Reserve rumble

FOUR VANCOUVER youths were sent to Lions Gate
Hospital Tuesday night following a brawl on the
Squamish Band Cepilano reserve. -

The fight was triggered at about 11:30 p.m. when a
grocp of Vancouver youths drove past a Squamish Band
member near Capilano Road and Marine Drive. One of
the youths thought the native hea been involved in a re-
cent fight with some of their east Vanconver friends.

The Vancouver youths gave chase. The oursued man
ran back ¢o the reserve to a house where a party was in
progress. The pursuers subsequently became the pursued.

Two vehicles driven by the Vancouver youths were
damaged. The windows of a Jeep Cherokee and a GMC
4x4 truck were smashed. The West Vancouver Police

THE NUMBERS are in —
this year’s Great Capilano
River Duck Race has gross-
ed just under $145,000 for
charity.

Ic’s the most the Rotary Club
of North Vancouver has raised
from one race in the event's
five-year history.

“It was really great. The best
race ever,’’ says Rotarian Harold
Stringer. *‘With the first race we

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Duck race raises $145,000

Total highest in the event’s five-year history

didn’t know what to expect. With
the second, we were rained out.
Everything seemed to fall right in-
to place this year.””

The club solid close to 29,000
out of a total of 30,000 ducks.
This year’s figures added to
previous years puts the total
amount raised by the race at over
$350,000.

Many North Shore charities
have benefited from race funds,
but Stringer said it is still too ear-
ly to say how the 1992 total will

be divided.

“We're still getting requests for
funds, and we are interested in
getting them from other groups,”
he said.

On April 6, the Rotary Club of
North Vancouver plans to hold an
appreciation night for the 10 duck
tace winners and the race’s spon-
sors, which included co-sponsor
Save-On Foods, North Shore
Credit Union, the North Shore
News and dozens of other focal
businesses.

found the GMC parked and unoccupied in the 200-block
of Whonnock Road.

The police stopped the Jeep as it was attempting to
flee the area heading south on Jacobs Avenue.

Inside the Jeep were four injured people.

The owner of the GMC, an 18-year-old maje, is in
Lions Gate Hospital with numerous deep lacerations to
the head and a skull fracture. His 16-year-old sister suf-
fered a swollen jaw and a black right eye.

The driver of the Jeep, a 19-year-old :aale, suffered
cuts to his head and neck. A 17-year-old female suffered
an injured back.

The police say assorted weapons, including rocks,
clubs, golf clubs and beer cans, were used ut the scene.

A police investigation continues, Information regard-
ing the incident may be forwarded to the West Van-
couver Police at 922-4141.

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Youth shot

A NORTH Vancouver youth is in Lions Gate Hespital 7 rn
recovering from injuries sustained when he accidentally ; Wo LE - functional parts
shot himself in the groin while firing a handgun. . — ae FREE

According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, 2 Years on labour
the incident occurred on Wednesday. Three juveniles FREE
broke into a Shavington Street home at approximately 4 (Reg. $179. value)
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After the burglary the three juveniles went to 2 wood- - to SELL you a
ed area to fire the handgun. While firing the weapon one : tabour contract.
of the teens accidently shot himself. He suffered one
bullet wound. The injuries are not considered life
threatening.

Charges are pending, and the police investigation into
the shooting continues.

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Cyclist injured
y' J 1375 Marine Dr.
A 21-YEAR-old Tsawwassen man suffered minor head North Van 9%:3-9351
injuries after he fell approximately 100 feet while riding _

his mountain bike March 15 along a West Vancouver

trail.

According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, the
man was riding with his brother when the mishap occur-
red 2.5 kilometres north of the Eyremount Drive und
Milistream Road area,

The man was released from Lions Gate Hospital

March 17.

WV board to publicize
Caulfeild school facts

IN RESPONSE io growing
community controversy over
the proposed construction
of a new middle school on
West Vancouver’s Caulfeild
Plateau, the West Van-

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WEST VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD

existing Hillside Middle school
and build the Caulfeild school

calls for the development of a case

couver District 45 School
Board passed a motion
Monday night to circulate
— through the media and
other sources — the facts,
figures and rationale behind
the decision to proceed with

the development of the |

Caulfeild site. ~

By A.P. McCredie
Contributing Writer

Although there was widespread
advertising of public meetings
about the proposed construction
of a new middle school dating as
far back as 1990, some residents
have. argued that the board has
acted without proper public input.

The board’s new plan to
publicize the proposal to close the

statement outlining the underlying
rationale behind the decision and
for the publication of the state-
ment in local newspapers and
community bulletins.

In supporting the communica-
tions committee’s proposal, and
citing a number of factual errors
presented in documents funded by
groups opposed to the Caulfeild
plan, District 45 trustee David
Stevenson stated, ‘‘We must res-
pond with the correct information
to clear up certain misconceptions
that are circulating within the
community.”’

But not all trustees agreed on
the publicity campaign.

Trustee Margot Furk said she
could not support the committee’s
motion because it amounted to the
board trying to ‘“‘buy public opi-
nion with a propaganda cam-
paign.”’

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