| YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 January 16, 1987 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 80 pages 25¢ NEWS photo Mike Wakefield CAT’S MEOW CATS ON A hot truck roof bask in the absorbed warmth reflecting from the roof of a pickup (ruck on a rare sunny winter’s day, The two sleepy-eyed North Vancouver fat cats were caught by our roving cam- eras earlier this week catching a few precious rays. Save energy dollars PAGE 17 MAIL DELIVERY to North Club gets sketchy PAGE 23 Shore homes was halted Thursday after members of the Construction and General Workers Union (CGWU) Local 602 set up a picket line at the main Vancouver post office. A spokesman for North Van- couver’s main postal station sad ho mail had been received from the Vancouver post office Thursday and until it was received, there would be no mail to deliver to North Vancouver homes and businesses. In West Vancouver, post office officials reported that virtually no mail had been received from Van- couver, About 38 CGWU members are on strike against A & A Service Co., the cleammey ¢ company con- tracted bs the punts ee ho server Hsu Vancouser mtntdine Canadian Umeon oof Postal Workers (CUPW) spokesman Pat Miller said members of the union were honoring the CGWU picket line, which was set up at vehicle entrances and exits. A few dozen posties were conse- quently prevented from reporting to work and miuif trucks were prevented from entering or leaving the main post office building. The 38 CGWU members have been on strike against A & A since Dec. 3. A & A administration manager Sharon Craner said Thursday the dispute is over money, ‘‘nothing else.” She said the 38 company employees who clean the post of- fice had voted for union certifica- tion in July. “And now the union has started an uprising with those emplovees,’’ Craner said. The workers, she said, earned between SS and 36 an hour, and had turned dew a wae decrease of 20 cents over owe sears. She said A & A, which employs about 300 people, could offer no more money, ‘‘because we are locked into the contract with the post office. So there is nothing we can do.’ CGWU business manager Bob Hart suid the workers were after the standard union rate of $7.88 per hour for light janitorial work and $8.53 per hour for heavy work. Killer oil slie not GVRD fault OIL SAMPLES collected after a “mystery” spill ‘Jaist week ‘in Burrard Inlet prove the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) couldn't: have been at fault, as first believed. Environment Canada Protection Service ‘office confirmed: ‘Wednes- day the diesel oil from the GYRD’s water pump station is not the same oil found on birds, affected by the spill. Last week an Environment Canada spokesman blamed the GYRD for a one-milz long spill of diesel, Jan. 5. : Bat operations superintendent of the Greater. Vancouver. Water District Hans Kreuse denied the spill originated at the 29-year-old Sta- tion because no diesel was fost from the station’s pamps. . . “Everybody makes mistskes,’' said Krause. “£ can see their reasoning. If they find something their initial reac- tion is to find someone at fault, But we knew we weren't responsible for the bird kill.”’ The Environment Canada spokesperson stated a number of possible leads were investigated relating to the squrce of the spill. But af this time the source remains a mystery and is likely to remain unknown.