No picnic
for park
heli-tour

concept

in NVD

HELI-PICNICS IN
Lynn Headwaters
Regional Park got a
unanimous thumbs
down from North Van-

couver District Council
on Monday night.

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

And the Greater Vancouver
Regional District (GVRD)
park committee and parks
department came in for con-
siderable criticism for even
considcring the concept at all.

“These are the same
wonderful people who sent us
logging in the watershed,’’
said Coun. Paul Turner,

Coun. Janice Harris in an
angry speech said she was ab-
solutely opposed to the idea
of the GVRD parks commit-
tee being persuaded by
private business.

“It stinks. I don't want to
manage anything that should
not be there in the first
place,'’ said Harris.

And Coun. Ernie Crist
compared the concept of
heli-tours to ‘‘taking a
lawnmower on a hike with
you.”

Park staff have received a
request from Vancouver
Helicopters Inc. to establish a
heli-picnic site in- Lynn
Headwaters Regional Park
and have recommended the
proposal proceed on a trial
basis for the summer of 1993.

Cnly one site on the ridge
north of Lynn Lake is con-
templated at present, but the
proposal is 10 be discussed by
the GVRD’'s revenue
generating committee with the
possibility of tendering for
other heli-picnic proposals.

Staff say that they already
know that ‘‘noise, elevation,
frequency and direction of
travel are issues’? raised by
heli-tours operating from
Grouse Mountain Resorts
Lid. and hope to collect data
throughout the summer from
park users and complainants
to develop voluntary airspace
management guidelines.

Staff also propose collect-
ing data on the trial program
of heli-picnics to ‘‘provide
key information for assessing
the continuance of the pro-
gram.’’ .

The GVRD park committee
has forwarded both issues to
the GVRD > board, which
meets next week.

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CHRIS PAUL, right, is comforted by his sister Loia Joseph after Paul was attacked at a house party on the Squainish Nation's Mis-
sion reserve on Saturday night. Band peackeeper Sam George, ieft, said Paul and another person were attacked by a native gang
called the Bad Boys Club and that many band residents want something done to stop the gang’s activities.

Weekend attacks on Squamish Nation reserve send two to hospital

RESIDENTS LIVING on the Squamish Nation's Mission

reserve have had enough of a local native gang calle
Bad Boys Club (BBC). They want something done to curb

the

the violent group, a band peacekeeper said Monday.

Sam George made the comment
after two people attending a house
party at the North Vancouver
reserve were attacked by bat-
wielding BBC members on Satur-
day night.

The victims were sent to Lions
Gate Hospital with head, facial
and leg injuries,

George said the Saturday inci-
dent was sparked by an earlier
fight at the house on Friday night.

“There was a party and the
BBC crashed it. Two or three
BBC got beat up,’’ he said.

Added George, ‘On Saturday

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

night, the BBC went back to the
house with about eight people
carrying baseball bats and beat
two people up.”

On Sunday night, a group of
reserve residents attempted to
retaliate.

“There were a bunch of band
members out as a vigilante group.
They caught four or five of the
BBC down by the recreation cen-

4& The BBC went back to the house with
about eight people carrying baseball bats... 99

-Band peacekeeper.Sam George

tre and chased them,’ said
George.

He said that violence on’ the
reserve by the BBC is increasing.
Reserve residents want to put a
stop to the gang’s activities.

George said the band wilt hold
a meeting tonight and the issue of
violence by the BBC will be ad-
dressed.

North Vancouver RCMP Const.

Peter Cross, one of several police
officers called to the scene on
Friday, said BBC. members
routinely attack people walking at.
night along Forbes Avenue in
North Vancouver City near the
Squamish Band’s Mission reserve,

To press time, no charges were

laid against those involved in the
Saturday night attack.

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