40 - Sunday, July 28, 1991 - North Shore News ev: NEWS photo Cindy Goodman IT HAS now been one year since the untimely deaths of the Maier sisters at Berkley Road and Mt. Seymour Parkway. The anniversary of their accident was marked by the laying of bou- quets and flowers by family and friends. Tragedy remembered FRIENDS OF two North Van- couver women who died July 14, 1990, after the car they were trav- elling in was broadsided by two vehicles at the intersection Mount Seymour Parkway and Berkley Road, commemorated the anni- versary of the tragedy with flowers. Two North Vancouver sisters, Lisa Maier, 24, and Linda Maier, 19, lost their lives. West Vancouver resident Derek Gordon, 20, faces a charge of ex- cessive speeding in connection with the fatal accident. Gordon was the driver of one of the vehi- cles which struck the Maier car. He is set to appear in North Van- couver provincial court Oct. 2t. Boater saved by actions of WV Coast Guard employee A WEST Vancouver Coast Guard employee is being credited with saving the life of a man in the waters off Nanaimo early July 19. By Surj Rattan News Reporter Deirdre Carter, who lives in Horseshoe Bay, is a traffic regulator with the Canadian Coast Guard's Vessel Traffic Services Centre (VTS), based out of the Kapilano 100 building in West Vancouver, She was monitoring her radar screen at 2 a.m. July 19 when she spotted a small blip on the screen. The blip turned out to be a 15- foot pleasure craft that had over- turned near Naniamo. John MacLeod, of- ficer-in-charge of the VTS centre, said ‘it was a miracle’ that the vessel even appeared on Carter’s radar screen because it was so small. “Normally, radar beams would go cight through a vessel like that. {t's a miracle that she even saw it,’* said MacLeod. Carter contacted a tugboat in the area to investigate the sighting. MacLeod said the tugboat pro- ceeded to the location where the blip had been spotted on the radar screen and flashed its light around the area. “He shined a flashlight and spotted what he thought was someone flashing a light back,” said MacLeod. ‘tA fishing vessel was then dispatched to the area, and we also sent a coast guard hovercraft.’' By this time the blip had disap- peared from Carter's radar screen and the hovercraft was unable to find any trace of the vessel. MacLeod said the fishing vessel spotted an overturned pleasure craft and a man in the water at 3:17 a.m. “The boat had sunk and that's why it disappeared from the radar PULLS AHEAD OF THE REST WITH MORE VALUE! ‘3 Rann on cunerucn tamminun 2. BASED ON 48 MONTH TERM WITH $3000. CAPITAL REDUCTION. OAC. TOTAL PAID $18,816. PLUS TAXES. ... READ ON AND COMPARE: 25L6 a es De ee 142 fe fos @ 4000 mpm 190 F Ibs @ 5600 pm 9? hard cone cabculsorays baud cn 20.00%) kimiyt a S547b g COMPLETE EL. 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