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order.the cooked oysters rather
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€ During the busy summer

months, the Horseshoe Bay estab-

- lishment serves’a minimum 600
faw’ oysters per week, said Craig.
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from the health department, the .

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Malpeque. oysters from Nova

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Fanny Bay, which it freshly shucks
Band serves raw. :
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continue to be served baked, pan-

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Sea. Ya-Ya’s stopped serving, raw
Peres Oysters following a phone advisory
im from North Shore Health at 11:30
mS a.m. Friday.
North Shore Health medical
health officer Dr. Brian O’Connor
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By Robert Galster

tenet eee tae ae ee ne ened pat

News Reporter
ralert@usnewscon

JIM MacDonald's nine-year
teaching career snifered a
fatal blow last July 32 when
he was unceremoniously
dumped as the Hagle
Harbour Community
Centre’s karate instructor,

Ina letter to the centre’s partic
pants, recreation manager Josie
Ghaback said MacDonald's dis-
missal was the result of bis lack of
proper credentials, These inelude
membership-in a professional orga-
nization — namely Karate B.C,
which automatically provides its
members with sports liability insur.
ane,

But MacDonald doesn't buy it,

“[ find it hard to believe the
Ragle Harbour Community Centre
has operated all this time without
liability insurance,” he said.

While the news hit the 52-year:
old like a ton of bricks, it hit his ex-
students even harder,

Geordie Aitken, 19, has studied
karate under MacDonald’s tutelage
for nine years, and can't see himself
continuing with anyone else,

“He has been extra well-loved by

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V recreation body

Membership has
its privileges in
West Vancouver

AH students and patente,” said
Aitken, “The reason fie hits been 90
mucessstil over the years is dhe rape
port he achteves with bis students,"

The rapport will abo be ntissed
by MacDonald,

“The West Vancouver
Recreation Commission tore that
relationship apart by wanting me (0
join an organization [ know very lit-
tle about,” said Machonald, “Just
ta send me a piece of paper and pay-
ing money (membership — fees)
doesw’t change anything,”

Karate B.C,'s exeeutive director
James Johnson said his organization
has between four and five thousand
members across B.C, and is an affil-
jate of the Natianal Karate
Association of Canada.

Although membership in’ the
Organization carries a fee ranging
from $15 to $50, Johnson said the
benefits outweigh the annual cost.
Among these, Johnson confirmed
the organization's members are cov:
ered by a $2 million sports liability
insurance policy,

“There are a lot of people of

arate instructor

dubious credentials purporting 10
be teaching Karate, bait if they
belong to this organization we ean
guarantee a high level of dastrue-
tion,” sald Johnson, “My question
Is why wouldn't someone want to
belong to) a professional associa
tion.”

MacDonald has an answer lo
that question.

“They are collectors of power
abd forces of division in the martial
arts and they can have It... without
me," he wrote ina letter he has sent
10 all his students and parents short-
ly after learnings his fate,

“After nine years at Eagle
Harbour and 27 years in the martial
arts | equate that to having. your
university degree certified by a high
schoal you did't attend.”

An information meeting — for
MacDonald’s students and their
parents has been set for ‘Thursday,
Aug. 7, at West) Vancouver
Memorial Library for 7 pang

“ff nothing che, it’s to form an
action plan for the next two weeks,”

said Aitken.

Harbour Centre's Chuck, pro:
gram coordinator Jocelyn Rea, facil-
ity supervisor Robyn McGuiness
and West Vancouver's director of °
parks and recreation Kevin Pike:
were all on vacation and unavailable

from’. the.

rts-of more’

By fan Noble
News Reporter

i A SE

_lan@nsnews.com

“ VICTORIA’S timeline for the Lions

Gate Bridge proposal is in a familiar
position — behind schedule.

When ‘Transportation and Highways Minister
Lois Boone announced in Apiil her decision to
seek a private-public partnership co rejuvenate or

sebuild the aging stricture, she hoped to be able ‘
_ to get agreement. from local governments on the
; Proposal call by carly summer,
t

*s mid-summer, and the wait for a proposal

call continues. F
lan McLeod, the communications director
with tke British Columbia ‘Transportation
Financing Authority, said a final choice on the

January 1998. ; -
“Last I heard that’s still the minister’s inten-

“ tion,” he said on’ Friday.
McLeod said Boone’s request to municipali-

Minister still expects
decision by January -

ties, the Squamish Nation and the Vancouver park
board to forward their positions on the bridge has
slowed the process, es
He said a draft document called the Request for
Expression of Interest is ina “pretty advanced state,

‘so the problem is not the document, the problem

is just having the government decide when and -
how to move forward.” a a

McLeod said that when the process kicks. into
gear, interested private-sector ‘companies or
groups of companies can request the Request for
Expression of Interest.

That document will outline the province's
position and what has happened so far with the
crossing. The provincial government, and its.
municipal partners, will look for interestéd parties
to describe the experience of the proposed project
team, their qualifications and why that team is the |

for comment to press time Tuesday,

best for the job,

Engineering ‘expertise, and. the, company's
environmental and worker-safery track records .

will be among the numerous factors studied in the.
Fac Hcd in |

seview process, ;

McLeod, ©

teams and they will get a request for proposal, said

Roy eat
:

That detailéd document will outline the engi

~neering, atid design standards required.‘The.com-

panies or consortiums will then develop ‘and.sub- .:.'

mit a desigi for the bridge project, said: McLeod...

“Froth those three or four, a winning design will

be chosen. .

“oe ° 7 a a i ; . .
“Tv’s’ quite a-‘complicated : process,” said _.”

po

McLeod: i .

Since the government announced a Lions Gate —
Bridge project. in. 1993," the . NDP’ has “made”

numerous, promises that a'she ct’ list of proposals

.would be released; However, a short list has’ not

-been released. oe Pook
‘Initially, che NDP anticipated a decision on the ; *

5

crossing in early 19940

. NEWS photos Cin

Cars crash in
Seymour area.
TWO accidents in the Mount.

y Seymour avea occurred within
minutes of one another

-* Sunday. A stolen car crashed
through a fence at Berkley
and Sechelt (left} and almost

hit a house. And a van rolled
on Mount Seymour Parkway.

‘From those submissions, the list of candidates =
‘will be narrowed ‘to three or four companies.or