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POTENTIAL BONE marrow donors packed two information sessions held Wednesday night at recCentre Delbrook by the Red Cross. The community showed an overwhelming response to recent media coverage chronicling the plight of a Deep Cove family whose two young daughters need bone marrow transplants. Six hundred people signed up Wednesday to join the Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Registry. To be a meraber of the registry, blood donation is also required. North Shore blood donor clinics will be held July 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at B.C. Rail, and July 15 and 16, 2:30-8 p.m. at Lions Gate Hospital.

Design proposal emphasizes history of Lower Lonsdale

Report outlines ways to upgrade area

DESIGN GUIDELINES aimed at enhancing the historic nature of the Lower Lonsdale core were presented to North Vancouver City Council Monday.

The proposal calls for the upgrading of heritage buildings, development of similarly-styled buildings to complement them, and installation of a streetcar on Lonsdale Avenue to attract more people to the street.

The guidelines are contained in a report that council commission- ed to examine the area between Carrie Cates Court and 4th Street, extending one block east and west of Lonsdale Avenue.

“The consultants’ evaluation of this area led to the conclusion that although the inventoried heritage buildings do not dominate the street in terms of numbers (16 of 53), they do dominate in terms of establishing the character of the street,” said city planner Gary Penway.

Consultant Robert Lemon, of Robert G. Lemon Architecture and Preservation. said that along with the 16 inventoried heritage buildings, there are three more with “potential historic value."”

The buildings are dated pre- 1939 with the exception of the post office. Lemon added the post office has historic value despite its relatively young age.

He also pointed out that five of the six three-storey buildings in the area are on the heritage inven- tory. The largest buildings in the study area are heritage buildings.

Analysis of the heritage build- ings show that structures of a sim- ilar form and style would best complement the historic buildings, said Marta Farevaag, of Com- monweath Historic Resource Management, the report co-

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Current zoning calls for build- ings to “‘step back’’ from Lons- dale Avenue, to allow for better view corridors. But she said, “This is inconsistent in preserving the character of the heritage buildings.”

Block-like buildings, no more than three stor ys tall — with strong features like the cornices on many heritage buildings — are recommended, she said.

To allow histeric buildings to dominate the landscape, the newer buildings should never outsize them, Farevaag added. And the roof-lines should ‘‘step down’ Lonsdale so that each building is slightly shorter than the building to the north of it.

Since no heritage buildings exist between 3rd and 4th Streets, the block could serve as a transition area between the commercial heritage area and the residential area to the north, she said.

Farevaag recommended zoning changes and that the Official Community Plan be brought in line with the zoning, since current

guidelines allow talle: buildings.

The streetcar, a historic car owned by the city, is refurbished and awaiting a new home.

Although Ald. Barbara Sharp has had much opposition to the idea of running the car on Lons- dale Avenue, Farevaag said it would help ‘to achieve a strong

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historic atmosphere.’’

The car would draw people from Lonsdale Quay to Lonsdale Avenue and eliminate the street's incline as an impediment to pedes- trians exploring the upper blocks, she said.

But Mayor Jack Loucks ques- tioned the economic viability of the proposal. He was told the provincial government’s downtown revitalization program could provide financial support and incentives to realize the pro- posal.

Lemon told Loucks that the square footage of new buildings developed along Lonsdale Avenue would not be affected by the zon- ing changes. Although the city currently allows four storeys, the top two floors must be stepped back from the street.

But this style, he said, would not fit into the heritage Streetscape. ‘‘You have an oppor- tunity to control development,”’ Lemon said, ‘‘to achieve a level of historical authenticity.”

Loucks reiterated that he was uncertain of the practicality of ei- ther the building design guidelines or the streetcar idea.

The study, put together by Lemon, Farevaag, and Christopher Phillips and Associates Landscape Architects, will go to several advisory com- mitees for comment prior to council's discussion of it.

Copies of the Historic Lonsdale Design Guideline study are avail- able to the public for $5 per report.

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Two men

charged in Cap Mall robbery

RCMP investigation leads to arrests of Lugaro suspects

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP have laid several charges against two men in connection with a daring smash-and- grab armed robbery of a jewelry store in the Capilano

Mall.

Shortly before 5 p.m. on June 7, two men robbed Lugaro Jewellers. Four people were in- jured when a man, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, blasted two shots into the busy fast food area of the mall.

Suspects escaped with diamonds and gold worth between $300,000 and $500,000.

North Vancouver RCMP Const. Marty Blais said two suspects were arrested and charged on Friday.

Robb Edward Napop, 23, of 1420 East 54th Street in Van- couver, has been charged with at- tempted murder, aggravated assault, three counts of assault causing bodily harm, armed rob- bery and using a firearm during the course of committing an of- fence.

Joseph Kenneth Hleck, 29, of 7608 1ith Avenue in Burnat-. has been charged with possession. of stolen property.

Roth men have been remanded in custody and are scheduled to appear in North Vancouver pro- vincial court July 3.

Lugaro manager John Wolfe hit the silent alarm signalling a rob- bery in progress at 4:57 p.m. June 7. The mall had been filled with Friday afternoon shoppers.

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He had been at the watch counter moments before a mallet-wielding suspect walked in. One clerk had gone for a break. Another one was with a customer at the diamond counter. A goldsmith and an accountant were at the back of the store.

Wolfe was talking to an ac- countant near the back of the store when the trouble began.

“We just started to talk and all of a sudden ‘smash.’ I look over and there’s this guy in a baseball cap and sunglasses and a trench coat smashing glass with a rubber mallet,’? Wolfe said in a June 12 News story.

‘At the same time € hear the other guy shouting, ‘Get down, get down.’ So we got down in the back. ] was watching them on the monitor, watching him as he broke the last showcase. And then the shots went off - all this is within a minute’s space.”’

Vhe man with the sawed-off shotgun fired twice into the food area. Three men and a woman were hit.

Reynolds decides not

to run for

leadership

Throws support behind McCarthy

WEST VANCOUVER-Howe Sound MLA John Reynolds decided Thursday against seeking the top Socred job. The decision follows weeks of speculation that he was set to make a second bid for the leadership of the Social Credit party.

By Surj Rattan News Reporter

Leadership candidates had a Thursday deadline to file nomina- tion papers for a position that became vacant following the res- ignation of former premier Bill Vander Zalm in the wake of the Fantasy Gardens affair.

Reynolds said he will spend his time and energy to make sure veteran Socred MLA Grace Mc- Carthy wins the post. After ini- tially saying she would not enter the leadership race, McCarthy reversed her decision and tossed her leadership hat into the ring.

Rexynolds denied McCarthy's decision to enter the race was a factor in his decision to watch the race from the sidelines.

“Pve been spending the last two seeks geting people together to

support her (McCarthy),’’ said Reynolds. ‘‘She can win the next election.”’

He added that he is looking forward to attending the Socred leadership convention, to be held between July 18-20 at the Van- couver Trade and Convention Centre.

“My wife and | will be doing everything we can to make sure Grace is elected leader of the par- ty,”’ said Reynolds.

Seeking the Socred leadership are McCarthy, Premier Rita Johnston, former finance minister Mel Couvelier, Norm Jacobsen, who resigned from his post of social services minister Thursday to enter the race, and back-ben- cher Duane Crandall.

Vander Zalm,. also considered a possible candidate for his old job, called a news conference Thursday to say he would not be entering the race.

Reynolds first sought the lead- ership of the party in 1986 after former premier Bill Bennett retired from politics. Reynolds placed fifth in a field of 12 can- didates. Josing out to Vander Zalm