AN ELDERLY North
Vancouver man is in
serious condition at Lions
Gate Hospital following a
June U1 attack in the
1500-biock of Oxford
Street in North Van-
couver’s Lynamour area.

According to a police
spokesman, the victim was
working in a shop located
behind his home when 2
man entered the shop and
demanded money.

When the victim threat-
ened to call the police, the
suspect grabbed a hammer
and beat the elderly man,
striking him -numerous
times on the head with the
hammer. -

The police. are now
searching for a, Caucasian
male, 20 to 25 years old,
5°9”", with brown hair.
The ‘suspect was ‘thin, un-

RCMP sketch of
suspect.

ing.

Information regarding
this crime may be for-
warded to Const. Jim Bur-
ton of the North Vaa-
couver RCMP’s Serious

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Passengers stranded

IT WAS noi a bappy Father's Day for severat dads after
they and their families were left stranded Sunday at the
Departure Bay ferry terminal in’ Nanaimo when they
missed the last scheduled sailing to Horseshoe Bay.

B.C. Ferry Corp. (BCFC) spokesman Ellery Littleton
said about 240 vehicles were Icft behind at the Nanaimo
terminal.

He added that BCFC crews were asked (0 work over-
time Sunday night to accommodate the stranded passen-
gers but they refused, which is an option under BCFC’s
collective agreement with the B.C. Ferry and Marine
Workers Union.

“Traffic was unusually heavy on Sunday afternoon

‘and Sunday night. A huge number of people descended
st Nanaimo,”’ said Littleton. ‘The hope was that- pzople
would use common sense and not leave it will the last
minute but that didn’t happen.’

He added tint most of the people who were left after
the last sailing left Nanaimo for Horseshoe Bay at 9
p.m. caught the 7 a.m. ferry on Monday morning.

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Damage corrected

A STORY in the June 2! North Shore News incorrectly
stated that a break-in at the Capilano River fish hatchery
“Bnd caused $15,000 worth of damage to hatchery

equipment.
In fact, the damage caused smounted to approximately

$1,500.

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Social Services battling
deficit, INV meeting told

PROVINCIAL Social Services Minister Joan Smallwood
told the June 8 North Shore Family Services Society’s
(NSFSS) annual general meeting that the provincial gov-
ernment is now paying out $270 million more in income
assistance because of the federal government’s ‘‘reneging’’
on the federal-provincial cost-sharing arrangement by
capping the provincial transfer payments.
“In this province ... the fiscal

situation is such that it is going to By Kevin Gillies

take us some time to be able-to Contributing Writer
get a handle on the deficit and

earn back the respect of the fi-

nancial. houses that is necessary
for ongoing pianning in the pro-
vince,” Smallwood toid the au-
dience of approximately 100.

She noted that, despite the defi-
cit, her ministry was one of the

few that received a funding in- . year,

crease in the recent provincial
budget.

‘ “What we have decided very
clearly is even though the federal
government has vacated that field,
we will not abandon those most in
need in this province,’’ Smallwood
said.

“We've got to get on with the
job so that everybody in this pro-
vince can contribute whatever it is
that they do test.’”’

Smallwood said B.C.’s welfare
budget currently sits at $1.5

billion.

“‘When we look at statistics of
300,000 roughly men, women and
children on income assistance,
when we realize that the caseloads
are increasing by 20% over last
that that represents a
tremendous waste,’’ she said.

“A tremendous waste of human
potential, a tremendous waste to
this province of resources, of
solutions, and we can’t tolerate
that.’

‘‘And if that means the disabled
fellow contributing to his
community, that warmth. and that
humanity then that has to be our
target: to bring people dack into
(the) community and to enjoy all
of the strengths that we all bring
to humanity,”’ Smallwood said.

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