man guilty of
ur hiking and driving

Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangele@nsnews.com

A West Vancouver man
who is appealing a
four-year jail sentence
for sexual assault was
found guilty March 8
on an unrejated drunk
driving charge.

Frank Evanshen, 50, was
convicted as 2 result of a May
6, 1997 driving incident in
West Vancouver.

According to West
Vancouver Policc, Evanshen
was spotted by another
motorist weaving his 1994
grey Mercedes Benz up
Taylor Way. Police did not
find the Mercedes on the
road:

Officers went to
Evanshen’s home in West
Vancouver where they found
him outside the Mercedes.
Evanshen was unsteady on
his feet and had slurred
speech, according to police.

Police say he was cooper-
ative.

His aicoho! readings were
18 and .20, more than dow-
ble the legal limit.

North Vancouver provin-
cial court Judge Doug Moss
fined the Vancouver stock
promoter $600 and sus-
pended his licence for i2
months.

Last year Evanshen was
found guilty of sexually
assaulting a young girl in
West Vancouver in the late

1980s and 1990.

The girl was a babysitter
for Evanshen’s children. She
was age 1] to 15 when the
crimes occurred,

The crimes began with
breast groping and graduat-
ed to fellatio in Evanshen’s
ear.

Evanshen was aiso found
guilty of obstructing justice
for his efforts in dissuading
the girl from testifying in
another sexual assault charge
in 1990.

Evanshen's co-accused

and brother, Perry, 39, of

Claresholm) = Alberta, was
found guilty of sexually
assaulting the same girl in
1990 when the girl was 14
years old.

Perry received a three
year jail sentence.

The Evanshens were con-
victed in B.C. Supreme court
by Madam Justice Janet
Sinclair Prowse. The broth-
ers immediately launched an
appeal. The appeal is slated
for 1 4% days in May in the
B.C. Court of Appeal.

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Wednesday, March 24, 1999 -- North Shore News ~—

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earthstone Communities cordially invites Seniors from the

North and West Vancouver areas to join us for an afternoon
discussion regarding the planning and development of a unique
service-oriented condominium for Seniors. Representatives from
Hearthstone will be seeking your opinions and advice on housing
design, amenity space, services, price and location, This information
will be used for the planning of a Seniors’ condominium on the
historic Mollie Nye property in Lynn Valley. If you are a Senior
living in this area, your input is important to us - please join us if
you can.

Date: Mondzy, March 29, 1999
Time: 1:00 p.m, - 3:00 p.m.
Registration: 1:00 p.m.

Remarks: 1:30 p.m.

Guest Speaker, Debra MacArthur,
Vice-President of Hearthstone Communities
Where:

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Lynn Valley Recreation Centre

3596 Mountain Highway,
North Vancouver

HEARTHST NE

_Coommunifits .

From the doctors of the North Shore

With our most recent Rationed Access Days behind us,
we're glad to be back in the hospital, cur offices and
clinics, and we offer our thanks:

To the nurses and other health care workers who work
with us daily, and who share the stresses of trying to make
an undermined system work.

To our on-call and emergency room colleagues who
provided excellent urgent and emergent care.

To the North Shore Health Board and Administration,
for their understanding and their support.

To those family physicians, walk-in clinic doctors and
specialists who volunteered time to staff the Heaith

Screening Clinic at Lions Gate Hospital, providing free
prostate cancer blood tests, esteoporosis testing, and
other health care screening.

To all those patients who attended our free Health
Screening Clinic, and who joined our petition to the
government.

And most especially, to our patients, for their support

in a difficult time.

As our population expands and ages, this provincial
government continues to shortchange you on your own
health care dollars. All of us ~ patients and doctors, must
remain united in sending Victoria the message thar we
hold them responsible if they compromise our health care
system.

AAR MAA OO ORR aE Oe ee OE ee ee he ee eee ee Be ake

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