itage and’ cultute of of the North ‘Shore has Received’ a $288, 575 i in

Goverrinient support: for: the Project, called. Visic sof the North Shore, is pro-

‘the Canada: Millennium .

econd highest i in the pl fora projéct in phase three ¢f the = program. in. the. areas history and arts and ‘culture, ‘said: Linda - Feil,” exscutive

¢; North Vaneau ern ceth

‘ity Arts Council, the project’s

ig agency. Feil is also co-chair- ae ‘steering committee.

the announcement ‘Tuesday

ss° conference: at. ‘North

ram funds up to one- le costs of millennium

proj The ‘arts

council has: projected. $1 million in costs

‘th ‘project. Each of the three North . Shore mu icip: ities has Ph dged $90 000

. hai lived with Diicharme fora”

in a mixture of capa racing and cash towards. the project. The stecring com- mittee will be looking to the province, corporations and individuals for the rest. “What's really. wonderful about this

“project is that it's come from the grass-

roots. It gives us an opportunity to cele- brate the truly wonderful place we live in by using art and heritage,” said Feil.

. The project will “embrace the new millennium through a heritage and visual arts collaboration celebrating 12 sites that have significant historical, natural and cul- tural relevance to the communities,” she said.

- Oksana Dexter, cultural services super- intendent for West Vancouver District ind the project's co-chairman, gave credie fer

hé idea to Trevor Carolan. The North Vancouver District councillor had: pro- posed a similar preject two years ago to celebrate the Year of the Asia Pacitic.

‘The proposed sites are:

ii Cates, Lynn Canyon and Carisbrooke”

parks and: Maplewood Mud Flats in

~ Worth Vancouver District;

@ Grand Boulevard, Mosquito. Creek, Lower Lonsdale’ and Victoria’. Park or Moodyville in North Vancouver City, and @ Ambleside and John Lawson parks, Dundarave Pier and. Horseshoe Bay ir ia

NEWS photo Mike Wakotield

THE three North Shore municlpatities, First Nations and a iiest of aris and heritage organizations have lent iheir “support to Vislons of the North Shore, a millennium project headed up by Oksana Daxter (left) and Linda Feil.

West Vancouver.

The project will see 12 artists create new works of art for cach site. On-site interpretive displays will include archival photos, historic narrative and the First Nations place name and stary associated with the site.

The 12 North Shore artists invited to participate are: Nancy Boyd, Taiga Chiba, Pierre Coupey, Wayne Eastcott, Damian George, Bonnie Jordan, Jean C. Morrison, Setsuko Piroche, Gordon Smith, Joan Smith, Arnold Shives and Xwa Lack Tun (Rick Harry).

Said Shives: “For me to be a part of it is thrilling. Look forward to doing some~ thing that will demonstrate my great affection for this beautifill, scenic part of the world.”

Visions of the North Shore is expected to begin next summer and continue to the summer: of 2001. Museum exhibits, school programs, a series of community celebrations, and coinmemoarative pubii- cation and CD-ROM are planned.

‘Initial partnezs in the project are: the: -

museums of North and West Vancouver, the Squamish Nation, Capilano Colle: North and West Vancouver ‘school is

tricts, Ferry Building Gallery, Artists For _

Kids Trust and the Seymour Art Gallery.

‘connection | with Duggan’ 's murder. The North Vancouver

1997.

5 resident’ Welden Congdon, who. said “th: “rolling”

few fonths before she was_

killed.

_ According to court infor:

«, ‘mation, ’a' drunk Groham killed . the 41-year-old mother of four “chiidren after she “told him to

"get out.”

: River townhouse. "

: -Graham‘ 's appeal of his scc- “= Ond degree murder sentence was dismissed by the B.C.

~ Court of Appeal last year. .’ Graham’s lawyer appeaicd further to the Supreme Court of Canada, the highest court in a a the land. That ‘appeal was dis-

“missed yesterday. Graham must .

’ continue to serve a life sentence for Ducharme’s murder that a

. She was found dead . + +s... the bathtub of her Campbell:

“jade imposed am is cligible f for parole in

less than eight ye:

In 1993 Groham was dating Lyan Duggan.-

” Duggan, 34, was Killed around june 16, 1993, in her St. Georges Avenue a ent, one block from he North ‘Vancouver RCMP detachment. ~ Duggan’s bedy, a. shower curtain, towels, bedding and curtains were removed from her blood-stained apartment.

Duggan’s skull and jaw bone were discovered a year tater in the Lower Seymour Conservation : Reserve. body has never been found despite extensive searches.

No one has been charged in

Her |

RCMP have. never ‘confirmed that Graham is a suspect in the

Graham appealed: his Ducharme murder conviction,

in part, on the basis that the.

original trial judge erred “in refusing a motion for change of

venue. The change of venue -

was requested by Graham’s lawyer after a Campbell River newspaper published informa- tion about Graham and Duggan’s unsolved killing three days before his trial’ by judge’ alone. The newspaper _. article referred to police state- ments that Graham was “extremely dangerous.”

ed that any creation of greater access district, water!

Friday, November 19, 1999 —- North Shore News - 3

Citizens group nicked district slate secretiy

Katharine Hamer News Reporter katharine@nsnews.com

IN the beginning, there was the West Vancouver Citizens for Good Government, advising the good burghers of the munici- pality on the electoral candidates they should vote for.

Sorth Shore Concerned Citizens

Now comes the fledgling * Association — a group few voters know anything about.

The group has been mailing pamphicts to addresses through- .

out North Vancouver District advocating a slate of the following candidates tor council: incumbent Mayor Don Bell and council- Jors Lisa Muri and Janice Harris, and would-be councillors Doug MacKay-Dunn, Bill Denault, Maureen McKeon-Holmes and Heather Dunsford.

The pamphiets | arrived wrapped in a sheet of paper advising voters to say “no” to the waterfront referendum. It displays a photograph of highrise build- ings along the West Vancouver seawall, and claims to have been paid for by “a Discrict- wide coalition of ‘concerned citizens against uncontrollable — development.” .

The Concerned Citizens have also been running news- paper ads and displaying sig- nage recommending — thar North Vancouver District vot- ers oppose the adoption of the Waterfront Task Force ‘Proposals at tomorrow's municipal elections.

Bystanders and some council candidates are curious as to the’ group's true motivation.

“I think this group has an agenda,” said Dalia. Gottlieb: : Tanaka, who is running for district council-

“Most of the candidates (on the slate) are trom East Seymour” and they don’t support the w2tetfront access. Is this considered a well-balanced representation of the district?”

Gottlicb-Tanaka wondered why the ‘Concerned ‘Citizens’. Association had “never called me, never interviewed’ me about my opinion, never asked me to join. It’s because they know how. L feel abour the waterfront.” :

Said Doug MacKay-Dunn, “They sent me a fax saying they’ were endorsing me. I’ve never "been to any of their mee! ings, | but’ I think they like the issue of fiscal responsibility. ”

He said he had no other information available on the group. |

Council-watcher and Edgemont’ Community ‘Association member Gary Hawthorn — who is against the waterfront devel- « opment proposals — said the g group was “almost certainly a slate: designed to defeat the Waterfront Task Force.”

“The Concerned Citizens Association have “concealed thei agenda,” Hawthorn said, suggesting it.was no coincidence thai Hesther Dunsford lived “right.on waterfront property in Deep Cove.”

Dunsford_ his repeatedly: confirmed her ‘antipathy, to an waterfront. development when questioned at -all-candidate mectings, but “she never, ever said,.“Pai_ a waterfront resident | and I'm concerned about my property rights’ —— ‘nor that they would be affected anyway,” said Diana Belhouse, past chairman: of the Waterfront Task Force. “I doubt very much: if Heath 7 would have run otherwise.” ;

“I don’t. understand what all ‘the. commotion’ S. - about, Dunstord said.

She referred té the Concerned Citizens as “a group of pe who are against the Waterfront Task Force plan,” although :

sissue_is nox mentioned specifically onthe. ‘pamphict en

candidates.” . Dunsford _said she “knew some of the membe: ‘

for the group with the North Shore News althoug made the inquiry before she decided tore A '. The group appears to have. béén fourided in May by. Delbroo lf just . across the district until the organization reached its rent si Fundi mB for the group’ "5 campaign had come from a ‘collection

of “friends and neighbours,” he said. “We? re nota licensed soci-

ety. We can’t issue tax deduction receipts.” ; Congdon ‘said he was worried about’ fiscal responsi ity. i

council and insisted the $53 million cost suggested for. the .50 They. haven’ ts

car waterfront pin must. be “felonious (sic looked into it with due diligence.”

nsford’ said all the candidates: recommended by : he

Concerned Citizens were against the Waterfront Task For e plan, ; and “against targeting people’s personal property.”

Dunsford said there was no need for the district to expropri ate” people” 's waterfront homics.. “There’s already’ ton: of public access” to the waterfront, she said... -..- :

But both the Waterfront Task Force and May ‘or Don Beil hai repeatedly said that the district has plans only to purchase prop- erty already on the open market if the task force plan is approved

Opponents to che Waterfront Task Force plans have ¢ suBEest nt woul