THE result of yerrs of work, the Har-El Synagogue on Taylor Way Is the tirst local
use of worship for the Jewish community.

Bonaie « blasts

tells; minister says most on
North: Shore. back ‘bridge
poll says otherwise

No ‘new ‘tolls. ‘That. was

¢ of the Lions

Te’s unfair and - -

Pat Boname. 2,
August: Jews. welcome
house of worship
. The Har-El Synagogue
was officially opencd at
Taylor Way and the .Upper
Levels Highway in West
Vancouver. _-

The. 12,000 sq. foot

it - (1,115 sq. m) synagogue is a
ge-the North Shore
ferum held:to ©:

first: on ‘the North’ Shore.
The building was 25 years in
the making for the North
Shore’s Jewish comraunity.

2 _-. October: Auto mali for”
~ Fullerton :
“A park, hotel, and an auto ~

' 24-acre auto mali. on

mall are being contemplated
for a prime 68-acre parce! of
land on North Vancouver's
waterfront.

Peter Martin, Greystone
Properties manager of indus-
trial relations, said his firm
has reached a conditiona!
agreement with the Jim
Pattison Group to build a
the
Fullerton Fill site. ;

If the auto mail gocs in,
the developer agreed to
withdraw its applicaticn for
big box retail operations -on
the site. :

‘time = in
. Correctional

1998 news
briefs

February: Health board
fired

Doctors and Lions Gate
Hospital’s union staff wel-
comed the firing of the North
Shore Health Region board.

But doctors warned that
unless region chief executive
officer Inge Schamborski also
went, Health Minister Joy
MacPhail’s actions wouldn’t
solve the acrimony between
doctors and the CEO thar ted
to the board’s dismissal.

Dr. Douglas MacTaggart,

‘the North Shore Medical

Society’s vice-president, said
a failure to remove the
embattled CEO will “fail to
esolve the difficulties com-
pletely.”

August: Guess gets 18
months

North Vancouver’s Gillian

Guess was sentenced to 13 |

months in prison by B.C.
Supreme Court Justice
Raymond Paris for atrempt-

’ ing to obstruct justice.

The charge stemmed from
the 43-year-old’s jury duty
stint at the trial of Peter Gill
and five other men accused of
murder. .

The flamboyant Guess had
an affair with Gill while con-
tinuing on as a juror. In his
sentencing judgement,
Justice Paris called the moth-
er of two a “narcissistic and
self-absorbed personality.”

Foliowing the ‘sentence,
Guess served a brief period of
the Burnaby

Centre . For
Women before being released
on Fen ber: Cuff Rep

tember: Cy ort
Released

SINCE the trial of Peter Gill, Gillian Guess ii
from surburban mom to glamorous newsmal

even has her own Web site.

A controversial edited ver-
sion of George Cuif’s review
of West Vancouver district’s
operations was released by

. West .Vancouver council. to
the public. .

Controversy * erupte

- Cuff distanced himself :froi

the report: saying, : “Lots:
the report is not there.

you take those pieces out y
get.a skewed view.” .: