— Wednesday. March 10, 1999 — North Shore News Grouse boss questions tax on skiers Fram paac\ The eumated S20 million a vear collected Dy government would fund equipment needs of the province's 77 search and res cue teams, The 1998-99 province wide budget tor search and rescue training and operations is ST million, North Shore Search and: Rescue (NSSAR) gets 8100000 of that tot “T don't think is + Dosanjh’s phiny gous to be accepted by the ski industry,” said Stuart Mchaughhin, MoLaughlin said taxes would penalize the matority of skiers and snowboarders who dew venture out of bounds. Fle won ders why Dosanjh is floating a tay scheme when he hasr’t tried a pebhe education campaign or forcing adventurers to buy rescue insurance. NSSAR team Ieader ‘Vim Jones proposed the measures to Dosanjh ina Feb. 22 letter. The volunteer organization gets “great community support” in fundraising, Jones said. “But the problem is it’s too time consuming; it’s inappropriate fo ask us ta do the tasks and raise this capital.” Jones said the group has spent the last three years raisin money to buy anew $350,000 command vehicle. “We're rebuilding the infrastructure, because we have to. We have to meet the needs of the volume.” NWSSAR responded to 68 calls last vear. Jones expects 1999 to be another record breaker because there have already been 15 incidents this year. The latest was the rescue of a dost 36-vearald ¢ snowboarder west of Cypress Bow! ski area on Sunday. The man, who had mild hypothermia and serious bruising, was airlifted to safety and treated at Lions Gate Hospital. “He would've succumbed within six hours,” Jones said. “lr would've been a body recovery had he not been found.” When the search was over, Jones went direetly to Sunday's Capilano River duck race for more fundraising. North Vancouver snowboarder Wendy Gayton welcomes Dosanjh’s tax idea, “Ir wouldn't cause me to go (snowboarding) any less,” she said Tes esday at Grouse. “There are certain taxes that are real nee- essary.” Langley skier Stephen Zopf agrees with a tax on ski equip- ment, but not on iift tickets: “There should be a heavier penalty for people that go out of bounds, rather than ta ing the people that don’t go out of bounds and follow the rules.” Brett Williams, manager of North Shore Ski and Board, would rather see wayw, ard skiers and snowboarders loot the bill for their rescue. But he doesn’t anticipate the proposed tax would: sub- standaily harm his business. “Ninety percent of those people are on the groomed runs and not in any need of that service,” Williams said. “I guess it’s like highways, they've got to make sure everyone pays evenly.” ralitornia Change with 56 Pt. 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