WEBNESDAY
March 19, 1997

Ap ril 6th

ADM Ou to 3pm

in dangerous waters

RESCUE workers treat an unidentified kayaker fallowing the man’s mishap on the Seymour River. According to a Lions Gate Hospital!
spokesman, the man suffered hypothermia and was in critical condition Tuesday before being transferred to St. Paul’s Hospital.

Burrard and Squamish
see cash, employment
in gaming operations
By fan Noble

News Reporter

TWO North Shore native bands
have expressed interest in running

casinos.
The deficit-ridden provincial government re!
dled debate on the issue with casino announce

during the past week. The Squamish Nation and the
Burrard Band confirmed they have applied for a
casino licence for North Shore ‘iti

i ed in pursuing it
for a revenue base and employment opportunities
but thar’s where we're at right now,” said Matthew
Thomas, the Burrard Band's economic develop-
ment officer.

He said the band applied for a charity casino last
year for i vmour ares reserve, but the govern
ment froze the charity casino process.

Thomas said the band does not want to provide
lengthy comment on the possibility of re-applying
for a casino because the government’s criteria
change every day.

Thomas said the band would put casino profits

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for
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toward health, education, elder and youth pro-
grams.

Squamish Nation Chiet Philip Joe said) on
Monday that the band had made an application tor
a casino licence within the past year, but couldn't
pin down a specific time. Joe also said the criteria the
government is using is vague. “I don’t know what
they're doing. | don't know whether they know
what they are doing cither,” said Joe.

A site under the Lions Gate Bridge has been
widely bantered about in the media. But Joe noted
the band has three locations on the North Shore
and would nor be pinned down about which reserve
a casino would be built on.

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Truck
traffic
limitet

BySusan Pohorski
Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver
council decided
Monday to han heavy
trucks fron: traveling
south on 15th, 21st
and 22nd streets for
six months.

Councillors also voted 5-1 to
include tunding for brake checks
on the three streets in the 1997
capital budget deliberations.

A ban on trucks weighing
mave than 20,000 kilograms
could take effect as early as mid-
April.

Trucks have lost their brakes
and become runaways in four sep-
arate incidents in the past five
years. Last fall, after the council
sent 2a proposal regarding the
issue to staff for examination, a
runaway truck killed a man at
22nd and Marine Drive.

‘Municipal staff estimate an
average of 38 trucks travel down-
hill on the three streets each day.
While volume may increase in
summer months, it does not
appear that truck traffic is chang-
ing significantly over time,
according to a staff report.

Censtruction estimates for the
three brake checks to be located
on provincial property are as fol-
lows: $60,000 for the 21st Street
off-ramp; $30,000 for the 22nd
Street off-ramp; $38,000 for 15th
Steet.

The original motion before
council only included the funding,
package. Coun. Victor Durman
amended the motion to include
the six-month truck ban during
the budget deliberations.

In his report to council
Gordon McKay, assistant director
of operations, advised that “regu-
lar enforcement would — be
required to ensure that all trucks
actually use the brake check.”

West Vancouver Police
spokesman Paul Skelton said
More witness statements are
needed before possible charges
can be Jaid in connection with the
fatal truck ident on 22nd

st oin September. Crown
counsel should be recommending
whether charges will be laid in the
next nwo to three weeks, Skelton
said. Rajeep Khosa, a 28-year-old
Surrey resident, was driving the
dump truck when the accident
occurred.

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