B & E botched THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP arrested five North Vancouver teens on Tuesday, Feb. 2, following a break-and-enter tip provided by an alert neighbor. According to an RCMP spokesman, the police were calied to the burglary in the 3100-block of Robinson Street on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at approximately f p.m. A resident, alerted by the alarm, was watching the neighborhood and obtained a vehicle description and a licence plate number of a suspicious car leaving the area, The police located the vehicle, a silver Honda, in Lyon Canyon Park. | As a result of a search, five teens were arrested. Charges are pending and the investigation continues. Drinking drivers RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in fines and penalties, including a driving suspension, for drinking and driving related offences: NORTH VANCOUVER: Lois Elizabeth John, 20, 110- 310 West 3rd St., North Vancouver (over .08, $500 fine); Stephanus S. Grove, 63, 926 Berkely Ave., North Van- couver. (impaired, $300 fine); Joseph Benjamin Baker, 27, 214 Lawa Ave., West Vancouver (impaired, monihs jail). -Health-care budget shifts focus |e From page 3 Oa you . have a really tough budget it’s easier to cut the com- munity services, the less-high pro- file services, than it is to cut hos- pitals or the medical services plan. “The decisions we're making aren't easy, but 1 think they are better decisions. We've made a commitment to mental health in particular that the downsizing of Riverview will only take place as fast as We can provide support services for the people who are being transferred out," Cull said. Meanwhile, Cull said the “ministry spends less than a quarter of ‘the provincial health budget on all community health services, in- ‘cluding public health, continuing care and mental health. “This year we shifted about 2% of the budget out of the medical services plan and hospitals into the community sector. “That 2% shift, which sounds BRENT EILERS | don't just sall houses | sell “homes.” please give ma a calll THE KEY TO YGUR FUTURE H. 925-3696 MASTERS REALTY. O, 926-5233 continued momentum three small, made a 25% increase in the funding base of community ser- vices. “We shifted about $100 million into community health services during this fiscal year 1992-93, and because of the budget pressures. this year it's not going to be possible to shift as much money, but there is going to be to fund conimunity health services.” In the meantime, the ministry is continuing a thrust to make B.C. hospitals more cost-effective. . The target by 1996 is to reduce the average of 3,2 hospital beds per 1,000 residents. to. 2.7. per 1,000. Added Cull, ‘We have a Jot of waste: 25% of the acute-care beds are filled with people who. really shouldn't be there. Wherever 1 go in the province | see examples of where we're not spending our money very smartly."" Rosanne & Craig Clark “Let our experience be your peace of mind.” . 980-3268 H. 980-9378 O. West Realty (These writs were filed with the court registry in) Vancouver be- tween Jan, 28 and Feb. 11, 1993. fnformation is taken from the statements of claim.) Plaintiff: Konings Wholesale - a division of K.W. Food Distributors Ltd., 3168 Thunder- bird Cres., Burnaby. Defendant: Suncoast Food Distributor Inc. dba Suncoast Food Distributors, aka Suncoast Food Distr. Inc., 300-1497 Marine Dr., West Vancouver, and Gary Kenneth Paul, 6454 Norvan Rd., Sechelt. 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