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For Sauve, 49, the decision means she will start receiving pension cheques
of $640 a month and the retroactive benefits. She doesn’t know the value of
the retroactive pension, saying it will have to be calculated.

“LE think it will take some time to do that,” she said Thursday. “We may
not get it for a year, but it’s nice to know it’s coming.”

Sauve’s husband was shot and killed during a robbery attempt at the
Lumberland outlet on Lougheed Highway in January 1975, said Sauve. The
couple had a three-year-old and a five-year-old child at the time, said Sauve.

Sauve remarried in 1977. She said that like many of the other widows, her
second marriage was a bad one. It Jasted six months.

Sauve’s daughter and son are now 24 and 26. Her daughter attends

Capilano College and her son will soon start a plumbing apprenticeship.
Sauve wants to use some of the money she will receive to help thern. “I
dream of doing something reaily super for my children,” she said. “I can’t

wait.”

Sauve, who has a 10-year-old daughter she adopted, also said that she has to think about her

"own future.

|. According to a provincial government press release, a recent decision by the B.C. Supreme
*. Court held that all surviving spouses should receive compensation regardless of when they remar-

~vried.

7 By lan Noble
News Reporter
A deluge of flood calls kept North
Vancouver District fircfighters busy
during a spectacular thunder and light-
~ ning storm Tuesday night.

in West Vancouver, the rain again led to
landslides on Highway 99.
_ Ministry of transportation spokesman Brenda
Jones said 15 to 20 cubic metres (530 to 706
cubic feet) of debris fell from above the road
+ two kilometres (1.2 miles) north of Horseshoe
Bay.’
There. were no injuries, but two cars hit
’ debris on the road. One had to be towed from
the scene.
: Most of the fallen rock landed in a ditch at
. the side of the road and the highway was net
closed, she said. : .
_ Jones said the transportation ministry tries to
- make the scenic Sea to Sky Highway, which has
a history of landslides causing delays and even

| Court move could cost

_By Anna Marie D'Angeio

Williams pointed out that the

ALE WHE
Thunder, lightning and

flooding tested North
Shere nerves Tuesday

deaths, as salt as possible. .

Bar she added: “We recognize we have a
pretty big challenge with Mother Nature out
there.” .

North Vancouver District fire services man-
ager of community safety Brian Stegavig said 17—
flooding reports were received by district fire-
fighters from 9:40 p.m. to midnight Tuesday.

Residential Nooding was reported in many
areas, including Ross Road, Chuckart Place,
Seymour Boulevard, Hendry Place, Deep Cove,
Pierard Road, and Tollcross.

Excess water caused problems at the intersec-
tion of Mount Seymour Place and Mount
Seymour Boulevard. Flooding was reported in
front of Handsworth School and in the area of
the new Edgemont overpass, said Stegavig.

DONNA Suave of North Vancouver won her B.C. Suprem
lowing the shooting death of her husband while he was on the job.

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A creek caused flooding near the 2700-block
of Dollarton Highway.

In West Vancouver, things were quieter for
firefighters. They did not receive any calls to
help clean up flooding Tuesday night, said fire
prevention captain Aime Lehouillier.

According to Gary Myers, the superintendent
of climate services at Environment Canada, 41.4
millimetres of rain fell from 4 a.m. Tuesday to 4
a.m, Wednesday at the automated North Shove
weather station in West Vancouver.

Retween 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., 11.2 millime-
tres of rain fell.

“ft’s a lot, but not excessive for West
Vancouver,” he said. Vancouver Airport was
drenched by mure than 10 millimetres of rain in
less than half an hour, he said.

‘Brent Mahood, North Vancouver City utility
superintendent, said “nothing spectacular” hap-
pened in the city, But city workers cleared leaves
from catch basins to keep water moving.

“There wasn’t any real property damage I’m
aware of,” he said. “We were clearing puddles
more than anything.”

attle promised over

News Reporter,

CLOSING the West
-Yancouver courthouse
makes no sénse to two for-
mer B.C. attorneys general.

‘Former attorney general Allan
Williams, a West Vancouver council
candidate in Saturday’s election, said
discussion about eliminating the
courthouse was first. raised when he
was the Crown’s top. law officer
back in the early 1980s.

“The savings were a total illu-
sion,” said Williams.

Williams said the finance min-
istry likely put pressure on the attor-
ney general to save about $100,000
a year in rent at the West Vancouver
courthouse.

But he said the move will cost
West Vancouver taxpayers a mini-
mum of $300,000 a year in over-
time pay to police officers who make
about 700 court appeaances a year,

West Vancouver police officers
can currently do administrative work
at the police station next door while
on call as court witnesses.

The official laying of criminal
charges ‘will have to be done in
North Vancouver next year. West

‘Vancouver Police officers will have
to make trips to the Crown counsel
in North Vancouver to process
potential charges.”

provincial government gives West
Vancouver a municipal police force

-grant of $569,000 a year.

More than half of the grant, he
said, will be absorbed by extra over-
time policing, costs due to the same
government’s decision to close the
courthouse.

“They are only going to shift the
dollar cost onto the municipality ...
The other maddening part is that
they say this was done with constl-
tation,” said Williams.

Couneil candidate and former
attorney general Russ Fraser said he
opened a courthouse outside
Victoria to the screams of the NDP
opposition thar there should be
more courthouses to save on police
costs,

“PE opened courthouses and they
are closing them,” said Fraser.

Fraser said the West Vancouver
courthouse closure has to do with
NDP government financial misman-
agement.

He said West Van was a large
enough community to warrant hav-
ing a courthouse, adding chat the
courthouse clostire appears unfair to
West Van taxpayers.

“The NDP scem to have the
feeling that everybody in West
Vancouver is a millionaire. In fact,
there are a lot of modest houses on
the North Shore area, West
Vancouver included,” said Fraser.

W. Van court closure

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The change comes as part of a “restructuring” of the justice system, The
move will sce 318 positions lost and “reallocate” $76 million by March

1998.

West Vancouver mayoral candidates Pat Boname and Jim Hogan beth

oppose closing the facility.

Said Boname, “Ac this peint, we
want to hang on to the courthouse.
It is nor a cost-effective situation to
have it close.”

Boname plans to lobby against
the decision.

Said Hogan, “This is unaccept-
able ... We are being relegated to a
status that is not in keeping with a
municipality of 40,000 people with
one of the highest per capita
incomes in the country.”

Ironically two former attorneys
general of the province, Allan
Williams and Russ Fraser, are run-
ning for council seats in a municipal-
ity thar lost its only courthouse three
days before the civic election.

West Vancouver-Capilano Liberal
MLA Jeremy Dalton called the cour-
thouse closure predictable given the
provincial government’s budget
problems.

Dalton said court witnesses and

JIM Hogan, candidate for the
Wes! Vancouver mayor’s
chait, deplores court cut.

the general public will be inconvenienced: by having to use the North

Vancouver provincial courts.

West Vancouver provincial court has been held at the existing site since
1974, The courthouse building opened in 1981,

NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

e@ Court case for widow’s benefits fol-

The case was taken up by more than 250 widows who did not qualify for pensions under the
1993 law.

Prior to 1985, women whose spouses died on the job received pension under the Workers
Compensation Act. Upon remarriage or entering a common-law relationship, monthly benefits
were discontinued and widows received a two-year payout of benefits.

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NORTH Shore News
readers hungry for fast
municipal election results
tomorrow night will be
able to pick up the iatest
on who’s in and who's
out at the News website
‘(nsnews.com),

Polling station results will,
become available when ‘polls.
close at 8 p.m. The numbers
from each voting place will be
fed- into computers at North
Shore municipal halls.

A clear picture of the results
should be available within the
next hour. The News website
will then post the results.

For comprehensive municipal
election coverage read-the North
Shore News on Wednesday Nov.
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A four-page insert in the Nov. 13;
North Shore News delivered in _
West Vancouver failed to clearly
indicate that the item was paid
advertising. The feature, “West
Vancouver Election News,” was
_ sponsored by the Committee to
Elect Jim Hogan.

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