Bo tay

es ee a

‘A. 62-year-old. West Vancouver} T mnaire

without i injury.

He said that: families of the ..
North Shore crew. members-
“. flew to Hawaii: within the.
past few days to meet up
with the crew of the White
Eagle who were to be flown
there from Midway.

On the 9t-ft. yacht with

Parker were electrician Don.

Holtom, of 1768 Arborlyan,
North Vancouver, © cook
Sarah Miller, also of North
Van, nurse Margaret Mahy,

of 235 Keith Road, West

Vancouver, skipper Jon Van

~ Tamelen,'42, of Coquitlam,

} en ene vere ac

OF. Monday. sees a

- Lloyd.

“with his 15-year-old son.
Todd, and.a woman known |
as Madelaine. yk

- water each day,-ate-raw ‘fish

snagged with bare. fishhooks, .

couver — had - all: escaped’ and ‘lay in’: the ‘darkness

feeling 1 the sharks ruba gainst |
the rafts at ‘night. a

- But ‘the experience wasn't”
vall that bad, Lioyd Parker
told reporters, after being
flown to Honolulu. ot

“The main hardship is

always the doubt,” he e¢x-.
"If you knew you

plained.
were going to be picked up,
there'd be no problem. If we
knew we were going to be
picked up, I could have kind
of enjoyed i it.”

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” The... - seven: “Canadians

ts

oe,

TAKING OFF INTO THE VOID, andy Rouck, one of the members of the ‘Lumby Airforce’ launches himself trom -

the starting point in the Grouse Mountain Invitational Hang Gliding Championship. Four Lumby, B.C. competitors
were among the sixty hang gliding pilots from Canada, the United States, and Eurape, taking pert in the third annual

event, this weekend. A $5,000 purse was the prize for those pilots who showed 1 most skill in

vertical feet along 1.6 mites, to the landing area. (Ian Smith photo)

a ee

“Jeventh-hour reprieve in-sight

“Phe City woul Id phichase

By PAT RICH.

North Vancouver
City council has
decided to offer to buy

« the eastern part of the

North Van Secondary
School site, thereby
saving the gymnasium
and the tennis courts.

Aus the decision comes
‘only a week before the
provincial government's
option to buy the site with all
buildings removed, expires,
and only two weeks after

5

eee wee oveetbuncil voted against -in-

tervening to save the

buildings.

The buildings were
tentatively due to be
demolished to make room

for a proposed new
provincial courthouse
complex.

City Mayor Jack Loucks
said that in an in camera
meeting early last week,
council voted 6-1 to offer to
purchase part of the site
from the British Columbia
Building Corporation
(BCBC).

my Pears
Lea ait Atv

the land on a
agreement, for
Loucks said.

ten year
$582,000,

After voting to try and
purchase the land and retain
the gym, council gave three
readings to a by-law which
would approve the purchase.

‘We have informed the
British Columbia Building
Corporation of our offer,
and we are now waiting fora
reply,” Loucks said in an
interview Wednesday.

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fraversing the 3790, .

TODAY:
mostly sunny.
DAY: Continuing fine.