NEWS BRIEFS
Banks robbed

POLICE INVESTIGATORS believe two suspects in-
volved in the June 7 robbery of a North Vancouver bank
also robbed a bank in Vancouver eartier this week.

According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, 2
lone male suspect eatered the Bank of Montreal, located
at 2 Lonsdale Ave., at about noon.

The suspect was wearing a full face motorcycle helmet,
a white nylon jacket and red track suit pants. He pro-
duced a handgun, robbed two tellers and made off with
an undisclosed amount! of money.

Witnesses saw a motorcycle with two riders come into
the urea prior to the holdup and saw two riders leave the
area On & motorcycle folowing the armed robbery.

The scenario was later repeated at a Bank of Montreal
branch in Vancouver.

Suspects sought

THE WEST Vancouver Police are attempting to identify
four suspects involved in the June 10 armed robbery of
Birks Jewellers at Park Royal.

Three suspects entered the store at 11:24 a.m. wearing
nylon stecking masks. Two of them smashed a glass case
containing Rado watches. The third suspect pointed a
gun at the store's staff.

The robbers made off with seven watches worth in
total $12,795.

Police believe thet one of the suspects, who may be as
young as 14 years of age, suffered a cut to the middle
finger of his right hand. The injury may have required
medical attention.

Information regarding this investigation should be
forwarded to the West Vancouver Police at 922-414] or
Crime Steppers at 665-3533.

Socreds meet

THE SOCRED constituency association in Nocth Yan-
couver-Seymour will nominate a candidate on Tuesday,
June 18 at the Coach House Inn in North Vancouver.

The riding seat has been vacant since the death in
March of MLA and Energy Mines And Petroleum
Resources Minister Jack Davis.

To press time Friday, three men had announced that
they would be seeking the Social Credit nomination in
North Vancouver-Seymour: Jim Mercier, the brother of
B.C. environment minister Dave Mercier, former Co-
quitlam-Maillardville MLA John Parks and appraiser
Gordon Frampton.

The winning riding candidate will be up against New
Democrat Dominique Roelants.

Registration for the meeting is at 6:30 p.m. The
tueeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

Sewage upgraded

THE FIRST Narrows foreshore between Lions Gate
Bridge and Capilano River will be closed io public access
on June 17.

The Lions Gate sewage treatment plant site will be
closed in order to make way for construction of a $5-
million sewage sludge dewatering facility. Access to the
waterfront by road underneath the Lions Gaie Bridge
will be closed to all traffic except construction vehicles
and equipment.

The dewatering facility has been identified by the
Greater Vancouver Regional District (GYRD) as a neces-
sary prereguisite to upgrading regional sewage treatment
plants to secondary treatment fevels.

Shipyard unveils new ferry

THE LATEST addition to the
B.C. Ferry Corp. (BCFC) fleet
will be on display today at North
Vancouver-based Vancouver
Shipyards Co. Ltd.

The Queen of Capilano, built
by Vancouver Shipyards, is the
first of two, $17.5 million 85-car
ferries being built for the BCFC.

The vessel will service the Earls
Cove-Saltery Bay route starting on
June 28,

Meanwhile a Norwegian ship
purchased by the BCFC to serve
as a ferry arrived Tuesday at the
Esquimalt graving dock after a
35-day trip from Oslo. B.C. Ferry
Corp. Capt. fan Mackinnon
piloted the vessel along with two
crews of 20.

The Queen of Chilliwack will
now undergo a $2.2-million
overhaul to bring it up to B.C.
Ferries’ and Canadian Coast
Guard standards.

““We had hoped that the
Chilliwack would be ready to
serve on the Swartz Bay-Gulf

Islands route by the start of the
summer season, June 28, however,
it now looks like a more realistic
date might be closer to Ju! 10 to
12,’° said Transportation and
Highways Minister Lyall Hanson,
the minister responsible for the
BCFC,

He added that the Mayne
Queen would substitute on the
Swartz Bay-Southern Gulf Islands
route until the Queen of
Chilliwack was ready to take over
regular service.

“Once the Mayne Queen has
been relieved by the Chilliwack,
she will replace the Bowen Queen
operating between Swartz Bay and
Fulford Harbor. The Bowen
Queen can then relieve the Howe
Sound Queen on the Horseshce
Bay-Bowen Island route, pro-
viding improved accommadations
for passengers,’’ said Hanson.

He added that the Howe Sound
Queen will then operate on the
Vesuvius-Crofton route.

Nominee
suggests
park name
change

A SOCIAL Credit nominee for
the North Vancouver-Seymour
riding position held by Jack Davis
is proposing that Lynn Canyon
Park be renamed Jack Davis Pro-
vincial Park to commemorate the
Jate MLA.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

John Parks took ihe idea,
which calls for the redesignation
of the local park to Class A pro-
vincial park status, to Lands and
Parks Minister Dave Parker and
Premier Rita Johnston.

Both support the concept.

Said Johnston in a recent letter
to Parks, ‘‘Your suggestion for
the renaming of what is presently
known as the Lynn Canyon Park
in North Vancouver, to that of
Jack Davis Park, has obvious
merit given the exceptional service
rendered to the community by Mr.
Davis.”’

Meanwhile Parker’s ministry
staff has been asked to investigate
the acquistion of the local park.

Said Parker, ‘‘This would be a
most fitting memorial to a good
friend and a great man.”*

Said Parks of the initiative,
“My thoughts were twofold: first-
ly to have a fitting tribute to Jack,
something here on the North
Shore, not just a building in Vic-
toria. Being our first environment
minister in Canada, you know his
track record was something just
unparalleled, something much
more fitting would be appropriate.

“And once a park is designated
Class A provincial, its boundaries
may not be changed without actu-
al debate in the legislature. From
the bottom-line perspective, if the
provincial government takes over
respoasibility for the park that
means they financially take re-
sponsibility for it,’’ he added.

But municipal reaction to the
idea is cool.

Said North Vancouver District
Ald. Janice Harris, ‘‘Jack Davis
isn’t a Lynn Valley personage par-
ticularly, he was just a Social
Credit politician. I don’t think
that necessarily qualifies you for
the major park on the North
Shore to be named after you.”’

Harris points to an earlier bid
to rename Lynn Peak after Group
of Seven painter Frederick Varley.
The painter. who produced about
150 works based on local
wilderness scenes, lived in an
abandoned fire ranger’s cabin on
Rice Lake Road from 1930 to
1939,

“I think more appropriately
from a historic and social and cul-
tural point of view I guess
Frederick Varely would be if any-
thing a possibilty.”’

But she said, ‘‘Lynn Canyon is
locally known and it’s just part of
our language around here. Jack
Davis Park! It’s just a cheap elec-
tion ploy. 'm not in the least bit
interested in that proposition.”’

But said North Vancouver
District Mayor Murray Dykeman,
“It’s a glorious place and if re-
sponsibility might be removed
from the municipality's shoulders,
and as long as the sanctity of the
park is maintained. then I can see
that as being very positive. I have
already had some reaction from
citizens not necessarily favoring....
The loss of the Lynn Canyon
name is of concern to people.
People cover the Lynn Canyon
name — with no disrespect to
Jack Davis. There’s a strong
heritage attachment to the whole
Lynn concept.”*

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