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Pad needed

OR years local ambuiance represen-
tatives have lobbied Lions Gate
t Hospital, North Shore municipalities
and private industry to establish a landing
pad for B.C. Ambulance Service air ambu-
lance service.
it makes a lut of sense for the. North
Shere to have such a service available as
just one of many possible medical assis-
tance tools ready for use by the public as
required. ,
Right now, there is no designated air
ambulance landing site on the North Shore.
For many years the ambulance service
had clearance te lend at Grand Boulevard.
Some area residents convinced the politi-

OK. FELLAS, THE ONLY
ONES GETING OUT OF HERE
ARE THOSE THAT CAN GIVE

cians that helicopters should have no place
in their neighborhood. The hospital took it
all rather quietly.

For a few years up to 1995, choppers
transporting patients te and from Lions
Gate Hospital landed at a small BC Rail
helipad at the foot of Philip Avenue in
North Vancouver. Ambulances on the
ground carrying seriously ill patients con-
tended with raiiway crossings and a pot-
hole pitted road.

The pad is no longer available.

As matters stand an ambulance heli-
copter may land at the Helijet pad on the
other side of the harbor. VGH and
Children’s Hospital have landing pads.

ME THEIA SOCIAL INSURANCE

NUMBER, T-4'S AND PROOF

OF CITIZENSHIP.

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"OF course,I am capable of |

changing my mind.

It is easy for you — or you, or
you -- to deciare that I have
entered the Late Dogmatism
period of my life, though I prefer
to think of it as the Ripene

. Wisdom Age.
- But I have come up with 2
. mind-change after giving sober
second thought to one of the
great questions of our times:

What the hell is beach volleyball doing in the
Olympics?

Ir took me a while to re-conciude my original
conclusion, which occurred while watching a bit
of the closing ceremonies from Atlanta last week-
end,

My first impulse probably paralicled chat of
millions like me, if you don’t mind being lumped

“in with me. ;

Which was: It has no place at all in the
Olympics. =

T tried to imagine the original Greeks includ-
ing this obviously frivolous pastime in their
Olympics. ;

I couldn’t picture the Agamemnon team
bringing the Achilles team to heel in beach vol-
leyball instead of resorting to more permanent
ways of settling their dispute. Or Homer solemn-
ly recording the event from the press box
(helped by a play-by-play description by the
North Shore News’ Andrew McCredie, since,
as my learned readers know, Homer was blind,

ball back and forth to cach other
on the satids of Malibu while
thinking about someone else. ~
Also, in the background and
foreground, a lot of other
bronzed youth of both sexes,
cheering them on and swigging
Lite beer.
Bur then I caught a glimpse
of the Canadian team oF Jotn
Child and Mark Heese actually
playing beach volleyball.
' Migod, this is one skilled, tough game. Like
playing tennis in rubber boots filled with wet
cement.
Actually, I couldn’t play tennis even in ballet
slippers, but | have a powerful imagination,
And they didn’t seem to be showing off their
bodies much at all. (Whereas the females who
play beach volleyball ... oh, ler’s just forget it.) I
was left with che impression that Child and
Heese were pretty well-built characters, bur
essentially a couple of good ole boys who prac-
ticed on sweat and beer, not necessarily Lite.
I can identify with that, a little. Not that it
beats an old Sandra Dee movie. Or even an old
Sandra, Dee.

ooo0

Roll this one around in your head for a while
and then please send me your answer:

-Municipal councillors, school trustees and
senior municipal staff should be required to live
in the municipality, which they represent or
where they’re employed.

Agree? Disagree? oo

Ir strikes me as an important question. with
one or two thorus on it. - :

Here in Greater Tiddlycove,'aka West

Extremely ili North Shore patients
always have the option of transportation by
read. ae
Remember the Second Narrows Bridge [
repair fun?

North Vancouver City allowed the use of
Grand Boulevard as a landing site for the
duration of bridge construction. About 2.
half a dozen landings were made. The life
of one young boy moved from LGH to
Children’s was likely saved by having |
access to the air service.

We need a central location on the North -
Shore for an air ambulance pad. Perhaps: j
it’s time for the new regional health board
te talie up the cause. ,

.. Dear Editor:. Std go tp
» » This- letter is. addressed. to: the
«driver of the green ‘mini-van, who
ran over my cat on Saturday, July
- 20, at approximately 5:30 to-6:00
P You were, westbound. on.. East
5th Strect at the time. I’ was the
fellow loading the trunk of my car.
You must-have heard ‘me. yell
-*No!” when you | ran over my.
Siamese cat. , ee
You must have realized. some-
thing was wrong ° because. you
slowed. down for a ‘second. Then
you kept on going.’ Please: realize
this. Side streets usually have’ chi
dren and pets coming and going.
If you have to drive at 35;mph
try sticking ‘to the main streets.
‘Anyways, thank-you for the’ nee
less suffering. you inflicted "a:
fa Angel the cat and the veterinarian
| .. bill you stuck-me with.“ °°
RR. Daggitt |.
North Vancouver,

Vancouver, all the councillors live in the munici

’ pality. And most of the;senior'staff. A few, how-

ever, persist in living in lesser conimunities:—
which of course describes the whole world out-
side of West Vancouver. : re

At issue is: Should senior staff — the real >
power, the enduring power at town hall — make
decisions for a community that they don’t live in
themselves? ~ , . odie Re Sul

If I didn’t have to pay local taxes for local ser-
vices —.including the services for. which I’m paid

— wouldin’t I be more likely to say, “Sure, bring:

on services thick and fast for gcod old Apple.
Junction. The sky’s the limiz. Because when I
turn off the light in the afternoon, Pm going
home to nearby Squalor.City, where: compiai
about my own taxes to my own council.” ~

' But the other side of the issue is plain. I've
discussed this with some pretty heavy thinkers in =
our cown, and one of them pur it well! “When
you hire someone for a (staf) job, do you go.
after the best person — regardless of where they
live? :.. The best can’t always be found in West
Vancouver. The youngest qualified people can’t

"afford to live here.” ~* .

. Good point. And, just in case you think
there’s an ulterior motive in raising the 'q
I happen to think that Greater Tiddlycove’s tax

fully contained in the fast. couple of years of the,:
Mayor Mark Sager council. -But don’: tell a liv:
ing soul. They'll start thinking about raising
them. : ;
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