DAVE Bolt examines a polluted creek behind his house. Feople living upstream are dumping materials into storm drains which lead to the creek. Nanaimo Stays here Teens wal in principal threat case Charges dropped; bond issued Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter adangelo@nsnews.com A trial involving two young men charged with threatening the life a North Vancouver school principal started and ended yesterday. + Charges against one.cf the young men were dropped (stayed). The second of the accused agreed to 2 peace bond. He promised not to contact Windsor secondary principal David Pearce and Pearce’s family. One of the 17-year-olds was a Windsor student with disci- pline problems, according to police: The other teen had been expelled from the Seymour-area school the previous year for discipline problems and absen- teeism. : The accused teens had also been charged with threatening and assault with a weapon of a Windsor student. The charge stems from an incident on Nov. 16, 1999, when one of the accused teens, the one expelled, allegedly pulled a knife on a student in the school’s smoking area. The teen promised not to contact that complainant during the 12-month term of his peace bond. North Vancouver provincial court Judge Jerome Paradis explained that the teen did not have to put up the $500 associ- ated with the peace bond, but would be “on the hook” for it if he breached the peace bond conditions. The teens can not be named as it would contravene the Young Offenders Act. As first reported by the News last December, North Vancouver RCMP received information about a plan to kill Pearce and his family in November 1999. Pearce had a reputation for low tolerance of violence and inappropriate behavior at the school. . Police said that the wo 17-year-olds tried to buy a gun. Their plan invelved shooting the principal and members of his family at the principal’s home. Wedresday, July ‘2. 2090 - North Shore News - 3 North Van creek runs Storm drains empty into local streams Deana Lancaster News Reporter dlancaster@nsnews.com ON Friday evening North Vancouver resident Dave Bolt was relaxing on his deck with friends, enjoying the sun- shine and admiring the milky white stream that flows through his back- yard. It’s the second imc in five days that the lithe creck has gone opaque. “It’s symptomatic at about 5 p.m. Someone north or cast of us has been painting and when they finish for the day they obviously wash out their brushes and equip- ment and let it run into the storm drain.” Bolt lives on West 29th, and the the creck behind his home is just a small open section of one that is largely covered by a culvert as it flows south. He said this week's pollution is not the first time that Lower Mission Creek has been the recipient of someone else’s houschold waste. te with po “Whenever people wash their cars they det the suby water run into the storm drain.” [rt usually takes about 45 minutes te an hour for the creck to run clear again Rolt’s theary is that people simply forget that storm drains empty inte ical streams and creeks to flow down to the ocean — an oversight that is especially troubling since government, business- ¢s and community groups have been working to clean up local waterways and repopulate them with fish. The Salmonid Renewal Program is the largest of the for at S10 million, inchiding a $2 million contribution from BC Hydro. The program is being delivered through a network of about 20) partnership groups throughout B.C. Participants in’ the Lower Mainland Regional Delivery Partner Group include Squamish Nation, North Vancouver- based EVS) Environmental Consultants, West Vancouver Streanikeepers, Seymour’ Salmonid Society, North Vancouver Fish and Game and North Shore Streamkeepers. Project volunteers in) North and West Vancouver have been busy this year stocking urban streams with thousands of coho salmon fry, assessing, water quality and helping to open See Citisens pane & Three hurt in Sea to Sky Highway crash LIONS Bay and West Vancouver Fire and Rescue crews helped defuse a potentially explosive situation on the Sea to Sky Highway early Sunday morning. A Ford pickup with a single occupant collided with a Ford Probe carrying two passengers near the Sunset Marina on NEWS photo Cindy Goodman Highway 99 shortly am. The pickup rolled and spilled its cargo of building materials, including tools, lad- ders and containers of gaso- line. The truck’s fuct tank also began to leak, spilling more of the flammable liquid at the scene, Firefighters were initially unable to turn off the ove turned truck’s ion. ‘They used liquid foam to contain the fumes and manned hose lines so that the occupants of the vehicles could be safely removed. Ambulances ucated the three victims at the scene. West Vancouver Fire Prevention Capt. Martin Ernst said their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. — Jan-Christian Sorensen Fram page t sibly on Iona Island in Richmond “We accept our. responsibility with respect to the Sunshine Coast and Bowen Island, bur you don’t have to have the Vancouver Island taffic come through Horseshoe Bay,” said Williams. “We want the Nanaimo traffic out of the Bay. The growth in traffic from Nanaimo will overpower this community.” Lingwood, however, said the Nanaimo run is here to stay. cre are many people who want us and the Nanaimo route to go away, but those are things that just aren’t going to happen. There’s a huge tourist industry on Vancouver Island which relies on good ferry service and Horseshoe Bay is the access for many people on the Island to the Trans Canada (Highway).” Despite the mostly-negative reaction his delegation received on Monday, Lingwood — said he isn’t ready to throw in the towel on public input. As a crown corpuration, BC Ferries does not require the approval of West Vancouver council to proceed with its plans. “Pm hoping we can wor: through the issues and deal with this in a businesslike and amicable way,” said Lingwood. “When people see what is happening I think they'll find that the impacts aren’t as great as they thought and there is substantial benefit.” One of the residents most affected by xpansion is retired carpenter Peter Lowrek. The edge of the planned underground parking compound would come within five feet of the front door of his pastoral Argyle Street property. Lowrek, who has lived in the Bay since 1994, also worrics about the effect the construction will have on various exotic plants and flowers he has carefully cultivat- ed there. “Right now it’s quict. That’s how I like it. With this, our peaceful way of life will be NEWS phcio itike Wakefield PETER Lowrek, left, explains to Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal expansion project manager Jim Wilscn how his home will be affected by the expan- _— sion during a BC Ferries-hosted waikabout Monday afternoon. - gone. Why do they have to go into a resi- dential area?” Lowrck would rather BC Ferrics move the compound closer to the eastern edge of the ferry access road. Lingwood, however, said he was trying to avoid any excess blast- ing of rock, as per residents’ earlier demands. aowrek asked Wilson if the corporation would buy out his property. While he enjoys living in the Bay, he said he would take an offer if the price was right and relo- eate to the Okanagan. “{ don’t want to hold up progress,” said Lowrek. “If they need this part to do what they have to do, okay, but the price has to be right. I hate to give the place up, but what else can I do?” Wilson said that a buyout would be an unlikely event, however. “We don’t actually need his property and we’re not encroaching on his property, so there’s no warrant to buy it.” Other stops on the walkabourt also included the site of the proposed ferry maintenance building near berth one — a 90-foot high, two-ticred structure that will require approximately 7,000 cubic metres of material to be blasted from the adjacent rockface; a new two-storey foot passenger facility and administration office that would be located on the current drop-off area at the corner of Keith Road and Bay ° Street; and a new toll plaza across from Gleneagles Elementary on Marine Drive. West Vancouver District Council ‘also met yesterday morming with MLA. Joy McPhail, the minister responsible: for’ BC Ferries, regarding the expansion plans for the Bay.