NEWS BRIEFS

Murder charge

A WEST Vancouver man faces a second degree murder
charge following the death Monday of his wife.

Beverly O'Grady, 64, a resident of the Park Royal
Towers, was found dead at approximately 8:30 p.m.

The West Vancouver Police have charged Gerald
Lawrence O’Grady, 69, with second degree murder in
connection with the death.

O’Grady appeared in West Vancouver provincial court
Wednesday and was remanded in custody to May 28.

Shooting reviewed

NO CHARGES will be laid against North Vancouver
RCMP Cpi. Glenn Magark in connection with the
shooting of Shayne Hawkes, Assistant Deputy Attorney
Genersl Bili Stewart said Thursday.

Hawkes was wounded by Magark during a police in-
vestigation ata Novzth Vancouver church on Jan. 16.

Said Stewart, ‘‘This incident has been thoroughty
reviewed by regional Crown counsel, deputy regional
Crown counsel and a senior official of the criminal
justice branch who reviews all allegations of criminal
misconduct by the police.”’

The investigators found that the actions of Hawkes
gave Magark reasonable grounds to believe that using a
firearm was necessary for the purpose of saving himself
from grievous bodily harm.

Hawkes appeared in North Vancouver provincial court
Thursday to face break-and-enter charges.

Bike crashes

THE POLICE are seeking witnesses to a May 18 motor-
cycle accident in which a 27-year-old North Vancouver
man sustained seriaus injuries.

The man was riding a 1980 Harley Davidson south at
approximately 12:30 p.m. on the Upper Levels Highway
when he weat off the rond and into 2 concrete abutment
at the Fern Street overpass.

A friend riding a motorcycle ahead of the accident
victim beard the crash but did not see the cause of the
accident.

Anyone who may have witnessed the accident can
contact Const. Dean Martin at §26-9744, .

Port Day ’92

PORT DAY ’92 will be held
this Sunday from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. at Waterfront Park
and the Pacific Marine
Training Institute (PMTI),
just west of Lonsdale Quay
in North Vancouver City.

The annual event, organized by
the Vancouver Port Corp., PMTI
and local marine and industry op-
erators, is designed as an open
house to showcase to the public
the many features of the working
Vancouver port.

This will be the fourth year that
port day will be held on the North
Shore. The event is also being
held on the south shore of Bur-
rard Inlet and at Roberts Bank.

Port Day °92 will include free
45-minute guided harbor tours
that will take the public to both
the north and south shores of
Burrard Inlet.

The cruises will depart from
Waterfront Park on the hour and
half hour; the free iickets for the

runs Sunday

cruises must be picked up at a
nearby ticket booth prior to board-
ing.

Two new attractions to port day
this year will be the Royal Hudson
locomotive and the TransCAER
safety train, both of which will be
open to the public.

The North Vancouver City Fire
Department will also simulate a
highrise rescue, and model rail
displays will be featured at BC
Rail’s headquarters building on
Esplanade.

Over at PMTI there will be sev-
eral hands-on demonstrations
with maritime equipment.

The Mount Seymour Lions
Club will hold a pancake
breakfast starting at 9 a.m. A
kitchen will also be supplied by
North Shore Rescue.

The public is encouraged to use
public transit because parking will
be limited.

A special Port Day °92 feature
section was published in the May
20 News.

Collins “politically incorrect”

From page 3

column. He added that Schreck
and the NDP always insist that
people be politically correct.

**What they (NDP) would really ©

like to do is control the media and
prevent free discussion of touchy
subjects,’ said Collins. ‘Their
chief concern is the interest of
Third World immigrants,
homosexuals, Indians and radical

feminists.”’

Collins said he does not intend
to stop writing about controversial
subjects.

“Like the rest of his party, Mr.
Schreck worships at the altar of
political correctness. Cir-
cumstances being what they are, I
plan to stay politically incorrect. |
have faced better dictators than
the Schrecks,”’ said Collins.

THE COACH House Inn
will phase out its policy of
using exotic dancers to at-
tract beer parlor customers
if North Vancouver District
Council approves rezoning
for a Coach House beer and
wine store, according to one
of the hotel’s owners.

By Martin Milterchip
Contributing Writer

Farouk Verjee appeared before
council at a May 12 public hearing
into the rezoning application.

The Coach House proposal calls
for a two-storey addition that
would house a retail outlet and an
upper banquet storage area, plus a
cabana and laundry facility at the
east end of the inn's swimming
pool.

The beer parlor’s seating would
be reduced from 310 to 190.

But because Coach House park-
ing will stilt be inadequate,’ council
is considering rezoning a small
strip of municipally owned Jand to
the north of the hotel site and
allowing the Coach House to bid
on the property to expand its
parking fot.

The building’ s roofline and
facade would be upgraded in two
stages.

Verjee described the approval of
the beer and wine store as ‘‘a
pivotal part of the upgrading”
that he said has already cost $2
million and will eventually climb
to $14% million to $2 million.

Verjee said he hopes to join The

Friday, May 22, 1992 — North Shore News - §

Coach House to drop strippers

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

Quality Inn franchise chain, which
he said would not accept exotic
dancing, and create a destination
resort for family tourism.

Pressed to say when the hotel’s
dancers would go, Verjee said ‘‘a
guess’’ would be within 18 months
to two years.

But Donald Taylor, representing
the Lynnwood Inn, suggested that
there was nothing that would re-
quire the Coach House to com-
plete the design renovations -or
eliminate the exotic dancers.

“Clearly, it is equally open to

the owners to sell the hotel for a
handsome profit immediately fol-
lowing the licensing of the cold
beer and wine store,’’ said Taylor.

Liquor Control and Licensing
Branch guidelines state that where
there is a population of 2,500 to
10,000 within a 1.5-km radius of
the proposed site, the closest ex-
isting beer and wine store should
be 2.5 km away.

Taylor pointed out that a newly
opened beer and wine store at the
Lynnwood Inn was only 1.0 km
away from the Coach House.

“We understand,’’ he said,
“that there are less than 10,000
persons within a [.5-km radius of
the Coach House inn.””

Barbara MacLellan, repre-
senting the Lynnmour Community
Association, said that on the
whole, despite some concerns with
increased traffic and noise, the
association was not opposed to
the beer and wine store if it

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helped to get rid of the exotic
dancers.

MacLellan said she had con-
cerns about the new owners being
held to their promises, but she
added, ‘‘We can’t get much worse
with the Coach House so any
change is an improvement.”*

Council will consider second
reading of the rezoning bylaws at
its next full meeting on May 25.

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