Officer guilty

A VANCOUVER City Police sergeant received a condi-
tional discharge recently in connection with a charge of
assaulting a Capilano Highway Services Co. employee at
the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal.

Pavel Andrash, 45, was found guilly of the charge
stemming from a July 18, 1992, incident.

The police officer was not on duty at the time.

Andrash, a Richmond resident, also received six
months’ probation and was required to perform 10 hours
of community work service.

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Explosive defused

EXPLOSIVES EXPERTS from the Canadian Armed
Forces were called out to Lighthouse Park in West Van-
couver at 12:20 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, after a passerby
found an armed marker flare.
._ A West Vancouver Police Department spokesman said
an unidentified maie had found the flare and turned it
_ over to the lighthouse keeper, who called the police.
Police 2nd West Vancouver Fire Department crews
then closed off part ef Lighthouse Park.
‘The flare is used in search and rescue operations. |,
The police spokesman said the flare contained five
pounds of explosives. ;
_It was deactivated without incident.

- 400-workers being dispersed
_ throughout Vancouver area

From page 1 jority of B.C. hospital manage-

“NDP MLA David Schreck said the
recently..approved Health Care
Accord ;changed the way LGH
should view former SGH workers.
“There is one B.C. health care
' system. If we make a management
decision that impacts one (hospi-
tal), we should have the ability to
work it out with all of them,”
, said Schreck.:°
‘The notion is that there is one
overall health care system, not 100
different employers.’”

ment.

He said provincially funded in-
stitutions competing against each
other waste taxpayers’ money.

Schreck said he didn’t know
how the various institutions would
deal with the budget costs
associated with paying transferred
SGH workers. ‘

But he said the accord was in-
tended to get new jobs for SGH
workers in B.C. hospitals through
normal downsizing and retirement.

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Schreck. said LGH’s board of SGH' has 400 staff members : : | ¢
directors voted against the Health without jobs that are being fy * “

Care Accord (Health Labor Ac- dispersed in Vancouver-area hos-

cord), but it was passed by a ma- pitals, said Smith. .

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