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Craig Clark to run for mayor

NORTH VANCOUVER
District Ald. Craig Clark
announced Friday that he
will be running for district
mayor in the November
municipal elections.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

Clark joins fellow Ald. Murray
Dykeman in the race to fill the
seat left by departing Mayor
Marilyn Baker. .

Baker recently won the Socred
nomination in the new provincial
riding of North Van-
couver-Lonsdale.

Clark, a North Vancouver real-
tor, has served as an alderman in

the district for the past seven
years.
Said Clark, ‘“‘The important

thing | think is that we have a
good deal of vision provided at
this time. Marilyn stepping down

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Beach in West Vancouver. Warm temperatures and

Two North Van District aldermen now in race.

with her very dominant style of
man. sement is going to leave a
very large gap at the council level
and also the potential for a very
new council — there’s going to be
a big change.”’

Clark starts knocking on doors
this weekend.

“I feel the environment, for
control and cleanup, is an ob-
viously key factor as well as fi-
nancial balance,’’ he said.

Meanwhile, Don Davis,  in-
surance industry veteran and retir-
ing president of the North Shore
Public Golf Course Society
(NSPGCS), announced this week
that he will be running for an
aldermanic seat in North Van-
couver District.

Davis said a key objective of his
campaign will be to have an 18-
hole public goif course, proposed
for the Northlands area, desig-

NORTH Vancouver District Ald.
Craig Clark ... ‘“‘there’s going
to be big changes.”’

nated as a district centennial pro-
ect.

The NSPGCS held its first an-
nual general meeting Wednesday.
Membership in the non-profit
society is approximately 1,900.
The new president of the society is
Bruce Hammersley, a 28-year-old
civil engineer.

And in North Vancouver City,
Bob Fearnley announced Tuesday
that he will run for an aldermanic
seat in that municipality.

Fearnley, a technician for a
North Vancouver chemical com-
pany and a member of the
Western Canada Wilderness
Committee, said the important
issues affecting North Vancouver
City include the environment,
redevelopment, affordable hous-
ing, heritage building preserva-
tion, parking, transportation and
industrial strategy.

Drug kingpins reputed to live in W. Van

Police chief maintains there is no ‘street drug scene’

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found guilty on a drug trafficking
charge. To was charged with being
in possession of 2.1 kilograms of
heroin, worth an estimated $11.9
million. Police found the heroin
behind the seat of his car. The
drug was 97 per cent pure.

North Vancouver RCMP main-
tain a six-man drug squad. Some
say police need more men to do
the job.

To move the pushers from the
Central Lonsdale area police had
to pull in personnel from other
departments.

Said Roseberry, “We could
always use more men. We're
working very closely with West
Vancouver on joint efforts. The

big problem. with drug enforce-

fot of money to enforce a drag
area.”

Meanwhile in West Vancouver,
the municipality has, over the

years, developed a reputation,
whether justifiable or not, of be-
ing a haven for drug kingpins.

But the municipality is not suf-
fering the degree of street drug
trafficking afflicting some arcas of
North Vancouver.

Said West Vancouver Police
Chief Hal Jenkins, ‘‘We really do
not have a street drug scene. We
don’t have a Granville Mall. Our
concern, though. is certainly to do
with the kids and the potential for
customers of people who traffic in
drugs. Our concern is also for
those who import and distribute.
We believe there are people who
are engaged in that trade here as
well as elsewhere. But I'd hesitate
to single out West Vancouver as
being some kind of drug capital,
because it’s not.’”
lished a two-man drug section on
Sept. 1.

To the end of August, West
Vancouver Police laid drug = of-

cS oan

fence charges including: two
heroin possession charg -s (1989-
none); three cocaine possession
charges (1989-three); one cocaine
trafficking charge (1989-four); 28
marijuana possession charges
(1989-37); three marijuana traf-
ficking charges (1989-two); one
marijuana cultivation charge

(1989-none); five hashish posses-
sion charges (1989-six); one liquid
hashish possession charge (1989-
one).

Last year, West Vancouver
Police also laid one narcotic im-
porting charge, one LSD posses-
sion charge and one LSD traffick-
ing charge.

Sunday, September 23, 1990 - North Shore News - 3

Mill’s
brand new
pollution
control
system
causes spill

ENVIRONMENTALISTS
ARE calling for more effec-
tive ways of containing cf-
fluent and chemical spills at
pulp mills in the wake of an
accident at Howe Sound
Pulp and Paper’s Port
Mellon mill last week that
sent an estimated 500,000
litres of partially-treated ef-
fluent into Howe Sound.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Mill officials blamed a pump
failure and systems problems
related to the start-up of ‘‘one of
Canada’s most sophisticated pulp
mill effluent treatment systems*’
as the cause of the accident, which
came on the first day the new ef-
fluent treatment system was to go
into operation.

‘“‘Everything was working
smoothly until one of a group of
three pumps failed," said Howe
Sound Pulp and Paper president
Bill Hughes. ‘‘That in itself
should not have created a problem
since we have safety features built
in to allow for such an event. But
it must be understood that this
was day one for a complex control
system.””

The spill, which involved par-
tially treated effluent, lasted for
about 20 minutes.

The chemical had gone through
the mill’s primary treatment
system, which removes solids, but
escaped before it had gone
through the secondary treatment
facility.

Hughes added that ‘‘unfortu-
nately not everything was func-
tioning as it was supposed to and
that contributed to the problem.”’

But Save Howe Sound Society
president Rozlynne Mitchell said
the pulp mill industry should in-
stall devices that would allow for
a spill of chemicals or effluent to
be contained on the property,
rather than being discharged into
waterways.

“Obviously it (new effluent
treatment system) had some prob-
lems,’' said Mitchell. ‘We still
maintain that there has to be a
mechanism in place where once a
spill occurs it will be contained on
the site. These spills are unaccep-
table.”

If the pump had been working
properly the effluent would have
been pumped far out into Howe
Sound. But Mitchell said effluent
should not be discharged into any
body of water.

“That's basically saying that the
solution to pollution is dilution.
We disagree with that,’’ said Mit-
chell.

Hughes described the new ef-
fluent treatment system, which
cost $27 million to install, as
“*state of the art equipment.”

The B.C. environment ministry
is investigating the spill.

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