12 - Wednesday, October 21, 1992 — North Shore News

AP.
McCredie

INQUIRING REPORTER

DURING THE past summer, the provincial NDP gov-
ernment removed from municipalities the power to im-
pose curfews on youths, deeming such curfews to be il-
legai. According to the municigal clerks’ office in West
and North Vancouver districts, no curfews have ever

been passed by their respective councils. But North
Vancouver City has two instances of curfew bylaws be-
ing enacted: on May 19, 1927, and on Sept. 11, 1978.

When youth-related probiems surface in a community,
a nightfali curfew on kids can be one solution.

Do you think a curfew would reduce youth problems?

Monique Henrikson
North Vancouver

1 don’t think a curfew
would work oui, because
it would take too many
people to enforce it. ft
would be nice to have
one. but I don’t think it
would make the trouble
go away.

Garry Summer

Nerth Vancouver

{ think a curfew is a
good idea, short of jail-
ing them. A curfew
would be pretty hard to
enforce. though. I also
think the Young Offend-
ers Act should be repeal-
ed.

Janet Kizer

North Vancouver

f think curfews work in
some situations, but 1
think that some young
people would see a
curfew as a challenge to
break. But then again, a
curfew would probatly
help some parents in
controlling their kids.

Court action hits creek wall

From page 8
chanac! width and extending ap-
proximately 40 metres in length.””
Kotyk’s report further states
that the wall has been approxi-
mately 25% backfilled and that
eight loads of fill have been plac-
ed at the top of the bank.
Kotyk told council! at the Oct.
13 hearing that:
e@the reduced width of the
stream bed only serves to increase
the rate of flow;
@the stream flow has been
diverted towards the opposite
bank where it is undermining a
20-metre cedar (tree that could fail
and block the stream;
e the wall is built of unstable
material and is highly porous;
@ the backfill is in danger of be-
ing washed out.

“The wall is at very high risk |

with ihe fall rains,’? concluded
Kotyk.
A DFO. letter to council echoed

Kotyk’s concerns.

THE FOLLOWING people ap-
peared in North and West Van-

couver provincial courts recently
to face various charges:

Before Judge Jerome Paradis in

“Our department is very con-
cerned that the concrete rubble
and other materials placed within
tne creek could cause significant
environmental damage if it is not
removed before the fall rains.”’

Mo!nar presented counci! with a
book of photographs of Mackay
Creek that he had taken further
downstream and asked council
why he was being singled out for
wanting to plant flowers.

“My property is the cleanest
part of the whole creek. It's a
holocaust down there,’’ said
Molnar describing his walk down
the length of Mackay Creek.

“That creek is dying. Trees
block the stream already. Fish
cannot climb.

“There are concrete walls ali
over. I’m speechless to describe. Is
there anything wrong (with at-
tempts) to make our city
beautiful?”’ asked Moinar.

But Coun. Rick Buchols ap-
peared to sum up council’s feel-

after he pleaded guilty to the dan-
gerous operation of a motor vehi-
cle on Grafton Road on Bowen
Island on April 13, 1992. Grohne
is forbidden to be on Bowen
Island for the term of his proba-
tion.

ings when he said, ‘J take Mr.
Moinar’s point that he was trying
to make his property look better,
but we do have certain standards
for the environment and pollution
to try and maintain.”’

Council voted unanimously to

declare the retaining wall a
nuisance,

VOGUE, BUTTERICK,

Pejman Ghanipour

North Vancouver

Yeah, it’s a good idea.
ke’s dangerous for kids to
be out on the streets late
at night.

Theresa Taylor

North Vancouver
Curfews have been used
in places in the past, and
that still hasn't solved
the problem. What the
kids need are things io
do in their spare time,
through schools and
through the community,

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North Vancouver provincial court
on Oct. 13:

Craig McKee, 33, of North
Vancouver, was sentenced to six

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Before Judge Bill Rodgers in
North Vancouver provincial court
on Oct. 14:

Darren Randall Lewis, 27, of
North Yancouver, was sentenced
to three days in jail after he
pleaded guilty to failing to report
to his probation officer on April,
2, 1992.

Before Judge Jerome Paradis in
North Vancourver provincial court
on Oct. 14:

Gordon A. Grohne, 31, of
Bowen Island, was fined $200 and
placed on probation for one year

months in jail after he pleaded
guilty to cocaine trafficking in
North Vancouver City on April,
5, 1991, and in West Vancouver
District on April 17, 1991. Judge
Rodgers recommended McKee
serve his jail wearing an electronic
monitoring device.

Before Judge Reginald D. Gran-
dison in West Vancouver provin-
cial court on Oct. 5:

David Kirk Dowdell, 20. of
Vancouver, was fined $350 after
he pleaded guilty to being in
possession of a stolen licence plate
on Sept. 9, 1992, in West Van-
couver.

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