BC Rail
shutdown
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Bob Mackin
News Reporter

TEE Council of Trade
Unions on BC Rail

. meets Thursday to
decide its next move.

Members of the seven
unions contracted by BC Rail
voted 84% in favour of strik-
ing Friday. CTU could issue
72-hour strike-notice at any
time, but chairman Bob
_ Sharpe says members aren’t
“cager to shut: down the
Crown corporation.
~° “Our intention is to give
“the railway the most notice as
possible, ad Sharpe’ said. “We
 don’r want to inconvenience

“eustomers.. We want back to =

the bargaining table.”

Sharpe, a conductor and
“member of the -
° Transportation Union, ‘said

menbers* haven’t had a. pay.
taise“in. five-years and would’:

gladly accept a 0-0-2 per cent
Increase~ over: 3 three: year

id approximately: :

1,350-1

United ..

Bob Mackin
News Reporter

TWO men were less
than ecstatic when West
Vancouver Police arrest-
ed them la. Nov. 13.

The males, aged 32 and
25, will appear in court March
24, 2000, tw face charges of
producing 2 controlled  sub-
stance. West Vancouver Police
spokesman Sgt. Jim Almas did
not release their names.

The men were arrested
aiter police found an cestasy
fab in the basement ofa house
they rented in the 3200. biock
of Westmount.

A neighbour called police
10 report 2n open front door
at the house around 6 p.m.

Poiice arrived ta make sure
a break-in hadn't occurred,
Almas said.

‘The officers entered rhe
premises and found a drug fab
in the faundry room. A war-
rant v.as obtzined to conduct a
more. thorough search
through ‘the house.

A liquid used in the manu-
facture of ecstasy was found,
Almas ‘said. He said it was
worth - $450, 000. Drug. lab

equipment worth
Was aise seized.

“The production of these
labs appears to he on the
increase,” Almas said. “Not
only that, the chemicals they
use in these drug labs are
extremely toxic and dangerous
and if anybody bas informs-
tion or suspects a drug lab may
be in their neighborhood, call
the police immediately just
because oF how dangerous
they are.”

Almas said police called for
help from the RCMP’s clan-
destine laboratory response
team and a federal Ministry of
Health chemist to dismantle
the lab,

“When we come across
onc of these labs, we immedi-
ately leave, just because rhe
chemicals are extremely toxic
and dangcrous. In this case we
also had to arrange fer a pri-
vate company thar deals with
hazardous materials to come
out and neutralize the ditfer-
ent chemicals so it could be
transported = safely and
destroyed.”

Ecstasy is the street name

Methylenedioxymeth-

$20,000

for

amphetamine. It’s a popular
; hal llucinogenic stimulant used

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Alan - spas Alison Morse,
urnct and. Richard
Underhill were eae “to

: Carter. and Frinton were.
also chosen. ‘municipal trustees

| and-sepresentatives of Bowen

on the Islands Trust wih votes

» GF 612 and 407, respectively.
. Bowen is 3.0.’s newest :
olls

rounicipality. Advance
took place on Bowen and the
mainland. Nov. 10 and'13.. .
Meanwhile, “in the: Village
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Wednesday, November 24, 1999 ~ North Shere News - 13

ided

ar all-night rave parties.
Usually in pill form, cestasy
gives ravers who use it 4 long-
lasting sense of cuphoria and
comtort. Bur it has its draw-
backs. It can cause dehydra-
tion, anxiety, depression, low
selfesteem and paranoia.

Const. Paul Faris, a West
Vancouver Police drug recog-
nition expert, said cestasv isn’t
just dangerous for thase who
use it.

“You're cooking selvents,
very flammable liquids with a
lot of heat and you're creat-
ing vapors,” he said. “When
vou heat volatile substances
you ger volatile gases,
because the heat causes them
to change which makes these
labs so dangerous.

The byproducts at the
end you need to throw out,
you end up throwing them in
commercial garbage or your
dumpster out back, You're
putting some very toxic
chemicals out there.

“I'm sure there are people
that know how to do it, Buz
more often than not 7 think
you're going to find people
that get the inform:tion off
the Internet and think fet’s
go to it.”

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near: Howe Sound.

‘She’. defeaved ° challeng er ;

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Carole . Bajus, |:

- Broughton “was re-elected *:

"Mayor. She'll continue to bat-
"He against 2 proposed lique-

pay

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Mclntyre, -Anne..Page and ~~
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