NEWS BRIEF Station robbed NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP are searching for 2 man wha robbed a Petro-Canada service station st gunpoint on Tuesday night, making off with $80 in cash. An RCMP spokesman said at about 9:30 p.m., a lone white male walked up to the cashier of a Petro-Canada station at 1396 Marine Drive and asked where he could catch a bus. After being given directions, the man left. But he returned a2 few minutes later and asked the cashier if he could have change for the bus. While the cashier went behind a counter and opened the till to the cash register, the suspect, who was wearing a shoulder holster, produced a gun and demanded aii of the $10 and $5 bills in the cash register. After being handed the money, he ordered the cashier to face the back of the gas station and not to turn around. The suspect then fled. The suspect is described as 5°,11°° tall with dark brown, flowing, shoulder Jength hair, a day's growth of beard aad weighing between 160 and 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a jean jacket, jeans and sneakers. Anyone with information is asked to contact Const. Marty Blais at the North Vancouver RCMP, 985-1311. Car ablaze FHE NORTH Vancouver City Fire Department had a dangerous situation on its hands carly Tuesday morning when firefighters responded to a car fire at 209 St. Davids Ave. at 2 a.m. A fire department spokesman said that as soon as fire crews arrived on the scene, the car, which was fully engulfed in flames, began to roll down the street. The Nissan Pulsar, which was stolen earlier from the area of Third Street and Chesterfield Avenue, rolled for about half a block, crossed the street, jumped a curb and came to a stop on a boulevard. Due to the intensity of the heat, fire crews were unable to get near the car to put blocks in front of the tires. The vehicle was a total loss. Arson is suspected as the cause of the blaze. Investigation of the incident con- ~ Men fined A 22-YEAR-GLD Surrey man was fined a total of $1,500 in West Vancouver provincial court for drug and weapon possession charges. Teddy James Bonazew pleaded guilty June 19 to one count of cocaine possession, reduced from a charge of possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, in connection with a Nov. 24, 1990 drug seizure in Horse- shoe Bay. Bonazew also pleaded guilty to being in Possession of a 9-mm handgun. He was placed on pro- bation for one year. His co-accused, Douglas Alexander Bayers, also of Surrcy, was fined 25¢0 after he pleaded guilty to posses- sion of marijuana in connection with the incident. Daycare fees increasing From page 1 “We strongly feel that these students will be negatively affected by these fee increases and cut- backs,’’ CCSS representative Ross Vennesland told the college board Tuesday night. He added that a CCSS survey showed that college students ‘‘feel that their education is being jeop- ardized by unrelenting cost in- creases and cutbacks.”’ “We, along with the majority, feel that education is being de- prioritized when in reality it should be made a main priority in today’s society,’’ said Vennesland. But college bursar Marie Jessup said the 12.5% tuition fee increase is less than those levied at Lower Mainland colleges of similar size. She said that while full-time Capilano College students have been hit with a 12.5% fee in- crease, tuition fees at Vancouver Community College have jumped 9.5%. Douglas College tuition fees have increased 17% and Kwantlan College has upped its tuition fees by 20%. “Our fees are in the middle range,”’ said Jessup. ‘‘Our biggest problem is trying to keep the tu- ition fee increases as low as we can. The board really regretted having to increase the fees.’’ She also defended the move to raise international student tuition fees, saying the college’s and the provincial government’s policy is that no international student should displace a Canadian-born student. As for the sportsplex, Jessup said the contract to build the fa- cility was signed with a former CCSS several years ago and that the CCSS of the day contributed $700,000 to the facility's total cost of $3.4 million. “Every penny came from the community,’” Jessup said. She added thar the college’s bookstore is a $1.2 million opera- tion. Last vear it had a surplus of $50,000. But she added that under provincia! government regulations, the bookstore has to break even. “The bookstore does not pay the college rent. To have a $50,000 return is a pretty narrow margin when you can’t incure a deficit,”’ said Jessup. She added that fees for the col- lege’s daycare, which Jessup said is not used by any of the students, will increase 11.8%. Jessup said the facility’s operating costs have increased and the college spent $100,000 last year to subsidize the facility. This year, said Jessup, that subsidy will be decreased to $60,000 due in part to the elimi- nation of the hot meal program and the increase in fees. She added the college board ‘“*sympathizes’> with student con- cerns. THE B.C. Ferry Corp. (BCFC) is predicting a busy time over the Canada Day long weekend. “We know that people have been waiting for this long weekend and that there will be a fot of ferry travel. Our summer schedule goes into effect today and travellers will notice that there are more opportunities than ever before,’ said BCFC spokesman Bill Bouchard. The new ferry schedule calls for the operation of only two ferries on the Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route. In the past, four vessels worked the route during the summer. But the BCFC has decided to cut that number in half in order to convinee ferry travellers to use the new Mid- {sland Express route beiween Tsawwassen and Nanaimo. Ferries will leave the Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo terminals on the odd hour between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Bouchard said traffic on all the major routes is up 3% for vehicles and 5% for passengers. He predicts this tong weekend will be busier than any other Canada Day long weekend. He said the loss of the two ad- ditional ferries on the Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route will result in additional congestion. “I believe that Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo will also experience heavy pressure because we are down to two ships on Route 2, but still have four ships coming into Departure Bay (Nanaimo),’’ Bouchard said. ‘‘It’s going to be extremely busy everywhere.”’ He added that there will also be heavy pressure put on the Tsawwassen-Swariz Bay route because beth those terminals are presently undergoing renovations. “People who work on the routes that operate out of these terminals are in for a busy time,’’ Bouchard said. The biggest change in the BCFC’s summer schedule is the 5:30 a.m. sailing from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen. 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