COMMUNITY DROP-IN BLAMED Noisy teens infuriate Lynn Valley residents

“BRAWLS and heavy metal music’ outside the Lynn Valley Centre are causing sleepless nights for nearby resi-

dents.

Que resident. who has lived there for 16 years, said she blames teenagers involved in a_ recently created teen drop-in program for the noise problem.

The North Vancouver Recre- ation Commission has been operating the tcen drop-in program every Wednesday and Friday even- ing until 11 p.m. for less than two months.

‘Its really like living across from east-side New York,’’ said the woman, who asked not to be named because she feared reprisals.

“Ff an alderman lived across the street this wouldn't be huppen- ing.”*

The area’s recreation coor- dinator Perry Kulak said he has only received one complaint from a resident upset with the teen pro- gram, which he said attracts about 80 youths to the centre.

“It provides an alternative to kids to things they would be doing otherwise,’’ he said.

But Kulak said he recognizes there is a problem when the drop- in ends, and the teenagers continue to stay outside the hall.

“The teens aren't expected to be

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home at a certain hour. We decid- ed against staying open longer because we felt the parents should be taking some responsibility,’’ he said.

Narman Cameron used to five across from the centre but he moved last May. He said noise was a contributing factor in his deci- sion to move.

“The way I see it is this neighborhood is being destrcyed.

“Everyone had this great idea that they wanted somewhere for teenagers to go, but it’s not fair to concentrate it in one neighborhood.

“They're filling the hall with rowdies and letting the neighbors fend for themselves,’* he said.

Cameron said he knows of three others who have also left the neighborhood and believes they did so for much the same reason as he did.

In a letter to the recreation commission one year ago, Cameron said he requested they not rent the hall to teenagers beyond midnight and to adults

beyond 2 a.m.

He said while they agreed to that request, the commission ‘hasn't lived up to" a second request that the doors of the hall be kept closed so the noise does not filter out.

Resident) Muriel Worthington said she is annoyed by the program because the teenagers ‘‘are never in the hall where they should be.’

Instead, she said large groups mill outside and when they leave they often screech their car tires.

Worthington said neighborhood teenagers have broken her picket fence several times and thrown beer bottles in her yard.

A month ago, Worthington said she had to call the police after her front window was smashed from someone firing a B.B. gun.

“We said to the police, ‘If you say anything the kids will retaliate in a more serious fashion.’ *°

Cst. Elizabeth Hood of the North Vancouver RCMP said the police have not noticed a particular problem in that neighborhood.

“Wherever there’s a hall you get complaints,"’ she said. ‘*It's almost inevitable, especially when it's young people involved.’

The recreation commission's youth coordinator Gary Manson said he is willing to meet with area residents to discuss their problems with the program.

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

MAPLEWOOD FARM manager April Johnston gives her furry friend some instructions on how to behave at an upcoming pet care seminar. The event, dubbed Pet Peeves, will be held August 15 at the Lynn Valley

Ecology Centre. See story page 12.

LYNNTERM FACILITY LABOR STRIFE

Dock back to norma

WORK AT North Vancouver’s Lynnterm port facility is proceeding normally despite an unresolved dispute that saw 50 workers walk off the job Aug. 5.

The workers walked off to pro- test a non-union firm hired to cut away blacktop on the site.

Manager of terminal operations Dave McGowan said Tuesday there have been no further work disruptions since the B.C. Supreme Court ordered the employees back to work Aug. 6.

The dispute, revolving around the use of the non-union firms do- ing maintenance work on the site, is now in the discussion stage, said International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union local $17 president Jim Jackson.

Jackson refused to discuss a July 29 vrievance filed with the Van- couver Port Corporation over the non-union firms, but did say that discussions would soon be entering

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the second stage ‘vith two commit- tees from both sides meeting in an attempt to iron out the dispute.

“What's got to be resolved is the whole question of the work jurisdiction.’ Jackson said. The [LWU claims the contract between the union and the Vanecuver Port Corp, ensures that socal 500 or local 517 be given maintenance work on the site.

Bur local 317, the labor group that does the maintenance work for the Vancouver Port Corp., does not work at the Lynnterm fa- cility. It is local 500 that works at the Lynnterm facility.

“That's the whole question — ta establish where the jurisdiction starts and ends," Jackson said.

Vancouver Port Corp. spokesman Barbara Duggan said the corporation is optimistic the parties can resolve what she called “the grey areas”’ in the contract.

Duggan said the two-day mectings would likely conclude to- day. ‘*We're very hopeful that at the end of the couple of days we are able to clarify for our (LWU local) 517 people just exactly the perimeters of their work."*

Jackson likewise said he was “always optimisdc’’ the dispute could be quickly worked out.

Although the non-union firm T.J. Pin’ Contractiny Lid. had completed its work August 5 and is now off the Lynnterm site, McGowan said there are still twe areas requiring similar work. The jobs have yet to be awarded.

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Kitchen fires break out

NORTH VANCOUVER City Fue Department responded to two house calls Saturday where occupants had left couking pots unat- fended.

In the first incident at 5:35 p.m. at 117-West 17th Street an unattended pot on the stove caused an apartment suite to fill with smoke. There was no fire damage.

Later that day af 10:10 p.m, at 428 East 2nd Street a pot of oil overheated and ignited. There was fire damage to the walls und cupboards. A neat door neighbor helped put the fire out with a dry, chemical extinguisher.

Officials from NVCFD recommend people do not jeave pots unattended, especially oi),

if a fire does start, officials recommend residents attempt to cover the pot with a tight-fitting lid and turn off the stove, but not to do so at the cost of endangering lives.

Officials warn never to attempt fo move the pot and never use water on a grease fire.

An approved dry, chemical fire extinguisher or baking soda can

Police dog sniffs out thieves

A MAN was arrested affer he was caught trying ¢o steal automobile parts in the 100 block of Pemberton Aug. 7 at E15 a.m.

Fwo femeles were also apprehended, but later released, after an alert cilizen notified police of a ChefCin progress.

North Vancouver RCMP immediately atiended, and with the assistance of service dog Max and his handler were able to ap- prehend the suspects,

Mas was called in to assist another vehicle theft call, this time on August 8 af 3:40 acin.

Police received a call that a vehicle had been broken into in the 1800 block of Capilano Drive. A juvenile male was found to be hiding in the vehicle and was apprehended.

Charves are pending.

North Vancouver RCMP remind people not to leave valusbles in an automobile and to lock the dours,

lilegal dumping continues

ILLEGAL dumpings are continuing to occur at the foot of Fell Street.

North Vancouver City Fire Department reported they are resp2iding to calis about once a week in the area.

The incidents of fire ealls to this area have reportedly increased with the closure recently of the North Shore landfill site.

Residents should be taking their refuse to the Waste Transfer Station on Riverside Road.

The fire bylaw states that no person shall light, ignite or starta fire in open air. There are exceptions, such as a home barbecue.

Clam digger reeled-in

ILLEGAL fishing in Burrard Inlet has reeled a 21-year-old Van- couver mun into court.

Dara Yip appeared in North Vancouver provincial court Monday charged with one count of fishing in a closed area and one count of possession of illegally harvested shellfish.

Yip was arrested June 13 after allegedly harvesting butter clams in an area closed to fishing.

Appearing before North Vancouver provincial court Judge J.B. Paradis, Yip had his case adjourned until Aug. 18,

Sex charges go to hearing

A fifty-one-year-old Squamish man has been ordered (o appear in North Vancouver provincial court Dec. 8 for a preliminary hearing in connection with six counts of sexual! assualt.

The man, whose name cannot be published so as not te identify the victim, is also charged with two counts of assault in a series of offences dating back to May of 1972.