JANUARY 28, 1998 Bright Lights Classifieds Crossword Home & Garden Ufe North Shore Alert Sports Table Hopping Canadian Puticatons Maul Sales Product Agreement No 0087238 Hollyburn cross-country race hosts Olympic team members Ski challenge nT Aday at @ Beach 126 44 Pages MSP-pait midwife delivers NV baby born at home Robert Galster News Reporter robert@nsnews.com THE North Shore’s first govern- ment-funded home birth went off without a hitch or a doctor last Friday afternoon. It was the second child for North Vancouver's Gordon More and Sally Chippett. The couple chase the support of a midwite shortly after the province recog- nized the practice as of Jan. 1, when midwives became covered by the Medical Services Plan. “[ was apprehensive at first,” said More, 27. “Because I was worried it wasn’t the safest environment.” Ashe learned more about midwifery, his position soft- ened and eventually reversed when he looked at some * statistics. In particular, he was won over by the experi- ence of countries with long-standing histories of incor- porating midwives into their medical systems. His wife’s desire to deliver at home made all the dif- ference. “For me a pregnancy is a natural process and I just didn’t see why I should go to the hospital untess there’s something wrong,” said Chippett. NEWS photo Terry Peters West Vancouver’s Beach Side Cafe in the best of company You will never hear the words ‘T’ bored’ again Just for kids p21 $1.00 Super day for Kaiser Andrew McCredie Editor andrew@nsnews.com IT may have come 14 years too late, but the Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl victory on Sunday meant as much to a West Vancouver resident as it did to Denver pivot John Elway. Edgar Kaiser owned the Broncos for four vears in the carly 1980s, and it was under his reign that the Colorado football team traded for the future Hall of Fame sho wa La tor of the Cowboys, as =n head coach and was for. FORMER tunate enough to do the ~~ Broncos owner trade with Baltimore Edgar Kaiser that brought Juhn to the team,” Kaiser said yesterday. Elway was drafted by the Colts out of Stantord University, but was traded ta Denver See No page 2 GORDON More and Sally Chippett chose a midwite-assisted home See Midwives page 3 delivery for their newborn Bryn after having Corai, 3, in a hospital. Water works on tap for NV Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer miller@nsnews.com WHAT was scheduled as a 20-minute dei- egation went 90 minutes Monday as North Vancouver District council strug- gled to comprehend the local implications of major regional water works in terms of cost, truck traffic and noise. ‘two huge construction projects are scheduled atthe Cleveland Dam site near the top of Capilano Road while 17 hectares of the Seymour Demonstration Forest near Rice Lake are slated to house a new $11 7- million filtration plant. 1998 CHEVY CAVALIER S15889/10,| “ bookmark’! O.AC., 36 month, TP. $9190.60 “this page: Sale Price $14,888 STK #9181 D) DICK IRWIN CHEVROLET OLDSMGBILE 645 MARINE DR, N. VAN. 987-5231 Capilano, Seymour projects mean more trucks and noise for North Shore residents The Capilano ozonization plant and the Seymour filtration plant are part of a regional water quality improvement strategy that may be postponed for nwo years, but the dam on the Capilano reservoir ts leaking and must be fixed, apparently as soon as possible. “En a worst-case scenario, you could end up with a breach of the cast abutment and that's what we are trying to deal with here,” Frank Huber of the Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD) told council Monday. The chosen solution will entail drawing down the reservoir some 40 metres, adjusting the grade of the cast abutment and extending a “blanket” or covering layer of clay to the north and east. The estimated cost of the remedial work is $25 million, which will be shared by all member municipalities of the GVWD. Huber said the technology is proven, cost-effective and easy to fix and monitor. Ideally, the construction work would take place in the summer, bur that is when peak regional consumption places the biggest demand on the Capilano reservoir. So the plan calls for work to take place in of peak seasons (September to May), 24 hours a day, six days a week. The plan assumes council blessing for relaxation of the dis- rict’s noise bylaw, Should such approval not be forthcoming, says the GVWD is quite willing to work within the noise restrictions, doubling the project length from two to four years. Huber acknowledged the draw-down of the reservoir will have See Project page 3 BLAZER 1998 CHE O.AC., 36 month, LP. $15,929.68 Sale Price $26,888 STK #25-1387 OICK IRWIN CHEVROLET OLDSMOBILE 845 MARINE DR.,N. VAN. 987-5231