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police forces lake way for lemo forest

HUNDREDS OF forces and private users of

recreational

shooters, various police Jands located in the Lower

Seymour watershed will have to make way for the new

Seymour Demonsiration

Forest as an

Aug. 22 GVRD

lease expiration deadline looms closer.

“An awful fot of people are be- ing displaced,”* said Ken Kelsey, secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Shooters Association (PSA) which has been located in the Rice Lake area for the past 30 years. Approx- imately 700 people use the facilities at the PSA shooting range.

“We were lead io believe that if we had tu moe, ther would be finding +ioperty for us further up the valley. But they've lumped us in with ammunition storage and powder dumps and that’s not fair,’ he said. ‘‘There are areas that as they now stand can't be us- ed, but we can use them. Their phrase of calling a gun club a high risk is unfair. We're a considerably lower risk than golfers or skiers.”’

“There are areas that as they now stand can't be used, but we can use them. Their phrase of calling a gun club a high risk is unfair. We're a considerably lower risk than golfers or skiers.”’ —Ken Kelsey, secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Shooters Association.

The PSA was among the groups meeting with a GVRD subcommit- tee taking a second look Thursday at the termination of the various user-leases.

Kelsey said the North Shore Skeet Club, a community fixture on the North Shore at various locations since the 1880s, has been in the Rice Lake area since 1955.

The skeet club represents ap- proximately 150 members. About 100 members of the Italian Rod and Gun Club shoot at the skeet club regularly as well.

“T don’t know why they have to terminate the lease,’” said Cosimo Greco, a six-year member of both the skeet club and the rod and gun club. ‘We have our rules and no- body is allowed to just shoot off into the bushes.”

He said the club uses the skeet club facilities throughout the year

and had planned to merge with the skeet club and join in building bet- ter facilities on the site.

Titan Explosives currently stores approximately 50,000 kilograms of commercial high explosives in two concrete and three steel, bullet- resistant: storage magazines at a site in the Rice Lake area originally built by Magnum Explosives de- cades ago,

“The GVRD made us aware in January that the lease from the previous company wouldn't be assigned to us because of the demonstration forest. We're trying to find alternate space,”’ said Titan Explosives president Roy Paton. “Through the GVRD we tried to find space on the North Shore but because of the safety distance re- quired, it’s been next to impossi- ble. At this point we've found nothing in the Lower Mainland."

Titan has been using the area since January.

Said Paton, ‘'The original lease goes back quite a long way — since God was a boy."

The RCMP rifle and revolver range and bomb disposal site has been located in Rice Lake area since 1979,

Uses at the RCMP facility in- clude tactical troop auxiliary prac- tices, officers’ survival training, emergency response team practice and yearly classification shooting.

Users of the facility include the North Vancouver RCMP, West Vancouver Police, Ports Canada Police and other policing agencies.

“Things seem to be in limbo at the present time, but we've made arrangements to finish our classification shooting by the end of July,’’ said North Vancouver RCMP Staff Sgt. Fred Zaharia.

He said he’s looking for a suit- able relocation site for the facility, but his search has been fruitless to date. . ‘

“Ht is extremely difficult to find Crown area well away from the public. We'd certainly not find anything as compatible closer than the Maple Ridge area. It’s an ideal location because it’s away from the public,”’ said Zaharia.

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$4m MORTGAGE ROOT OF SUIT

ONE OF 15 affilate companies formed by the Pinecorp Research Corp. has fed a civil suit in B.C. Supreme Court seeking damages from a Toronto-based trust company it alleges breached the terms of an agreement to advance it a

$4 million mortgage.

tno documents filed in’ B.C. Supreme Court earlier this year. the Pinecorp) Resources Group Lid., formed May 24, 1984 as the Pinecorp Chemical Corp., alleges the Standard Trust Co. failed to complete an agreement between the two companies to advance $4 million ta Pinecorp for the pur- chase of the Standard Building at 510 West Hastings in \ ancouver.

In its suit, Pinecorp, which had agreed to buy the property from Proven Enterprises for $6 million, claims that agreed upon commit- ment fees of $150,000 and all nee- essary mortgave documents were delivered to Standard by Jan. 20, 1986 as required under the agree- ment.

But in its statement of defence, Standard Trust) claims Pineeorp failed to provide it with all security documentation and = confirmation of insurance on the property.

In addition, Standard states the financial position of Pinecorp had

By TIMOTHY RENSTIAN Neus Reporter

undergone an adverse change after the agreement was executed and prior to the Jan. 31, 1986 extended funding date.

The defendants further claim that Pinecorp did not prove ‘‘or even attempt to prove that it had sufficient funds in order to pur- chase the property..."

Standard states it notified Pinecarp Feb. 3, 1986 that, follow- ing the alleged breach of the agreement by the plaintiff, it was no longer prepared to loan Pinecorp the money.

The trust company, according to the defence, heard nothing from Pinecorp or its lawyers until Sept. 10, 1986 when the plaintift demanded return of its $150,000 comminnent fee.

Formed in 1984, the Pinecorp Research Corp. issued an estimated $36 million in Scientific Research Tax Credits (SRTC) to

260 investors. Net cash realized by Pinecorp and tts J4 0 affiliated companies came to $14 million.

The company originally prom- ised to undertake ao oumber of research projects that included turning forest biomass into eversthing from) medicines to doughnut flour.

But no marketable products were ever produced by Pinecorp.

ft set up its head offices in North Vancouver, built a $10 mil- lion research and development building at 267 Esplanade, made a deal to purchase the old Harvest Eating House restatrant: and ac- quired Bel-Aire Shipyard Lid,

But the research building was never completed by Pinecorp. [ts deal to buy the Harvest fell through and = the restaurant's ownership filed a lawsuit against Pinecorp over its alleged default en a promise to purchase. Bel- Aire, which Pinecorp announ: i it had acquired as a centre for research into new boat propulsion systems, went bankrupt in January 1986.

The corporation’s assets were seized Feb. 6, 1986 by Vancouver sheriffs in an attempt by Revenue Canada to recover $20 million in lost taxes.

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SHOPPING CAN be fun and educational. Two-and-a-half-year-old Jeff Bruchesi and 32-year-old Anthony

Bruchesi check outa fish counter at Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver.

THREE DEAD, TWO MISSING Rafting mishap claims lives

AN RCMP helicopter search continued Thursday for two women missing following a Squamish area river rafting mishap which claimed the lives of three people Wednesday.

Two of three paddle rafts carry- ing 27 people down the rushing waters of the Elaho River north of Squamish flipped after hitting a log jam at a turn in the river called Devil’s Elbow.

Dead are 30-year-old Marie Stevenson of Burnaby, 63-year-old Herbert Cecil Keough of Van-

couver. The name of a third man who died in the river, believed to be from Australia, will be released by Squamish police subject to notification of next of kin. Twenty-two rafters were pulled to safety by helicopter from an island in the middle of the river. North Vancouver-based Dynamic Descents Whitewater

Rafting Inc. organized the rafting day-trip.

The company has been organiz- ing whitewater paddle rafting day-trips along local rivers since the fall of 1985.

The Elaho River level was swollen by water from snowfields and glaciers melted during the re- cent hot weather.

There are currently no provincial safety regulations covering whitewater rafting excursions on smaller rivers in the province.