: Father, friend carry on wish to ihelp teenagers

a 8y lan Noble News Reporter WHEN Marlon Nash died 4 Nov. 19 in a car accident near Lillooet, he harbored a dream to help troubled 4 young people deal with their angst. Marlon’s father : A and a friend want ma to make sure that i dream lives on. North Vancou- ‘ver resident Joshua Lang, 18, also per- m ished in the crash. »: “Out of all this tragedy it’s a ques- 4.tion of trying to make something positive,” said Fag Malcolm Nash, a fj m@ North Vancouver “resident. “It’s § something I can do in a mild. way to B make a bit of sense ‘ofit all.” . 4a v4 “David Gilmore, — omet Marlonat Joshua Lang :the: Waldorf high hool in. North Vancouver, shared ‘Marlon’s dream of a getaway for eens.

AS Marion Nash

ilmore.and Marlon Nash were two of three 8 friends who wanted to find an area in the country to. build a cabin and take young people there to ive them a change of scenery and a chance to real-

¢ that there’s ie beyond the urban experience. "At the cabin, the teenagers would participate in activities such as hiking, skiing, and climbing —

‘and work.

\: -So it’s not just a vacation,” said Gilmore, who pressed by the calming effect nature has on

;,the judge “Undeterred by the exchange, Staats stated that his client possessed a

young people.

“They always have a good time. Rain, snow or sun, it doesn’t matter, it’s always been a good time,” ‘said Gilmore, who has worked as a child- care worker.

To raise the money necded to bring the idea to fruition, Malcolm Nash, a Grade 7 teacher at Waldorf, has started Marlon’s Dream Foundation.

“It's not impossible if you think positively,” said

Nash. He acknowledged the idea could be seen as.

far-fetched. “We're not talking millions here.”

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Dead man’s dream lives

NEWS photo Paul McGreth

MALCOLM Nash (left) and David Gilmore have started a fund to realize the dream of Marion Nash, Maticoim’s son. Marion wanted to build a retreat to give youths a natural and healing experience.

Marion — remembered by Gilmore as a positive and caring person who said “everything is possible” — was working his way towards nis dream by tak- ing first aid and avalanche courses.

For Gilmore, a country experience for teens in need of some healing time is still a dream. He has also been working at getting the experience needed to bring the idea to reality.

Donations to Marion’s Dream Foundation can be made at any branch of the North Shore Credit Union to account number 712174.

with the judge while his lawyer stood uncertainly some five metres away, tem- porarily displaced by his own client. °

“When you're addicted to heroin ... you do everything in your power to get it,” he continued. “The first step to recovery is admitting it.”

This represented the first time he had come to that point, added Marchildon, sporting a guatee and a prison-faded yellow T-shirt over top of a white long-

sleeved shirt.

“[’ve spent so much time in jail,” he continued. “I’m 23 years of age, I've got nothing to show for it. I’ve got to start somewhere.”

Grandison seemed swayed by this outburst >°.d consoled him by stating, “You're not alone in your world.”

A short time later, Marchildon once again cut off his lawyer, and addressed

Grandison directly.

“[’ve always tried getting enrolled somewhere,” he said of his plans to attend

sincere desire to rehabilitate himself and “to deal with his problems.” Those - problems include a drug addiction that apparently drove Marchildon to crime “whenever he needed to finance his habit, which was often. The accused observed the proceedings from the prisoner’s box because he f was akeady in custody serving an earlier sentence which runs until February . Feo . He was granted parole which was revoked upon his pleading guilty to the : Current transgrcssions. ‘ >. Grandison voiced doubts over Marchildon’s desire to kick his drug habit, ~ pointing to the lack of counselling Marchildon had undertaken while in custody. But, stated the ohviousiy nervous Marchildon in his own defence, “I’ve “attended church and whatnot.” “Whamor™” asked Grandison. “Well, P've attended church,” replied Marchildon.

school in the future. “The only thing is the addiction. I know it’s a cop-out, but that’s what an addiction is. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in jail.”

Grandison again appeared to commiserate: “It’d be a shame if you did.”

However, before retiring to pander the facts of the case and deciding on the appropriate sentence, Grandison read Marchildon nwo victim impact state- ments, They consisted of short statements from the owners of the homes Marchildon burgled a mere three months ago.

The statements included expressions of shock, feclings of insecurity and vio- lation.

In sentencing Marchildon to five years in jail, Grandison said: “You need to be deterred. You have to know that the price is too high to pay for abusing peo- ple in a community. It is not my view that you should simply be punished (but) the public needs to be protected.”

There was no talk left in the prisoner as he was led away, already dressed for the occasion.

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* By Anna Marie D'Angelo “News Reporter

A former North Vancouver man who * was arrested in February at the Vancouver International Airport has been sentenced to six months in jail for “sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy - in 1992, Peter Wilson Reid, 54, was sentenced fast month in B.C. Supreme Court. The former Port MacNeil teacher has been in custody since his arrest. He was arrested by North Vancouver Mounties on a Canada-wide warrant. The warrant _was issued in connection with a probation breach

The early exchange spurred Marchildon to continue the discussion directly

on sex-related charges involving two other boys and new sex charges involving the 11-year-old.

In 1992, Reid was sentenced to two years less a day in jail and three years’ probation in connec- tion with sex offences involving the two boys.

Reid lived in Lower Lonsdale when those offences were committed.

He fled to che United States in 1994 while on probation.

While in the Unitea States he was sentenced to 16 months in jail on immigration charges, accord- ing to the North Vancouver RCMP.

Reid was being deported to his native England from the United States when his plane landed at Vancouver airport and he was arrested.

In July, a preliminary hearing into Reid’s new sex charge committed against a boy was held in

i Assault of 11-year-old boy leads to jail

North Vancouver provincial court.

At the hearing, the vietim gave graphic testi- mony of the ongoing sex crime that took place from September 1991 to November 1992. Reid sat in the prisoner’s box and showed little emo- tion during the victim’s testimony.

Last month, Reid changed his plea to guilty to sexual assault less than two weeks before a qwo- day trial was scheduled to start in B.C, Supreme Court.

Mr. Justice Duncan Shaw sentenced Reid on Nov. 14 to six months in jail and placed him on probation for three years.

On Nov. 20, Reid was back in North Vancouver provincial court again. He pleaded guilty to breaching probation by failing to report. to a probation officer on Nov. 23, 1994.

Changes leave district confused

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announced in a $113-million package of cuts to municipal grants Nov. 26.

The province said West Vancouver would take a $68,000 hit for portions of Marine Drive and Cypress Bowl Road and North Vancouver District would take over Westview Road and Mount Seymour Parkway.

On Thursday, however, Ramsay said the list of roads to be turned over to municipalities should have been described as a preliminary list.

Initially, West Vancouver was to be saddled with the upkeep for a section of Marine Drive between ‘Taylor Way and Capilano Drive. But Ramsay said that was an error and West Vancouver won’t be on the hook for that one-kilometre portion of road.

As of Thursday morning, West Vancouver Mayor Pat Boname said the district hadn’t received word of the road- responsibility changes from the

istry. : Their comreunication sy: tem is not very good,” she said.

Ramsay said the ministry mailed a notice to the district on Friday, nearly a week earlier. The package wasn’t faxed to the dis- trict because it contained a com- plicated map that wouldn’t fax well, said Ramsay.

Ramsay said that carly in January the province will .sit down with the municipality and hash out an agreement for the maintenance and upkeep. of Cypress Bow! Road. ;

“At this point in time we haven’t firmed up what we want them to take over,” he said. “I guess it’s a stay-tuned far more definition on the issue, particu- larly in West Vancouver.” ;

In North Vancouver, the situ- ation is more stable, he ‘said. Victoria estimates show North Vancouver District will pay an estimated $57,000 to maintain’ and upgrade a one-kilometie sec- tion on Westview Street and a: 37-kilometre section of Mcunt Seymour Parkway.

District traffic manager Gavin Joyce said Victoria’s announce- ment is a source of confusiun at municipal hal! because the dis- trict had not received a list of dis- trict roads that will be affected.

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