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NEWS photo Terry Peters

WEST VANCOUVER super volunteer Pegge Gabbot, with her dog Nanda, is getting
ready to help again. She's a supporter of AIDS Walk ‘95, which takes place Sunday,
Sept. 24, in Stanley Park. For walk information cail 878-1295. See story page 3.

WVPD outfitted

THE WEST Vancouver
police are turning in their’
six-shooters for plastic

puns.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

“The frame is all plastic.” said
Const. Tim Kravjanski, firearms
instructor for the West Vancouver
Police (¥VP).

lS The new guns, semi-automatic

A0-calibre Glock - pistols, «are
replacing .38 calibre Smith &

“Wesson revolvers the policy have -

been packing since the late 1960s.
“ft (the Glock frame)” is

stronger than steel oo They've

with new guns

done tests running them over and
dropping them from helicopters

and they were still operational,

said Kravjanski.

~ Gaston Glock invented the °
plastic used for the pistols frame. >,

The restof the gun is metal.
Kravjanski said all WVP offi-
cers will be outfitted with new
guns this month. The department
starting phasing in-the new guns
indune.s ; :

Alb municipal police forces
have been legistated to get semi-
autonntlic pistols by 1998,

Are WYP still outgunned?

“Itdepends whit you mean by
outgunned. There are always big-

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ROGERS COMMUNICATIGNS
Inc. announced Tuesday the acqui-
sition, of Shaw Communications, |
Canada’s second-largest cable com-
pany, whose. television stations
serve the communities of North an

West Vancouver. :

By Titus Green

Contributing Writer

The cable systems acquired by Rogers .
will also serve the communities of Lions
Bay, White Rock, Surrey and Langley,

The acquisition, yet to, be approved by
the Canadian .. Radio-television. and
Telecommunications Commission. will

“inerease Rogers’ share of the cable market

in B.C. from 46% to 537.

Phil Lind... vice-chairman of Rogers
Communications, believes: the proposed
transaction is “the.next logical step in’ the

“ongoing trend towards greater clustering of
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cable television ownership within regions of

According to Lind the acquisition will
bring improved customer service and techni-
cal improvements (o. cable ‘viewers through-
out the North Shore and the Lower Mainland.

Lind revealed that his company. will
acquire 84,000 customers in the North and

* West Vancouver areas and assures them that

there will be no changes in programming.

“The stations people have been receiving
under Shaw will be the same under Rogers.” ’
he said. us :

“This acquisition will consolidate our

cable holdings in the Greater: Vancouver
region and allow us to achieve economies of
scale in order to better serve our cable cus-
tomers,” Lind said.

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

WEST VANCOUVER Police Const. Tim Kravjanski holds his new
pistol in his right hand and the outdated police gun in his left.

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