Nurses picket THE NORTH Shore Health office will be behind pickets today us nurses lose patience over stalled contract talks. The B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU) members have been without a coutract for more than two years. Approximately 60 aurses are slated to picket outside 132 West Esplanade while essential services are main- tained iaside the North Shore Health office. A BCNU spekesman said the pickets wil continue “uatil further notice.” Contract talks with the GVRD have gotten “absolute- fy nowhere,” according to BCNU spokesman Bob Smith, The North Shore BCNU members number approxi- mately 80. These nurses, slong with BCNU members in Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond, are asking for one centract with the GVRD. Four contracts have been nego- tiated in the past. The BCNU members also want parity wages with thelr counterparts working in hospitals. Community heaith nurses wre currently paid a base hourly rate of $20.25 while » nurse performing a comparable job in a hospital is paid $27.22 an hour, according to the BCNU. Nerth Shore Health has cancelled clinics because of the ongoing job action. Speeding charge A DRIVING instructor was ticketed with speeding after a student driver wiped out a car doing “recovery manoeuvres” Jan. 4 on Cypress Bowl Road. The 17-year-old driver and the 29-year-old driving instructor, both of North Vancouver, were taken to Lions Gate Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, accord- ing to a West Vancouver Police spokesman. Police say the Broadway Driving Scheol instructor directed the female stucent to exceed the posted speed limit when the accident occurred. The car, a 1993 Plymouth Colt, rolled over in a ditch during the accident. According to police, a Provincial Traffic Court Justice of the Peace on June 9 found the driving instructor, Christopher Suiker, guilty of speeding. The court official, police say, ruled that a driving instructor is considered to have care and control of a vehicle eperated by a student. Car vandalism THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP are seeking informa- tion concerning the break-in and vandalism of 15 vehi- cles on May 29 near the 3700 block of Edgemont Boulevard. The estimated damage was $10,000, according to North Vancouver RCMP. Police say the cuiprits were looking for loose change and valuables. Cars were scratched and marked with felt pens. Call 985-1311. ‘Woman chains self to truck - Hutchinson selected for N. Shore health board WEST VANCOUVER Coun. Diana Hutchinson hus been appointed West Vancouver District Council's representa- tive on the new North Shore Regionai Health Board. WEST VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL By Maureen Curtis “This is an enormous undertak- ing,” said Mayor Mark Sager, at the June 13 meeting of council. Hutchinson already sits on the Lions Gate Hospital Board and rep- resents West Vancouver in hospital planning at the Greater Vancouver Regional District level. : Coun. Allan Williams, while complimenting Hutchinson on her qualifications, expressed his con- cerns over the regionalization process. “The success of this board will depend on the quality of the people chosen to sit on it,” said Williams. Coun. Andy Danyliu also point- ed out the possible consequences of putting large amounis of money in the hands of board members who might be ill-equipped to handle it. Elsewhere in Canada, people are worried that health regionaliza- tion will result in a shifting of the “burden of healthcare on to the backs of property owners and tax- payers,” Danyliu noted. “Regional health boards could become another level of taxation, and another form of provincial tax- ation,” added Coun. Ron Wood. In futuze, regional boards will be allotted money to cover health costs, and will possibly have the option to collect funds locally for extra expenses, such as the build- ing of a new hospital. Williams said that the provincial government should be asked to postpone the regionalization process. An interim regional health board is to be in place by October. to protest watershed logging AN ENVIRONMENTAL pro- tection group staged a protest of logging in the watershed Wednesday by ambushing’ a logging truck on Capilano Road and chaining one of its members to the vehicle. By Kate Zimmerman News Reporter “There should be no logging in the watershed,” said Forest Action Network (FAN) spokesperson Rita Corcoran. FAN believes the: Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) is operating counter to its mandate of protecting the water supply. It claims that logging caus- es silt to be deposited in the water. If the GVRD stopped logging in the watershed, FAN says, it would not need the filtration systems it is cur- rently studying in hopes of improv- ing drinking water quality. The group also maintains that logging is a violation of Sections 8 and 88 of the GVRD Water Distric Act, which prohibits the deposit of any harmful substances in the water. The environmental activists spent much of Wednesday setting up the media event on Capilano Road, After flagging the truck down at the pedestrian crosswalk at Wedgewood and Capilano, FAN members climbed over the fresh logs’stacked on the trailer and erect- ed banners on its side reading “If logging doesn’t improve our water, why do it?” Said Andrea Scotland, the North Vancouver businesswoman who chained herself to the truck, “Our drinking water is being polluted by logging.” She spoke to reporters on her cellular phone as police sawed the chain off. Scotland claims the GVRD is misleading people when it says log- ging is necessary in the watershed. She said the risk of forest fires in the area is minimal and that logging significantly increases the chance of landslides. “The GVRD may have good intentions, but they’re making their decisions based on old science,” she continued. “It’s an attitude that chemicals can solve problems.” According to Scotland. old- growth forest has its own filtration system. She said when old trees dic naturally. they deteriorate and act as “sponge” to help clean the habitat. The 31-year-old woman swigged bottled water during the 90 minutes she was lashed to the truck, which happened Wednesday during after- noon rush hour traffic. She said drinking Vancouver-area (ap water is too risky at present. “I feel just like when the Nazis were in Germany and exterminating Jews,” said Scotland, who was given a $75 fine by the police. “I feel like the logging compunies are extenninating the environment.” In May, the GVRD circulated letters in the Capilano neighbor- hood informing residents that con-" tractor Coulson Aircrane Ltd. would begin conducting a heli- copter logging operation in the watershed May 31. The letter warned that four log- ging trucks would be traveling along the access road three to four times a day, seven days a week, for two months. Celebrate Father's Day, Saturday, June 18, lunch or dinner 926-8922 4 445 - 13th Street, FACTORY FUTON Entrance Jn raor West Vancouver F FUTON ROWSUT Dol. 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