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West Vancouver mayor bias
decision to shift cases to NV

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
“News Reporter

THE verdict is in on the future of the
West Vancouver provincial courthouse.

The facility has been tound guilty of redundancy; the sea
tence is death,

On Wednesday, the Ministry of the Attorney General in
Victoria announced the courthouse will close in August.

West Vancouver provineial court will then be handled
at the North Vancouver provincial courthouse, located in the
200-block of East 23rd Street,

say the move could cost West Vancouver taxpayers an extra
$500,000 3 year.

“We are absolutely shagked. Uhis mak no cconamie sense

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NEWS photo Poul McGrath
WEST Van Police Insp. Grant Churchill (left), Mayor
Mark Sager and mayor hopeful Pat Boname are
unhappy about the verdic? {o close the court house.
whatsoever,” said Mityor Mark Say:
Saver chars the West Vancouver Police Board
He bebeves the $500,000 will be spent on overtime pay for

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By fan Noble
News Reporter

A. fight for pension
benefits has ended
successfully for North
Vancouver’s Donna
Sauve and at least 249
other B.C. widows.

Premier Glen 9 Clark has
announced the widows will be
eligible for survivor pensions and
retroacuve benefits to 1985.

The widows’ husbands were
killed on the job and the widows
had all remarried before 1985.

Changes to the Workers’
Compensation Act in 1993 rein-
stated benefits for surviving
spouses, but only for those who
semarned after i

Vietoria’s: Nov
ment. Which abide:

anpounce-

widows who remarried betore
1985 will get the benefits.

“We shouldn't withhold pen-
sions from them simply because
of the date they
Clark.

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

vity worked its magic.
A temporary accumulation caused a deep pond of water to build up in the Seven Seas Seafood Restaurant parking lot.

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West Vancouver Police officers waiting to testify in’ North
Vancouver,

The West Vancouver courthouse is located next door to the
Wea Vancouver Police stauon in the 1300-block of Marine
Drive.

Sager said the current system is cost-effective because offi-
cers working at the stanon can quickly go next door to testify
in COUrE cases.

“We have made our case over and aver to the provincial gov-
ernment. J don't think provincial mismanagement should: be
inflicted On a community in this manner, ” said Sager.

The three clerical workers and one court clerk working, at
the West Vancouver court registry will move to the North
Vancouver provincial courthous

The North Vancouver provincial court employs £3 court

gistry staff and seven sheriffs.

The sheriffs serve both North Vancouver and West
Vancouver courts.

The attorney general ministry announced the “centralizing”
of court service in West Vancouver, Laney and Richmond to

incouver, Surrey and Vancouver respectively,

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