Going, going, gone Wednesday, September 29, 1599 - North Shore News - 3 NEWS photos Cindy Goodman WEST Vancouver Police Const. Tim Kravjanski had his head shaved on Monday during a fundraiser for cancer research at Rockridge middle schoo! in Cauttelld. Clash Jett MacKinnon Contributing Writer MONDAY night’s Board of Vancouver Parks and Recreation meeting wasn’t a walk in the park for two West Vaiicouver groups pushing for wider Stanley Park causeway traffic lanes. Representatives of the Ambleside Business Association and the West Vancouver Garden Club (WVGC) mistakenly believed they would be allowed to speak at the mecting. “Someone from the parks board oftice phoned me this morning and said we ble were on the agenda. From that I assumed that | would be able to speak,” Ambleside Business Association president Dina Zeitler said after being denied the opportunity to present a specch. “They phoned me and told me that I weald be able to speak after ... the agends in the new business part of the mecting,” said the WVGC’s Marion lodwell. Board chairman Alan Fetherstonhaugh gay« in to Nodwell, who is a senior citizen, ofter the two engaged in a heated debste about protocol. Nodwell delivered a 500-name petition calling for the widening of the three causeway lanes. She was also allowed to read a letter aloud to the board. “These meetings are run in a specific way under Robertson’s Rules of Order and it was not an agenda item. “We don’t allow delegations on non-agenda ite;ns,” Fetherstonhaugh said Reynolds jumps into From page scene she said Kaya fell off her arm. At the detachment she said her ankle buck- ver park causeway after the meeting. He said the issue is no longer open to debate. “We've already dealt with the issue,” he said. “We were part of the public debate that went on for four years. We did extensive public consultation. The provincial government took that and this is what they gave us.” Fetherstonhaugh said there may have been a misunderstanding between the board's secretary and Nodwell and Zecitler. Construstion began in July on a project that will widen sidewalks on both the Lions Gate Bridge and the traffic lanes from their current width of 1.3 metres (4.3 feet) to 2.0 metres (6.6 feet). While bridge traffic lancs will be widened, their causeway counterparts will remain at 2.9 metres (9.5 feet) wide, which does not measure up to the B.C. Roadbuilders’ Association standard of 3.5 metres (11.5 feet). The complete $100 million bridge upgrade is expected to be finished by the end of November 2000. Board member Patrick Warren said the board’s mandate is to preserve Stanley Park as a green space for recreational use. “If we were to widen the causeway not only would we not be fulfilling our mandate, we would make it less likely that a third crossing would happen with- in five to 10 years,” he said. West Vancouver District Coun. Russ Fraser has requested a meeting with the Board of Parks and Recreation next week. ; “I can’t wait,” said parks board commissioner Allan De Genova. “The pub- lic needs to know the facts. I can’t help it if Russ Fraser was asleep at the switch.” Search followed interrogation had fallen. One of those was from Werbes who “told police that his wife road fray From page 1 important than your lives, I don’t know how an elected official could come to this con- clusion. It seems to me that they have their heads buried in a pile of manure,” he said. The mayor and council have written to the province and the federal government (which owns Stanley Park) to intervene, On Tuesday, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast MP John Reynolds, Reform chief justice critic, asked the federal minister of defence to inter- cede on behalf of North Shore residents, Said. Reynolds, “Given that a national defence facility exists within the bound- aries of Stanicy Park, the feder- al government, through national defence and the minis- ter, is responsible for Stanley Park, the park is only leased to the Vancouver parks board... The attitude of Vancouver parks board is irresponsible and dangerous...” daylight search of Hama’s residence on Fairview Stopes in Vancouver last Friday. Hama was arrested at the popular tourist attraction after the baby was res- cued from a 45.5-metre (150-foot) plunge to a rocky ledge next to the Capilano River. During interrogation at the North Vancouver detachment, the search war- rant states that Hama admitted she used her home computer to make adoption inquiries via e-mail with a woman in the United States. “Nadia Hama made several attempts to put Kaya Hama-Werbes up for adop- tion,” Warzel wrote in the warrant. “The mother complained to (the ministry of) social services that the child was difficult to care for.” . Police wanted to seize all computing equipment, peripheral devices, communi- cation devices for such computing cquip- ment, data storage devices, including data storage devices and media, remov- able media and any manuals associated to any computing equipment, as well as any hard copy printouts, personal papers and diaries. Hama, according to the search war- rant, changed her story several times while being interviewed by police. At the led and Kaya fell towards the railing. She also said she couldn’: recall what hap- pened. “Subsequently, Nadia Hama appeared to be more concerned about her divorce proceedings than the prognosis of her child,” Werzel wrote. Hama was “traumatized” by the birth of her daughter, who was afflicted with Down’s syndrome, on April 16, 1998. Police records indicate that on Dec. 10, 1998, Kaya was left alone by Hama in a car in a Vancouver parking lot for at least 20 minutes while she met with her lawyer. Police arrived and gave Hama a warning. Hama spent Sept. 22 running errands with Kaya and five-year-old son Jovan Hama-Werbes. They arrived at Capilano Suspension Bridge at 4:40 p.m. and pro- ceeded to cross the wobbly bridge over the Capilano River. Hama was described in the search warrant as holding Jovan with her left hand and carrying Kaya like a “sack of potatoes” on her right shoul- der, next to the four-foot high railing. Police checked her cell phone records, which indicate she called her estranged husband Kjeld Werbes immediately after the incident. Police received several phone calls at 5:30 p.m. reporting a baby “child su: * from Wee had thrown Kaya off the Capilano Bridge.” . : Hama was released carly Thursday evening without being charged. © isobeying a cou s his:1988 F far to Hama y: found: in‘ coritempr of court’: rdered trans-"< Rights fight backed THE B.C. Press. Council is supporting a court batile by ex- ; News’ columnist Doug Collins, It is applying to intervene in his appeal of a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal conviction. The press council is challeng- ing the tribunal’s authority and the constitutionality of the 8.C. Human Rights Code. In February, Collins. and the News were fined $2,000 - and ordered to publish the ti- bunal’s verdict. The tribunal . found four columns from"). . 1994 would “likely” expose 2, Victoria complainant to hatred» or contempt because he: is’. Jewish. oe, Press council lawyer Roger: McConchie said he will seek to: present a written brief to the court when Collins’ appeal -is heard in February. Meanwhile, the government has applied to *., quash Collins’ appeal. A hear-...: ~ing is scheduled for Oct:18.. “Having a quasi-judicial ti- - bunal appointed by the provin=. cial government to regulate: | the content of newspapers is not a good idea,” McConchie . ‘said. “In fact, it is prohibited. both by the free speech guar- _antee in the Charter (of Rights“ and Freedoms) and the consti-. tutional division of authority ~ under the British North: America Act.”, ; Said Collins: “I think it’s a° darn’ good thing they?re: involved.” “ . But he was disappointed: that Pacific Press, the. press, council’s biggest member,’ declined to offer extra funds, for legal fees to help the coun-- -cil get full intervenor status.: Collins and his lawyer Doug’ Christie are speaking Thursday. at 7 p.m. at the Vancouver, Public Library’s Central’: Branch, 350 West Georgia, on: threats'to free speech. ~—— Bob Mackin: