4 - Wednesday, July 28, 1999 — North Shore News

News wins three
first place awards

From page 1

business, arts and lif
tions round out this number-
one publication.”

The News’ CCNA overall
excellence award, which was
presented at the July 22 to 24
CCNA convention in Calgary,
Alberta, follows a similar award
presented to the newspaper
earlier this year.

In May, the News was rec-
ognized as the best community
newspaper in B.C. and the
Yukon by the B.C. and Yukon
Community Newspaper Assoc-
iation.

“fc’s an honour to win any
award, but onc that recognizes
the newspaper as a whole is
especially satisfying,” said
News managing editor Timothy Renshaw. “A newspaper is neces-
sarily a work of many hands and many departments. An award for
general excellence recognizes the work that all those hands and
departments invest in the product. The North Shore i is a number
one place; it deserves a number one newspaper.

In addition to winning the CCNA’s overall excellence award,
the News also took first place in the competition’s Best Editorial
Page category. The News finished ahead of Ontario's
Ajax/Pickering News Advertiser, which took second, and the
Saskatoon Free Pres, which took third,

Renshaw, meanwhile, won the CCNA’s Outstanding
Columnist competition for his weekly Ripping Yarns column,
which appears in Sunday’s News. Judges s said that in his columns
Renshaw “defies the forces of political correctness and attacks the
incompetence and sloppiness that infect bureaucracy and_ kill
enterprise. ... He compels attention even ifthe reader search-
es for flaws in his arguments. He tests more liberal ideas and that
is good.”

Joan Ransberry of Ontario's Stouffrille Tribune and Neit
Godbout of Salmon Arm’s Shuswap Sun finished second and third
respectively in the competition.

C The CCNA’s membership includes newspapers from across
anada,

NEWS managing editor
Timothy Renshaw ...
winner of the CCNA’s
Outstanding Columnist
award.

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Brady Fotheringham
Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver’s renovation
work to the ice arena at 22nd and
Marine Drive under the district’s
recreation master plan will cost
more than originally planned.

Ina bid to overhaul and upgrade some of

the district's ailing recreation facilities, the
district's standing committee on recreation
facility planning has concluded that a number
of areas that were not included in the original
proposal are now in “dire need of upgrad-
ing.”

A report released Monday night by the
committee recommended updates to the
aging ice arena should include locating the
men’s and women’s washroom together at
the southwest end of the building to take
advantage of a common plumbing system.

‘The report also recommended that the ref-
crees and first aid room be separated from the
hockcy rooms to a location more easily acces-
sible to an ambulance in case of emergencies.

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Additionally the women’s washroom will
be demoiished if recommendations are given
final approval.

Teaching space for skating and hockey
clinics is also in farge demand at the arena
and, according to the proposal, an ald storage
room and part of an office used by engincer-
ing staff could be put co better use as a meet-
ing room.

Since 1991 ever $523,000 has been
invested in maintaining the ice arena which
was built in 1967. Council's standing com-
mittee on recreation maintains that these fur-
cher upgrades are necessary to keep the arena
in shape piven current usage.

Construction on the projects is slated to
begin by the end of October and will contin-
ue through to January 2000.

Council has already approved $750,000 in
their current 1999 budget for the washroom
upgrade but additional funds will be required
for renovations to the first aid and niceting
rooms.

It is not known how reuch these addition-
al consulting, design and construction costs
will run.

Mussel-bound ferry stalied

Brady Fotharingham
Contributing Writer

WORKERS on the
PacifiCat Explorer
fast ferry have solved
a problem that
clogged up a sanitary
intake pipeline on
Monday forcing the year,
cancellation of two
sailings.

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clogged up the system alert-
ing warning lights on the

the PacifiCar
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out of docks while undergo-
ing sea trials over the past
not cnough
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intake system to remove
macine lite such as the mus-
sels, said BC

spokesman Clay Suddaby.
Suddaby added that the
ferry system on the
*scifiCat is designed so that
a normal flow of water

won't allow the growth of

marine life.

“The ship sat idle for
longer than we expecred
causing our workers to
sevape off the mussels for a
full day,” Suddaby said.

The Pacificat resumed its
three daily sailings at 9 p.m.
on Monday night.

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who fell
with grace
to the sea

Aman who sur-
vived a fall from the
Lions Gate Bridge
made a splash that
Adrian Hallich will
never forget.

Hallich was inline
skating around — the
Stanley Park — seawall
Sunday evening. A 26-
year-old Vancouver man
had been taking pho-
tographs from a viewing
platform on the west side
of the bridge. He slipped
over a railing and fell feer
firss to the water 50
metres below.

Hallich saw the man
standing on the banks of
the seawall when a rescue
boat arrived, about three
minutes after he heard
the splash. Hallich said ir
wasn’t immediately
apparent how the man
got to the seawall.

“I didn’t think it was
possible to survive, but to

¢ standing around and
talking?” The man,
whose name was with-
held by the Vancouver
police, was taken by
ambulance to hospital

and later released.
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