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WINNIPEG defenceman Mike Lalor sprawls to block Vancouver Canuck centre Cliff Ronning as
he moves in on Jets netminder Rick Tabaracci during Stanley Cup playoff action at the Pacific
Coliseum on Monday night. Jyrki Lumme scored the winning goal halfway through the third
period, as the Canucks evened the first-round series 1-1 with a 3-2 victory. The two teams meet
tonight in Winnipeg tor game three.

F irst of four gypsy moth assaults
hits N. Shore over Easter weekend

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THE NORTH Shore was showered with the first of up to
four aerial and ground doses of bacterial insecticide over

the weekend.

While a helicopter sprayed the
Capilano watershed area Saturday
as part of Agriculture Canada’s
program to eradicate the Asian
gypsy moth, residents awoke to
the drone of low-flying DC-6
spray planes early Sunday and
again on Tuesday morning.

Weather permitting, the next
aerial and ground round to spray
Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki
(Btk) will start in about 10 days.

Under ideal weather conditions

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

each phase of the aerial applica-
tion should take two days.

The DC-6 planes cover a
17,760-hectare area that includes
the entire North Shore and parts
of Vancouver and Burnaby. A
helicopter is used to spray 1,003
hectares, and about 850 hectares

of the target area
ground-spray treatment.

The Agriculture Canada Asian
gypsy moth eradication program
has progressed smoothly, accord-
ing to moth program spokesman
Bruce D’Andrea.

The first phase of ground
spraying on the North Shore,
which is focusing on wooded and
residential property in the Lynn
Valley area, wraps up this week.

On Tuesday, approximately 60
ground spray applicators worked
from dawn to dusk in Stanley
Park, Vanier Park, the upper
Lynn Valley area and around

Vancouver’s Alberta Wheat Pool.

“It’s going to take us longer
than the aerial spraying because it
is a little bit more labor-intensive.
We’re going full tilt, and then
there will be a down time on that
because it is going in stages, too,”
said D'Andrea.

The three DC-6 pianes drop
one load of Btk per morning.
Each plane holds about 11,000
litres of Btk, enough to cover
about 3,000 hectares.

Said D’Andrea, ‘‘At one point
we felt there could be time to do a
bit of a reload. But for instance
this morning (Tuesday) we got up
in the air at about 5:32 (a.m.),
and we finished at about 6:45
a.m. So there really isn’t enough
time to go back to Abbotsford.’’

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