PUBLIC MEETING SET

NV residents to air
skateboard opinions

NORTH VANCOUVER CITY residents will soon have a
chance to voice their opinions an the proposed bylaw
changes prohibiting skateboards on focal sidewalks.

After having deferred the issue
twice, council voted in-cumer
recently to have the matter sent to
the fall's first policy inecuns,
slated for Sept. PS,

The meeting will be open to
those who wish to address the
Sse.

Dean, whe has repeatedly called
the city’s esxtsting bylaw ta
nothing kind of bylaw," wants the
regulations tightened up to pro-
hibit skateboards on sidewalks,

The city’s present rules only ap-
ply to the roadway, not the side-
walk.

ENFORCE LAWS

“If (police) see someone on a
skateboard on the sidewalk they
can't do anything,” Dean said.
“You have tc have faws."”

The alderman stressed she was
not against skateboards as such,

Hy SERPHES BARRINGTON
News Repuarivr

Just against skateboards being used
on municipal sidewalks,

Dean, who was struck on) the
head by a talling skateboard fuls
Hi, satd she is concerned about the
ci bemg fable for accidents on
CHY property.

“The courts are meting oul very
Farge damayve awards,’ she said.
“Burton municipal property if we
don't have some sort of deter-
rent.

At bLonsdale Quay Marker.
where Dean owas hiro by the
runaway skateboard, signs have
been posted barring the sidewalk
surfers from the property.

BOARDS BARRED

Market general manager Colicen
Welsh said the new signs had little

to da with Dean's run-in, but the
invident: “teerttinly compounded
ms feelings Gibout skateboards). *

“Thevtre ae dan musnee and
thes ‘re dangerous

AMthough the market fais tise
trouble wath skitteboarders an the
past, the sins coupled wiih in
enforcement bli have helped
to clean up othe problem. said
Welsh.

“fost bere uiomy ottice and
watch these Httle devils skateboard
down the hale she sind. thes fist
so stupid.”

Dan Arnold. part owner of
North Vancouver's: Zero Gravity
skatebourd shop, said he would
probably attend the Sept. 18 policy
Meeting. 'T just wit to see what's
said.’

Arnold admitted he could
understand council's point in try-
ing to regulate the situation, but
added that a lot of skateboarders
use the sidewalk responsibly.

“T just skate on the sidewalk to
get to work,"" he said.

NEWS photo Nell Lucente

YOUTH RECREATION programmer Gary Manson meets with youths who frequent Lyan Valley Hall. The
group met at the hall recently ¢o discuss complaints from acighbors who say the teens are too noisy and

vandalize the area,

rWO VANCOUVER | residents
appeared in North Vancouver pro-
vincial court Wednesday to face
two theft-related charges.

Michael Howard Stark, 39, and
Darlene Daychief, 30, were origi-
nally charged with one count of
break and enter following a March
Hl incident in which a Lower
Lonsdale residence was burglariz-
ed.

The pair was subsequently
charged with one count of posses-
sion of stolen property after police
recovered a stolen video cassette
recorder.

Appearing before North Van-
couver provincial court Judge P.L.
Maughan, Stark and Daychief
were ordered to stand trial on the
charges.

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