NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

PAUL SCHMID swept glass from his basement suite after a runaway truck made an unplanned
stop at a house located on the corner of Argyle Avenue and 18th Street Monday afternoon in
West Vancouver. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, the driver of the truck had
parked the vehicte by a bank near 18th Street and Marine Drive. The truck began to roll. A 37-
year-old North Vancouver woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat, suffered !eg injuries
when she jumped from the truck near Bellevue Avenue. Damage to the truck is estimated at ap-
proximately $8,000. The house sustained approximately $15,000 in damage.

Gypsy moth bounty rejected

Proposed $5,000 offer for
moth egg masses dropped

A PROPOSAL to offer up to $5,000 in reward money to
a moth sleuth able to locate Asian gypsy moth egg masses

locally has been rejected.
Agriculture Canada officials
considered the bounty offer last
week. The idea arose from a Feb.
17 North Vancouver discussion of
the impact the local aerial spray-
ing of .the insecticide Bacillus

thuringiensis kurstaki (Bt) would -

have on indigenous butterflies and
moths. :

Individual Asian gypsy moths
have been trapped in West and
North Vancouver. Individual gyp-
sy moths have been trapped in
various North Shore locations

: each year since 1988. But egg
. masses have yet to be found local-

ly.
The Asian strain of the moth,

brought to the area abdoard
. freighters from Siberia, has been

,

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

masses from another infected area
in order to claim the prize.

“More harm than good could
be done if eggs were mishandled
and insects escaped into the local
environment.”

Poxell said egg masses could
likely be secured in the eastern
areas of Canada or the United
States.

“It’s a different strain of the
moth, but the eggs would be very
similar,’’ he said.

Powell offers other reasons why
Agriculture Canada wants people

Photo submitted

INDIVIDUAL GYPSY moths have been trapped in various. North
Shore locations each year since 1988.

known to eat more than 400 types
of plants and trees, including oak
and some types of needle-bearing
trees.

Said Gordon Powell, Asian
gypsy moth project manager for
the B.C. Plant Protection Adviso-
ry Council, ‘‘Reluctantly we
decided against this proposal since
it also became apparent that the
bounty could prove attractive to
someone ingenious and
thoughtless enough to import egg

to familiarize themselves with
gypsy moth egg masses and cat-
erpillars.

“This pest can do serious harm
to landscape plantings, ornamen-
tal trees, and, should the popula-
tion become large enough, it will
be a repulsive, unwelcome guest at
their outdoor events.”

The provincial environment
ministry has yet to approve a
permit to allow the spraying pro-
gram to go ahead.

44 This pest can do
serious harm ... it
will be a repulsive,
unwelcome guest at
outdoor events. 99

- Gordon Powell, B.C. Plant
Protection Advisory Council

But said Powell, ‘‘We are in the
process of going out for tenders
or proposals on the actual spray
applications.”

The permit application process
includes a period of appeal in
which those opposed to the pro-
gram can challenge the spraying.

West Vancouver resident Fran-
cis Barthropp intends to challenge
the permit.

Said Barthropp, ‘‘I’m terrified
of being sprayed. My apprehen-
sion is that not long enough has
passed for us to be sure that it’s a
safe product to spray on human
beings. I’ve got no objections to it
being sprayed on uninhabited
forested areas.’’

A $5 million aerial assault of
the moth is tentatively set for
mid-April, weather permitting. If
approved, the program would be
the first large-scale aerial ap-
plication of Bt over a populated
area in North America. Approxi-
mately 43,000 acres throughout
the North Shore, Burnaby and
Vancouver are targetted for aerial
spraying.

Barthropp estimates, based on
maximum allowable dosages for
Bt, that 61,239 imperial gallons of
the bacterial insecticide could be
dropped.

Expert opinion deems the prob-
ability of mutation of the bacillus
as low. But because it is a living
organism, the potential for
mutagenic change exists.

Said Barthropp, ‘‘Obviously the
law of probability predicts that at
some point this bacillus will
mutate, that's what the experts are
warning. Once you do things on a
very big scale over an urban area,
your odds are shortened.

For more information about the
Asian gypsy moth call 666-
MOTH.

Wednesday, March 4, 1992 - North Shore News — 3

Former lawyer
faces income tax

fraud charges
Clientele included NHL players

THE MULTI-MILLION dollar tax evasion trial of Gor-
don Hazlewood has been adjourned until March 9, at
which time the former West Vancouver lawyer says he will
act in his own defence in B.C. Supreme Court.

Hazlewood, whose run-ins with
Revenue Canada date back to
1987, has been charged with 269
counts of income tax evasion and
claiming fraudulent tax losses sold
on a joint venture basis totalling
$20 million.

“We first looked into Mr.
Hazlewood’s activities in 1985,
and obtained search warrants for
his business records two years
later,’’” says Juergen Leske, a
Revenue Canada special in-
vestigator. ‘‘The trial was origi-
nally set for last November, but
Supreme Court rescheduled it for
Jan. 28."°

Since then Revenue Canada has
presented the court with a mind-
boggling array of allegations
revolving around Hazlewood's
alleged ‘‘four-for-one’’ joint ven-
ture scheme, which attracted in-
vestors with the promise that their
investments would be returned
four times over in tax losses and
refunds.

Among Hazlewood’s clientele
were several National Hockey
League players, including Win-
nipeg Jets’ Thomas Steen, former
Vancouver Canucks captain Kevin
McCarthy, and fellow former
Canucks Patrik Sundstrom,
Thomas Gradin, Gary Lupal and
Lars Molin.

Steen appeared in court fast
Friday and testified how he, Mc-
Carthy and Sundstrom had sunk
more than $32,000 into
Hazlewood’s Sparrow Energy
jcint venture scheme because it
would provide ‘‘a legitimate tax
investment loss’’ for the three
years of 1982, 1983 and 1984.

By Robin Brunet
Contributing Writer

Steen said he personally in-
vested $21,000 of his own savings
and was going to invest another
$96,000 in the scheme before a tax
lawyer advised him not to.

While the venture lost money,
Steen said Ottawa decided the
players couldn’t claim the loss as
a deduction.

The monies Hazlewood col-
lected from clientele were used,
according to Revenue Canada, to
finance his business operations
and his daughter’s company,
Diamond Auto Leasing Ltd.

The monies — approximately
$1.6 million — were not used to
fund any joint-venture operations,
according to Revenue Canada.

“Taxpayers who bought into
the alleged joint ventures were
told the monies would all be used
for oil and gas exploration, the
development of a glass-washing
machine, the development of a
racquetball club in Richmond, a
mining project in the Yukon, and
a photocopier toner business,”
says Leske.

To augment Revenue Canada’s
case against Hazlewood, an
RCMP forensic expert was called
by the Crown to show that certain
alleged joint venture agreements
contained fraudulent signatures.

Various principals of the joint
ventures have testified that they
never entered into such activities
either with Hazlewood or his
companies.

Death follows quarrel
in N. Van’s Cates Park

A 21-YEAR-OLD Van-
couver man died Sunday
evening after an argu-
ment between a man and
a woman ended with the
couple leaping into the
waters of Burrard Inlet at
Cates Park in North
Vancouver.

According to witnesses at the
scene the victim, who is believ-
ed to have drowned, died in an
attempt to rescue his girlfriend
who had jumped into the water
before him.

The deceased, Rajesh
Krishna, and his girlfriend,
Ashwin Singh, had been quar-
relling at Cates Park after a
day spent crab fishing with a
group of friends.

Said North Vancouver
RCMP Set. D. Dealziel,

‘*There was a quarrel. The girl
ran down and jumped in. The’
victim, he jumped over her
head. The friends pulled the
girl out, and the other fellow
just went down.”” — - ‘

The police were called to the
scene at approximately 6:15

p.m.

An RCMP dive team, the
Canadian Coast Guard vessel
Osprey, the Deep Cove-based
North Shore Lifeboat Society
rescue boat and private vessels
searched for Krishna.

His body was eventually re-
covered by divers near a dock
at approximately 9:30 p.m.

The cause of death has yet to
be determined.

Said Dealzie!, ‘‘But it’s pret-
ty cold water though, you’re
looking at hypothermia pretty
quick.”’

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