A NORTH Vancouver resident is fed up with seeing his tax
‘dollars invested in a rubbish-strewn tract of land at the
7’ south foot of Capilano Road currently leased from the

Squamish Indian Band by

. $300,000 per year.

The 22-hectare site, littered with
‘old. drywall, furniture and yard
refuse, has been leased to En-
vironment Canada since 1974,

Initially the federal government

department plannea\to construct a ©

Pacific environment centre on the
property.

But the centre was put on hold;
the 75- -year lease signed with the
Squamish Band -was not. And,

since 1974, the federal government *

has invested approximately. $6.3
million in lease payments for the
vacant site.

‘Public

Works Canada

spokesman Karin Christiansen said

discussions as to the future use of

Environment

Canada for

By TIMOTHY RE.
News Reporter

the property are currently under.
way between four federal depart-
ments: Public Works, Environ-
ment Canada, Indian and Nor-
thern Affairs Canada and the
Treasury Board.

But North Vancouver resident ~
Wayne Gilbertson said Thursday
that’s not good enough. He wants
the site cleaned up.and regularly
policed, and he wants those who
dump garbage on the property to

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FATAL CRASH

Driver guilty of
dangerous driving

THE NORTH Vancouver driver of a car involved in a fatal
collision last year with 30-year-old . motorcyclist Brian
Allinson was found guiity of dangerous driving in North

g Vancouver provincial court Friday. i

Jon Robert Millar, 19, received
a two-year. driver’s licence suspen-
. Sion and a $2,000 fine, but the fa-
_ ther of the dead man. says justice
hasn't been served.
: Allinson died Aug. 4-after the
| Harley. Davidson motorcycle he
was driving was struck by a Honda
car driven by Millar at the in-
« tersection of Fourth Street and St.
Andrews Avenue.

Allinson suffered massive inter-
nal injuries and died several hours
later at Lions Gate Hospital.

Said the deceased. man’s father,

Al Allinson: ‘I'm disappointed in

‘the sentence. Apparently a per-

son’s life is worth $2,000. It’s a

gross miscarriage of ‘justice. If a

_ breathalyser test had been taken at

‘the: scene, this would have ‘been
totally different.”

Allinson said he isn’t: consider-'

ing appealing | the. decision.
“What's the point? I have a strong
feeling if Brian had taken the

By MICHAEL BECK
News Reporter ;

Millar kid out, Brian would be
serving time in jail."’ 2

Evidence presented during the
trial showed he Millar car travel-
ling at approximately 25 miles per
hour through the posted stop sign
on St. Andrews. The court found
no evidence of intoxication on the
part of Millar at the time of the
accident.

But Allinson said accident
witnesses saw. beer and pear cider
bottles in the car, which he charges
had been removed from the vehicle
when ‘it was released from the
police impound.”

A coroner’s inquest investigating

the ‘accident criticized North Van-

couver, RCMP handling of. the >
Meease.

The
mended

inquest jury
in December

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