NEWS BRIEFS Safe recovered THE WEST Vancouver Police arrested five people fol- lowing the Feb. 4 recovery of a safe from the basement of a home located in the 100-block of Jacohs Avenue in West Vancouver. Acting on a tip, the police recovered a safe containing stamps, cash, lottery tickets and other items. The safe had been stolen during an earlier break and enter inci- ‘ deat at Peoples Drug Mart, 720-2601 Westview Dr. in North Vancouver. John Spence, 22, of West Vancouver, Colin Tayler, 24, of Burnaby and Alvin Uyfhuizen, 22, of Surrey face charges of possession of stolen property over $1,000 in connection with the recovery of the safe. Charges are pending against a 15-year-old West Van- couver male and a 17-year-old West Vancouver male. Driver guilty THE NORTH Vancouver driver of a car in which a 19- year-old North Vancouver woman died November 1990 was found guilty Wednesday of impaired driving and having a blood-alcohol level over .08. Dan Sedlacek was acquitted on a charge of dangerous driving. In North Vancouver provincial court, Judge D.E. Moss ordered a pre-sentencing report. Sentencing was held over to April 2 in Vancouver. Jana Atkinson, one of five passengers travelling in a car driven by Sedlacek, died after the car left the road and flipped over on Kirkstone Road. The group had been drinking and partying on Halloween. WYVV study praised THE CANADIAN Society of Landscape Architects has recognized West Vancouver municipal staff for their work in completing the West Vancouver Waterfront Di- rections Study. “My congratulations to parks director Kevin Pike and everyone involved in that excellent study," Mayor Mark Sager announced Monday night at West Vancouver District Council. The stady, which involved considerable consultation with the public ‘iving near the waterfront between Ambleside and Dundarave, is intended to heip plan the future of the area. WCB fines district NORTH VANCOUVER District administration went through a lengthy appeal process but were penalized $30,000 late last year by the Workers’ Compenstion Board CWCB) for two excavation mid-1989 and early 1990. WCB spokesman Scott McCloy said the first violation was cited on July 22, 1989 at a work site at Fern Street and Mountain High- way. A WCB safety officer deter- mined that an excavation deeper than four feet had inadequate sloping or shoring and did not have an engineer’s certificate to say the safety measures were not needed. The second violation, based on the same problem as the one aris- ing from the 1989 incident, occur- red on Feb. 22, 1990 at an ex- cavation site on Ist Street, just west of Bowser Avenue. - “We take situations where there is a high risk of death or injury very seriously,’’ said McCloy. ““Some workers believe they can get out (if the sides cave in), but we know from our statistics that sometimes they do, and sometimes they can’t,”’ said McCloy. North Vancouver District direc- tor of human resources David Stuart said’ the engineer hadn’t filed the appropriate paper in the 1989 incident, and the foreman on the second site thought a concrete - wall provided safety. *“We have an active safety pro- gram, and these are the only two penalties we have received,’’ said- Stuart. “‘In the late "80s, it seemed that violations that occurred in By Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter every municipality in the region was fined (by WCB) at some time,’’ said Stuart. District Ald. Ernie Crist said at that time the WCB inspectors were tightening up rules, but they didn’t go after the little operators because ‘“‘they couldn’t get a lot of money out of them.’* But McCloy disagreed. He said the WCB sometimes bypasses the usual warning stage when a situa- tion on a job site creates a high risk of death or injury. The WCB penalty was based on the employer’s payrolf. Stuart said the penalty structure was like a poor speeder paying a $10 fine and a more wealthy speeder paying hundreds of dollars. Crist said he was confident the incidents would not occur again, but he was concerned that council members were not aware of the two $15,000 penalties. Crist was told about the penalties by a district resident. Stuart said district administra- tion informed the mayor of the day, Marilyn Baker, about the penalty actions and the decision to | appeal. FRESH AIR... SMOKE REMOVAL for Pubs, Loungés. 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