NEWS BRIEFS

Truck drives through closed

gate at Horseshoe Bay

A PORT Coquitlam man faces drinking and driving-
related charges after a truck and trailer rig drove through
a closed ferry toll gate at Horseshoe Ray early Wednes-
day morning.

According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, a
1981 International truck and trailer rig drove through the
gate at about 2:07 a.m. The incident caused minor dam-
age to the truck aad gate.

John Maxwell Hayward, St, is charged with impaired
driving, driving with a blood-alcohol content over .08
and failing to maintain vehicle brakes in connection with
the incident.

Preliminary hearing set in

Pattison kidnapping case

A SULY 16 preliminary hearing date has been set for the
three teenagers charged in connection with the December
kidnapping of Jim Pattisen’s daughter.

Last week in North Vancouver youth court, Judge
Sonny Stromberg-Stein raised Homan Houshiar, 17,
Kamyar Pourghannad, 17, and Nanami Kataoka, 16, to
adult court.

Wednesday in North Vancouver provincial court,
Judge R. Sutherland set July 16 as the starting date for
the preliminary hearing for the youths, but the decision
to raise the teenagers to adult court is being appealed in
B.C. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the preliminary hearing of three adults
facing kidnapping-related charges — Christian Snelgrove,
Chadwick Shayne Muivahill and Chad Karl Dafoe — is
scheduled to conclude May 10 in North Vancouver pro-
vincial court.

The charges against the six co-accused stem from the
Dec. 21 abduction of Pattison’s daughter, who was taken
from her North Vancouver home after her young twins
were bound and left unattended for several hours. She
was later released after a ransom was paid.

North Vancouver shipyard

hit by labor disruption

LABOR-RELATED probiems hit North Vancouver-
based Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. Thursday morning
after about 30 members of Loca) 506 of the Marine and
Shipbuilders union staged a work stoppage over the issue
of layoffs.

Vancouver Shipyards general manager Tom Ward,
who classified the work stoppage as ‘‘illegal’’ because it
was contrary to the union’s collective agreement, said the
labor disruption lasted for about 1% hours.

Both the company and the union will meet Tuesday
with independent labor relations mediator Joha Thorne
to try to settle the dispute.

Ward said the dispute centred around when six
employees with a low seniority level should be lad off.

Union president Tom Long confirmed the two sides
will meet with Thorite on Tuesday.

Several charges laid in
car repossession fracas

A WEST Vancouver man faces multiple charges after a
bailiff attempted to repossess a car on April 12.

The bailiff arrived at a heme in the 4000-block of
Mathers Avenue at about 8:30 a.m. The official was
allegedly threatened by the car cwner with a baseball
bat. The suspect then drove off in the 1985 Oldsmobile.

Police subsequently stopped the vebicle on the highway
and arrested the driver. The suspect allegedly gave police
a false name.

Dougiss Owen Reid, 28, mow faces charges of
threatening, assault and obstruction of a police officer.

Socred minister to speak
in North Van on weekend

SOCIAL SERVICES ard Housing Minister Norm
Jacobsen will be the guest speaker ai a North Van-
couver-Lonsdale Social Credit buffet breakfast this
Saturday.

Capilano MLA Angus Ree and North Vancouver-
Lonsdale Social Credit candidate Marilyn Baker will also
be guest speakers.

The event begins at 9 a.m. at Cheers Restaurant, 125
East 2nd St. in North Vancouver.

For more information call 986-0043.

Mill starts
newsprint
production

HOWE SOUND Pulp and Paper
Ltd. has started producing
newsprint at its Port Melton pulp
mill on Howe Sound.

Company president Bill Hughes
said the mili had a ‘*very smooth
start-up’? and is now producing
salable newsprint. He added the
mill will be able to produce $85
tonnes of high quality newsprint
per day when it reaches full ca-
pacity.

Howe Sound Pulp and Paper is
equally owned by Canfor Corp.
and Oji Paper Co. Ltd. of Japan.
It is in the final stages of a $1.3-
billion expansion and mod-
ernization project that includes the
newsprint mill and a new ther-
mo-mechanical pulp (TMP) mill.

The newsprint will be marketed
by Oji primarily in Japan.

“The newsprint we’ produce
for Japan will meet the most ex-
acting specifications in the
world,"’ said Hughes. ‘‘We’re very
proud of that.”’

Hughes said the expansion and
modernization of the mill, which
began over three years ago, in-
cludes $114 million for en-
vironmental protection and makes
Howe Sound Pulp and Paper
“one of the cleanest kraft pulp
mills in the world.”

The kraft mill portion of the
mill started operation in
November 1990 and has a rated
capacity of 1,000 tonnes of kraft
pulp per day. A power boiler,
scheduled for completion in 1992,
is the final step in a co-generation
project that will generate 70 per
cent of the mill's electrical power
requirements from waste wood
that would otherwise be sent to
landfills.

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