oF 4 NU A9 - Sunday, March 27, 1983 - North Shore News Easter postal hours set POST OFFICES throughout the B.C. and Yukon Postal District will be closed Friday, April 1 and Monday, Apnil 4, in observance of Good” Fnday and Easter Monday. Normal service will resume Tuesday, April 5. CRASH PAD VoL. No. 11 27 March 1983 by Len Macht Terror i in the Parking || Lot AT THE READY, Emergency Health Services worker Dave Hudak holds solution used accident victim whose Ife he helped save on the train tracks at Vancouver Wharves. Pictured timing the flow of the intravenous, is shop steward of local 873 of the ambulance employees’ union Glenn Braithwaite, who says: “We can do in the field now as much as a doctor can.” | e Ambulance crew earns commendation “YES INDEED, the EHS personnel are saving pee ee ee am lives!” So begins a letter_from—Lions—Gate - = = 1 am going to atternpt to show you a little mind trick to tum one of the worst surprises a persan can have - the bitter, ripped-off feeling you get when you find yourself a victim of the parking lot hit-and-run, into something akin to the cloud with the silver lining. When you walk out and find this horror facing you... shards of glass and plastic, the rudely bent metal, think of Mexico, or Hawaii, or wherever we will be sending our next lucky contestants in our upcoming draw, (didn’t | mention Istanbul?), and believe me, your load will be lightened. More about this later, through the dark mysteries of the now, I willlead you hit-and-run. . almost eight years and is a Hospital emergency physician Dr. F.C. main flow of blood from paramedic student at Ob My Gawd, Dept. hte le utt Thompson, written to the Emergency Health the injury to the vital Lions Gate Hospital. above ph se is w t most po = people ute er wines 1 ee yices to commend the response of two local organs and heart. ; Dave Hudak spends and vanished without a trace; You stand there, thinking terrible ambulance personnel. Dr. Thompson says in much of his spare time Had it not been for North _ Vancouver am- bulance workers Tom Sheldon and Dave Hudak, a ‘longshoreman whose leg was crushed beneath a train wheel at Vancouver Wharves in the early morning of Tuesday, March 15, would have died. The pair received an emergency call to the aceident scene, where they found 55-year-old longshoreman Dick Hardy was bieeding to death from where a boxcar wheel had par- tially amputated his right leg. They found the man was so near the point of death that he had no blood pressure reading at all. Sheldon and Hudak quickly set up two in- travenous lines to restore the lost blood volume to the victim, while using a pneumatic device known as medical anti-shock trousers to divert. the his letter: “In the dark, under a boxcar, Tom and Dave started two IV routes and applied the pneumatic anti-shock garment. Without a doubt, the quick efficient management at the scene of the accident saved this victim's life.” Hardy later had his leg amputated at Lions Gate Hospital, where he was last week listed as being in satisfactory condition. Ambulance’ worker Tom Sheldon 1s trained in advanced life support. He helping people and upgrading his training as a member of North Shore Rescue, the volunteer mountain rescue team: He has been in the am- bulance service for two years. Dr. Thompson says of their actions in responding to the injured jongshoreman: “This is a beautiful example of how the trauma course is saving hves. I would hke to congratulate Tom Sheldon and Dave Hudak for their excellent work.” thoughts about the humaif‘race - all the tax collectors, nasty phone calls, bills in the malik come welling up from your sub- concious in one great gartic wad, and:now this. What will you do? What will you do? we Can 1Geta Witness, Dept. if you can get a licence plate-number, you are probably Sous to save yourself a $100 bill right off the bat. Is It Really Worth It, Dept. Then you must decide yourself if the darnage ts bad enough to get fixed don't fool yourself, even the most minor damage can have a major league price tag. If you own a BMW and just have paint scraped, the paint replacement -you are looking at is $70- $80 a quart Very minor repair kits often cost us over $150 Someone came in with a littk scuff on their plastic molding on the bumper A mere trifle, you say? Try $167.90 for replacement, before labour Tell the Law, Dept. The reason | make the above point ts that you must report the hit and run to the police tn the area It happened So, if you get stung in Cc uitlam, that’s where-you report jt. within 24 hours, Then its a certified hit and-run and you can go on with the next step, which ts bringing tt into us for an estimate This isn’t too difficult’ and you can call the special ICBC number, 520-8222 (ox castonally known as Dial A Prayer), from here and file your ‘WITH RENTING N. VAN DIST. COUNCIL Reconvened public mecet- (Monday 7:00 p.m.) ing on 6612 Royal Ave. de- We offer you complete professional property clam Public hearings on velopment permit. Am- management services Let us manage your rental How Mucho, Dept. Maplewood Community bicside Waterfront Program property & free you of all worries. . Phts ts the bottom tine the awful reckoning that it will cost you Pian and on height/bulk of Review. Sidewalk cafe appli- Or let us find you a rental property [ $100 deductible $150 if you don't have colltston coverage The residential buildings. Flood- cation, 6418 Bay. Housing paint ts this ts often less than it is going to cost you to have tt hghung of fields at Delbrook alternatives study, Lower fined eventually, you choose not to report tt as a hit and run Park and Argyle School Ambleside/Dundarave. Ho- Phyllis King . a MACWYN So report it and bring tt tn, and you'll qualify to take off to some yburn Country Club, air- 925-1226 = REALTY romantic sunny place within the next @ months | realize that a N. VAN CITY COUNCIL (Monday, 7:30 p.m.) Affordable housing policy. Enginering Dept. lay offs. 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