Federal candidate fF profiles: pages 2,3 ews TO SEPARATE today’s North Shore News into its several sections: 1) open newspaper (o the centrefold to find Home Hardware insert; 2) remove insert to find Christmas News; 3) pull out Christmas News to find the sports section; 4) and finally, remove the sports section for the North Shore Now entertainmen‘ section and full-week television listings. NEWs, phetos Neil Lucente A 1987 AUDI 5000 went out of control Tuesday aftersoon on East 15th St. near Eastern Av>., crashing into a Lonsdale Ave. bus shelter and injuring two bystanders. Driver Mechraban Farhangi, of North J Vancouver, and the two bystanders suffered minor injuries and were taken to Lions Gate Hospital. Am- | bulance attendants (top photo) wheel away one of the injured bystanders, while (above) onlookers survey the damaged Audi. INDIAN ARM Fish farm expansion put on ho id PLANS TO quadruple the size of an Indian Arm fish farm have been put on hold for al least two years, Deitmar Netzer, manager of property adrainistranion for the Vancouver Port Corp., said: Mon- day he had been informed verbally by Pacific Aquaculture Ltd. that the company would withdraw its application for a water lease near Best Point approximately five kilometres north of Deep Cove harbor. The voluntary withdrawal follows a Nov. 13) News story chronicling opposition to Pacific's proposed expansion, which would have installed 12 fish-r-uring pens {17.5 metres by 16.5 metres each) ina site across Orlomah Beach bay from the company’s current four- pen fish farm, and increased the operation’s annual fish production from 20 «ans to 100 tons. Indian Arm residents had signed a petition protesting the expansion on the grounds that it posed a possible pollution threat to Indian Arm waters, and would reduce In- dian Arm's rec eational value and natural beauty. Pacific general manager Jim Malamas said Monday his com- pany had no wish to ‘‘bulldoze’’ the proposed expansion over the wishes of residents and, because of the opposition to the plan, had decided to retract the application until the port corporation had completed its stucy of Indian Arm and the area’s potential for recre- ation and capacity for such com- mercial uses as aquaculture. He repeated earlier statements that the farn;’s benefits to the local economy far outweighed any perceived negative aesthetic impact By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter on the area, and that fish farm pollution fears were unwarranted and not grounded in fact. Setzer said the port corpora- don's Indian Arm study will be conducted by Simon Fraser Uni- versity and should be completed in approximately two years, The port corporation, whose in- ner Vancouver harbor authority over water leases includes Burrard Inlet, English Bay and Indian Arm, has placed a moratorium on all new aquaculture applications in its jurisdiction until the study is completed. Pacific, Malamas said. would continue to operate the four-pen Indian Arm site for the immediate future, though its viability as a rearing facility for hatchery chinook and commercial fish in its present configuration was marginal. He said the company had not decided whether it would still pur- sue another water lease near the current site after completion of the Indian Arm study. Pacific would also require fish farm expansion approval from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, North Vancouver District and the Canadian Coast Guard. Charles Addison, who had cc?- lected approximately 85 signatures on the petition provsting the fish farm expansion, said Monday he was extremely happy with Pacific’s decision. Lost hikers rescued from wilderness LOGCAL SEARCH and rescue crews responded to two sep- arate incidents involving people who miscalculated condi- tions while in the wilderness over the weekend. Maurice Lyttle, 42, and Stuart Creasser, 54, spent a night under a tree al |_ynn Headwaters Regional Park after being trapped on ine trail by darkness Friday. The pair did not have a flashlight with them. A fire they managed to ig- nite, was put out by a heavy By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter snewtall. Said North Shore Rescue Team member Al McMordie: ‘We had diificulty finding out if there even was anybody missing. All we had was an ermpty car in the parking lot.’’ Searchers were able to ascer- tain that hikers were missing after entering the car and finding a grocery bill which itemized hiking food supplies. ‘They didn’t tell anyone they were going hiking and they didn't tell anyone of their destination,"” MeMordie said. A helicopter crew eventually spotted the pair in good condition near @ creek. In another incident, the North Shore Lifeboat Society (NSLS) Coast Guard Auxiliary lifeboat, based at Fisherman's Cove: a Gib- scns search and rescue crew; the Coast Guard cutter Osprey; Gib- sons RCMP; and an RCMP helicopter were calied in to search for a missing hunter on Gambier Island Sunday. Douglas Winters, 48, went miss- ing after he became disoriented in the woods. Winters and son Douglas junior, 20, had set up camp at Haikett Point. Rescuers said the elder Winters went off to scout trails and was lost after a few hours of hiking. He was spotted the next day by the RCMP helicopter in See Rescue Page 4