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Grain terminal concerns raised BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
North Vancouver’s two municipal councils have forwarded a list of conditions they’d like to see met before Port Metro Vancouver approves G3 Global Holdings’ request to build a 180,000-tonne grain terminal and rail loop at the foot of Brooksbank Avenue.
MEMORIAL Friends, family and former teammates gather at a celebration of life for student-athlete Matthew Hutchinson Sunday at Sutherland secondary in North Vancouver. The 24-year-old collegiate hockey player and volunteer firefighter was killed in an apparent double murder-suicide in New York Jan. 17. Friends and teammates also laced up their skates for a memorial game Friday at North Shore Winter Club, where Hutchinson played youth hockey. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
On Jan. 25, city council approved and sent its list of items “that G3 be strongly encouraged to consider.” Because of its federal jurisdiction, municipalities don’t get an official say on projects on port land, although they are consulted. Among the items on the city’s wish list: using 4.5metre flood construction level in keeping with the city’s standards, ensuring operational noise and dust mitigation plans make every effort to minimize the impacts on nearby
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Out-of-bounds adventure ends in tragedy ROSALIND DUANE AND JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Just a few hours before a 40-year-old snowboarder was found dead on Cypress Mountain Saturday, he stopped with a female friend for a photo in the fresh powder snow. A sign hung in the nearby trees. It said Danger. Do Not Go Beyond This Point. Turn Back Now. The snowboarders were already well out of bounds of the resort skiing area. But at this point, they decided to separate. The woman turned back and the 40-year-old Surrey
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Surrey snowboarder missing from ski area found dead in gully man continued on, past the warning. It was a decision that cost him his life. The body of the missing snowboarder was recovered by North Shore Rescue Saturday in the Montizambert drainage area. “This is a really, really tragic ending. Not what we anticipate on these calls but I think it really shows the
consequences that can happen,” said North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks. “It’s hard for me to rationalize why people are doing it,” said Danks on the perennial issue of skiers and snowboarders who deliberately go out of bounds and quickly find themselves in hazardous terrain. “On the other side of that boundary rope there’s fresh powder. That draws people in. I think he was very naïve to the dangers.”
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