First Street store will not house - collection centre

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News Reporter tan@nsnews.com

THE first choice for a household hazardous waste depot won’t be the final choice, says the operator of the bottle and can collec- tion business already on the site.

Duk Kim, the owner of the North Shore Bottle Depot at 125 West First St. in North Vancouver, said he doesn’t have space to accommodate the nine-foot by 11- foot concrete container required to store wastes such as pesticides, flammable liquids, household sol- vents, and gasoline.

Speaking inside his airy 60-foot by 100-foot storage arca with bags of bottles and pop cans behind him, Kim said Thursday morning that the area is already filled three days a week with the collected products.

Kim added that access for tracks would be difficult.

Besides, his landlord won't allow him to expand his operation to ‘include the hazardous material.

“If I accept thar I can’t get a lease anymore,” said Kim.

Currently, the Consumer Product Stewardship Program is implementing its industry-run col- lection program for hazardous wastes.

Regulations introduced by the B.C. government in March 1997 require that the producers of the wastes take responsibility for Ieft- over portions of the products.

Paul Iverson, the acting presi- dent of the industry-operated

‘Product Stewardship Group and the president of the B.C. Paint Care

“Anna Marie D'Angelo . News Reporter dangelo@nsnews

THE defence lawyer for a West Vancouver man charged with sexual assault < suggested that the alleged “victim concocted her story “to get revenge against the .- Evanshea brothers.

“You hated all the Evanshens,” said defence lawyer Len Doust on Wednesday.

“-Doust is representing West Vancouver stock promoter Frank Evanshen, 49.

Evanshen is charged with sexual- ly assaulting the complainant in West Vancouver and elsewhere between 1987 and 3991, when she was 11 to about 15 years old.

Evanshen is also charged with obstructing justice in 1990.

Another Evanshen _ brother, Perry, 38, of Claresholm, Alberta, is charged with sexually assaulting the same complainant in 1990 in West Vancouver.

The Evanshen brothers pleaded not guilty to the charges.

A third Evanshen brother, Fred, 57, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting, the complainant when she was a young girl in West Vancouver. Fred, who had an ancurysm in the time berween the assault and his sen- tence, was fined $1,000 on Feb. 6 for the sexual assault.

The identity of the complainant, a 22-year-old woman, is banned from publication by court order.

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NORTH Shore Bottle Depot owner Duk Kim says his business won't be the home of a household hazardous waste collection centre that's planned for the North Shore.

Association, said nine hazardous waste collection sites are now in operations. By the end of the year, 35 are expected to operating in B.C.

One of them will be on the North Shore to serve the residents of North Vancouver City and District and West Vancouver.

Usually, said Iverson, the first site that is studied for the callection of hazardous waste is the current depot for colleczing leftover paint.

On the North Shore, that’s the North Shore Bottle Depot, located in an area slated to be home for thousands of new residents.

If thar site is not suitable for hazardous waste collection, the search for a site will be expanded,

WEST Van's Frank Evanshen is on tria’ for sexual assauit

Court, Frank’s lawyer suggested that the complainant’s mother had lost all the family’s money investing in business and stock deals involving Fred.

Doust said the complainant’s mother must have lost a lot of money, forcing her to sell her nice home in West Vancouver and rent in North Vancouver.

The complainant’s mother was Fred’s sometimes girlfriend.

Doust suggested that the com- plainant thought her mother was losing the family money and Frank was receiving it. At the Gme, Frank beeame rich through stock market deals.

Doust said Frank had gone from renting a West Van home to buying a nicer West Van house. Frank also bought a Nissan 300ZX and a Ferrari, said Doust.

said Iverson.

Iverson added any hazardous waste collection site will require the approval of the community and the fire department. An environmental audit of the site will also be con- ducted.

North Shore Recycling Program manager Allen Lynch said he doesn*t want the depot to go into the North Shore Bottle Deport because the area is slated to become a busy residential area.

Instead, he would like to see it located at the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s transfer station on Riverside Derive cast of the Second Narrows Bridge.

Iverson said chat site has not been excluded.

The complainant denied thar she believed Frank was getting her fami- W’s money.

The complainant testitied that Frank forced her ro perform oral sex in the Nissan sports car weekly for a year when she was 13. The sexual assaults took place at night, when Frank parked the car on the way back to her home after she had babysat Frank’s children.

The complainant rejected most of Doust’s suggestions and denied she had “stewed” for a number of years before going to palice.

“I was too busy taking care of myself,” said the complainant.

Perry’s lawyer, David Crossin, brought up another Evanshen brother, Terry, during cross exami- nation of the complainant.

Terry Evanshen, a member of the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame, lives in Toronto.

Crossin tried to pin down the exact date of the alleged sexual assault by Perry to a period when Terry was visiting family in Vancouver for the first time after a car accident in which ‘Terry sustained brain damage.

The complainant said she could not remember the specific date.

In earlier testimony, the com- plainane went inta graphic details about Perry having paintul, non- consensual sexual intercourse with her in her bedroom at 5 am. one day in 1990,

The complainant was 14. She said Perry forced her to perform oral sex twice that day,

Crossin, like Frank’s defence attorney, tried to link his client with

Lynch said he wants a hazardous waste depot on the North Shore. The hazardous materials are in resi- dents’ houses now and people are putting them in their garbage and down storm drains, sinks and toi- lets, said Lynch. “These are haz- ardous materials and should be dis- posed of properly. It is a safety and a health issue.”

Iverson said there will be three levels of containment for the wastes at any new site — the original con- tainer, a plastic container and the conerete container.

When the four plastic containers are full, a truck will haul them away.

A North Shore hazardous waste collection deport is scheduled to open berween April and Junc.

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failed business dealings involving Fred and money belonging to the complainant’s mother.

The complainant said she did nor know that Perry was involved in sell- ing heating machines in Alberta that were part of Fred’s business deal- ings.

Frank and Perry, wearing tailored business suits, sat and listened atten- tively in the prisoner’s box during the court proceedings.

During meticulous cross cxami- nation, Perry's lawyer asked the complainant why she was holding her stomach. If she was ill, the lawyer said, he did not wish to con- tinue.

The complainant replied that she had a “rock in her stomach” and was OK to testify.

The charges in this case were laid in 1995 after the complainant made a police statement in 1994. After a preliminary hearing was held in the summer of 1995, the trial was sched- uled to start on Nov. 17. But it was delayed due to a defence request that centered on Fred's health. The trial started this week, more than three years after the complainant contacted police.

In the carly 1990s, Fred was con- victed of sexually assaulting the com- plainant’s sister. He received proba. tion for that crime.

The sister left her mother's home and went to five with relatives after the sex assault. The sister then moved out on her own,

The trial is scheduled to fast into next week before Madani Justice Janet Sinclair Prowse. The trial does not include a jury.

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vear-old daughter on a couch out- side courtroom number two,

At least six Parmar family mem-

bers whe came from) Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Duncan and the Vancouver area watked around the lounge area asking questions in disbelief. “This is a stupid thing to hap- pen, She should be sentenced.” said the dead man’s brother-in-law, Ashok Bhatti, who lives in’ Port Alberni.

It had been more than four years since the body of Bakhatawar Singh Parmar, 41, was found under a fog boom in - the Mamquam = Blind Channel in Squamish. Parmar lived in Prince George and worked for BC Rail when he died on Nov. 17, 1993.

He was staying at the August lack Motel in Squamish while working with a rai! crew, The last time Parmar was seen alive was

Hotel. A week later his body was found.

According to a previous news- paper report from Squamish’s {He Chief, Parmar’s death had been viewed by police for several years as a case of accidental drowning, which was the same finding of a coroner's inquest.

Bur after tip to police around carly 1997 and a subsequent undercover investigation, three women were charged in connec- tion with Parmar’s death.

Police said the women were on a drinking spree when they met Pazar and after leaving the bar allegedly cabbed and killed him, according to a previous newspaper

zowski was subsequently charged with the first degree mur- der of Parmar. She was also charged with robbing Parmar and causing Parmar to take a “stupefy- ing or overpower drug.”

Berezowski pleaded guilty to a separately laid = manslaughter charge in the case on Dee. 17 while a preliminary hearing was under way in North Vancouver provincial court. Sentencing for the manslaughter charge was adjourned to more than two months later.

On Wednesday, Berezowski was brought in through the prisoner’s door for the bricf court proceed- ings before Judge Jerome Paradis. She wore a light colored long loose shirt and her dark shaggy styled hair was slightly below shoulder length.

Rerezowski has been in custody since charges were laid in June 1997.

Crown lawyer Mark Levitz told Judge Paradis that Parmar’s family was obviously verv upset that che sentencing was not going to take place.

Outside the — courtroom, Jaswinder Parmar said she needs to work to support her family, which includes tour gi:ls aged 17, 16, 11 and six. Despite her financial situa- tion, Jaswinder Parmar said she will be back in May to be present for the re-scheduled sentencing.

Parmar said she spent more than S1,0C@ to be present in North Vancouver provincial court on Wednesday for the cancelled court proceedings.

There are two other co-accused in the case involving Bakhatawar Singh Parmar’s death. Marina Aun Lumley, 37, of Sarnia, Ontario, is charged with manslaughter, rob- bery and causing Parmar to take an overpowering drug. Ramona Bernice Lewis, 43, of Squamish, is charged with robbery.

They are scheduled tor a triat in B.C. Supreme Court on New, 2.