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> MIKE Tupper didn’t
He just went on gut instinct.
On Saturday — afternoon
Tupper played the hero at the

Scycove Marina gas bar in Deep
Cave when he hopped on his Sea-

“Te was like having a campfire

~ and chucking a gas can in,” said
Tupper, who hails from North
Vancouver. “AH 1 heard was a
‘whoosh’ and then these owo girls
and one guy jumped out.”

Tupper said one woman —
temporarily blinded by the force
of the blast — staggered down

~ the dock, her arms and chest

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B Katharine Hamer
News Reporter khamer@nsnews.com

= BC Ferries has made some adjustmex:ts to

its development plans for Horseshoe Bay
F — but the Crown corporation has no
immediate plans for removing what many
locals see as a major obstacle: the
Horseshoe’ Bay-Nanaimo run.

‘ On Monday, West Vancouver District council received an
_ updated BC Ferries report on its plans for Horseshoe Bay. The
“report comes just a week before West Vancouver District’s June

But BC Ferries has no plans to
remove Nanaimo run from H. Bay

13 public information meeting, which is scheduled to be held at
Gleneagles golf club facility starting at 7:30 p.m.

BC Ferries president Bob Lingwood will attend the meeting.
The corporation wilf also have “information displays” up at the

golf course from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and §
p.m. Tuesday.

BC Ferrics presented its original Horseshoe Bay Development
Plan Review to council in November 1999, promising that no
projects would proceed before a response had been received from
West Vancouver.

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MIKE Tupper averted a near-disaster at Seycove Marina on Saturday when he used his Sea-Doo to tow a burning boat away from the
fuelling dock and into the bay. Tupper then used the Sea-Doo's wake to help douse the flames.

The updated plan, according to BC Ferries, is based on a new
operating strategy and revisions to its Horseshoe Bay plans based
on feedback from West Vancouver residents,

West Vancouver has long pushed for the removal of the
Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route from the municipality.

A March 2000 West Vancouver staff report recommends the
construction of a new Lower Mainland ferry terminal at a site
south of Vancouver, such as Iona Island.

BC Ferries says a full-scale study for a third terminal elsewhere
on the Lower Mainland is expected by the end of March 2002.

“Anybody can hide behind an intent to do a study,” said John
Moonen of CAFTE (Citizens Against Ferry Traffic Expansion).
“It’s quite possible that BC Ferries has just outgrown Horseshoe

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