ouncil rejects

Development process initiated on controversial half-size ice skating facility

A CONTROVERSIAL pro-
posal to build a half-size ice
rink in an industrial area
mear Main Street and
Mountain Highway will go
to a public hearing.

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
by Martin Millerchip

On Monday night North Van-
couver District Council voted 4-3
against a staff recommendation to
reject the rezoning application.

Instead, council directed plan-
ning staff to initiate the develop-
Ment process that will give the
proponents, industrial neighbors
and the public a chance to have
their say.

Terry Grimwood has proposed

to use a privately built, half-size
ice rink to teach basic skating
skills to children aged four to 12.

Olympic figure-skating silver
medallist Karen Magnussen would
be one of the instructors at the
tink proposed for the 1385
Mountain Hwy. facility.

“Iothink it is an imaginative
proposal. } think it is a practical
proposal,’’ said Coun. Ernie Crist.

But adjacent industrial
businesses told council that the
proposal amounts to spot rezoning
of the district’s industrial Jand
base.

They also said that parking in
the area is totally inadequate and
that small children will be at risk
in the middle of heavy industrial
traffic.

Mayor
agreed.

“Spot zoning this site flies in

Murray Dykeman

WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP

Lynn Valley Little
oacue team loses
opener to Panama

THE LYNN Valley Little League baseball team, which is
representing Canada at the Little League World Series in

Williamsport,
Panama 6-0 on Monday.
The game was scoreless. going
<into the bottom half of the third
inning when Panama went ahead
on 4 three-rua homer.
The Panamanian :team_ also
». scored. twice in .the fifth inning
.,, and once in the sixth.
"Lynn Valley. — now known as
“Team Canada — left the bases
‘loaded twice in the game.
‘The score. of Tuesday’s game
“, against Europe was unavailable at
press time. |
“The audio poition of today’s |
game pitting Lynn Valley against °
Saipan, the Asian representative at
the world championships, will be
broadcast live on. Shaw Cable at
10:40 a.m. (local time).:
If Lynn Valley advances to the
. International Division’ final, Shaw’
will broadcast the audio version of.
the game tomorrow at 10:10 a.m.
- Meanwhile, one of Lynn
-Yalley’s ‘coaches, Cathy Barnard,

along with her ball cap, will be-

‘inducted into the Little League
. Hall of Fame, because she is the
first female. coach to reach the
Little League World Series.

‘' The Little League World Series

is a two-division tournament. The

Pennsylvania,

* from

lost its opening game to

By Kevin Gillies
Contributing Writer

winners of round-robin playoffs
in each division meet for the final
on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 12:30
p.m. local time.

Four U.S. teams are in the
American Division: New Hamp-
shiie from the east, California
the west, Ohio from the
north and Virginia from the
south. .

The International Division con-
tains Team Canada, Team Europe
(from an American army base in

Germany), Team Asia (Saipan)

and Team Latin America
(Panama).

The final will be broadcast on
ABC Sports at 12:30 p.m.

The Lynn’ Valley team is ex-
pected to arrive at Vancouver In-
ternational Airport on Monday,
Aug. 30, at 4:45 p.m.

As reported in the Aug. 22
News, Lynn Valley won the right
to represent Canada in the world
series after defeating Quebec 2-1
on Friday in the Canadian Na-
tional Little League final.

$50 penalty suggested
for municipal non-voters

‘NORTH Vancouver City

- Coun. Rod Clark wants cit-
izens' who do not vote in
‘municipal elections to be
fined $50 per year.

‘ He proposed the fine at city

~ cOuncil’s meeting Monday night,
saying municipal government
needs more attention.

“Only one fifth (of the popula-
tion) are voting (in municipal
elections). That’s tragic, and you
‘can bet it will be the four fifths
that’ complain,” he told the News
after the meeting.

“fn federal and provincial elec-
tions they (participating voters)
are up at 60, 70 or 80%; if that
‘.happened in municipal elections
then we wouldn’t need to do

this.”

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL
by Stephen Wisenthal

Clark conceded that in order to
levy his proposed $50 ‘‘non-voter
charge,’ the Municipal Act would
have to be amended.

The issue was introduced by
Clark at the end of Monday's
meeting and will come up for
discussion at a future meeting.

In his motion, Clark said:
“Along with the rights and
freedoms of Canadian society
comes the obligation to inform
oneself about the candidates and
issues during an election and to
exercise that most fundamental
right of casting one’s vote.”

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Wednesday, August 25, 1993 ~ North Shore News ~ 3

44 Spot zoning this site flies in the face
of the community plan.99

the face of the community plan,”
he told council.

“Would you ask the rec com-
mission to put a rink there?”’

Dykeman argued that the
half-size rink will not do much to
lessen the competition for ice time
at the North Shore’s rinks.

Said Dykeman, ‘'99.9% of the
requests that we have heard (are)
for hockey time. This rink won’t
speak to that.’’

Coun. Rick Buchols agreed.

— Mayor Murray Dykeman

“J have two children, aged
seven and nine, and | can tell you
they will have no use for this size
ice,’’ said Buchols.

Grimwood maintains that his ice
sheet is intended for skating
beginners rather than organized
skaters, which in turn will free up
ice time for additional hockey at
local recreation centres.

“This might be a wake-up call
for everyone,’’ said Coun. Paul
Turner.

endation

“4f they can make a buck out
of this then the rec commission
has missed the boat in some fash-
ion.

“Recreation is an expensive
luxury. Every time you go to a rec
centre and put down your dollar it
is matched by a tax dollar.

*‘How can it be a bad deal and
what can it cost us?’’

Added Coun. Joan Gadsby,
“We need to look at more
private-sector participation in the
delivery of recreation services.”

Gadsby said she had been told
that the rink will offer two free
skates a year to every elementary
school class in Norih Vancouver.

Coun. Janice Harris also sup-
ported the proposal’s going for-
ward to a public hearing but
agreed with Buchols’ suggestion
that Parkgate made more sense as
an ice rink site.

NEWS photo Pau! McGrath

‘NORTH: VANCOUVER RCMP Const. Catherine Gallitord is presented with a bravery award by
Supt. Robert Byam on Monday. The award recognizes Galliford’s part in tackling an armed man
who was threatening police. North Vancouver RCMP Const. Mike Lidstone also received a
bravery citation for rescuing a man submerged in a vehicle.

Officers honored for bravery

TWO NORTH Vancouver
RCMP constabies were
presented with bravery
awards on Monday.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Const. Catherine . Galliford
received the bravery medal after

she helped tackle an armed man °

who was threatening police.

Const. Mike Lidstone was
awarded a bravery citation after
he dove into the icy waters of
Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park
four times to rescue aman
trapped in a submerged car.
Lidstone was off duty at the
time of the rescue.

Galliford had only been a
constable for three weeks when
she was threatened by a man
holding a loaded .38 handgun on
Nov. 16, 1991, She was stationed
in Vegreville, Alta., at the time
of the incident.

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“dt was one of those things
that stemmed from a traffic of-
fence. I pulled this man’s licence
and a week to the day he came
into the Vegreville detachment
and decided to pull a loaded .38
on the members at the counter.

“There were actually two of
us at the front counter at the
time, and we both jumped him,”’
Galliford said Tuesday.

She added that’she was not
frightened during the incident
but thought about what could
have happened after it was over.

Galliford has been posted at
the North Vancouver detachment
for one’ year. ‘

Asked if she has had any sim-
ilar incidents, Galliford replied:
“Every now and then you run
into something.’’ ;

Lidstone was off duty on the
morning of Jan. 5, 1992, when
he saw a car submerged in Lost
Lagoon at about 2:30 a.m,

He dove into the lagoon four
times until he was able to rescue

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the trapped driver. |

Lidstone also gave evidence
that resulted in a drinking-driv-
ing-related charge being laid
against the driver.

““We’re more than proud to
have you-as a member of our
detachment,’’ North Vancouver
District Mayor Murray Dykeman
told Lidstone.

Added North Vancouver City
Mayor Jack Loucks: ‘‘We’re
very proud of your actions.”’

Lidstone and seven other
members of the North Van-
couver RCMP detachment were
also presented with Canada 125
commemorative medals a the
ceremony held at the North
Shore Winter Club.

Medals recipients were:

@ Insp. Peter Wlodarczak;

e@ Staff Sgt. William Roberts;
@ Sgt. Richard Lawrence;

@ Sgt. Randy Bennett;

@ Const. Robert Underhill;
@ Const. James Burton;

@ Const. Marty Blais.

Weather

Thursday, cloudy with sunny
periods. Highs 21°C, low 11°C.

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