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‘To reassure
the public’
By PAT RICH

Two former RCMP
officers were each
sentenced to 14 days
imprisonment Wed-
nesday for operating a
phoney lottery in West
Vancouver.

“There are no_ special
privileges for those who
occupy a position of
privilege,” Judge Nancy
Morrison said in passing
sentence in North Van-
couver Provincial Court.

Ernest Bienia, aged 26 and
Bryan Mason, aged 24,
pleaded guilty to fraud
charges last week and
Morrison had adjourned
sentencing until Wednesday
in order to consider the case.

Bienia and Mason were
charged with operating a
phoney lottery between
April 11 and April 19 when
they sold nine $2 lottery
tickets for a non-existent
Howard University Hospital
Fund.

Both were members of the
Burnaby RCMP detachment
at the time of the incident,
but resigned from the RCMP

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WV starts
anti-fire
blitz on

highrises

December 7, 1980 Tel. 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

TWICE IN ONE JOURNEY bus passengers ended up having to get off
after accidents in Thursday's treacherous conditions on Capilano Road.
The first bus ended up in the side of a rockface and this relief bus which
picked up the passengers went into a ditch minutes later. George Wilson

est Van boy’s ordeal with sex fier

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

got quite a surprise when he came out to shovel the snow from his
driveway at 3201 Capilano Road and found the bus there. Full story on
page A}. (lan Smith photo)

In the wake of Las Vegas tragedy

By CHRIS LLOYD

Fire drills in every
West Vancouver
highrise are among the
various plans of the
local fire department
imtended to counter
any threats of a major
disaster on the lines of
the recent blaze at the
MGM Grand Hotel in
Las Vegas.

The dinlls arc) among

several ongoing preventative
measurcs in a = CAmMpaign

which intensified last weck
with a fire safety seminar for
highnse butiding managers.
Fire chiefs feel the at-
tendance by 70° such
managers representing
the majonty of — hghnse
rental and strata buildings in
West Van indicates that
Most managers in the com

munity arc well aware of the
threat of catastrophe that
fare poses to such buildings
Some of these busldings
tise to 20 storeys and more
well be yood the reach of
West Vans 100) tt acral
ladder In other cases the

acrial cannot even be used
because access is impossible
at buildings where the roofs
of underground parking lots
at apartment buildings are
too weak to bear the weight
of the cnaormous hretruck

So for many buildings
where escape by outside
extrachon beyond certain
floor levels can be virtually
ruled out. the key to pre
venting tragedy hes in the
maintenance and upgrading
of extinguisher and escape
systems and ino cnsuring all

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SUNDAY:
Sunny periods but
remaining very cold

MONDAY,
Litdle change