rT EN JUNE 23, 1999 Bitgere Labi Business Classifieds Crossword Knight North Shon: Alert Sports Wrisht North Store Free Press Ltd Putisner Peter Spe. 139 Lersdate Avenue, torn Varcaner BC V7 Parenting p22 Biting the breast that feeds you Caradan Pudhcabons Mas Sains Product Agreement +, * 9087238 48 Pages Aerial truck OK'd in W. Van Catherine Barr Contributing Writer WEST Vancouver District council has approved $1.24 million to purchase a new aerial plat- form fire truck for the municipality’s fire department. Coun. Ron Wood made the = announcement oon Monday as councillors unani- mously approved a motion to replace the district’s worn-out QI-year-old ladder truck with 2 100-ft. Smeal aerial plattorm truck. Water hoses and air sup- plies are built into the raised platform apparatus of the new truck. The platiorm can carry up ty four firetighters in. full gear and can be operated from either the ground or the plat- form itself. The $1.24 million to pay for the truck will be drawn trom the district’s endowment fund and repaid, with interest, over the next five years. The vehicle will be ordered immediately. The fire depart- ment expects delivery in approximately 10 months. Wood, who acted as chair- man of council’s select com- mittee on the issue, said_ his group) worked with West Vancouver Fire Chief) Ron Obon to review the status of the old ladder truck. The truck was removed tram service in April after an inspection revealed various mechanical detects. At the time the fire depart- ment estimated the old truck would require over $20,000 in See Truck pane 3 Sports p38 North Stars return tied for first in rugby league Queensdale Market changes with the times Business p15 FREE TIEN ete Treading bureaucratic LYNN Valley resident Aliana Backie had been teaching children to swim in her heated pool for 25 years until North Vancouver District heard about her summer business in 1996. She has since been swimming through bureaucratic hoops. See page 3 for story. Kevin Gillies News Reporter NORTH Vancouver City council is considering what legal action to take to help a group of North Vancouver condominium owners in their fight with the building’s developer. Residents of The Seascape building on 131 West Third St. told city councillors Monday that ventila- tion system condensation is causing damage to the building's suites and the lack of visitors’ parking Parking, ventilation spark city condominium battle Means condo owners are unable to get permanent occupancy approval. According to group spokesman Ray Longmuir, chairman of the building's strata council, 10 visitor parking spaces were built by developer Boxtree Developments but subsequently sold to some Seascape residents for $5,000 each. He said he feared the remaining residents might have to repurchase the 10 stalls or sue the develop- er themselves — 3 costly venture. Longmuir said residents bought and moved into the building by WERE CELEBRATING THE ALL NEW DOWNTOWN & XINGSWAY CLUBS! $29 initiation Fee © Per Month ¢ Guaranteed for 24 Months waters the spring of 1997 without knowing that only an interim occupancy certificate had been issued for the condos, In his letter to council, Longmuir stated: “We have now been in the building for pwo years and to this day have nor been issued with a final occupancy approval. *.. We live in a building where 20% of the suites have essentially no ventilation ... (the building) has no visitor parking, and we live in a building that has no occupancy certificate. Those owners who have attempted to sell their units have been seriously impacted by these facts.” The visitors’ parking spots are required under See Council page 3 CALL TODAY - NORTH SHORE - 1989 MARINE DRIVE - 986-3487