A 38-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver resident is one of two men who have vanished since they and number of other people were charged with various criminal offences in connec- tion with an alleged drug conspiracy. By Michael Becker News Reporter Meanwhile an executive of a marine supply company has joined Police in the search for Nicholas Beyer, claiming that the missing man owes his firm $43,564.24. Beyer, of 4050 Mount Seymour Sunday, Novemper 25 1990 - North Shore News - 3 Search is on for missing man Food supplier to Soviet freighters disappears after being charged in alleged drug conspiracy Parkway, is one of the co-accused in a cocaine trial, recently under way in New Westminster provin- cial court. The trial involves a group known as ‘The Russians’. The trial follows a Sept. 7, 1989 seizure of 28.6 pounds of pure cocaine — the result of a three- month investigation conducted by the Vancouver-based RCMP drug section. The cocaine had an estimated street value of $9 mil- lion. Sergey Filonov, one of the group of people accused with con- spiracy to import and traffic co- caine, was shot to death in Van- THERE’S ALWAYS one dancer who sticks out from the crowd. These girls are rehearsing for the North Vancouver Recreation Commission's Arts in Action resentation to be held Dec. 6 at the Centennial heatre. Dance enthusiasts of all ages anc experi- Council to consider environmental game plan Task force delivers 25 suggestions to clean up NV District environment **THINK GLOBALLY; act locally.’” By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer So says the North Vancouver District Task Force On The En- vironment in a 25-point plan for local action that was presented recently to district council recent- ly, The task force was formed ap- proximately one year ago and in- cluded representatives from business, industry, environmental groups, district staff and district council. One of its first successes, and one the task force hopes to see continue, is the Going Green On The North Shore project, which has involved, among other things, delivery via the North Shore News of environmental ‘action calen- dars’’ to every home on the North Shore. . The News has been heavily in- volved in the planning and pro- motion of Going Green initiatives. According to North Vancouver NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL District Ald. Bill Rodgers, who is the district council representative on the environment task force, the Going Green project is being ex- amined by other levels of gov- ernment as a means of educating public attitudes toward en- vironmental issues. Rodgers said all 25 task force recommendations ‘‘could be im- pleinented quickly and _ relatively inexpensively. This was not a ‘pie in the sky’ group, but a group of citizens challenging council to act immediately and show lead- ership.”’ In presenting the task force's plan to district council, Rodgers said, ‘‘The environment is the sieve through which all ideas must pass.”’ The district: © continue to support the Going Green on the North Shore project; e designatc an environment of- ficer to coordinate the approaches plan recommends the couver in May. In Seprember of this year, co-accused Lezsck Galas disappeared while free on bail. A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Beyer on Aug. 21 after he failed to show up in court. Beyer is charged with possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking and = conspiracy to commit an indictable offence. But North Vancouver resident Rocky Rocksborough-Smith, director and vice-president of Triton Holdings Inc., knew Beyer as Nikolay M. Beyer, the operator of company that supplied food to and that freighters vessels Soviet deep-sea other ocean-going docked in Vancouver. “He furnished them = with everything from soup to nuts so to speak. His main thrust was in the food departnient — it was some- thing he could do as a one-man operator and (then) deal with more established suppliers such as ourselves,’’ said Rocksborough- Smith. “He was known as ‘Nick’ on the waterfront and had some good Soviet contacts with the fishing fleet, which is in port regularly. They're usually mother ships tak- NEWS photo Mike Wakofield ence will perform curing the evening performance whici: will feature tap, folk and ethnic dancing. The show starts at 7 p.m. For more information call 988-6166. to «environment protection of the engistering, planning, building in- spection and parks departments and to review district bylaws to ensure that adequate safeguards and enforcement programs are in place; © require: all development pro- posals to include environmental impact statements in order to identify ‘‘hazardous/noxious”’ businesses; © undertake an inventory of the current status of district creck and river water quality, fish habitat and species and require en- vironmental bonding from devel- opers; eimmediately implement a water protection bylaw to prohibit the dumping of hazardous/ noxious materials into creeks and streams: ® co-ordinate a neighborhood adopt-a-stream project that would see volunteers from the communi- ty regularly clean up and monitor streams; e evaluate the effectiveness of oi! and grit interceptors for the storm water sewage system; require all industrial, com- mercial and multi-family residen- tial developments to mark storm sewers with a ycllow fish symbol to increase awareness that 99 per cent of storm sewers flow into NORTH Vancouver District Ald. Bill Rodgers ... ‘plan could be implemented quickly and rela- tively inexpensively.”’ area fish-bearing creeks; assist homeowners in remov- ing unused Residential Under- ground Storage Tanks (RUSTS); eenact a Pesticide Notification Bylaw similar to the bylaw in North Vancouver City to increase public awareness of pesticide use; e establish a houschold hazard- ous waste collection site and sponsor an annual household haz- ing anywhere from $125,000 to $250,000 worth of produce alone out to the fishing fleet,"* Rociksborough-Smith added. Beyer last came to Rocksborough-Smith’s office at the end of June to pay a bill. But Rocksborough-Smith claims Beyer disappeared without paying a subsequent $43,564.24 bill for the supply of a Soviet ship in late June. Beyer initially ran his marine supply operation from a home in the 400-block of East 19th Street in North Vancouver, before mov- ing to the 4000-block of Mount Seymour Parkway. Rocksborough-Smith said that his company had been dealing with Beyer for the past six or seven years. Index 3 Affluence & Influence .44 @ Gary Bannerman .... 9 1B Ciassified Ads ® Cocktails & Caviar... 3 Comics @ Editorial Page @ Fashion B High Tech Horcscopes M8 Bob Hunter @ Lifestyles ........... 33 @ Mailbox @ Vintage Years @ What's Going On... .46 Weather Sunday and Monday, periods of rain. Lows near -I% highs, 7°C. Tuesday, cloudy with showers. Warmer. Second Ctass Registration Number 3885 ardous waste collection day; @ investigate the feasibility of a central composting depot operated yy volunteers who would sell the compost collected; *@ create wildlife habitats in district parks and encourage the design of wildlife habitat in all residential and commercial devel- opments; * establish an inventory of crit- ical wildlife areas and habitat values and establish land-use pat- terns to achieve maximum protec- tion zones for wildlife habitat areas and stream banks; 2 establish an inventory of heritage trees that includes exotic non-indigenous trees of significance to the municipality; eestablish an ozone-friendly purchasing policy and enact a bylaw prohibiting the disposal of refrigerators and air conditioners unless the refrigerants are first re- covered; © continue using recycled oil in all municipal vehicles; * use propane or natural gas systems wherever possible in municipal vehicles; e establish a bicycling commit- tee to develop a series of bike paths linking parks, roads and business centres; “encourage car-pooling by creating a car-pool exchange.