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Writers fest set
for Oct 18 - 22:

@ Around town
listing of events:

KEN READ (No. 977) makes his way

ONE HUNDRED trucks stopped in

inspection on Friday in North Vancou
brakes. But 25 tickets were issued by the

drivers for various vehicle infractions.
By Anna Marie D'Angela
News Reporter

“Generally speaking, the trucking industry

repair on the North Shore,” said Sgt. Bob Beau

RCMP traffic section head.

— “What it tells us is that we have to remain vigil
we didn’t run radar here, in no time it would be th
The hilly North Shore has been the site of sever

involving brake problems in recent years.

The latest fatal accident resulted in two deaths }

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- NEWS photo Paul McGrath

up Grouse Mountain during last Saturday's

: e North Vancouver resident completed the
4th Annual Grouse Grind Hill Climb. Thee 82nd runner to cross the finish line.

race in 45 minutes and 42 seconds —

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as

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police to truck

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doin. North Vancouver

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} fatal truck accidents

q August after a truck
way Overpass at the

with faulty brakes: slammed into the Mountain High Highway.
bottom of the steep Cut portion of the Upper Leve "J into a van parked

In 1990, a truck loaded with hot asphalt sham ss brakes had not
in line at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal, The 4

See Truckers page 3

Thursday: Cloudy with showers
High 15°C, low 8'C.

denederise Efe! onittion

,uSter
Money crunch

comes to a head

NORTH VANCOUVER-Lonsdale
MLA David Schreck wants
District 44’s seven school trustees
removed from office for what he
calls financial mismanagement.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

But North Vancouver school board
chairtnan Barbara MacLellan said the dis-
trict’s problem isn't cash management, but
a revenue shortfall.

According to
Education Ministry
communications
director Shawn
Robins. Education
Minister Art
Charbonneau — does
not plan to appoint a
trustee.

Schreck wrote to
Charbonneau Sept.

22 asking the minister MLA SCHRECK
to appoint a trustee if on NV schools
the board could not budget case.
retire un anticipated

$1.7 million accumulated deficit from the
1994-95 fiscal year in two years.

Since then, a final audit revealed an
actual deficit of $2.6 million. That, said

See School page 3

trucks

NEWS photo Pau! McGrath

MOTOR VEHICLE Branch inspectors Frank Kennedy (left) and
Jay Northcott check out a truck’s load on Friday during a sur-
prise truck inspection in North Vancouver.