Firefighters soak

smouldering sofa

NORTH VANCOUVER City Fice Department firefighters were
called to douse a smouldering sofa early Saturday (Dec. 16) morn-
ing.
According to 2 fire department spokesperson, a woman had
taken a sleeping pill and was smcking a cigarette while on the
couch.

Fire damage at 111 East First Street was contained to the sofa.
The fire department reminds the public that many fires are caused
by people smoking while overtired, or drowsy due to medications
or alcohol.

To avoid trouble, discard cigarette butts in non-combustible
containers and be sure to install at least one smoke alarm per floor.

Transit tickets
available

BC TRANSIT'S Don’t Take The Keys program is in effect again
this year in an attempt to cut down the number of impaired drivers
on the road over the heliday period.

B.C. Transit is offering LifeSavers transit tickets until Jan. 31,
which are valid on regular buses, the SeaBus and SkyTrain, cover-
ing a 1,500 kitometre service area in the Lower Mainland.

The program provides a practical and legal alternative to drink-
ing and driving.

Said West Vancouver mayor and Transit Commission chairman
Don Lanskail: ‘“While we are making progress, we still have a long

Businesses are encouraged to give the tickets as gifts and increase
employee awareness of the importance of planaing ahead and leav-
ing vehicle keys at home. The tickets are available at a reduced rate
to businesses.

Crime victims
have support

NORTH VANCOUVER crime victims or crime witnesses in need
of support can seek assistance through the North Vancouver
RCMP Victim Assistance Program (VAP).

Criminal acts can result in physical, financial and psychological
trauma. The VAP is designed to ease victims and witnesses of
criminal acts through the criminal justice system.

The program can help in terms of access to police file informa-
tion, professional assistance referrals, court procedures, criminal
injury compensation and personai support.

To contact the VAP, call 985-1311, local 491.

Norning ferry
sailing added

IN EARLY 1999, BC Ferries wiil schedule a 5:30 a.m. sailing from
its Nanaimo terminal.

Rita Johnston, minister of Transportation and Highways and
minister responsible for BC Ferries, announced the scheduling of
the early morning sailing, along with other additional daily sailings,
from Monday to Friday, Jan. 2, 1990 to Feb. 20, 1990.

“This is the period that the Queen of Alberni goes fur her annual
cefit and maintenance program,’’ Johnston said.

The Queen of Alberni is the ferry on the Nanaimo-Horseshoe
Bay route that the BC Ferries’ commercial travellers prefer because
of its greater capacity to carry overheight vehicles.

The interim schedule provides extra sailings at 5:30 a.m., 10:15
a.m., 3:36 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. out of Nanaimo, and extra sailings
at 7:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. out of Horse-
shoe Bay.

‘*These extra sailings are scheduled from Monday to Friday, and
on Sunday there will be a sailing at 3:30 p.m. from Nanaimo and a
sailing at 5:30 p.m. from Horseshoe Bay,'’ said the minister.

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But Rutter said that coliform in-
crease was not related to hikers us-
ing the area.

Rutter said the FMCBC, along
with the provincial forests
ministry, has worked to overcome
all the environmental and related
concerns raised by the sesidents
and Lions Bay council, but a
month ago he received a letter
from Prescott stating that his
council ‘Shas chosen not to en-
courage the unregulated use of our
watershed by promoting a parking
lot.... I would suggest that it be
appropriate if all hikers chose one
of the many mountains in B.C.
that are not sources of community
drinking water, or make arrange-
ments to hike in their own water-
sheds.””

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LIONS BAY TRAIL DISPUTE

Water quality concerns villagers

said, was entirely unreasonable.

“We were trying to solve the
problem for both parties, and we
thought we had a solution,”’’ he
said. ‘‘But it’s ended up nowhere.
The time has come to get tough.””

Forests ministry spokesman Don
Kinnear said the ministry believes
construction of the parking lot
would solve the parking problem,
and that, with care, both trail
usage and water quality can be
preserved.

He said negotiations with Lions

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of West Van Florist wish
you the Best of the Holiday
Season and a Happy New Year!

West Van Florist

Bay will be restarted in the new
year.

“I can see the village’s point of
view, but we want to keep talking,
we think it (the parking lot) is a
good idea,”’ Kinnear said.

Doug White, FMCBC's North
Shore coordinator, said Lions Bay
was being “totally selfish’ in its
opposition to the parking lot.

“Everybody should have ac-
cess,” he said. ‘This affects
everybody in the Lower
Mainland.”’

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