26 — Wednesday, May 12, 1999 — North Shore News

Rescue van fund boosted

NV City donates
to Search and
Rescue vehicle

THE fundraising
efforts of the North
Shore Search and
Rescue team received a
welcome boost May 4
when North Vancouver
City donated a cheque
for $26,000 for a new
mobile command vehi-
cle.

The command vehicle,
which will replace an older
rescue vehicle, will allow the

team fo respond more quickly
to emergency call-outs In the
mountains. The rescue group
needs to raise an estimated
$362,000 to $375,000 for the
vehicle.

The vehicle, 20 feet in
length, will have its own
power generators, a mulkti-
band communizations system,
map table and two radio oper-
ator consoles.

Tim Jones, team leader of

North Shore Search and
Rescue (NSR) spends 40-50
hours a week tending to
administrative duties — many
which relate to fundraising.
“Too much volunteer time is
put into fundraising versus
training,” Joncs said.

Jones said that afl organi-
zations associated with the

outdoors — tourism, outdoor
retailers and manufacturers —
need to contribute financially
to meet the training and
equipment needs of the rescue
team. The command vehicle
fundraising project has been
ongoing for three years in an
effort to raise funds from the
local community.

Jones estimates the group
is $40,000 short of its goal.

The NSR receives some
funding from the North and
West Vancouver Emergency
Program but is heavily depen-
dent on contributions from
corporations and individuals.

Jones is lobbying the provin-
cial government to help fund the
search and rescue teams’ capital
equipment budgets.

The NSR still has several

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fundraising projects in the
works and their team facilities
have just come online
enabling more coordinated
communication in times of
rescue.

Forty volunteers make up
the NSR team, which had its
busiest season this winter with
a record amount of call-outs.

The summer is traditional-
ly the busiest time of year for
emergency rescue teams who
tend to missing or injured hik-
ers and boaters. Through all of
1998, there were 68 missions.

Hikers vaditionally are the
number one group requiring the
services of volunteer search and
rescue teams.

Call 983-7441 for more
information or to contribute.

— Brady Fotheringham

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