Sst cana = ot pr ox was Brent te m % ese Ph yee ‘ a Wetman A Ope RET RY eaten RIE ST RAID AAT RM LIRA Ray teeta pe ec e TT Ser armree a me SE RETR Ak ae * dare op NES , September 6,1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 RRP RE ERT TT RAO re perraysa Canada's Niinber Suburban Newer ! Circulation 986-1337 60 pages 25¢ Privat zation b beware of prints .& PAGE 3 amed for cabin break-ins A CABIN OWNER has blamed the provincial government for break-ins on Hollyburn Moun- NEWS photo Stuart Davis VEHICLES ARE dwarfed next ts the superstructure of the Lions Gate Bridge. 1 The perspective of. News photographer Stuart Davis makes the bus look dike a toy crossing a lego bridge. it seems that the traffic, not the bridge, is suspended. tain. Alex Stroshin, 39, claims removal of the security guard at the base of the Cypress Bow! Road is largely responsible for the increase in thefts and vandalism to mountain cabins. Over the long weekend power tools and a 178 pound generator worth $4,000 were stolen from his cabin in Hollyburn Ridge. Stroshin claims there have been 12 break-ins in the last month. SECURITY A Parks Branch security guard, on duty from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., was removed May | following the privatization of the mountains’s ski operation. The new operators, Cypress Bowl Recreations, By ROSS MEEK keep a security guard on du- ty November 1 through May 1 but don’t man the guard house during the summer. Stroshin claims the guard was a deterrent against crime because he wrote down licence plate numbers and kept an eye on vehicles going up the mountain late at night. Stroshin says the guard should be returned. Since removing the guard “‘vandalism is horrendous,” he says, adding it took him and joint owner Derrick Hale two hours to carry in the heavy gas generator. See Park Page 12 NORTH VANCOUVER’S plans to move gar- bage dumping off the North Shore have been bogged down again. West Vancouver garbage will continue to be dumped in North Vancouver while a long-term waste manage- ment plan is sought for the Greater Vancouver Regional District. North Vancouver is intent on closing the Premier Street landfill site despite the pos- sibility that it may have nowhere to put its garbage after the site is closed December 31. At its last meeting, North Vancouver District council voted to extend West Van’s use of the landfill site while a sub-committee of the By DA’ BURKE GVRD searches for a waste management plan. Mayor Marilyn Baker, a member of that sub-commit- tee, told council ‘‘the resolu- tion of regional pro- blems...necessitates a com- promise.” NOT FAIR Baker told council a report received by Van- couver City council detailing GVRD plans to purchase See West Page 12