Flyers dumped in recycle bin A NORTH Vancouver health club owner is angry and frustrated at what he deems ‘‘unaccountable and irresponsible’ business practices by the Admail divi- sion of Canada Post. In the last year, Roy Baum- dartner of Gold’s Gym __ has twice found advertising flyers he had paid Canada Post to deliver thrown out in the same alleyway in North Vancouver. The latest incident occurred last week when a member of Baumdartner’s club noticed the flyers stacked in a recycling bin behind a Third Street apart- ment building. - Included among the Gold’s Gym promotional . material were flyers from Pizza Hut, Home Hardware, Zellers, and VCC Continuing Education. . The club owner estimates there “were over 1,000 flyers in the “bin. “After last year’s discovery ! ._was assured all the kinks were "out of the sysiem, so we tried “gpain,’? said a frustrated Baumdartner. ‘‘Then I get a cet from a member about the "flyers. Now I’m convinced that . dumping takes place’ all the "tinge. It’s. just once in a while 7 they get caught.” ‘When Baumdartner ap- ; proiched Canada Post last year for ::imbursment of the cost of pos'age and. printing of the 60,000 mailings he sent out, he was iold the Crown corpora- ‘tion -would only refund the ‘poste ve cost he had paid them. By A. P. McCredie News Reporter “The cost of printing these - color flyers is very expensive,"’ the club owner said. ‘‘We also have extra employees working during these promotional cam- paigns to respond to the in- crease in new membership. If the flyers aren’t even delivered, it’s obvious I’m just paying people to sit around.”’ Canada Post spokesman Doug McClelland said he was aware of the dumped flyers. “On the surface it seems like we did not do our job,’’ he said, ‘‘but after checking the situation out it seems (there was) just an error in pro- cedure.’* McClelland said that an Admail employee who fives in the apartment where the flyers were found had put his excess flyers in the recycling bin. McClelland — estimated ‘about 100 flyers found.’’ “The proper procedure with excess flyers is for the employee to return them to their station,’’ said the Canada Post spokesman, According to McClelland, ‘that were dumping happens very rarely. ‘*We have a quality assurance check that allows us to keep track of service,”’ said McClelland. ‘We call residents randomly and ask them if they have received a certain flyer.”” But Baumdartner conducted his own random survey and found quite the contrary. “We pulled 20 names of members off our computer files and called them up,”’ he said. ‘‘Not one of them had received our flyer.” Baumdartner also said that when he spoke with Canada Post following the latest inci- dent he was met with indif- ference by the superintendent. “As far as I’m concerned they are responsible for carry- ing out the task { pay them to do,”’ he said. ‘“The buck stops with them, but since they are a federal corporation they feel untouchable.’* Canada Post’s Admail divi- sion started in Vancouver last year. Admail employees are paid approximately $6.50 per hour and work two to three days a week. They, like regular letter car- riers, have access to security- controlled apartment buildings. According to McClelland, Canada Post holds 27% of the flyer market in Canada. Fifty per cent of flyer delivery is held by newspapers; the remaining 23% belongs to private companies, he said. GOLD'S Gym owner Roy Baumdartner NEWS toto Cindy Goodman leafs through undelivered flyers found behind a North Vancouver spert- ment building. The health club owner says that it is the se- cond time in a year that he has found his flyers, which were — supposed to be delivered by Canada Post's Admail, at this location. N VD Council considers hiring park rangers _NORTH VANCOUVER District Council: will can- - sider hiring perk rangers to “patrol Lynn Canyon -Park “in a bid to curb alcohol. and drug use. "> By Surj Rattan "News Reporter - : ‘But’ a-senior. North Vancouver RCMP official said park rangers ould lack enforcement powers. _ The hiring of park rangers was one” of. several. recommendations ace by members of thé pubiic to he: district’s’ Lyan ‘Canyon Safety Task Force committee. . “Council. will ‘consider the -rec- ommendations * at its “Aug. 24 meeting. The task ferce m met on Wednes- . ° day, two ‘days after two teenagers: . had ‘to be rescued from the Twin Fells: area of Lynn Canyon Park when. they became stranded on a Tow! : “North Vancouver District Fire . Department, B.C. Ambulance Service crews and the RCMP were . called to the park on Monday _night'to rescue Shane Garber, 17, ‘and Alicia Lucas, 15. Both were subsequently treated "and ‘released from Lions Gate ‘Hespital. But on Tuesday, Garber said he would return to Lynn Canyon Park to search for.a pair of- glasses he lost during his ordeal. Three people have died recently in Lynn Creek; 18 people have died in the canyon over the past 12 years. > Council will “consider spending about $30,000 to hire a park ranger. But North Vancouver RCMP Insp.. Peter Wlodarczak said the park rangers would have But enforcement powers of force questioned no enforcement powers. “In. principle I agree, but I don’t think you can give them en- forcement powers, They would be in danger if they tried to take li- quor away from people. All they ‘*Lynn Canyon. should not be turned into a prison, and that’s what you're doing.”* Wlodarczak said the police conduct approximately 70 night- time foot patrols per month in Recommendations ® Spend $30,000 to hire a park ranger © Erect horizontal chain link fence * Post. signs forbidding alcohol and drug use e Construct iron bar barricades above pools ¢ Fill in canyon pools, encourage white water use @ Make spillway modifications basically can enforce are the bylaws. “You’re looking at six addi- tional personnel at $75,000 each.” North Vancouver District Coun. ‘ Ernie Crist repeated his call Wed- nesday for a total ban on swim- ming and diving in Lynn Canyon. He also rejected other recom- mendations made to the task force that included: @ putting up a horizontal chain- link fence; @ posting additional signs for- bidding alcohol and drug use; ® setting up au iron bar barricade with vines above the canyon’s “1 have some real problems with the whole thrust of this. You’re going to have huge fences and more policing on the weekends which is not practical. Iron bars? Do we want to create a prison? « Install ropes and ladders: Lynn Canyon and that the laying of liquor-related charges in the park hasincreased. ~ “I think the idea of constant policing is wonderful. The prob- fem is that there’s no resources. “I myself would. like to sce no deaths in the park. The problem is how to stop it. I don’t know,’’ said Wlodarczak. -He added that he doesn’t know how the police can solve the prob- lem of park-users drinking. **I sat there for 20 minutes one day, and everyone took liquor in there. “You're asking us to solve a social problem. The government sells liquor, and people use it,’’ said Wlodarczak. Coun. Janice Harris said she has stopped going to Lynn Can- yon’s 30-Foot poo! area because of the “wild behavior’ she has witnessed, She added that the RCMP should consider taking coffee breaks in the park to help monitor alcohol use. . North Vancouver District Fire Department assistant chief. Gary Calder said rescue calls to Lynn Canyon Park decreased last year. Other recommendations made to the task force included: @ filling in the canyon's psols and offering white-water kayaking. as an alternative to swimming and . diving; @ establishing canyon spillway - modifications; - @ installing ropes and ladders in the canyon. Canyon cliff: diver: Dan Doucet - said most people who are killed or injured North Shore. “1 think a lot ofthe. problem is. a lack of knowledge. There. are people from Guildford’ who come -here ‘and don’t understand the canyon. They don’t know the cur- rents,’ said Doucet. : in Lynn Canyon Park | come from areas other than the . NVD ‘Coun. Emie-Cri 2 Lean. Canyon ; should not be tured ison.” ; into a nh ; North, Vancouver resident’ Carole.”.Anne ‘Bertenshaw-Hiatt said she-wants to set up a volun-: ‘ teer watch patrol of “Lynn Canyon Anyone interested in joining the watch patrol should‘ call- Berten- shaw-Hiatt at 986-5579. ° Union makes tentative agreement NICK WORHAUG, president .of the Hotel and Restaurant and Cu- linary Employees and Bartenders Union Local 40, and Dave Macin- tyre, director of the Hospitality Industrial Relations. group of employers, announced Thursday that the two sides had reached a tentative contract agreement. The union represents unionized employees at the Coach House Inn, Lynnwood Hotel and the Avalon Hotel in North Vancouver and total of 4,600. employees at 145 hotels across B.C. Negotiations between the two sides had broken down on Aug. 5. The union had previously taken strike votes at 22 hotels and had served 72-hour strike notice, © The. tentative agreement- was teached after. eight days'* of bargaining with mediator Malcolm Wilkinson, Bargaining committees for both sides have recommended . accep- tance of: Wilkinson’s recommen- dations. :