Two men face
drug charges

TWO SURREY men face drug possession charges foltowing a
Nov. 24 seizure of drugs by the West Vancouver Police.

Police pulled over a vehicle travelling on the Squamish Highway
at approximately 1:20 p.m. A subsequent search of the vehicle
revealed 36 grams of cocaine, 18 grams of marijuana, 2 nine-
millimetre handgun and a set of scales,

The cocaine had an estimated street value of $2,500 and the
marijuana bad an estimated value of $300.

Charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of irsf-
ficking are Douglas A. Bayers, 23, and 2t-yezr-old Teddy James

Bonazew.

MP Cook blasts
civil servants

NORTH VANCOUVER MP Chuck Cook slammed federal public
information officers Friday, Saying “practically every public in-
formation officer employed in every department of the govern-
ment should be chastised and probably fired.’*

Claiming that the press, *‘prejudiced as it may be... has tried ta

do its job...,””

Cook said in a speech prepared for his constituency

association’s annual meeting that the main complaint about the
federal government should be about ‘‘its total abysmal perfor-
mance in the field of communications....’°

Cook went on to assess Finance Minister Michael Wilson as
“the greatest Minister of Finance we have seen in two or three
generations,’’ but ‘‘a (otal faliure at communicating.”

Cook voiced support for the deliberations of the Quebec

Commission.

Said Cook, ‘‘I applaud them. British Columbia and the other
provinces will not be far behind in demanding the same transfer
of power to regions and the individual provinces.”

He advocated that B.C. set

up its own commission to

“«..-take a hard look at B.C.’s role in Confederation....”"

Cook pledged to continue to work ‘‘in the best interest’? of his
riding in the face of voter dissatisfaction with the present gov-
ernment.

Said Cook in the speech, ‘‘I must admit that walking down
Lonsdale Avenue today, knowing that only eight or nine people
out of 100 are likely to smile back, is very tough on one’s ego."’

NV City Business Licence Bylaw
stripped of peep show potential

IN AN effort to keep por-
nographic ‘peep shows’ out of
North Vancouver City, council
passed a motion Monday night
(Nov. 26) granting final adoption
of a bylaw that requires adult
movie theatres to have a minimum
seating capacity of 100 persons.
Although a staff report stated
that the city has had no business
licences requests for such opera~
tions, the city’s amendment to the
Business Licence Bylaw is a
precautionary measure that will

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prevent establishment in the city
of the type of business that cur-
rentiy operates in Vancouver and
Surrey.

‘Peep shows’ are described by
the report as one to two-person
booths for viewing sexually explic-
it films.

Although the city cannot legally
pass a bylaw that prohibits the
viewing of sexually explicit mate-
rial in the city, the city’s bylaw
amendment will regulate the min-
imum size of an adult theatre.

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Community spirit averts
Seymour flooding disaster

SEVERAL HOMES
the river to overflow.

But while the food water did
iis worst, the emergency brousht
out the best in Seymour Boulevard
residents, volunteers and
municipal workers who fought to
hold back the river with sandbags
and a makeshift dike.

Said Seymour Boulevard resi-
dent Chuck Brewer, “If it hadn't
have been for those young people
and the others that volunteered, |
would have lost my house.”’

Brewer lives in the 900-block of
Seymour Boulevard. His home is
located about 50 feet from the
river.

“On Wednesday we could actu-
ally see the bottom of the river.
Within 48 hours it was moving
like I've never seen it move before
— it was quite frightening,’’ he
said.

His next-door neighbor, a
long-time resident of the
neighborhood, called the Brewer
family at 2:30 p.m. Friday and
warned them that ‘twe’d better
watch this one.”*

Equipped with 10 garbage bags
and u shovel, Brewer watched the
river cise six inches in half an
hour.

His wife, who is disabled,
phoned 9-1-1 for assistance.

“They got us ontothe North
Vancouver District public works,"
Brewer said. ‘‘And within 30
minutes there was a truck sitting
in from of my driveway with a
crew of three people and we

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News Reporter

started sandbagging.”’

The river broke through a stone
wall on his property and water
flooded his yard. But with the
help of family, teen volunteers
and municipal workers, damage to
Brewer's property was minimized.

“I couldn’t believe the strength
of these kids carrying $0 to 75-Ib.
sandbags. You have to be there to
see this river moving at you. To
sce these people actually push a
wheelbarrow with six bags in it
through a foot and a half of water
is totally unbelievable,"* he saic.

Despite sandbagging efforts,
several houses down the street
were flooded, including the base-
ment of Gerry Keast’s Seymour
Boulevard home.

Keast said the house also flood-
ed in 198] when the _ river
overflowed in October of that
year.

Said Keast, ‘‘There’s not much
damage because the basement is
mostly concrete. We know that
this is going to happen once in a
while so we make sure we don't
put anything of terrific value
down there.”

Keast estimates his basement
filled with about four feet of
water Friday. ‘‘Our freezer was
floating and | floated it up to the

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stairs. When you live along the
river you expect those kinds of
things and you're prepared for
it,’ he said, adding, ‘‘There were
a lot of people who helped out,
and we appreciated seeing (North
Vancouver District Mayor)
Marilyn Baker and her family
down here sandbagging.”’

For some time Friday night
Seymour Boulevard became
Seymour River Boulevard as flood
water broke through a retaining
wall on a vacant lot and rushed
down the road. North Vancouver
District workers eventually pushed
the river back into its channel by
building a dike alorg the length of
the property.

Said North Vancouver District
Streets and Risk Management
Supt. Ken Kerr, ‘‘We brought in a
large grade-all (a tractor-truck fit-
ted with an articulating bucket).
We built a road on the vacant iot
because any equipment we put on
there sank. And then we built a
dike about three or four feet
high.”’

Kerr praised the many volun-
teers who helped.

“There were quite a few volun-
teers. They are really neat people
in that area, and I guess they were
all realizing it wasn’t something
that we had caused and that we
were there to assist. It worked out
quite well for us,’’ he said.

According to Kerr, by 8 a.m.
Saturday the river water level had
dropped three feet.

“Twas back out there (Monday)
and it looked like it had dropped
about eight feet down from what
it was on Friday.”’

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