Police seek treasure’s owner WEST VANCOUVER Police are Jooking for the owner of a suit- case stuffed full of antique jewelry, silverware and other personal items. The suitcase was turned over to the potice after a resident found it by a sidewalk in the 1400-block of Duchess Avenue in West Vancouver. Police are asking the owner to come forward to identify and claim the goods. . To claim the suitcase and contents, the owner should ask for Cst. Dave Bingham, Crime Prevention Section, file number 88-1713. Ship firms win $1.4m contracts TWO WEST Vavrouver shipping companies have won federal government contracts worth $1.4 million to ship grains to India and Africa for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). ’ Capilano MP Mary Collins announced Monday that Cantopex Shipping Services Ltd. has been awarded a contract worth just over $717,000 to ship 8,060 tonnes of rapeseed oll to Kandla, India. “She also announced that the Maritime Agencies Division of Maritime Group (Canada) Inc. had won a contract worth more than $716,000 to ship bulk wheat to Casablanca, Morocco. ’ Both contracts are part of Canada’s bilateral food aid program. : Lift leaves skiers aloft ‘ MOUNT SEYMOUR'’S Mystery Peak chairlift left approximately 100 skiers hanging around for several hours Saturday morning after the 25-year-old lift ground to a halt. According to Mount Seymour Resorts Ltd. spokesman Alex - Douglas the Ilift’s main bearing disintegrated at approximately “10:30 a.m., : A six-member rescue team used ropes and a bosun’s chair jto rescue the stranded skiers from the broken lift. The last skier was removed at about 1:30 p.m., and the lift was back in operation on Sunday. j Stranded skiers were given refunds. , ‘Smash ‘and grab thieves sought POLICE ARE investigating a car smash and grab incident thet - happened the afternoon of Feb. 26 in the Park Royal south parking lot. ©: A man was returning to his car at approximately 5:15 p.m. when he observed two men shattering one of his car windows and removing a radar detector. ” He pursued the two fleeing men on foot. He grappled with one of.the men who. ‘Subsequently struggled free'and made off with the ’ other toa get-away car driven by a third suspect. The: car fled the area. Police are looking for three young men. Youths injured in motorbike mishap TWO TEENS were sent to Lions Gate Hospital Feb. 27 after the motorcycle they were siding Jost control negotiating the corner at Stevens Drive and Rabbit Lane in West Vancouver. The bike hit a curb at about 4:45 p.m. and crashed into & tree. . The driver and passenger, a 17-year-old male from West Vancouver and a 17-year-old male from Lions Bay, were thrown from the motorcycle. Both were sent to hospital with leg injuries. The police investiga- tion continues. 5 - Friday, March 4, 1988 - North Shore News WEST VAN BUDGET Reducing responsibilities pondered From page 4 option discussed. West Vancouver polices the Upper Levels Highway and the ferry docks in Horseshoe Bay, without the subsidies provid- ed to the RCMP for the same ser- vices. West Vancouver and the other North Shore municipalities are also considering dropping out of the North Shore Union Board of Health in order to force a more equitable cost-sharing formula with the provincial government. The Chamber of Commerce ex- pressed concern over the prospec- tive effects of the Squamish Indian Band getting taxation rights over the Park Royal lands, which would result in a loss of $900,000 to the municipality. Mayor Don Lanskail said the band would have to participate in payment for municipal services to these areas if this happened “Tf you're going to collect the taxes you have to accept some of the responsibilities,’ he said “We're taking a positive outlook and treating the band as a neighboring jurisdiction, and the situation nol as disaster,’ said Lanskail. I a potential The 1988 operating oudget, prior to ‘pruning,’ provides $2,902.90) for general governm- ent, $9,738,600 for protection (fire and police, ete.,) $2,465,300 for transportation and public works, $2,583,300 for water and sanita- tion, $295,000 for public health, $4,638,100 for recreation and culture, and $1,024,000 for fiscal expenditures. Adding a propused $4,068,200 capital budget and = subtracting general revenues of $5,366,500 br- ings the total budget to $22,444,906. This would constitute a 11.3 per cent increase in taxa- tion, but this is brought down to 8.8 per cent by increases in values created by new construction. Those considering registering suites in the District snould get a copy of the “Agreement” which they must sign as the fast step in the registration process. Item 4 (f) states “The owner hereby authorizes the District, its servants and agents, from time to time at the sole discretion of the District, to enter upon the lands and bulldings thereon including but not Iimited to the registered illegal suite to investigate whether the provisions of this agreement are being complied with" We consider this an appalling invasion of privacy. Copies of the “Agreement” are supposed to be in every liprary, and although we pointed this aut to the District's Building Depart- ment, they still are not there. 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