2 faxes. v2: | inguiring ji reporter Horseshoe Bay Dundarave/A mbieside British sties Norgate/Pemberton Heights Capilanc/Delbrook Hiphiands Lower Lonsdale Central and Upper Lonsdale Lynn Vailey Blueridge/Deep Cove BG VCU AAVE A QUESTION FOR THE INQUIRING REPORTER? When we checked Environment Canada’s Weather Office Web site Tuesday afternoon, Monday's condi- tions were “not available.” Either they were out adding up the millimetres of rain in their tin cup or thers is a staff shortage because of the pressure — and we don’t mean barometric. Beconting a Maytag repair- man must be awfully enticing when your job is pre- dicting rain in people's lives. Think of how much whining weathermen must endure during a summer the likes of which we are enduring. “When's it going to stop raining?” “If the globe is warning, how come it’s raining so much?” etc. In medieval times (or possibly come August if the sun continues to hide) they would have been buried alive in the nearest corn field as an offering to the Sun god. Responsibility meant something back then if you were a sayer of sooths. For the record: June has so far produced about 72% of its average sunshine in these parts, while rainfall is running at 176% of our average. N@RTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS YES NO NO. DON'T GPINION KNOW Jonathan Norrish Arneld Wallner North Vancouver North Vancouver 1 honestly can’t, no. I moved from Toronto five years ago and it wasn’t so wet there. It becomes a pain sometimes. ’'m into sports and it hinders soccer and basketball. West Vancouver No. We've been here since "86. Pve said Pm going back ro Montreal and take the heat and the cold. The rain is ruining our lawn bowling season, No, definitely not and I’ve lived here for 18 years. It probably has to do with global warming and I think more people should take seriously the implications. soos 13% B4% 0% 0% 3% ) keeps 911 control A continued regional role in the funding of Greater Vancouver's 9- 1-1 Emergency .- Telephone System should be maintained, ~ the Grester Vancouver |. ‘» Regional District Board ’ Of Directors decided Fone 25. ‘ ve The * GVRD assumed . sibility for coordination of -1-] services in 1990, and ., has. provided funding for the system through property _ oo Effective Jane, 1999, part - * of. this “cost. was. shifted from “property vanes to ‘telephone ills, Until recenily, emergency calls: throughout’ the: Lower Mainland have been answered cand | referred. to . appropriate service providers — police, fire casual _ DESIGNER SOFA Sem sa soo. ge oot cushy pilaw top and ambulance — through a contract with the City of Vancouver’s Vancouver Police Department Communications Section. That contract remains in effect until the end of 1999. Also in June, a new cmer- pency communications centre égan operations. The centre is managed by the E-Comm Corporation, an independent non-profit company providing communications services to public — safety — agencies throughout the region. Cal answer and dispatch for the Vancouver Police Department -has — already migrated to the new facility, as has the GVRD’s Regional Control Centre, and a number of other emergency. service providers have-indicated they will be dispatching through E- Comm by year end. ‘An additional 23 dispatch ‘and fyruious, easily wansports you, design. Loveseat Bye" centres — representing police and fire services in various communities — will remain in service. Several municipalities have indicated a desire to implement their own 9-1-1 call-answer centres, a vanation made feasible by new technol- ogy. Such independent centres would only be implemented if there is no loss of service qual- . ity and no higher costs to res- idents of the region as a whole. 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