SAFE AND sound, New Year’s baby Rebecca is buckled into her new infant car seat for her trip home to Femberton. Dr. Jim Bovard presented Rebecca's mother, Tanya Beatty, with the car NEWS photo Mike Waketield seat on behaif of the 8.C. Medical Association and the North Shore Medical Society. [LGH?’s New Year’s baby gets ride home in safety THE LONG trip from Lions Gate Hospital to her new home in Pemberton will be a safe one for New Year’s baby Rebecca Beatty. That’s because Rebecca earn- ed double honors on New Year's Day. By virtue of being the first baby born in 199] at LGH — at 16 minutes past midnight — Rebecca and her mother Tanya Beatty, 26, also won an infant car seat. The seat is provided to the hospital’s New Year’s baby by the B.C. Medical Association (BCMA) and the North Shore Medical Society. The gift is part of BCMA’s campaign in the province's 84 hospitals to promote the use and ‘correct installation of infant car seats. North Vancouver practitioner Dr. Jim) Bovard says installing a car seat for baby is not as easy as one might think. “It does take a little effort on the part of a parent to get set up,”’ he said. According to Transport By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter Canada, infant and child restraints, when propertly used, can reduce fatalities by 90 per cent and disabling injuries by 65 to 70 per cent. But an inspection clinic held last June in Vancouver found that only nine per cent of 187 car seats and infant seats were properly installed. Bovard recommends parents use an infant car seat until the baby reaches 18 pounds or 26 inches in length. The child then graduates to a more senior model. Parents should also be careful when buying used car seats, warns Patti Bacchus of BCAA. “ft could have been in an ac- cident, it could have a crack in it, it could have even be recall- ed,’’ she said. If buying used, it’s best to buy from close friends of relatives who know the history of the car seat and can provide the instruc- tion manual, she advises. Bovard and Bacchus also warn against buying infant car seats in the U.S. where, although they are cheaper, the safety standards are lower. Bolting in the tether strap still appears to be a stumbling block for many parents, said Bovard. As of January, 1989, all cars sold in Canada are required by law to have a built-in, pre- threaded tether anchorage point where the tether strap should be secured. Although there are no ongoing inspection clinics, both ICBC and BCAA hold child restraint clinics at various times throughout the year. For more information about car seat safety and clinics, call the ICBC traffic safety department at 661-6651 or BCAA's technical and consumer advisory number at 298-1766. Sunday, January 6, 1991 - North Shore News - 3 Neptune tries new Strategsy Bulk loading facility wants feds to okay controversial expansion NEPTUNE BULK Termi- nals (Canada) Ltd. and the Vancouver Port Corp. (VPC) have come under fire for a plan by the North Vancouver bulk loading fa- cility to apply to the federal agency for permission to expand its waterfront facili- ty. By Surj Rattan News Reporter And critics of the expansion proposal argue that Neptune should be denied permission to expand in fight of a _ recently released environmental hit list issued by the B.C. environment ministry which has targeted Nep- tune as an industrial polluter. Earlier this year, North Van- couver City Council rejected, for the second time, a bid by Neptune to rezone its property to allow for the construction of a $22-million potash storage shed. Area residents argued that the new storage shed, which Neptune officials said is needed to meet an anticipated increase in interna- tional demand for potash, would also increase pollution. When Neptune first applied for the rezoning, it made a pledge to install a series of pollution control devices, most of which, said Nep tune president John Willcox, have been installed. But an environmental report released by Victoria last month cited Neptune for exceeding its ef- fluent permit. Neptune has also come under fire from environmental groups for its plan to discharge toxic ef- fluent into the local sewer system. But while Neptune has a permit from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) to dump toxic effluent into the North Shore’s sewer system, North Vancouver City Ald. Bill Bell said the city may take action to block the GVRD permit. “They’ve (Neptune) been dum- ping pollution into Burrard Inlet and now they want to dump it in- to the sewer system and it’s my understanding that we won't let them do that,”’ said Bell. ‘‘Nep- tune should clean up its act. They wouldn’t have this problem if they started to clean up their act 10 years ago."” He added that he is angered by Neptune’s plan to apply to the NORTH Vancouver City Ald. Bill Bell ... won't let Neptune dump pollution into sewer system. VPC for the storage shed expan- sion. The VPC has jurisdiction over the Neptune site because it is VPC-leased property. The VPC plans to hold a public hearing on the issue at the North Shore Winter Club on Jan. 15 and submissions will be received by a three-member review panel of in- dependent experts. The panel in- cludes John Wiebe of the Asia Pacific Foundation, Mac Clark, who is retired and David Marshall of the Globe ’92 trade show. Wiebe said that once the panel hears all submissions, it will then prepare a report on this issue for the VPC. But Andy Baak, president of the Cloverly Residents’ Associa- tion, a group opposed to Nep- tune’s expansion plans, said he only learned of the public hearing on Thursday and added there is not enough time for his group to prepare a submission. ‘“‘We may have to ask for a postponement. We are very upset at the lack of notice and I will be communicating this directly to the port corporation,’’ said Baak. ““We don't have any documents about the meeting and we would be handicapped as to what to discuss.”’ He added that the public hear- ing is ‘‘premature’’ because, Baak claimed, Neptune is still not com- plying with the VPC’s en- vironmental guidelines. But Willcox said Neptune has spent $9 million on_ installing pollution control devices, which includes spray poles to control coal-dust emissions and the con- struction of a four-foot high trackside sound barrier. 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