2 - Friday, February 24, 1984 - North Shore News by Bob Hunter aE — ome et Ee yy 5 a e ; efforts by Ottawa or Victoria to crack down on drunk drivers. The statistics are too hor- rifying. Something like 2,500 Canadians are killed on the roads by booze freaks every year. In B.C. alone, more than 5,000 were injured Jast-year. Our courts waste 40 per cent of their time on.cases relating to liquor and the wheel. Canadians cough up $800 million a year to pay the medical costs of the camage. Measured against this reality, I see nothing draco- nian about federal Justice [« CERTAINLY not going to argue with any Minister Mar~k MacGuigan’s call for a 10-year sentence for a drunken driver who causes bodily injury. I must say I can’t believe the statement by B.C, Civil, Liberties Association chief Dr. Reg Robson that stiffer penalties won’t deter drunken drivers. I happen to know several people who will not dtink and drive any longer because we.all know somebody who licence. When people start lost his © going to the slammer for long stretches, we'll be that much more careful. In any event, there’s another element to the question of safe driving that has not been tackled in Canada. And that’s the fact that teenage drivers are still the single greatest menace on the roads. This doesn’t have to be the case. A North Van- couver woman, Anna Heimo, a mother of seven who came here from ’ Finland half a decade ago, points out that in her-native land a program has been Started to teach kids to drive when they are only six years old. “ A miniature car, the Lokari, has been developed. It operates on gasoline, has automatic transmission, brakes, the works. Although the pro- gram is backed by govern- ‘ment in Finland, it is mostly implemented by private ’ enterprise. Some 11,000 Lokaris were imported ‘by the U.S. last year. Training areas, called ‘‘traffic cities,’’ com- plete with lights and park- ing lots and intersections, are built on sites ranging from half an acre to two acres. People bring in their kids and pay something like $2 for 50 minutes of instruction. “‘Children are absolutely mad about it,’’ says Mrs. Heimo. -: In an era when we are en- couraged to teach our kids -to swim before they can properly walk and learn to add before they even go to kindergarten, it makes wonderful sense to start teaching them -how to drive long before they reach their teens. It’s the best new idea I’ve heard in quite a while. Anybody wanting to pursue it can reach Mrs. Heimo at 986-7701. panes T.V.’s TERRY WINTER will be speaking at HOLLYBURN GOSPEL CHAPEL 14th and Duchess West Vancouver FOR WV COUPLE a rrest ends some anxious momen THERE WERE some anxious moments for an elderly West Vancouver couple Tuesday, before police were able to haul in a man who attempted to rob them. were more crashing sounds from the rear of the house. A uniformed member of the WVPD arrived and took The 24-year-old North Vancouver man was arrested. Charges of breaking and entering, assault and attemp- Sunday, February 26th 11:15 am and 7 pm the woman’s statement. He ted theft are being Come and hear this young man was returning to his unmark- contemplated. with a message for today. a hand reach through a_ ed police car when he spotted broken window and unlock the man trying to break into and open the front door. it. The unidentified woman and her elderly, invalid hus- band, were startled by the sound of breaking glass from the front of their 3900-block Marine Drive house just before noon Tuesday. When the woman went to investigate the noise, she saw The intruder entered and, when told by the woman to get out, shoved her. The man then grabbed a set of keys that were hanging on a hook near the door and fled. While the woman was reporting the incident to West Vancouver Police, there The policeman gave chase but the would-be thief managed to elude him. The policeman returned to the home and again spotted the man, this time using the keys he had stoten from the house in an attempt to start the car owned by the couple. Car thieves prowl POLICE IN West Vancouver have another warning for residents about leaving valuables in their cars. The message is simply “don't’’. 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