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THE fate of West Vancouver's famous Pink Palace was in the news when the
owner complained about property assessment rules. William Lachman said the
Bellevue Avenue landmark “could be in jeopardy.”

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planning to sell submarines to
the National Geographic
Society.

Nuyteo Research Lid.
planned to provide the society
with two $350,000 one-man
subs. The society was taunch-
ing a $9-million initiative to
explore marine — resources
using Dr, Phil Nuytten's most
recent development, — the
Newtsub DeepWorker 2000.

Brothers guilty

of sex assault

B® West Vancouver stock pro-
moter Frank Evanshen, 49,
and his brother Perry
Evanshen, 38, of Claresholm,
Alberta, near Calgary, were
sentenced atter being found
guilty of sexually assaulting a
teenager in separate incidents
in the late 1980s and 1990.
The girl was molested in West
Vancouver. Frank was  sen-
tenced to four vears in jail.
Perry reecived a three-year jail
term. The brothers are
appealing.

Juror on trial

@ The B.C Supreme Court
trial of Canada’s most fanious
juror and North Vancouver
resident Gillian Guess got off
to an awkward start. Among
other things, Guess wanted to
sit at the lawyers’ table beside
her lawyer instead of where
the accused person normally
sits in the courtroom. Her
request was granted.

Guess was charged with
attempting to obstruct justice
while a juror in one of the
longest and expensive
Canadian murder trials.

The accused murderers
were acquitted unlike Guess
who was found guilty of her

charge. Guess’ charge cen-
tered on her intimate relation:
ship with one of the accused
murderers whonr she was to
decide the innocence or guilt.
Guess was sentenced to 1S
montis in jail in August, She
is appealing the conviction.
Furor over Emily
B The North Shore’s Emily
Murphy House for bauered
women got a new name. The
new mame, SAGE ‘Transition
House, an acronym for
Sheher, Advocacy, Growth
and Empowerment, was sug-
gested by a woman who was
staying at the shelter. Emily
Murphy's name was dropped

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rules

No sale on Bible
BM the Gideon's Bible may be
astaple in hotel roms world:
wide, but North Vancouver
Ciw Council didi’t want
then: being offered too stu
dents outside high schools.
City council voted @-1 to
reject the Gideon's request te
distribute its red pocket-sized
Bibles free to students.
Afthough many on council
were not Opposed to the dis-
tribution oof Bibles, mest
thought it inappropriate and
inconsiderate to the city's
non-Christian residents.

Accidents at ferry launch

B@ Two accidents marred the
launch of the first fase ferry
from the Catamaran) Ferries
Jnternational North Vancou-
ver assembly facility.

An emplovee working
aboard the drydock that was
earlier submerged, effectively
launching the +00-foot alu-
minum vessel, was rushed to
Vancouver Hospital after a
forklift flipped.

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