Man jailed two years A 22-YEAR-OLD man of no fixed address was sentenced April 4 in North Vancouver provincial court to two years in jai! after he pleaded guilty to six criminal counts ranging from auto theft to break and enter. . Timothy John Brown was originally charged with two counts of theft over $1,000 in connection with Feb. 6 and Feb. 13 incidents in which the same Toyota pickup truck was stolen. He was also charged with three counts of break and enter in connection with Feb. 7, 13 and 14 incidents in which Grillbies Growlies on Marine Drive was burglarized twice and Calder Music on Capilano Read was burglarized once. Brown alsc faced another count of break and enter laid against him in connection with a Dec. 22, 1988 incident in which a business on West 15th Street in North Vancouver was burglarized. Appearing before Judge J.D. Layton, Brown was sentenced to two years in jail on the charges. Petition against hignrise circulated MEMBIERS OF the recently-formed Citizen’s Action Group of Lower onsdaie (CAGLL) voted March 29 to circulate a petition enlisting capport for the group’s fight aguinst highrise development in Lower Lonsdale. The group, formed foliowing last month’s demolition of the Ti-year-old St. Alice Hotel, is lobbying to halt construction of a 28-storey luxury highrise on the St. Alice’s West Second Street site. City council voted to allow the demolition of the St. Alice fol- towing preservation feasibility studies that showed costs to refur- bish and bring the hotel up to building standards ranging between $1.7 million and $1.8 million. CAGLL is proposing a reduction in zoning and density in Lower Lonsdale to allow for what the group says will be a more creative approach to preserving harbor views. The group is urging concerned citizens to sttend Monday night's North Vancouver City Council meeting to provide input into the planning of Lower Lonsdate. For CAGLL information call Helen Millard at 986-5755. WV man wins fellowship WEST VANCOUVER resident Said Marandi has received one of five new Industrial Post-doctoral Fellowships awarded recently by the Science Council of B.C. The $25,000 fellowships were set up to encourage men and women with PhDs in science and engineering to work in the private sector. They also provide the seed money often needed by com- panies and research institutes to cover the first few years of a praduate’s employment. Marandi, who has a PhD in space dynamics from the University of British Columbia, will be taken on by Richmond's MacDonald Dettwiler to work in the company’s systems division, where he will try to help improve the accuracy of software that enables ground stations to predict the orbits of remote-sensing earth satellites. Funding for the fellowship prograin is provided by the provincial Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training. Toll-free phone zones requested B.C. TEL has submitted to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) its five-year plan to im- plement one-way Extended Area Service (EAS) on 100 telephone routes around the province including from Bowen Island to West Vancouver, Vancouver und Squamish and from Britannia Beach to Squamish and Vancouver. EAS refers to the toll-free calling area of any given ietephone exchange and provides toll-free or ‘local’ calls within that area. One-way EAS provides toll-free calling from one community to another, but not vice-versa. In alt, 106 routes throughout the province qualify for one-way EAS criteria as established by the CRTC: at least 69 per cent of the customers in one exchunge must cali the other exchange at least once per month, three months out of four and the distance between the exchanges’ main switching centres may not exceed 40 miles. Where a sate increase is involved, a majority of over 50 per cent of subscribers must approve the EAS in a plebiscite vote. NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP are ignoring their own directive to answer the phone in both French and English. By RAY TICKSON Contributing Writer Federal Mountie headquarters issued an order last July that all police detachments in an area with more than 500 persons whose first language was French, must answer the phone in both languages. But North Vancouver detach- ment doesn’t. North Vancouver RCMP super- intendent Jack Morton says he is examining the directive and discussing it with the municipalities. The people who answer the phones are municipal employees, and Morton says there is some question whether a federal order can apply to them. “There certainly is a require- ment for certain police detach- ments to be able to respond in both official languages,’’ said Morton. ‘‘But it’s a sensitive issue. I want to examine everything that must be done.”’ Morton said he intends ‘‘to cover all bases’’ in discussing the problem with the municipalities. 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