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lays off 180

IF WILL not be a very merry Christmas for 180 employees of a
North Vancouver-based sawmill, after the mill's parent company,
Tolko Industries Ltd. of Vernon, B.C., taid them off on Friday.
The layoffs at the Tolko mill on Bridge Street in North Van-
couver result from = stumping market conditions and will last for

two weeks.
The North Vancouver cedar

sawmill, formerly Nova Lumber

Co. Ltd., was initially purchased by Tolko in 1988.

It is North Vancouver's last active sawmill.

Phone calls to the North Vancouver mill and Tolko’s head of-
fice in Vernon were not resurned to press time Friday.

Fire strikes
at NV plant

NORTH VANCOUVER City Fire Department firefighters extin-
guished a fire in a North Vancouver microcircuit plant earty

Wednesday.

A fire crew responded to the fire call at Anatek Microcircuits

Inc. at 2:35 a.m.

According to a fire department spokesman the fire resulted
from a soldering probe being left near a vat of molten solder in
the plant. Fire caused damage to a swivel chair and a table

holding the molten solder.

A vent near the soldering table drew out most of the heat from
the fire, limiting damage to the soldering area. The fire was
quickly extinguished and toxic smoke was cleared from the build-
ing with high-powered exhaust fans.

Drivers guilty of drinking

RECENT CONVICTIONS in
North Shore courts have resulted
in fines and penalties, inciuding a
one-year driving suspension, for
drinking and driving related of-
fences:

WEST VANCOUVER: Keith Jef-
fery Leeson, 29, 6415 Douglas St.,
West Vancouver (impaired, 21
days jail); Marc David Brock-
ington, 33, 303-215) Bellevue
Ave., West Vancouver (impaired,

$425 fine); Matthew William
Baird, 20, 2170 Gisby St., West
Vancouver (over .08, $425 fine);
Jan Novotny, 30, 360 Kelvin
Grove, Lions Bay (impaired,
$450).

NORTH VANCOUVER: Gillian
Anne Sanderson, 28, 1065 Pro-
spect Ave., North Vancouver
(breathalyser refusal, $500 fine);
Tadeusz Janik, 31, 2609 Valemont
Cres., Clearbrook (impaired, 3750
fine),

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Sunday, Decemiber 9, 1960 - North Shore News - 5

Tripod the cat

one of
lives

A CAT that was severely injured after it travelled for sev-
eral blocks in the engine compartment of a car has been

given a new lease on life.

Vicki Ross was driving in the
Norgate area near the end of Oc-
tober when she saw the wounded
cat run by.

“You could tell something was
wrong with it — it was kind of
dragging its leg. | went out and
looked for it,’? Ross said. ‘‘And
then this lady got out of her car
and acted kind of odd. She was
kind of panicky and didn’t know
what to do. I found the cat and
she told me what had happened.”

The other woman had been
driving for several blocks when
she stopped after hearing an
unusual sound.

Ross took the cat to a local pet
hospital.

“They could tell it was really
injured, and they thought they
probably had to remove a leg.
They didn’t think it would make
it. But it has a really strong per-
sonality,’ she said.

The young cat’s rear right leg
was amputated.

Said Tracy Larsen, a
veterinarian assistant who cared
for the cat, ‘‘The biggest problem
is that because he had been drag-
ged under the car, his skin had
been burnt. His leg was fractured,
and it was a repairable fracture,
but the problem was that he lost a
lot of tissue. We didn’t have
enough skin to fix the leg.’’

By all accounts the three-legged
cat, named Tripod by Larsen, has
regained its health remarkably
well. Pet hospital staff have since
decided to keep the cat as a
mascot.

Said Larsen, ‘‘He’s pretty quick
at running, and he’s getting to be

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

able to jump around. He cruises
around the back and is friends
with all the animals. We've got a
parrot, Pretty Boy Floyd, that
lives here and they’re buddies.""

Ross and fellow employees held
a raffle at work to raise money
for the vet bill.

But said Ross, ‘We got a little
money together and | gave that to
the vet, and he said that was OK.
I know that bill would have easily
been over $1,000.”’

Meanwhile Larsen warns
motorists who make short stops
along their way to take the time to
check for cats under their car's
hood, because, as the weather
turns colder, some cats tend to

seek warmth under the hood of a.

vehicle.

“We usually get a fair amount
of fan-belt cats at this time of
year. They crawl in right beside
the fan belt to stay warm. If
you’re going to get in your car
after a short stop somewhere,
bang on the hood, honk the horn
— something. I check my car.”’

She also recommended that
motorists who install their own an-
tifreeze make sure that driveways
ai: hosed down afterward.

“A teaspoon of reguiar an-
tifreeze is enough to kill a cat.
They drink it. its sweet and they
are attracted to it. A tablespoon
will kill a dog. There’s a new
product out on the market now
that’s a non-toxic antifreeze, and
that’s good.”’

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