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WAYNE LLOYD got a good return on his $250 investment at the Lynn Valley Elementary School auction. He bid the money on a two-minute shopping spree donated by the Lynn Valley Steng’s grocery store, and managed to gather $544.69 worth of goods in the 120 seconds alloted to him.

Biker, gang connections investigated

WEST VANCOUVER Police investigating the May 9 murder of 48-year-old John Raymond Ginnetti are follow- ing up on evidence of bad blood between the Hell’s Angels biker group and the Russians, a group described by police as involved in the local cocaine trade. ;

The move comes in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting death of 28- year-old Sergei Filonov outside the Trev Deeley Harley Davidson dealership in Vancouver.

Filonov, a former West Van- couver resident, was charged Sept. 7 with cocaine trafficking and con- spiring to traffic in cocaine.

The charges followed a police seizure of 13 kilograms of cocaine, a large quantity of cash and two guns.

On Thursday, Vancouver Police charged 53-year-old Shannon

By MICHAEL BECKER Aldridge of Burnaby and Delta resident Mirosiav Michal, 33, with second degree murder in connec- tion with the death of Filonov.

West Vancouver Police are also investigating a statement reported- ly made by Filonov claiming that “‘we did Ginnetti,”’ just before he was gunned down with bullets from a .380-calibre semi-automatic pistol. .

Ginnetti was found in the bedroom area of his Caulfeild heme shot through the head.

‘Yhe dead businessman was in- volved in the resale of B.C. lottery tickets abroad.

Although West

GINNETTI MURDER

police aren’t connecting Ginnetti with the Hell’s Angels, bikers had been seen visiting his $750,000 Almondel Court home and attend- ed Ginnetti’s funeral on Tuesday. According to a News source, Ginnetti rode with the Hell’s Angels ina biker funeral procession through Vancouver streets several

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years ago.

West Vancouver Police Staff Sgt. Frank Aikenhead said the five-man team of local police in- vestigating the Ginnetti killing have made no firm connections be- tween Filonov and Ginnetti.

But he said, ‘‘We only know from some of our sources that there is an indication there could be some bad blood between thein (the Russians and the Hell's Angels) in terms of drug dealing.’’

Meanwhile, charges against Sergie Filonov’s brother Taras Filonov, 23, and Aleksander Alekseev, 22, and Eugeniy Alekseev, 23, have been stayed in a case involving the alleged attemp- ted confinement of a man in West Vancouver in December. Assault

Public get chance to give OCP input

EXACTLY ONE year after the public hearing on North Vancouver District’s Official Community Plan (OCP) was originally scheduled to be reconvened, speakers will finally have their chance to comment on the municipali- ty’s ‘‘broad vision of the future’’ on June 12.

By MA Contr

MILLERCHIP a Writer

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Debate will start afresh then on the arnended OCP after North Vancouver District Council reconvenes and then closes the old public hearing in order to defeat Bylaw 6000 (the old OCP) at a special meeting of council im- mediately foliowing.

The bylaw manoeuvring became necessary after council incor- porated substantial changes in the OCP relating to: the designation of five industri- ally-zoned parcels west of Cates Park as Parks, Recreation and Wilderness;

New plan

to cover Lynn Canyon, Cates Park

ethe designation as Conservation Area of a proposed mixed-use site owned by the Vancouver Port Corp. in the Maplewood area;

ethe elimination of proposed resi- dential areas in the Inter-River area;

*the- recommendations of the North Vancouver Transportation Network Study.

The draft OCP now states that, “The Lynn Canyon Park lands will be established as a district park in accordance with the ex- panded boundaries determined by council,” and while the specific properties to be included have yet to be identified, council moved on Monday night to use Section 532 of the Municipal Act to reserve the land.

Once in place, the reservation can only be removed by a two- thirds council majority and minister of municipal affairs ap- proval. Anyone opposing removal of park status may appeal to the minister for a public vote.

A new implementation policy in the amended OCP plan will in- vestigate the feasibility of establishing a new parks centre in the expanded park north 3f Capilano College to provide «& focal point for the four Inter-River parks.

Transportation changes included in the amended OCP include: edeleting the proposal to reserve a route connecting central Lynn Valley with Lillooet Road and Blueridge forest;

*inserting a proposal to reserve a route across Lynn Creek north of the Upper Levels Highway near the B.C. Hydro right-of-way to serve the Capilano College area: *inserting a proposal to reserve a route across the Seymour River above Capilano College as a long- term option for an upper crossing; *encouraging the provincial gov- ernment to improve the Fern Street and Main Street interchanges, to add two lanes to the Second Nar- rows Bridge, preferably for high- occupancy vehicles, and to im- prove lane capacity north of the Second Narrows Bridge.

Other minor changes in the draft plan were made to increase clarity or remove redundancy, such as deleting an option to locate a commercial centre in Maplewood to serve Seymour West.

The change follows council’s decision to designate the

Maplewood Mudflats as a conser- vation area.

Also under the amended OCP: *the North Shore Arts Commis- sion is recognized for the first time as the principal coordinating agen- cy for the arts and culture on the North Shore; sthe municipal hall complex is designated as the site of a district archives; eand the Parkgate Centre is no longer the specific site for a library branch.

A new commitment was also made to protect and conserve “buildings and sites of value to the cultural heritage of the communi- ty” and to include protection of old-growth forest and lands sup- porting rare species or endangered habitat.

While the OCP precludes coun- cil from actions contrary to the plan or from proceeding with a project until the usual require- ments for a public project have been met, a new preamble spells out that council is not committed “to embark on any project includ- ed in the plan’’.

There will be a May 26 open House at district hall to discuss the new draft of the OCP and the June 12 public hearing is set for Balmoral Junior Secondary School, 3365 Mahon, North Van- couver, starting at 7:30 pm.

and concealed weapon charges, faced by Aleksander Alekseev, were also stayed.

The three were charged Dec. 2 with attempting to confine and at- tempting to obstruct the course of justice.

According to West Vancouver Police, the three allcgedly attemp- ted to abduct a man at a service station located at 19th Street aad Marine Drive. Police allege the altercation broke out over a drug deal,

Taras Filonov is set to appear May 28 in West Vancouver pro- vincial court for a show-cause hearing on two charges of posses- sion of a restricted weapon. The charges stem from a Sept. 8 inci- dent.

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