates,
Britannia Beach (over .08, 30 days

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200-bed multi-level
care facility OK’d

Parkway Windridge development

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the vital importance of this pro-

ject to our community,’ said Ald.
Ernie Crist.

But several aldermen expressed
dissatisfaction that the site had
been considered in isolation before
a complete land-use study had
been prepared for the area.

Said Ald. Janice Harris, ‘‘It is
regrettable that this type of facili-
ty could not be put closer to
Parkgate and its facilities.**

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Population up 10% from 1986

NORTH VANCOUVER District easily ranked as the
fastest growing of the three North Shore municipalities
over the past five years, according to recently released
Statistics Canada census figures.

North Vancouver District
numbered 75,157 inhabitants in
1991, a 10.1% increase over the
1986 district population of 68,241.

North Vancouver City was
home to 38,436 residents, up
7.7% from a population of 35,698
in 1986.

West Vancouver had 38,783 res-
idents as of last year, a 6.9% in-
crease over a population of 36,266
recorded in 1986.

In terms of average density,
North Vancouver District had 465
people per square kilometre in
1991, a 10.5% increase over the
1986 figure of 420.6 people per
square kilometre.

North Vancouver City’s density
was 3,568.8 people per square
kilometre in 1991, 6 7.6% increase
over 3,314.6 in 1986.

In West Vancouver, census
takers recorded a density of 435.3

ple per square kilometre in
1991, up 7% from 407.1 in 1986.

In 1991, North Vancouver
District had the ninth largest pop-
ulation among B.C. census sub-
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By Michael Becker
News Reporter

municipalities), West Vancouver
ranked 19th and North Vancouver
City ranked 20th.

The Greater Vancouver
Regional District's population was
1,542,744 in 1991. The figure ac-
counts for 47% of the provincial
total.

Meanwhile, B.C. showed the
second highest growth rate in
Canada.

The 1991 census population
reported for- the province was
3,282,061. The total grew by
13.8% from the 1986 census pop-
ulation.

B.C. is the country’s third larg-
est province, accounting for 12%
of Canada’s total population in
1991,

Canada’s population in 1991
was 27,296,859, close to two mil-
lion more (7.9%) than the popula-
tion recorded in 1986.

The Canadian population has
almost doubled since 1951.

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