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Blasting proposed for Seymour slide Metro looks to repair trails and build bridge
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The Seymour Salmonid Society is floating a plan to use explosives to slowly chip away some of the 50,000 cubic metres of rock that slid into the Seymour River in December 2014, creating a permanent new pond and blocking the path of spawning fish.
“When the slide happened, we in the salmonid society had a gut feeling the slide was impassible for juvenile fish heading out to the ocean and mature fishing coming back to the river,” said Shaun Hollingsworth, president of the stewardship group. To test their theory, the society volunteers radiotagged 30 incoming mature coho salmon below the slide in 2015, none of which made it up the pool above. UBC researchers also implanted acoustic tags about the size of a grain of rice in juvenile fish above and below the slide site in hopes. Of the fish released below the slide, 90 per cent made it to the estuary. Of those released above, none made it past. “In the summertime, especially last summer with the limited rain, the water did not come over the top. It crept down through the rocks below. We’d hoped they might find a way through down there but now
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Seymour Salmonid Society president Shaun Hollingsworth stands at the site of a 2014 rock slide on the Seymour River that dumped 50,000 cubic metres of rock into the river. The society is floating a plan to slowly blast away the rock to allow salmon and steelhead to spawn. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
CRIME: NEIGHBOURS REPORT SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE IN APARTMENT HOME
Teenage son charged in mom’s death JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
A 19-year-old North Vancouver man has been charged with manslaughter in the death of his 58-year-old mother after she died following an assault in her apartment Monday night.
North Vancouver RCMP were called to 102 - 312 East First St. in North Vancouver just after 6 p.m. on
Jan. 25 after a local resident called 9-1-1 to report hearing a dispute and possible assault taking place in a nearby apartment. Police arrived and forced their way into the apartment after hearing sounds of a struggle, said Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokeswoman Sgt. Stephanie Ashton. When they got inside, officers saw a man escaping over the balcony. The man, identified as
19-year-old Alex Lefkove, was arrested following a short foot chase. Christine Grube Lefkove, Alex Lefkove’s mother, was found with extensive injuries at the scene. She was rushed to hospital and put on life support, but died of her injuries in hospital about 24 hours later. No cause of death has yet been released.
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