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January 3, 1996

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CITY WORKERS Brian Ingham (left) and Darin Ring chip in to prepare for an annu-
al tree chip-up with North Vancouver City firefighters Andy Schmidt (left} and

Bruce McKinney. For North Shore chip-up dates and times, see page 5.

Snow

SKI AREAS hit hard by warm and
moist weather have resorted to dis-
counts and incentives to lure skiers
and snowbvarders to North Shore
mountains.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

Meanwhile, some Cypress Bowl, Grouse
Mountain and Mount Seymour ski area
employees. most of them part-timers and many
of them students, are feeling the pinch.

Cypress Bowl alpine office manager Mary
Lou Troman said 60% to 70% of the moun-
tain’s employees who usually work at this ime
of the year are working. Cypress Bowl she
added, has about 450 to 500 employees.

show

Thursday: Mix of sun and clouds
High 4°C, low -3°C.

TWO PEOPLE died on Saturday
after a head-on crash between a
small import car and a propane
tanker truck and trailer unit on
the Squamish Highway.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

Car driver Dominik Niezgoda, 23, of
Port Coquitlam, died at the scene, about
one kilometre south of downtown
Squamish. His passenger, Lorena Diane
Carlson, 24, of Surrey, was rushed to
Squamish General Hospital where she was
pronounced dead. according to the
Squamish RCMP.

The tanker-truck driver was not seri-
ously injured, said potice. His name was
not released.

North Shore News dispatch manager
Marty Empey was in a van directly behind
the car when the collision occurred.

Empey, who has his Industrial First Aid °
ticket, was one of about five people trained
in emergency medical aid who stopped
immediately after the crash.

“I'm frustrated because with all the

training and people we had, there was
absolutely nothing we could do,” said
Empey. still shaken three days after the
crash.
Empey said that an emergency depart-
ment nurse, an off-duty ambulance atten-
dant and three people trained in industrial
first aid were among the people helping at
the scene. Empey was carrying emergency
first aid equipment in the van.

He said that the tanker truck “folded
into itself and appeared to be veering into
their lane after the crash. The trucker was
able to steer his rig in the other direction
and off the road. The road was closed for
hours after the | p.m. crash.

hurts

Ski hills cope with warm and wet weather

At Grouse Mountain, which has been par-
tially open to skiers and snowboarders since
Dec. 8 but closed yesterday, alt full-time and
most of the part-time employees are working.
according to promotions manager Nancy
Chilton.

She said restaurant and Skyride employees
have been at work, and catered functions have
done well. “The only fotks that are suffering a
bit are the ski lift operators.” Chilton said.
Grouse employs 100 to 150 full-time workers
and 250 to 300 part-time workers.

Last year, when local mountains opened in
mid-November, Grouse attracted ubout 4,000
skiers, snowboarders and other visitors daily
during the Christmas break. This year, the
mountain is counting 2,200 customers daily,

said Chilton.

Troman said skier and snowboarder num-
bers are down about 60% at Cypress for this
time of year. Traditionally, Cypress usually
does 20% to 25% of its annual business in the
important two-week Christmas _ period.
Christmas holidays account for about 9% of
Grouse’s yearly business and 4% of its yearly
traffic.

Seymour, which had been partially operat-
ing seven days a week on reduced hours, also
closed yesterday due to rain and warm weather.
Seymour sales and marketing manager Laurie
Thompson said the mountain's diay visitors are
down about 10% from an average year, but

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