ROTARY CLUB members, Ernie Timbers (left) and Walter Freybe prepare hospital

supplies to be sent to Uganda.

Hospital beds go to Africa

GLD BEDS from Lions
Gate Hospital will be con-
tinuing their usefulness in
Uganda thanks to the co-
operation of the hospital
and North Vancouver’s
Lions Gate Rotary Club.

The old LGH beds, now
replaced by new up-to-date
models, will be packed into 40-
foot containers and shipped

parrarts

direct to Kampala, Uganda,
where they will again be used
on arrival under the direction of
the Rotary Club there.

The project has been orga-
nized by the local Rotary Club
with the assistance of CIDA
(Canadian International
Development Agency).

Many Third World countries
are short of medical equipment,
and supplies and the Rotary
Clubs of Lions Gate and

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Langley are cooperatively trying
to meet this need by collecting
valuable outdated equipment
from Lower Mainland
hospitals.

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NDER A-Teain ...under the

spotlight.

thumbs down Tuesday night
of an ICBC claims centre on
couver.

Said Lillooet Place resident
Kobert Hooper, who would live
next door to the claims centre if
the required land rezoning is ap-
proved by North Vancouver
District, ‘Everybody in that room,
except for one person, didn’t want
that thing to go in.’

The proposal, as presented by
Project manager UMA Spantec
Lid. in Tuesday night's public in-
formation meeting, would see an
ICBC claims centre located on a
2.2-acre parcel of district-owned
land, situated east ‘of Lillooet
Road and abutting a running track
on the Capilano College playing
field.

The land is currently zoned in-
terim) industrial and parks recre-
ation and open space to accom-
moadate the gravel pit) operation
that was once based there.

To allow for the construction of
a claims centre, the zoning would
have to be changed to a light in-
dustrial designation,

But residents claiin the centre
would be out of place in a residen-
tial area, would attract other
automotive-related industry to the
neighborhood and would serve
more North Burnaby and East
Vancouver drivers than North
Shore drivers.

Said Lynnmour Residents
Association chairman Pat Neufeld,
“We've been hammered for years
here. I went to three other ICBC
stations over the weekend and all
of them are built around
automotive industries.”’

Said Hooper, “A commercial
building in a residential area is in-
appropriate. Most people would
jike it to remain an open space.
ICBC is in favor of the area
because it provides excellent access
to curs locally and pood access for

cars from East Vancouver and
Burnaby. A lot of people feel
resentful that the district’ would
even) consider putting this in
place.”’

But said North Vancouver
District, municipal planner Kai

Kreuchen, “‘It was deemed worthy
of consideration because it is

well-designed and it would) be a
low traffic generator.’
The

’

Lynnmour claims centre

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ANGRY LYNNMOUR area residents gave a collective 250

to the proposed construction
Lillooet Road in North Van-

would fandle a maximum of 1,500
claims per month,
ICBC. spokesman
said the new ceatre would help
ease the insurance corporation's
problem of processing an increas-

Ken) Hardie

ing pumber of automobile —in-
surance claims.

Hardie said the existing North
Vancouver claims centre on
Pemberton Avenue is overloaded.

Last year the centre, which
serves an area encompassing North

BREST SY ra eas CL alec
e€

commercial
buiiding in a
residential area is
inappropriate.
Most people
would like it to
remain an open
space.”’

— Robert Hooper
local resident

TELESIS CRRENS

Vancouver, West Vancouver and
up to the Sunshine Coast, handled
31,763 claims. The centre, desizn-
ed to handle a maximum 1,800
claims per month, averaged 2,647
per month last year.

“There's no doubt, they've been
bursting at the seams there,’” Har-
die said.

He added that the Lynoamour
centre will handle North Share
claims specifically. Hardie said

ICBC is also planning a new claims
centre for North Burnaby.

“The fact of whether we go
there (to Lynnmour), is predicated
on whether the district makes the
land available to us,’’ he said.
“We don't go where we're not

wanted, but judging by our track

record elsewhere, we have fit in.’

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