A2-Wednesdny, October 22, 1988 - Nocth Shore News $115,000 to miracie. I took another look at my three kids, I'll tell you. $165 ,000x3 is $495.000! Add a few frills and that's “How can we calculate thar?” “Can't.” “But these kids could Ship accident cause unknown FROM PAGE A1 “That is the only way to do a.” be commented, looking at the incident in retrospect. “There ts no other way. not anless one wishes to take an unsafe procedure with your workforce — and we are not m business to do that.” As for the only alternative to flooding the cngines. he sail. “That would have involved scnding men wm to put sea valves m place and we dadn't wish to do that ~ Jones saad the cause of the accident, m which the ferry shpped in its drydock and leaned over at a 3S degree angic, had oot been in veshgaicd Burrard will be checking wmto the acadcal thoroughly Ciff hanging lincoln was sabotaged A 1972) Lancotln Con uncaotal camc to a battcred cod at Cypress Bowl when was sabotaged by the Uhicves who had stolen «from Vancouvecs last Thursday West Vancouver Police later found the car hanging over a bank at mile two on Cypress Bowt Road, with the body hcavily damaged The gearstuft iever had been cd so tf was jammed tn dnve and there were rocks on the acccicrator pedal Damage 3 34 000 csaQmatod at 4 Strictly personal by Bob Hunter Million dollar kids Figures released recently show that the average American family has to shell out $100,000 to $140,000 to raise a kid. Keeping in mind the sorry state of the Canadian dollar, I figure that means I have to hand out $165,000 to perform the same dollars!” “Each. Easily.” “What's to stop them from costing os a billion dollars then?” “Nothing at all .~ Somehow, in the process of becoming a father three tumes, I guess I never sat down to figure out just exactly what kind of a financial deal I was geting into. I knew they were going to be costly, and that I would to determme where the blame hes but Jones added: “It would be covered by insurance, whoever or whatever was responsible .~ The water was pumped out of the engine section and Jones said Monday that the two mam engines will have to be stripped down, cleaned and overhauled, as well as other machinery. He could not comment on reports that the repair estimate 1s $3 muilhon as a compicte mspection had not been carned out but he thought ums figure may have been given ‘by someone in Victona tm authority and did not rule out the possibility of 1 being an accurate figure The ferry had been in the drydock for only two days North Vancouver City firefighters were on hand during much of the emergency work Sunday. being called at the tume the ship toppled losually they thought tbcy would be necded for rescuc work but the work crew on the ship quickly shammuicd hzve to put my nose to the _ grindstone to support the tule devils. But half a milhon buck — with no end in sight! I mean, surely Mom should have said something about that. God knows, she warned me about the evils of everything elsc. And the school system! When I think about all the teachers I had. of the thousands of hours of my ume they took up — and not one of them so much as mentioned m passing that if I was ever going to have three kids, n’d cost me half a million bucks. You'd think that's the son of thing they'd teach you, if they were gomg to teach you anything at all. down ropes to safety. Next concern was that the ferry might fall onto another B.C. ferry alongside, the Qucen of-Surrey. Eight fire- fighters and eight Burrard workers scrambled to unhook more than 5O service lines connected to the ship for welding, electricity, water and air. DOCK FIRE Then the drydock was sunk, and the ferry dropped into the water, nghting itscif but filing ws bows with seawater. At this stage the = fire departmecat was called back again to deal with a fire winch began when the rsing water shorted out an clectncal panel which slaried sparking Four firefighters were hfted aboard by a cranc but were not necded as the water in the bows contanucd to msc and put out the fire However the firemen were BIG BAND CONCERT - SUNDAY Well, where does that leave me? Should I put the kids under lock and key? Anything that valuable surely shouldn't be left outside where it might get damaged. Or stolen. Or even wet. I have a few bachelor fnends who'll be chuckling. These are guys who look at you as though you're a bit weird as it is because you have kids. Now that they know how much it costs, they're going to have a fine old round of I-told-you-so's, aren't they? There are also a lot of modérn we-aren't-going-to- have-any-children couples who Jook upon parents as beirg faintly embarrassing. like an idiot cousin. They're going to say: “See? You could have bought a yacht instead.” Well, obviously, with three kids under my belt it's a bit late for me to be op posed to having children. In fact, the way I look at it, why pot have half a dozen more? Of course this could be rationalization, but I think needed to put out a fire in the wall of the drydock itself which began when electrical sparks set light to the tim- bers. In all, the fire crew was at the drydock for four hours. PART TIME HELP WANTED (convement to the Sea Bus) BOOKKEEPER approx 20 hrs/wk to assist our accountant --must have expenence and reterences $6 OO/Nr SECRETARY expenenced pnvate secretary with top flight typing stulls and references Approx 4/5 hrs per Gay 45 days per wk Salary and hours negotiable RE PLY IN WRITING Sune 260 The Station 601 West Cordova Vancouver V6B 1G1 that having kids is ultimately column: KIDS — A the most amazing thing that FEDERAL OR PROVIN- can happen to you in life. 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