Sunshines

IRENE IS a former gymnastic instructor who has studied both popular dance and
ballet. She also enjoys cooking Chinese food. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

railer gutted, cars
amaged in Cove

HORSING around by hooligans on Strathcona
Road in Deep Cove early Sunday morning left a

on the samc street, as a
result of cars being moved

AS - Wednesday, April 7, 1982 - North Shore News

LOUCKS AGREES

Garbage statement

false, says contractor

HIGH GARBAGE
collection costs in Kingston,
Ont. — cited recently by
North Vancouver City
Mayor Jack Loucks in
support of council's decision
to keep the service in
municipal hands —- are not
due to contracting out the
service, says the head of a
local garbage collection
firm.

During the City council
debate on the issue March 22
Mayor Loucks warned that
the Ontario. city went
private and then saw fees
more than quadruple in a
few years.

Len Remple, president of
Haul-Away Disposal Ltd.
which was bidding for the
North Van City contract, has
how produced a letter from
Kingston municipality
denying that garbage
collection there is carned
out bya private firm.

The etter, dated
November 25, 1981, from
Kingston's commissioner of
works to Human Action to
Limit Taxes — a Vancouver-
based tax-fighting group
which has strongly backed
private garbage collection —
reads:

“In reply to your enquiry |
hereby confirm that
municipal garbage collecnon
in the city of Kingston,
Ontano, is carned out by
City employees. It is the
disposal function that has

been contracted out to Tnicil
Lid.”

In a letter to The News
Remple says: “Kingston had
the

never contracted out

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SUNDAY. APRIL 11

garbage collection. It is their
own employees who have
done this in the past and
continue to do so. It appears
that the cost of collecting
has gone up 400% though,
with CUPE (Canadian Union
of Public Employees) doing
the work. That part of the
story ts correct.

“Ao error like this is costly
to the taxpayers who get the
wrong facts.”

Remple has also wnitten to
Mayor Loucks asking him to
“set the record straight” at a
council meeting.

The mayor told The News
that his original warning to
council, quoting Kingston,
was based on information in
an article that had been
brought to his attention.

It now seemed the
formation, which he r
accepted in good faith, was
erroneous, he said, and he
would correct it.

“1 want to emphasize,
however,” he added, “that
the information in the article
had nothing to do with
council’s decision to con-

in-

had ,

tinue with the municipally
operated garbage collection
system.”

Later, at Monday's City
council meeting, Loucks
told aldermen he _ had
created a wrong impression
about the Kingston situation

during the earlier debate
about garbage pickup.

He admitted: “I don't
know what it costs them
(Kington) to collect their
garbage.”

Alderman Bill Sorenson, a
proponent of private gar-
bage pickup, blamed the
mix-up on the Canadian
Union of Public Employees.

“A good deal of CUPE
information is inaccurate
and bordering on untruth,”
he said. “They twist the facts
around to suit their pur-
poses.”

Last fall Haul-Away won a

contract to handle West
Vancouver's garbage
collection when that

municipality decided to
hand over the service to the

private sector.

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. Occupants of 4573
trailer gutted and two cars damaged. Strathe woke Sunday

A family living at 4686 tinguished. morning to find their
Surathcona woke about 3:50 The 1977 Holidaire trailer, Volkswagen Rabbit had

a.m. to the sounds of
banging, which turned out to
be explosions from shotgun
shells which had been stored
in a trailer parked in the
driveway.

The trailer, parked at the
home of Russcil Kean. was
owned by his son Ronald
Kean, who lives next door

They found the trailer
ablaze and both men tackicd
the fire with garden hoses.
helped by Ronald Kean’'s
son, Warren

Ronald Keen 1s a captain
wn North Vancouver Distnct
Fire Department and when 4
fire crew of bias colleagucs
arrived at the cmergency.

the trailer was already guticd
and

the fire virtually cx

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valucd at $4,500 was
completely destroyed in the
fire. RCMP say the door to
the trailer had becn left
closed but not locked and
they suspect somconc went
in and sect fire to the cur
tains.

The RCMP received
complaint calls from
residents of two other homes

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been rolled from the top of
their driveway to the street
and the antenna and wind.
shicld wipers had becn
twisted over.

Residents of another
nearby house reported that
their car was missing from
outside ther home and the
vehicle was later found two
blocks away

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