FEBRUARY 19, 1999

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Murderer
named
in suit

Bob Mackin

Contributing Writer
MUCHAEL Caster’s
legal woes are not
over. Famous Players’
may just be starting.

Just six days after 21-year-old
Caster was sentenced to life in
prison for the shooting death of
Mohammed Mirhadi, he was
named in a wrongful death law-
suit filed by Mirhadi’s parents and
infant daughter.

Caster was convicted of first
degree murder by a B.C. Supreme
Court jury in New Westminster
on Feb. 10. Mirhadi was shot
three times in a front row seat
during a packed screening of
Donnie Brasco at Famous Players’
Esplanade 6 complex on Feb. 28,
1997.

John and Shahazad Mirhadi
and Nikaya Mirhadi-Pathon are
seeking unspecified damages from
Caster and 20-year-old J.M.

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Martin Millerchip

News Reporter

martin@nsnews.com

NORTH Vancouver District councillors
are hoping public opinion will persuade
regional politicians that the Seymour
Demonstration Forest should be perma-
nently protected against logging for profit.

The issue will be in front of the Greater Vancouver
Regional District’s board next Friday when it will consider
conflicting recommendations from it s own sub-committees.

“That forest is as important ro the people of North
Vancouver as Burns Bog is in Delta,” Coun, Lisa Muri told the

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District supports a parks
designation for Seymour
Demonstration Forest

“Hf you like your mountains green get out and tell your
local politicians what they mean to you. [e's an election year.”

On Monday night council agreed to Jobby other Lower
Mainland municipalities in support of a Seymour park designa-
tion that was endorsed last Friday by the GVRD’s parks com-
mittee,

But at the same time, another GVRD sub-committee (both
committees are comprised of local politicians), the water com-
mittee, followed a staff recommendation to retain the status
quo of the Seymour Demonstration Forest while starting a

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IZAAK Smith turns in a stylish bit of break-dancing at the North Shore Academy of Dance. The nine-year-old is enrolied in the acau-
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series of public meetings/hearings on the issuc.

Muri sits on the GVRD parks committee; Coun. Trevor
Carolan represents the district on the water committee.

Carolan said a status quo vote would ac least allow for pub-
lic input but wondered whether a closer verte on an overall
parks designation by the water committee might have been
possible if West Vancouver Mayor Pat Boname and Delta
Mayor Beth Johnson had not left the meeting carly.

“TI feel like GUARD all over again,” said Muri, repeating
comunents she made during council debate. (The Group
United Around Responsible Development was a grass-roots
movement, primarily in the Seymour area, that coalesced
around Muri to successfully oppose district plans to develop
parts of Cove and Mountain Forests.)

“It’s the same sort of atmosphere — trying to protect

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