A8 - Wednesday, December 21, 1983 - North Shore News NEWS photo Eric Eggerts: FIREFIGHTER Dave Franco shows an example of the rust plaguing the North Vancouver District fire department. See story below. Will replace rusty truck RUST IS not a pretty sight, especially on North Vancouver District’s shiny red fire trucks, Fire Chief Bob Walker told council last Monday. ‘‘Our present aerial ladder unit...(has) extensive rust perforation to the cab assembly, compartment body and main. chassis frame (compenents),’’ he explained in a letter. To repair the rust pro- blems, District would have to shell out about $85,000 or more for ‘‘unforeseen costs °’ Walker suggested it would be much wiser for council to simply approve purchasing a new ladder unit that does not have the same inherent rust problems as District's current steel-framed aerial unit. However, the replacement fire truck which the fire department recommends District purchase does not have a built-in pump or water tank feature that allows the fire fighting unit to be used as a stand-alone water tower. It would cost District about $300,000 to replace the aerial ladder truck with a similar vehicle. Instead, Walker suggested the fire department simple trade-in the rusting unit for about $40,000 and buy an aluminum-bodied aerial lad- der which would cost $200,000 He reasoned that with the trade-in value, District could once again have a shiny unit for about $160,000. Council! hike Walker's math and unanimously ap- proved the proposal! NORTHSHORENISSAN <"¢, IS.GIVING AWAY Vac; caRATDIAMONDS INCELEBRATION OF © NISSAN'S 50th ANNIVERSARY WE ARE GIVING A .25 CARAT € DIAMOND TO ANYONE WHO BUYS OR LEASES A 1984 300 ZX OF 1984 MAXIMA “3 PRIOR TO DEC. 31, 1983 + GREAT SELECTION & IMMEDIATE DELIVERY af s a TRUCK “ae ° , TRUCK LEASING SPECIALISTS ‘ ‘ SeaBus attack ordeal shakes N.Van woman A ROUTINE trip on the Seabus turned into a terri- fying ordeal for a North Shore woman last week, prompting her to sound a warning to others using the service. The young woman, who has asked not to be identified because she fears retahation, was attacked twice by three people attempting to steal her purse. The North Vancouver woman was boarding the SeaBus just after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The SeaBus had just left the Vancouver side and she found herself alone in the corridors of the ter- minal there. ‘| heard someone behind me and then | felt a hand on my shoulder,’’ the © still- shaken woman told the News Wednesday. ‘‘I turned around, thinking it was someone [| knew, and smiled.”’ The woman did not get a good look at the three people behind her. One grabbed for her purse as she turned and another tried to strip the rings from her fingers. *‘} struggled for a moment, broke free and then just ran for the SeaBus,’’ the woman said. The woman reached the SeaBus and took a seat, try- ing to pull herself together. About five minutes into the crossing, she said, she became aware that a woman and two men that were seated on the SeaBus with her might be the trio that had attacked her. “‘}hadn't got a good look at them, so I couldn't be sure,’’ she said Wednesday ‘*} thought I was just being paranoid.”’ Nevertheless, when the SeaBus docked, the woman left the SeaBus quickly, in- tending to make her way home and then report the in- cident to police She had not made it tar before her purse was again grabbed. By NEWS STAFF ‘‘T started screaming at her,’’ the woman said. ‘‘l guess I was screaming the wrong things because people just thought it was a fight. One guy came over to see if he could help and pretty soon everyone was getting involved."* The would-be purse thief managed to wrestie the purse from the woman and began to run away. The North Shore woman caught her, hit her and retrieved her purse. ‘“‘] was crying. 1 was hysterical,’’ the woman said. The woman made it to her regular bus and told the driver what had happened. As she spoke, she saw the same three people looking for her. We wish the The bus driver closed the door of the bus and drove to a pay phone, which the woman used to. telephone police. RCMP reached the North Vancouver terminal quickly but could not find the trio. A radio call to Vancouver Police to watch the Van- couver terminal also did not result in any arrests. ‘*] don’t know why they went after me,’’ the woman told the News. ‘‘Maybe it was because | was the only one walking through the area alone and that I put up sucha struggle for my purse that they thought there must be something valuable in it.’’ In fact, she said, other than her identification cards, she had only $1 in her purse at the time of the two attacks. *‘} think it’s worth warning people about,’’ said the woman. ‘‘People shouldn't walk through the terminal area alone.”’ Doug Slater, senior master of the SeaBus service, said the attack was an incident. ‘‘It’s not really that much of a problem,’” Slater said. He added such things as purse snatchings can happen because SeaBus security peo- ple ‘‘can’t be everywhere’’ but that the security force is quick to react to complaints. ““We constantly get the isolated odd weirdo down _ there, following girls or some- thing,’’ Slater said. ‘‘If it’s Teported to us, for him.’’ Security on board the SeaBus itself, he added, is tight because the crew can simply radio ahead and have police waiting. we'll watch send urfceof cards BERNADETTE’S Season’s Best to all GALLERIES Our “customers” who throughout the year have supported the Gallery. And to the many who have given us their friendship, Bill and Bernadette wish to say a very special... “Thanks.” 2027 Lonsdale, N. 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