Hikers found

RESCUE CREWS and helicopters were used Sunday and
Monday to search for five lost hikers and a large dog
after the party failed ta return from a hiking and camp-
ing trip to the Cypress Mouniain area.

The five were located Monday morning on 4 steep,

_ forested slope. Other than being cold, they were not in-
jured.

North Shore Search and Rescue coordinator Ross
Peterson said the five had left Saturday to go hiking
along the Howe Sound Crest Trail towards Lions Bay.
The group was expected to return on Sunday. Wien the
hikers failed to show up, emergency crews were notified.

North Shore Search and Rescue, along with Liens Bay
Search and Rescue, began the search at 11 p.m. Sunday.

Peterson said one search team followed the lost hikers’
trail up the Howe Sound Crest Trail into the area of
Unnecessary Mountain while a second search team sear-
ched in the oppesite direction in a bid to “intercept them
before they get info any trouble.”*

Peterson, who had not spoken to the five by press
time Monday, warned that hikers should be careful of
the areas they venture into.

“ft (the area where hikers were found) is a danger-
ous area to be in," said Peterson.

Suite fire

THE NORTH Vancouver City Fire Department is advis-
ing people to turn off Christmas lights and put out can-
dles when they are not home and when they go to bed.
An unattended candie caused a fire at 412 West
Esplanade on Dec. 23.

A fire department spokesman said a candle set a small
coffee table on fire in the apartment building. The oc-
cupants of the sulte were not home at the time.

Neighbors smelled smoke and called in the alarm,

The fire, which caused minimal damage, was put out
with a fire extinguisher.

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Roadside screening devices are in the hands

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drivers, to measure their levels of impair-
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toads BEFORE they kill or injure someone.
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COUNTERATIACK

NORTH VANCOUVER-based
Sytek Enterprises Inc. has received
$65,050 from Western Economic
Diversification Canada (WD) for
a program to help it qualify for
an internationally-accepted quality
standards certification.

The first $20,000 is non-
repayable; the remaining $45,050
must be repaid.

Sytek designs and manufactures
screen-printed products for the
electronics and  insirumentation
industry, including high-quality
namepiates, graphic overlays and
panel fronts for touch-sensitive
keypads called membrane swit-
ches.

They are used in automated
banking machines and com-
munications equipment. Total
Projects cosis are estimated at
$130,100.

“The B.C. high technology in-
dustry has always been our target
market, but now we find that
we're outgrowing its demand,’’
said Scott Ackerman, marketing
director for Sytek. ‘‘We have to
look to a larger: target market,
which means exports. Many inter-
national customers will only deal
with suppliers with quality cer-
tification.” :

North Vancouver MP Chuck
Cook said quality assurance pro-
grams like Sytek’s can be the key
to opening new market oppor-
tunities,

The federal funding comes from
WD's Quality Assurance
Assistance program, which helps
western Canadian companies
upgrade their quality control
systems to enable them to be more

Wednesday, January 1, 1992 - North Shore News - 5

NEWS BRIEFS Federal funding approved
for NV electronics firm

competitive in seeking government
and Overseas contracts.

Western Diversification provides
up to 50% of eligible costs per

company, of which up.to $20,000
will) be non-repayable for con-
sulting services, labor and train-
ing.

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