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Lions GGATE PROJECT UPDATE

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Beacon Literacy program
promises grade improvement

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WV crash

A 41-year-old Vancouver
man has been charged with
criminal negligence causing
death in connection with a
Maxch 27 highway crash
near the Horseshoe Bay

exit in West Vancouver.

Tessie Singh Patara is charged with
criminal negligence causing the death of
Harn Wnmart Vartiainen; crminot negli-
gence causing bodily harm to Jorma
Ensio Vartianen.

According to an earlier News report,
the trailer of a flatbed truck travelling
south on the Trans-Canada Highway
swerved into oncoming trafic on the
morning of March 27. Police said the
fatbed’s trailer coffided with a pickup
truck with neo men in it, The pickup was
heading in the opposite direction.

Harn tlmart Vartiainen, 38, was the
driver of the pickup truck. He died scan
after the collision. The driver of the com-
mercial truck, Patara, was not injured. He
was charged on Sept. 13. He appeared iz
North Vancouver provincial court) on
Oct. 24. He is slated for s preliminary
hearing in June.

—Aana Maric D’Anaclo

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

SEVENTY-FIVE cadets and officers from 103 Thunderbird Squadron lined up and saluted last Saturday on Capilano Suspension
Bridge, recreating a photo that appeared in LIFE magazine 45 years ago. Saturday's photo shoot aiso provided an opportunity
for an informal reunion between air cadets associated with the squadron throughout its 52-year history in North Vancouver.

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JOHN Forsdick of Context Research out-

fines the egenda for a meeting on
public water utility projects.

Seymour

Worries surface over NV waterworks traffic

Karen Robbins

Contributing Writer

CONCERNS about increased
traffic dominated a public
workshop on the Seymour
water utility projects
Thursday night at the Holiday
Inn in North Vancouver.

Mark Ferguson, a senior engineer with the
Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD)

drinking water treatment and research divi-
sion, said construction projects in the Lower
Seymour Conservation Reserve (LSCR), will
bring about 112 trucks through the area per
day. Since the construction in the area is
expected to take place over the next decade
and more, Ferguson said carefitl planning has
to be a priority.

Among the GVRP projects slated for the
LSCR:
B Seymour Falls Dam seismic upgrade, 2002
te 2005 ata cost of $25 million;
 ILSCR recreational pathway, opening 2001
ata cost of $3 million;

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Sevmour Water Main #5 north, 2007 to
2009, at a cost of $2) million:

@ Seymour Water Main #5 central, 2010 on,
ata cost of $14.2 million;

B Seymour Water Main #6, 2010 on, ata cost
of $9.4 million;

@ Seymour Water Main #5 south, 2000 to
2004, ata cost of $20 million;

@ Seymour filtration plant, 2002 to 2005, ar
a cost of $130 million.

About 30 people attended the workshop
to give their input to staff members on the
project and te find out about some of the
plans being developed.

Members of the public were concerned

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