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newspaper or listen to TV.
news, the more you hear of
the worsening of the unem-
ployment situation. Is the
federal or provincial gov-
ernment really able to do
something about it?

This week the Inquiring
Reporter asks: ‘“What should |

be done about the unem- —

ployment crisis?’’ |

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Broom Hilda —
North Vancouver
Immigrants should be more
finely screened so Canadians
can be helped first. Also, if
some unions were not ‘so
demanding, more companies
could stayin business.

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emergency calls for an
ambulance with every truck
available, including
equipment truck and small
vans without stretchers.

By 4:30 p.m. all the fire
department emergency veh-
icles had been dispatched on
calls, the Emergency Health
Services ambulance was still
unavailable and the police
van was called in to perform:
as an ambulance. 7

Citizens in private cars
were also starting to carry
victims to Lions Gate Hos-
pital.

Ambulance service used to
be the responsibility of the
fire depertment in West
Vancouver but the provincial
government took over the
duty some years ago and now
there are three vehicles
covering the entire North
Shore from Sunset Beach in
the west to Deep Cove in the
east—a distance of about 24
miles.

The single West Van
ambulance stationed “at
Ambleside covers about 14.6

miles from -Sunset Beach to.
Capilano River, with some of.

the steepest hills in Canada.

The two other vehicles are
stationed at Lions Gate
Hospital to cover the rest of
the North Shore.

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North Vancouver

Unskilled people. need. the.

opportunity to enter better

_training programs set up by
the government ‘so they can. _

be prepared for the current

_North Vancomver

E don’t know: ‘The govern: .
' ment should do something to .
stimulate industrial growth,
‘but so far it appears they are. =
: helpless. -

Hugh Wilson
- . West Vancouver

1. think the government
should ‘have more trade

programs to provide skills for
. the current needs of the job

market.

required exemption from the
noise bylaw.

In other business Alder-
man Gary Payne proposed a
task force to cope with the
problems. currently facing
Lower Lonsdale businesses.
They have been closing, he
said, at the rate of one a.
month since the SeaBus
started operating last June.

Alderman Payne sugges-

Martin Field

North Vancouver

I believe that. some people
don’t need to be laid off and
the government should in-
vestigate this. I was fired
with no notice, and actually I
was doing a good job.

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Vancouver via the ferry
means that former customers
are now bypassing the Lower
Lonsdale stores.

Mayor Jack Loucks was
cool to the idea of another :
task force. He felt that
people with immediate con-

__.cerns should contact council
or the existing Lower Lons-

dale committee.

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‘The subject of ambulance
services can be an emotional |
thing...the fact that (people)
live or die depends on the

_ proper deployment of emer-

gency staff and vehicles,’”’

Captain G. Sheils of the West»

Van fire department said in
his report.

‘The fire department is an
important part of this (em-
ergency) structure due to our
_ability to be on the scene of
any emergency within seven
minutes.”’

On five different dates last
year, the fire department log

. Shows that it responded to an
‘emergency within three to
six minutes and it then took
the EHS ambulance another
13. to 20 minutes to arrive. .

Council decided to ask the
Community Services Advis-
ory Commission to study the
present provincial ambu-
Jance service and report back
as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Mayor Peter
Jones has written to West
Van MLA Allan Williams
asking for his support to get
the Emergency Health Ser-
vices more money to remedy
the problem.

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