THREE-VESSEL COLLISION Diesel oil spil QIL SPILL cieanup crews had a major runaway slick on their hands Friday morning after a three-vessel collision in Vancouver harbor resulted in the release of approximately 39,750 litres of bunker ‘‘B’’ oil into Burrard Inlet. According to Vancouver Port Corp. spokesman Trace Acres, the spill occurred at about 6:30 a.m. when the grain ship Rubin Lotus, which was moving from North Gary Bannerman........ 9 Business .............. 18 Classified Ads....:.....43 Cocktails & Caviar......35 Fashion............... 15 Lifestyles..............39 Sports ................ 14 Travel ................ 33 What's Going On........41 WEATHER Sunday and Monday, mostly cloudy with chance of showers. Tuesday, cloudy with showers. Highs near 17°C. Second Class Registration Number 3885 camp NS-W STAGE July. 1990 * © EASTBOUND HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SHIFTED TO NEW RAMPS W - NS AND NS - E Target date for completion Vancouver's Saskatchewan Wheat Pool to Vancouver’s Pacific Eleva- tors, collided with another vessel. “It got tangled up with a Polish fishing vessel (the Arcturus),’’ said Acres. ‘*The fishing vessel hit a third vessel, which wasn't dam- aged.”’ But, according to Environment Canada engineering assistant Maureer “McGrath, the anchor of the Rubin Lotus ripped fuel tank. The oil spill had reportedly been 3 - Sunday, February 25, 1990 ~ Nosth Shure News three puncture holes in the Arcturus’ is into harbor mately 80 per cent of the spilled oil had spread beyond the boom. To press time Friday, the oil INDUSTRY MUST BE PREPARED: HIGH-TECH, PAGE 18 contained by boom early Friday, but an aerial survey later in the mornine confirmed that approxi- slick had moved west along the Vancouver shoreline past the Centerm facility in Vancouver. Story of NV mom’s fight to keep daughter off the street now the subject of TV movie MARCH 24 will be an anniversary for 40-year-old North Vancouver mother Kathleen Bell-Younger: two years to the day when RCMP officers kicked down her door and releas- ed the daughter she had tied to a bed to keep her from the streets and a life of prostitution. But this Monday night, 20- year-old Francesca Acosta and her mother will relive that drama when they turn on the TV and watch the ABC broadcast of Daughter Of The Streets, a movie based on a part of their life story. The family drew world attention when Bell-Younger paid a man $350 to have her then 18-year-old hooker daughter abducted from Granville Street. Acosta was tied to a bed for two days in her mother’s desperate bid to ‘‘deprogram’’ her daughter at home. Today, Acosta lives with her mother and is taking office “management courses. Bell- Younger refused the News an interview with her daughter but said Acosta’s ‘recovery. is complete.’” Meanwhile Bell-Younger fighting for her own life. In 1985 she was struck by polymyositis, an incurable muscle-degenerative disease. According to Bell-Younger, 20 per cent of people who are found to have the disease, die within five years of its diagnosis. Bell-Younger, who is now in her fifth year of liiving with the disease, counts herself among the is * WESTBOUND H!GHWAY TRAFFIC ON EXISTING AND WIDENED WESTBOUND LANES Parents pleased with off-ramp closure From page 1 has been made on the controversial eastbound off-ramp connection to Chesterfield Avenue south of the highway, which was expected to be open during phase-two construc- tion. But a North Vancouver City engineering spokesman said the department is recommending to council that the off-ramp be aban- doned. Residents and parents in the Chesterfield area raised opposition to the off-ramp after a September 1989 News story revealed that the off-ramp would funnel east-bound traffic leaving the highway down Chesterfield Avenue immediately adjacent to Lonsdale Elementary School. “Presently, the engineering department recommendation to council is to proceed as planned and to close that opening,” said Len Mierau, North Vancouver Ci- ty traffic technician. He added that the city has taken up the department of highways on an offer to block off the Chester- field off-ramp and that the off- ramp will remain closed ‘until ordered by council.’’ Mierau said the decision to block off the Chesterfield connec- tion was made after the city’s engineering department talked with the parents of Lonsdale Elemen- tary Schoo! pupils. But he denied that the depart- ment reached its decision as a result of any pressure from the parents’ group. Mierau said the engineering MICHAEL BECKE 20 per cent because the disease has never gone into remission for her. “The possibility of respiratory failure or heart failure is very real,’’ she said. But while Bell-Younger’s own future looks bleak, MAP For Kids, @ support group for runaway children she founded as a result of the traumatic experience with her daughter, is up and running. MAP For Kids was formed last September. Following her own runaway experience, Bell-Younger had become a one-woman counselling resource, with anxious parents phoning her for advice and even offering her money to orga- nize other street-kid kidnappings. With MAP For Kids, Bell- Younger hopes to create a systematic vehicle for change. The society has approximately 150 members province-wide and _ is supported by two celebrity patrons. ; Jane Alexander, the actress who plays Bell-Younger in Monday's movie, and actor Martin Sheen both back the MAP For Kids cause. Bell-Younger and Acosta met Sheen when he was in town and attended St. Paul’s Church in North Vancouver. ‘“We naturally became friends as old activists. He spent quite a bit of time with Francesca, and he took over the role as spiritual god- father to her,’’ she said. Short-term MAP For Kids goals include raising community awareness to create safe alter- natives for street kids, offering family support groups and lobby- ing to create legal remedies and improve the delivery of social ser- 4 (’) ! * LONSDALE AVENUE TRAFFIC SHIFTED TO LONSOALE AVENUE DETOUR © CHESTERFIELD AVENUE AND ST SEORGES AVENUE RE-OPENED TO TRAFFIC department must still complete a staff report on the Chesterfield connector before a final decision is made by council. An estimated 165 students cross Chesterfield every day. In addition to the elementary students who cross Chesterfield to reach Lons- dale Elementary School, high school students also cross Chester- field to reach Carson Graham Secondary School. Lonsdale Elementary School principal Cam Shields said he was happy at the recommendation to block off the Chesterfield connec- tor: ‘‘That’s great. We worked very hard over the last while to in- crease the awareness of the danger to children,’’ said Shields. ‘We thought the writing was on the wall (for approval of the Chesterfield connector.) But Judy Poole, secre- tary-treasurer of the Lonsdale School Parents’ Association, said she wants a commitment from city council that the Chesterfield off- ramp will remain closed perma- nently. She added that the city’s engineering department and the department of highways has told her the Chesterfield off-ramp will only remain closed until 1991 and that they don’t know what will happen after that. if the Chesterfield connection is not opened, Zimmerman said east-bound traffic leaving the highway on the highway east of the interchange will continue along the off-ramp and exit on Lonsdale Avenue. .| will be the first projects seeking NEWS photo KATHLEEN BELL-YOUNGER holds a picture ‘of her daughter, who two years ago turned to the streets (o work as a prostitute. Bell-Younger and Francesca Acosta, now 20 and living at home again, will have a ver- sion of their story told on TV Monday night. Daughter Of The Streets airs on ABC at 9 p.m. vices for at-risk youth. Among the MAP For Kids board members are North Van- couver City Ald. Stella Jo Dean and St. Paul’s Church Father Dennis Alexander. Said Bell-Younger, ‘‘We have major movements protecting the environment, but we do not have a major movement to defend the tights of our children to~ grow wisely and safely into maturity.”" ~ She hopes the TV movie will act as a catalyst to further the goals of MAP For Kids. Ferry contracts go to tender MORE THAN $70 million in ferry construction will go to tender next week to aid B.C.’s ailing ship- building industry. Transportation Minister Rita Johnston announced Friday that two 85-vehicle ferries and the ex- tension of the Queen of Burnaby bidders. Her announcement followed an emergency meeting with a number of shipbuilding com- panies, including North Van- couver-based Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc., in the wake of the federal government’s ter- mination of the Polar 8. But Johnston said the B.C. government would not, at this time, speed up plans for a ‘‘super ferry’’, announced in the 1989 throne speech, although it may be considered later, along with a possible third SeaBus between Vancouver and North Van. At the same meeting, held at the Victoria cabinet offices, Regional Economic Development Minister Stan Hagen announced formation of an ‘taction team’’ involving operators and govern- ment to assess the shipbuilding industry’s needs into the 2lIst century.