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News managing ediior leaves for new career

NORTH SHORE News managing editor Barrett Fisher has left her position at the newspaper to become the director of promotions and advertising for the Whistler Resort Association.

Fisher, who has been with the News for the past 6% years, of-

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managing editor in September 1986,

Since that time, the 29-year-old Fisher has worked to raise the focus and tone of the News and its news coverage to match the sophistication of its readership.

She has been responsible for upgrading all aspects of the news- paper and launching new colum- nists and sections, including the award-winning North Shore Now entertainment section that appears Wednesdays in the News.

The section was judged the best of its class in the 1989 Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) ed- itorial competition.

Prior to her appointment as News managing editor, Fisher worked as a features reporter, features editor, news reporter and news editor.

She won a MacMillan Bloedel journalism award for a series of Investigative news stories chronicl- ing the political controversy sur-

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rounding the Park and Tilford Gardens redevelopment and the North Vancouver City municipal election in 1986.

Fisher’s change in careers follows her decision to get married and move to Whistler permanent- ly.

News publisher Peter Speck said that Fisher would be dearly miss- ed.

“She was a terrific asset to the North Shore News,”’ he said. ‘‘I teally enjoyed working with her. She’s a star. I wish her the best of luck in Whistler.’’

Timothy Renshaw, News senior reporter, will become the newspa- per’s acting managing editor until anew managing editor is chosen.

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NV DISTRICT INTER-RIVER COMMITTEE REVIEW

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All-park option likely to be recommendation for canyon

A PRELIMINARY report

from the Inter-River Review

Committee indicates that an ‘‘all-park’’ option for the Lynn Canyon area will likely be the committee’s recommendation when it hands down its final report.

But North Vancouver District Council is continuing to have staff investigate all options for {ynn Canyon before making its final decision.

After a preliminary Jan. 15 report to council from the commit- tee’s project manager, council passed a motion asking the com- mittee to stop its review process and submit to council its recom- mendations and the reasons for those recommendations.

{In addition, district staff was ordered to report on how much revenue will be lost to the municipality if housing is not in- cluded in the inter-river area,and to determine the changes needed to the Official Community Plan,

The OCP must be altered because of the Greater Vancouver Water District watershed protec- tion policy.

Staff was also asked to examine the population and economic im- pact of the changes.

The GVWD is opposed to de- velopment in the northern area be- tween Seymour River and Lynn Creek and, possibly, to devclop- ment east of the Seymour River, Mayor Marilyn Baker said.

The information, which came to light after the committee began its work, stated that the GVWD may need the area for possible future watershed expansion.

If the current population servic- ed by the GVWD doubles to three million, Baker said, the present water system will be taxed beyond ‘its limit.

Ald. Ernie Crist called the report, budgeted at $50,000, a waste of money.

He added that further examina- tion of the economic benefits of developing the inter-river area should be weighed against the costs involved in servicing a new resi- dential area in Lynn Canyon.

Echoing Crist’s concern over the report’s cost, Ald. Joan Gadsby, said ‘‘we didn’t learn much from it.”

By PAMELA LANG

Contributing Wruer

The inter-river area, Gadsby ad- ded, is not appropriate for devel- opment.

But Baker said that since the Seymour Community Plan showed

NORTH Vancouver District Ald. Ernie Crist ...report a waste of money.

development in the inter-river area, the study was necessary before a decision to follow the plan or pro- tect the wilderness could be made.

Akt. Bill Rodgers, who, along with 3aker, represented council at the committee meetings, agreed that tle study was necessary.

Whether or not development proceeds, he said, land-use for the area should be determined.

‘“*We haven't upset the residents,’’ he said, ‘‘we’ve reas- sured them that this council is not being stampeded into a decision without assessing the options.”’

Ald. Craig Clark added that sav- ing the area as wilderness would have been the easy decision. The difficult decision, he said, was to discuss all of the options for the future of the area, despite the con- troversy.

In his report to council, project

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to hear that. The minimum should be three years at least.’’

Said Jan Kiss, ‘‘Now these kids were sitting in court, they know the details of what happened. And they sit watching for justice to take place. They do need to see that there are consequences.

‘And what has he got? What kind of lesson is anyone learning? You know what this tells me? It tells me, that if there’s someone I don't care for and want to bemp off, 1 don’t have to hire a hit man. Mt just get in my car and drive.”

Kiss said her family had manag- ed to come to terms with the grief of their loss over the past year, but Thursday's court decision is ‘‘a big, big, step back.””

“What would help,’’ she said, “is 10 feel that some justice had taken place. In my opinion, there isn’t any such thing as justice. There are just winners and losers. In this case the Kiss family and all those young friends of Anthony are losers.**

Meanwhile. MADD president Gordon McKay said Friday that his group plans to appeal to the at- torney general for a review of the

manager Jay Wollenberg said that nine of the 13 committee members now favor excluding any housing development from Lynn Canyon.

In addition, the nine members have stated that ‘‘they do not believe they will change their opi- nion, regardless of the outcome of the environmental, recreational and economic evaluations’’ that were intended to be completed during the next few weeks.

Baker suggested that because the opinions of the committee are un- likely to change, a prolonged eco- nomic evaluation is not warranted.

The committee has already had “detailed environmental and rec- reational studies’? done as well as reviewing the significance of the inter-river neighborhoods outlined in the 1988 Seymour community plan, according to Wollenberg.

The committee developed six land-use options, three of which utilize the area for parkland or ur- ban recreational use and three of which suggest housing in conjunc- tion with those uses.

A questionnaire completed by 757 people showed that 92 per cent favored one of the housing-free options while only two per cent favored housing development in the inter-river area.

The first of the two options favored by a review committee majority suggests designating the entire area for ‘‘environmental protection and nature park uses with minimal environmental im- pact.””

The second designates the two river corridors for ‘‘environmental protection and nature park use’’ with the upper and lower areas be- tween the river corridors as ‘‘nature park uses,’’ including ad- ditional activities with some en- vironmental impact such as horse- back or mountain bike riding.

As well, this plan designates a small area ‘‘at the southern end of the study area for a golf course.’’

Other options that still may be considered by council include ad- ding urban recreation uses such as a golf course or playing fields in the upper and lower areas between the rivers, or adding a housing de- velopment to the lower area.

for justice

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JAN AND Eugene Kiss, of North Vancouver, lost a sen last year when he was struck by a van. The driver was sentenced Thursday to a one- month jail term, a $2,000 fine, and had his driver's ticence suspended for three years after being found guilty of dangerous driving causing death in connection with the Feb. 18 death of Anthony Kiss.

sentence.

Justice, ‘tlt does seem to be ludicrous and it’s very distressful for the family, This certainly is not a deterrent. | would personally hope the Crown would appeal.

Hopefully something will be done.’

Added Noreen Provost, coor-

dinator of the North Shore-based Citizens United For Safety &