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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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June 5, 1983

Newsroom 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

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STATISTICS compiled from the emergency ad-
missions sheets at Lions Gate Hospital destroy
any illusion that might have been held of the
North Shore as a relatively safe, secure and
trouble-free community.

In 1982 the emergency

department treated: 192
cases of drug and alcohol
abuse, 236 victims of assault,

MOUNTAINTOP OF GARBAGE ifs being levelled off by North Van-
couver District work crews at last in response to complaint: from
neighbora opposite the Premier Street landfill who have been biterty
complaining for years about the height of the hill built of garbage dumped
there. District Engincer John Bremner says work on levelling off the top

15 rape victims, 418 patients
with psychiatric illnesses,
178 migraine sufferers, and
181 attenipted suicides, 44 of

which were people under the
age of 19 years. Nine of these
suicides were completed, in-
cluding two teenagers.
“We're seeing a lot of
social problems and emo-
tional reactions to the stress
in our society,” says Ina
Hollick-Kenyon, director of
social work at Lions Gate

hanelfilh.

Hospital.

“People can't cope with
the economic situation, the
insecurity, the pressures,
and it is showing up as pro-
blems within the families,
assaults, drug and alcohol
problems and attempted
suicides.”

Most of the emergency pa-

ents did not receive help
from a social worker as the
budget cutbacks in May 1982
have left only a part-time
social worker in emergency.

Counselling of such
emergency cases is con-

sidered so vital that many
U.S. hospitals have 24 hour
coverage by a social worker.

NEWS photo Eric Eggertson

8-10 ft. of the knoll which was nicknamed Mount Bell during the term of
office of former Mayor Don Bell, will Hhely continue all this week.
Meanwhile, residents continue to fight the manicipality over its plan to
increase permitted dumping volumes and the question of cxpanding the

RESTAURANT
DOCKSIDE MART

‘Wharf’
project
to lure
tourist
bucks to
N. Van

By NOEL WRIGHT

MOVE OVER, San
Francisco's Fisher-
man's Wharf!

- A North Shore, pro-
ject presently heading
towards a launch date
could create a rival on
the North Vancouver
waterfront to the
Californian city's
world-famous tourist
attraction.

Involved is an almost
seven-acre property § and
waterfront at the south foot
of Pemberton Avenue with a
spectacular view of
downtown Vancouver across
the inlet.

Development plans by
Pemberton Waterfront
Group Inc) of Vancouver

call for a gourmet waterfront
restaurant built partially on
salts over the water, a work-
ing fishboat marina for 40
vessels. a “fishboat harbor”

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