NEWS BRIEFS Fiash fire FIRE DAMAGED a North Vancouver business Feb. 4. According to a North Vancouver District Fire Department spokesman, firefighters were called to JSS Antique Reproductions Ltd., 1128 West 14th St., at ap- proximately 5 p.in. avestigators found tit flammable vapors, which had accurnulated in the exhaust duct of a paint-spray booth, were ignited by an electrical spark. The flash fire caused about $20,000 damage to the building and contents. Strike vote APPROXIMATELY 100 Health Employees Union (HEU) members at North Vancouver's Cedarview Lodge Intermediate Care Facility took a strike vote Friday. Tke 204 HEU locals around the province are ali taking strike votes to back contract demands. HEU workers at Lions Gate Hospital have already voted to strike. To press time Friday, HEU votes at Cedarview Ledge had not been counted. HEU spokesman Geoff Meggs said union employees at other small private hospitais on the North Shore will also conduct strike votes. “The main issue is work. load. It’s undermining patient care. And because of short and inadequate staffing our members are experiencing increased injuries,’ said Meggs. HEU members work as nurses aides, licensed practical nurses, clerks and dietary aides. NORTH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL A FOUR-WAY stop will be in- stalled at the intersection of 19th Street and Ridgeway Avenue after North Vancouver City Council approved a three-month trial period for the signs. By Pamela Lang Contributing Writer Area residents had asked for the stop signs, along with a ban on truck traffic on 19th Street, which was approved on Jan. 20. City staff had indicated at the time that neither measure was in the best interests of the city for its established traffic needs. Approval of the four-way stop had originally been deferred after council raised safety issues con- nected with the installation of the signs. Mayor Jack Loucks said a stop sign at the bottom of a steep grade would be ‘asking for a lot of trouble and a lot of accidents.”” But other aldermen agreed with area residents that a four-way stop and proper warning signs would deter traffic from speeding down the hill. Sunday, February 9, 1992 - North Shore News ~ 5 19th Street to get four-way stop NVC Council recommends three-month trial period for signs Loucks was alone in opposing the four-way stop. In a Jan. 29 report to council, and in his recommendation to council, engineering design super- visor Tony Barber suggested that staff should work with the RCMP, North Shore Health and area residents to monitor the per- formance of the signs. But he had recommended against the three-month trial period, saying ‘‘motorists become accustomed to the characteristics of their commuter routes and are often unobservant to changes.”’ UP TO 60% OFF reg. dept. store prices Blinds as Fast as 3 Days & Yaletown Blinds & Drapery inc. Visit our Showroom 987-0203 OPEN 7 DAYS 9am - 9pm [ BEAT ANY PRICE BY 5%] Aldermen Bill Bell and John Braithwaite had also expressed concern over the safety of a stop sign at the bottom of a steep hill, but both voted in favor of the motion on Monday. NEW DENTURES =f RELINES @ REPAIRS i COMFORTABLE SOFT LINERS M FREE CONSULTATION & @ SENIORS DISCOUNTS & LL DENTAL PLANS ACCEPTED. R. PALLA! & R. ANDERSON DENTURE CLINIC 985-1710 Local video strikes gold at film fest Two awards for The Faceless Ones A VIDEO froduction released last year by local en- vironmentalists has won two gold awards in the en- vironmental category of the New York International Film Festival. Written and narrated by North Vancouver resident Jack Whyte and produced and arranged by former West Vancouver resident Terry Jacks, The Faceless Ones takes a hard look at the mining, pulp and paper, forestry and By Michael Becker News Reporter industry advertising campaign. Said Jacks, ‘‘They were focus- ing away from the big boys and we had the big boys on television, the head of MacBlo in a little en- vironmental jacket in front of a lush green forest — he should have been in a $1,000 suit in front of a pulp mill. ““We were told that everything JEWELLERY ESTATE SALE Feb. 12-Feb. 16 Derek Olson GOLDSMITHS 105140 West 15th Street North Vancouver Il right. Thi \ Our consignees are being forced by the creditors to liquidate all ” -was all right. This was to “et peo” assets by a specific date. We are thus offering UNBELIEVABLE aa 4367 GALLANT AVE. ple know that everything isn’t all DEEP COVE, NORTH VANCOUVER TERRY JACKS... “If we den’t utilize our people power and stand up and be counted we too wiil be the faceless ones.”’ petrochemical industries. The awards were accepted last week. “This is the brightest thing that has happened in my environmen- tal work in the last seven years — it’s wonderful,’’ Jacks said. Jacks said he was told that the film’s feat of winning two gold awards of a possible three in the category was ‘‘a rarity.” The film won in the best writer and best narrator categories.” The video also picked up a gold certificate for best production. “In order for it to go gold there had to be a 100% vote on it (of festival directors). If there was anybody who disagreed, they don’t give a gc!d — wow, that’s quite a deal,’’ he said. Jacks said the project came together as a response to a forest right. We don’t have the power and the money of government and industry, but we have the people power. If we. don’t utilize our people power and stand up and be counted we too will be the faceless ones,’’ he added. Jacks donated video and audio cassette forms of the project to the Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC). During the provincial election, the WCWC mailed the audio ver- sion of The Faceless Ones, a poem as. read by Jack Whyte, to all candidates. The poem was accompanied by a series of 30 questions that were put to the candidates in an effort to make public their individual positions on environmental issues. The group has since published the results in booklet form. Said Jacks, ‘‘The people can see where their candidates stand — whether pulp mills should use chlorine in their production or not. These politicians, when they make promises, should live up to them. 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