NEWS photo Paul McGrath COPPER Beach Recreational Funding Ltd. investor Eric Wolstenholme shows a shareholder's certificate that he claims is worth less than the pennies he holds. City smoking policy burns Kevin Gillies News Reporter THE possible lifting of Knight and Day Restaurant’s business licence for letting its customers smoke is - unfair, according to a restaurant association official. The owner of Knight and Day Restaurant at Westview Shopping Centre is being hauled on the carpet by North Vancouver City council to explain why the restaurant’s business licence should be retained. City officials wii- nessed staff and patrons smok- ing in the restaurant. Geoffrey Howes, chair of government affairs with the B.C. Restaurant Association, said he is disappointed with the city’s actions. “Berwveen 30% and 40% of the: licensed restaurants are breaking the (anti-smoking) law. The reason for that is because it makes no sense. You'll be in-a restaurant that’s right across the street from a pub serving food.” Iv is legal to smoke in North Vancouver City pubs. City officiais say Knight and Day operators refuse.to-adhtre to the city’s anti-smoking bylaw and have summoned them to a July 12 meeting to explain why cheir business ~. ficence shouldn’t be revoked. “Here these (city) guys are, (they) want to take his business licence away and it’s just heavy handed and unreasonable,” Howes said. Health inspectors have spotted people smoking in the restaurant despite the city bylaw — adopted May 13, 1998 — which prohibits smok- ing inside restaurants. “We've asked municipalities to relax the enforcement side of this,” Howes said. “In other jurisdictions, notably Burnaby and Vancouver, the municipal councils are recognizing now that as of Jan. 1 we will have a reasonably fair-minded, even playing field approach.” At that time all venues serving food will be required by provincial law to_ban smoking on premis- es. Howes said business is up in the pubs because they allow smoking while restaurants are losing customers, Knight and: Day has been ticketed on four occasions — between March 4 and May 12 — and has already paid threc of the $100 fines. One North Vancouver restaurateur, who insisted on anonymity, said cus- tomers are allowed to smoke. “] have to pay the rent to sur- vive; | have to pay my employ- ees’ salary,” the restaurateur said, adding some customers go to West Vancouver now where smoking is allowed. “For some regular customers, who have been to my restau- rant for 24 years, it’s really hard for me to say ‘no.”” Knight and Day officials were unavailable to deadline.. From page ment Corp. purchased part of! the land trom CBRE. for S15 million and subsequently built the Furry Creck golf’ course. One of the smaller share- holders, Harry Chivers, invested on the recommen- dation of a friend. “Doctors being doctors and not businessmen, they just gave (Drummond) tree reign to do what he wanted,” Chivers said. Eventually questions over Drummond's bookkeeping practices surfaced and a dis pute over who controlled Copper Beach Recreational Funding ended in civil court in 1993, The case never succeeded in court and has essentially been dropped. Deating with several num- bered companies — 380480, 363405, 307991 and 372900 B.C. Ltd. — many of the investors have simply given up. When the sharcholders, who include North Shore doctors Dean Brown, John Adair and Roger Rogers, questioned the legitimacy of Copper Beach Estate’s record keeping in 1991-92, the paper trail ran dry. “It was an accountant’s nightmare,” Chivers said. After years of inquiring about bookkeeping practices, “Tt was an accountant’s nightmare.” — Shareholder Harry Chivers it was determined ata March 3, 1992, meeting at the Park Royal Hotel that CBEL was essentially insolvent. Drummond stressed the need for “unity and secrecy among members” in regards to CBEL’s finances, accord- ing to a memo trom the March meeting. Drummond wrote to the shareholders stating his com- pany would be receiving funds from an outside investor. According to an affidavit entered into the civil case, Drummond signed a letter saying he had $650,000 in a trust: account at the law firm of Evans, Goldstein & Co. That money gave hope to the shareholders that. they might recoup part of their investment. Drummond expected that money to come from the investor, but it never materi- alized. The $650,000 was never deposited into the trust account, according to Cole. A letter dated one year later from) Garth Evans, a Fine issued in 1995 for pollution Brady Fotheringham Contributing Writer COPPER Beach Estates Ltd., which plans to clean up the Britannia Mine site, was found guilty of violating the Waste Management Act and fined $10,000 in 1995. According to Peter McPherson of the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Copper Beach Estates discharged industrial business waste into che environment. Copper Beach discharged the waste into a dump site rather than a sanctioned sewage dis- posal site. Failure to do this was in contravention to a 1993 Pollution Prevention and Pollution Abatement Order. Copper Beach Estates Led. (CBEL) has submitted a plan to build a landfill site on its Britannia Mine site and use the proceeds to finance a lime-waste treatment plant to clean up an acid = rock drainage problem at the mine. Currently ructals that are toxic to salmon in Hewe Sound seep through under- ground mine shafts and dump directly into the ocean. Over half the juvenile salmon that spawn in the Squamish Estuary don’t sur- vive the journey south past Britannia Beach, The intro- duction of business waste into the environment was a viola- tion of section 3 (1.1) of the Waste Management Act. f Ears ave meant sto be_ decorated § a 4 Tahitian Black ff Peas .20ct total weight g diamonds Sunday, June 20, 1999 ~ North Shore News — 5 Investors questioned records partner with Evans, Goldstein, stated) thar Drummond never deposited any monies with the firm. It read: “Please be advised thar we do not now act for and have never acted for Tim Drummond and have never received any funds for or oon behalf of him or CBRE.” It was signed Garth Evans (Evans, Goldstein & Co. 16 April 1993). Drummond declined to comment for this article. FACTORY FUTON Enirance in rear lane iNen.- Sat, H-Gpm Sunday 12-5 pm LAWYER Allen Cole... 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