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COUNTRY singer Marty Gillan ...under

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NEWS photo Terry Potais

A PACIFIC RIM Bus Corporation president Brent Hendricks catches a ride on one of two 47-passenger Prevost Le Mirage XL wide-body coaches his company recently bought in
Montreai. ‘ne big buses were driven across the country and delivered to 2 bus tour company on Vancouver Island.

A LONG and bitter battle between the British Columbia
Lifeboat Society (BCLS) and the North Shore Lifeboat
Society (NSLS) over the ownership of a 20-foot Boston
Whaler lifeboat has been settled out of court with the vessel

returning to the NSLS.

While neither side of the dispute
is willing to divulge specific details
of the settlement, the boat was
delivered to the NSLS Sept. 30 and
will be officially re-launched at
Fisherman’s Cove Saturday.

“The boat will be based on the
North Shore,’ said NSLS presi-

PS Ea re Sage Deni eee nee

Reporter

dent Tully Waisman. ‘*We're hap-
py to have it back.”’

The $30,000 boat — partly
funded with a $15,000 provincial

lottery grant secured by West Van-
couver-Howe Sound MLA John
Reynolds, and a $5,000 grant from
the North Vancouver Kiwanis Club
— had been operating from a base
at Fisherman’s Cove, west of Point
Atkinson,

The vessel was seized earlier this
year by a bailiff and impounded
for non-payment of storage fees.
The boat was then retrieved from
the bailiff by the Pender Island-
based BCLS, which claimed
ownership.

The NSLS had the boat when it

the BCLS
operate

broke away from
organization to
autonomously.

The ensuing wrangling resulted
in an estimated $70,000 investiga-
tion into the affairs of | oth life-
boat societies by the provincial Fi-
nancial Institutions Department of
Investigations. In its findings, the
report concluded the boat be
returned to West Vancouver.

In the report, a lengthy and
often critical accounting of the
operation of BCLS as headed by
the organization’s president Horst

Klein, investigator Aflan Clark
also recommended the lifeboat
society's privileges, pursuant to the
Society Act, be suspended pending
a vote by the membership, as listed
in 1986, on a motion to wind up
the society.

But in a letter sent to Klein, Fi-
nance Minister Mel Couvelier con-
cluded it was inapropriate for him
to intervene in the internal opera-
tions of the BCLS.

The NSLS initiated court action

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