Friday, March 27, 1992 — North Shore News -— 19

HOME & GARDEN
Building safety awareness focus of seminar

A TWO-EVENING building safety seminar of interest to
everyone from do-it-yourself renovators to design and
construction professionals, consultants, contractors and
municipal officials, will be held. at the B.C. Tel head-
quarters building in Burnaby on April 7 and 8.

The seminar is presented by the
Metro Vancouver Permits and
Licenses Committee in co-opera-
tion with B.C. Tel and the
Workers’ Compensation Board
(WCB), and is part of the Build-
ing Safety Week awareness pro-
gram of the B.C. Building Safety
Advisory Council.

Roger Hebert, City of Van-
couver director of permits and
licenses and a member of the Ad-
visory Council, sai¢’ two pres-

entations will be made each even-
ing focusing on several topics.

One will be the relationship be-
tween worker and public safety in
building construction.

Others include safety related to
plumbing, gas and electrical in-
stallations, and concerns and
causes related to hazardous waste
and soil contamination, and

earthquake awareness.

The sessions start each evening
at 7 p.m. in the theatre on the

fourth floor of the B.C. Tele-
phone Building at 3777 Kingsway
(at Boundary) in Burnaby.

There is no admission charge,
but seating is limited and pre-
registration is required. Contact
the following to register before
April 1, 1992:

Ollie Romaniuk, City of Van-
couver: phone 873-7542 or fax
873-7100.

Mardy Emery, District of West
Vancouver: phone 922-1211 or
fax 922-6214,

The program details include the
following:

On Tuesday, April 7 at 7 p.m.
Jack Albiston and Peter Sweeney
of Yancouver’s Permits &

Make delightful indoor displays

BRING SPRINGTIME in-
doors this year by creating a
bulb flower garden on a
windowsill, mantelpiece or
the dining room table.

As the crocus, grape hyacinth,
daffodils and tulips begin to
bloom outdoors, you can replicate
this cheerful effect inside your

ome.

Potted bulb flowers are widely
available in garden centres,
supermarkets and convenience
stores now. By choosing pots of
flowering bulbs in the same colors
you planted last fall in the garden,
you can create an eye-pleasing
continuity between your “exterior
decorating”’ in the garden and the
“interior of your house or apart-
ment.

For example, yellow daffodils
and crocus, or blue crocus, grape
hyacinth and -glory-of-the-snow
(i.e. Chionodoxa) combine very
well.

Small botanical tulips (deep red,
yellow or white), scillas (shades of
blue) and the dark purple or clear
blue of miniature Iris reticulata
make a delightful indoor display.

There are mid-sized tulips in

pots that fit well into home decor,
such as ‘Pinocchio’ (scarlet with
ivory/white-edged petals); ‘Flair’
(red, with a butter-yellow heart),
and ‘Yellow Pzesent’ and ‘Red
Present’, named for their vivid
colors.

To create a visually dramatic
centrepiece, try lining the outside
edge of a large, shallow bowl or
basket with green plants such as
ivy, and place the pots of bulb
flowers in the middle.

Cover the edge of the pots and
space among them with petting
soil and/or moss. When the bulb
fiowers fade, just lift the entire
pot and replace with fresh daf-
fodils, crocus, tulips, etc.

For something a little different
this Easter, add some stuffed
chicks and bunnies to the ar-
tangement, decorate with bright
tibbons and bows among the
flowering bulbs to make a bright,
festive centrepiece for the holiday.

Lighthouse art exhibited

FEARING THE automation
and eventual extinction of the
more than 49 lighthouses that
line B.C.’s coast, Buzz Walker
has recorded their existence on
canvas,

Some of his oil renderings
are on display at Harrison
Gallery at Park Royal until
Tuesday.

“I had done some training
films for the Canadian Coast
Guard and when 1 visited

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lighthouses, I got all fired up
about them again.

“I’m a B.C. boy. I worked
on the fishing boats and grew
up on the coast,’’ says the
White Rock painter.

What attracted Walker to the
lonely structures was their
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“It’s also because of the fact
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Licenses Department, Don Myler
of the city’s engineering depart-
ment and Don Nelson of the
WCB will be panelists in a discus-
sion of public and worker safety.

They will discuss responsibilities
of municipalities and the WCB.

At 8:30 p.m., David Pope,
Vancouver plumbing and gas in-
spector; Ed Bradbeer, provincial
gas inspectors supervisor; Jim
Barker, Surrey’s chief electrical
inspector and Roy Broderick,
chief provincial electrical inspector
will discuss plumbing, gas and
electrical installations,

maintenance and inspections.

The Wednesday program will
start with a discussion of hazard-
ous waste and contaminated soil
issues. Panelists are Jeff Stasiuk
of Philip Environmental, Louise
Quilette of the 3.C. environment
ministry and a representative of
the B.C. Hazardous Waste
Management Corp.

The second presentation will
focus on earthquake preparedness
and panelists are Ed Derocher of
B.C. Tel and Ross Peterson of the
North and West Vancouver
Emergency Program Committee.

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