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location of the cars, Wall said a

But Environment Canada’s diver might be sent down to see if
regional emergency coordinator the identifying numbers can be
Steve Pond said Tuesday a subse- located.

Company spokesman Barric : ; quent study of an underwater In the meantime, he said, all the
Wall said Monday, BC Rail is video taken of the cars has company's deraiiment records are
awaiting exact location points of satisfied the federal environment — being studied.
the two railway tanker cars from department that the cars were not He said the cars would likely
Environment Canada. carrying toxic chemicals. have been carrying gasoline or

Pond has said he suspects the diesel fuel if they had been from
cars are from the 1987 train wreck, the 1957 wreck.
but Wall said the video is not clear
cnough to allow BC Rail to deter-
mine any identifying railcar
numbers.

Once the railway has the exact

BC RAIL has not yet confirmed whether the mysterious have never been recovered.

railcars discovered 16 months ago at the bottom of Howe
Sound are from a !957 train wreck.

testing an underwater Remotely
Operated Vehicle.

Concerns that the cars were part
of a chlorine gas shipment lost in
Howe Sound when. a barge
dumped four railcars in the mid-
70s were conveyed to Environment

Canada in January. The four cars

The cars were found in late 1986
‘in’ approximately 50 metres of
water, one kilometre north of
Porteau Cove. The discovery was
made by two federal energy, mines
and resources scientists, who were

Pond : ~

BC Rail spokesman Barrie
Wall...cars likely carried gasoline
or diesel fuel.

Environment Canada,
said, does not have the exact loca-
tion of the cars as yet, but will
meet with BC Rail officials Friday.

NEWS photo Terry Peters

NORTH VANCOUVER'’S Lynn Canyon claimed another life over the
weekend when an 18-year-old youth fell to his death after hopping
over 8 fence at the canyon's edge. A friend with him escaped injury.

TEEN PLUNGES TO DEATH

Tragedy strikes again
in Lynn Canyon park

LYNN CANYON park, a long-favored drinking spot for
once again proved itself to be a deadly
watering hole after a tragic teen death occurred Saturday

local youth,

at 2 a.m.

Eighteen-year-old Sergio
Vera of North Vancouver lost
his life when he and his friend,
Dennis Reitan, 17, ignored
warning signs and bolted over a
4¥%:-foot wire-mesh fence after
spotting a North Vancouver
RCMP squad car patrolling the
area. The under-aged teens ran
because they had been drinking.

While Reitan barely managed

_ to escape death by clinging to
the cliffside, his best friend
Vera took a fatal plunge 150
feet down a cliff and into a
pool of water,

Only moments earlier the two
had been partying with 30
others ata parking lot near the
Lynn Canyon Suspension
Bridge.

The North Shore Rescue’
Team was called in to pull ap
Vera's body.

Coroner Dianne Messier said
the cause of death is still under
investigation. ‘‘As soon as we
get the tests back, Pll be mak-
ing a decision as to whether or

News "88 tourist guide
aids booming industry

Ls, “TOURISTS WILL again start flooding into

“ British Columbia for the summer.and local
usinesses will be able to get a piece of this
ulti-billion-dollar pie.

“This area was the first ever to increase tourism the
year after a world’s fair (Expo 86) compared to the
year before,’ noted Judi Ainsworth, chairman of the
joint tourism committee of North and West Van-
‘couver chambers of commerce.

Last year’s 13 million visitors dropped an average

f $55 per person into the province’s economy, mak-
ing tourism the second highest money-earning in-

lust
i On. the local scene, 35,500: visitors stopped into

‘local tourism information centres, indicating the large
umber of visitors coming to the North Shore.

“The interesting thing is (hat overseas (inquiries) at
the’ Lonsdale Quay infocentre were twice as high as
other centres,’? noted Ainsworth. ‘‘So that tells us
‘that overseas visitors are coming over on the SeaBus

to visit.”

To launch the 1988 tourism drive — highlighted by
the slogan ‘So Much More... Vancouver's North
Shore’ — industry professionals, politicians and
businesses were all involved at a special breakfast
meeting at the beginning of the year.

With a host of top attractions, the North Shore is a
natural destination for visitors who come to enjoy the
breathtaking scenery, fine restaurants and exciting
tourist spots. There is, as the slogan says, so much
more here.

And to highlight just how much more there is on
the North Shore, the North Shore News is putting
together a comprehensive tourist guide to be
distributed to tourist vutlets throughout British Col-
umbia during the peak tourist season.

Scheduled to run in the May 18 issue, the guide will
also be distributed along with the regular North Shore
News edition issuc to all North Shore homes.

Advertising deadline is April 29 at 4 p.m. For more
details on how to get involved with this guide, call the
display advertising department at 980-0511.

By MICHAET. BECKER
News Reporter
not to have an inquest,’
Messier said.

New warning signs and im-
proved fencing were installed in
the area as a result of a 1986
inquest into a death at the can-
yon,

But said Vera’s sister frika,
25: ‘There's no point in saying
the park should be safer or not.
He was in a restricted arcit.”'
The Vera family — Sergio, his
two sisters and parents —- mov-
ed to Canada cight years ago
from Chile.

Mayor Marilyn
the latest death was ‘most un-
fortunate." Said) Baker: °'l
have a 19-year-old son myself,
[U's a matter of a clear realiza-
tion that this isn't a playground
or @ passive park. The price you
pay for going over the fence is
often very, very, serious.””

Baker said police patrol the
area two to three times a night

Baker said

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on weekends. Although the
park is officially closed fram 10
p.m. to 6.a.m., teens locking
for a good time in a rela,ively
secluder, area park cars in
neighborhood strecis ‘and walk
in through the hundreds of
trails feeding into the park.

A North Vancouver RCMP
spokesperson said the topogra-
phy and popularity of the park
make prohibiting illegal use of
(he areca virtually unen-
forceable.

He said the teens often stash
their beer in the park during the
day and return in the darkness
to party,

Warning signs and fences are
ignored regularly by locals and
tourists alike,

A Burnaby man, 22-year-old
Rob Grant, drowned in the
creck in July 1986. West Van-
couver resident Mark Wood,
19, drowned trying to help a
North Vancouver friend who
tumbled into the canyon in
January 1984, A boulder rolling
down a canyon wall crushed
Jacquelyn Angela Whittacker,
19, while sunbathing in 1982.
American Martha Jane Nor-
man, 21, lost her life when she
fell into the canyon in 1980,

WEATHER

Cloudy with isolated showers,
Wednesday. Highs near 8°C.
Thursday, cloudy with periods
of rain.

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