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NV parents banned after alleged threats made JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Burnaby RCMP was called out to a hockey arena Sunday afternoon following an apparently ugly incident involving North Vancouver parents at a hockey game on the weekend.
ALLEY CATS Alley Art Collective artists Adea Chung, Georgia Lush and Itel Chung will open their creative space to the public March 4 and 5 at 114 Donaghy Ave., in North Van as part of the North Shore Art Crawl, when artists stretching from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove showcase their work. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
Off-ice behaviour reportedly took an unsportsmanlike turn on Saturday night, during a hockey game between peewee teams from North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association and Burnaby Minor Hockey Association at Burnaby Lake Arena. The exact nature of the incident remains unclear, but “It involved threats to the on-ice officials that were made by some of the North Vancouver hockey parents,” said Terry Shein, general manager of Burnaby Winter Club. That led the referee in
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Province to fund Sea to Sky safety barrier BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
After years of lobbying and a lawsuit, the province will soon be tearing out the decorative landscaping and installing a 1.4-kilometre concrete safety barrier on a crash-prone stretch of the Sea to Sky Highway.
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky MLA Jordan Sturdy made the $800,000 announcement intended to stop head-on collisions on the highway between Lions Bay Avenue and Brunswick Beach Road on Saturday. “The ministry has worked closely with the local municipality of Lions Bay to find ways to improve safety for the travelling public along this stretch of the Sea to Sky,” Sturdy stated in a release.
Drivers prone to head-on crashes on stretch of Highway 99 near Lions Bay, advocates say “We have recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Lions Bay, outlining the plan to install a concrete median barrier, which will greatly increase safety for all motorists.” The landscaped median, planted with trees and shrubs, was installed at the behest of Lions Bay council when they were being consulted prior to the highway’s major update for the 2010 Olympics. The speed limit there is 60 kilometres per hour. Sturdy has been in talks with the municipality in recent
years as a grassroots campaign to improve safety cropped up in response to fatal collisions. West Vancouver resident David Tompkins launched a petition in 2015 calling for a standard concrete freeway barrier to prevent crossover accidents. Today, the petition has 3,328 signatures. “I think it’s mission accomplished,” Tompkins said on Monday. “It was mostly just started on a whim. I thought ‘What the heck.’” Following another fatal head-on collision in May 2016, North Vancouver paramedic Tyson Lehmann started recirculating the petition and lobbying government. “It’s great news,” said Lehmann, who has attended many
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