“January - UARY & Smoking ban comes into effect North Shore smokers were fum- ang, when the Workers” Compensation Board ban on sinok- ing came inter effect on Jan. 1 Many owners of local businesses decided against enforcing the ban —- which was enacted by the WCE in order to protect the health of people who worked in hars and pubs. The ban was later overrumed, but North Shore smokers still weren't able to tight up again, since all three focal municipalities had alse outlawed smoking indoors. & Hospital chapel to yet new ame The North Shores Health on’s spirituab-care advisory group thought the wecds of a chang: tag demographic would be better served by having a multi-taith quiet room in Lions Gate Hospital rather than a chapel. LGH emplovee, irted a petition opposing changes to the room alter the advisory group suggested modi- fications that would allow the room to meet the spiritual needs of nen- Christian hospital visitors. FEBRUARY @ Sunday school students watch standoff A parking lot and two backyards separated 23 Sunday school children atthe Westlynan Baptist Charch trom armed: standotf between North neouver RCMP aad nwo residents of a house ins the .2600-block of Mountain Higt No one was injured following the seven-hour standoff that was the resale of a fandlord-tenant dispute, More than 20 North Vancouver Mounties including Emergency Response Team members were involved. A 43- year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were arrested. Police seized a replica MI6 assault rifle. Members of the church's congre including the children, were told by police to stay in the building for an extra heur and a half after the service ended. * “GOLLINGWOOD students gather to mourn at the Cypress Creek bridge where Nick Downs, 16, died in an accident on May 7. & Canola oil spills into Burrard Inlet More than a dozen birds were taken to a wildlite rescue centre after being soaked with canola oil from a North Vancouver spilt. A spokesman tor Neptune Bulk “Terminals said the canola spill was caused when “an opening developed” in the tlesible tubing used to pump canola oil from a storage tank into a ship. Environment Canada originally said that about 30 tonnes of oi! spilled into the harbour at Burrard Inlet, then Jater revised that esti- mate and said the — spill believed to be “much smaller.” @ Stanley Park NEWS photo Terry Peters wa” Friday, December 29, 2000 - North Shore News ~ 3 causeway to be widened Despite noisy opposition, the Vancouver Park Board voted to widen the Stanley Park away as part of a $15-million facelitt. The widening, which would allow an ex 6.6 nietres (two feeds per lane, was to result in the cutting of about 40 trees in the park. It was also expected to reduce accidents along the causeway by a third and save ICBC $2 mit: lion in accident claims over three years. Protesters were opposed to cutting down trees to allow more cars into the park. In exchange for the lost four footwide strip of long the causeway, the Chilco bus green spa eres of park land. loop will become three Environment-fr routed into the park to make it more ace ble and will be entirely banned fresm the ae oe ynaye Lay: “and Ph June e® A look back at some of the stories that mate headlines in the year 2000 NEWS photo Mike Wakelleid MEMBERS of the Squamish Nation went into mourning in March when their hereditary chief and treaty negotiator, Joe Mathias, died ¥ ‘suddenly of an unknown iliness. park within 30 years. MARCH Parents seek money for “wrongful birth” The “wrongful birth’ of a North Vancouver child with Dowit’s syndrome was the y ment. The voungster, Mervyn Dudle was born on Sept. 30, 199], Hospital. ‘The child's parents. phim Krangle, success s family doctor in 1997 for approximately $450,000 for failing to inform them of the’ availability of amniocentesis testing. The par- ents said they would have elected to terminate Kranele, Jons Gate ' John se een . NEWS photo Cindy Goodman THE congregation of Westlynn Baptist Church was forced to spend arn extra hour and half in church in February whiie feuding neighbours faced down police in a seven-tiour armed standoff.