FRIDAY
November 8, 1996

BOS Crawford, &4, returned io his fire-damaged seniors’ home on Wednesday to

sioner doesn’t know where he'll live for two months while the building is repaired.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

EIGHTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD
Bob Crawford was making a
pumpkin pie when a devastating
fire began in his seniors’ build-
ing on Tuesday.

Two days later, the retired construction work-
er was allowed to return to his home to pick up a
few items.

dough is sitting in my fudge going to
waste,” he said,

Crawtord grabbed on to a handrail
legs made the slow journey up sone stairs leading
from the burned-out Kiwanis Senior Housing
building im the 300-block of Kast Ist Street in

his stiff

Residents of Kiwanis
apartments scramble to
find accommodations

North Vancouver.

Crawtord lived there for six

Like more than 12 of the 29 low-income pen-
sioners living in the building, Crawford doesn’t
know where he will be sleeping tonight.

“Accommodation is kind of hard to come by
right now,” said Crawford.

The residents were allowed to take out some
personal belongings, Crawford showed the News
what he took out of his home. [na stall black bag,
was a pair of plaid slippers, shaving gear and other
light itens.

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retrieve a bag of belongings. The low-income pen-

Bat Crawford said he ts not the tpe of guy
who worries about chitgs. Fle planned to check
the papers for lodging.

Like the others who did net have family or
friends tos ith, Crawtord was staying at the
Travelodge in North Vancouver for three days.
H id tor by Kiwanis.

» victim, Corky Salter, 67, doesmt
know where he will five cither

The retired Mohawk Lubricants: employee
managed to grab his diabetes medication, blood
pr pills and coat before escaping the blaze.

“She only thing thar [worry about is finding
aplace. Pcan’t afford co rent awhole apartment,”
said Salter.

Merv Hanes tived in the building lor £5 years,
He is one of the luckier ones. He is living ata

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By lan Noble
and Michael Becker

ONE North
Vancouver City may-
oral candidate is not
participating in the
campaign.

Dave Jani not withdrawn
from the campaign, bur because
of a treatable mental illness can
Nol participate in the run-up to
the elections, said someone who
asked to be known as a *knowl-
edgeable source.”

Meanwhile the candidate's
father George said Tuesday that
his son had suffered *a mental
breakdown.”

Janis has not been available
for interviews.

The situation has created a
conundrum for mayoral candi-
date Dick Campbell, who's also
challenging Mayor Jack Loucks,
a tormidable adversary for the
post.

Campbell said pe not
content with the current mayor
may want to park their vore
somewhere other than Loucks.

However, with ovo other
choices voters may vo with Janis,
who isn’t able to campaign.

“If you're looking for alterna-
tive choices and they don’t rarn
our to know me very well, there
will just be too many votes going
Janis’s way,” said Campbell, a
video store owner.

“We're really concerned.
Something's got to happen and
we're not sure what that is,” he
sata,

North Vancouver City Clerk
Bruce Hawkshaw sud he needs
notice trom the candidate to
start the process to take hin off
the ballot. However, Janis has
not submitted notice thar he
wants to end his candidacy.

Jams was clection day orga-
nizer for North Vancouver:
Lonsdale Liberal candidate and
now MELA Katherine Whittred.

municipal
decisions

West Vancouver — P.15