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NEWS photo Ellsworth Dickson

DARCY likes skiing and Ferraris. She fs interested in hairdressing and would like to
visit Hawaii.

Valdy’s coming from the skies

TWO HELICOPTERS have mission to tand = the The helicopters will be

AS - Sunday, May 29, 1983 - North Shore News

AN EXCUSE turns out to be of more value than
cheques to reduce the bill when you are in arrears
with your B.C. Hydro payments

Brian Tipper, who lives at
2151 Capilano Road, made
sure B.C. Hydro was at the
top of his list of creditors
when his downtown
nightclub began to seriously
flounder and they sent him
notices of disconnection.

But the cheques he sent
them still didn’t prevent him
from getting his power shut
off.

Last week Tipper was in
the dark, wondering where
he had gone wrong. And
Hydro came up with the
answer - he kept sending
them money to reduce the
debt instead of offering them
an explanation.

Even when Tipper called
the Hydro office at Haynes
Avenue in North Vancouver
Wednesday - the day his
power was cut off - and
guaranteed he could pay the
outstanding $200 by Friday it
sul wasn't good enough.

“I phoned everybody,” he
said, “and they said ‘tough
luck, go and borrow it from
someone’.”

Tipper jointly runs the
Saddle Tramps cabaret on
Pender Street in downtown

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Vancouver and he and his
partner are desperately try-
ing to breathe new life into
the place.

“There is no creditor on
my list who is not
cooperating,” he says - ex-
cept Hydro.

A couple of weeks ago he
arranged a sale of some of
the cabaret furniture and
was to received the cheque
by last Friday.

However, that wasn’t good

enough for Hydro. They cut

him off Wednesday.

He acknowledges he'd
received warning notices -
but says he'd countered
them by sending payments.

When he recieved the first
notice of disconnection
April 26 he owed $516.

On May 2 he dropped off a
$100 cheque. May 3 he was
sent another disconnection
notice. He sent another che-
que for $224, on May 16.
May 17, with approximately

_ $200 still to pay, he received

another disconnection

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THE COVESIDE

notice. Last Wednesday -
two days before he would
have sent his final payment -
Hydro lived up to their
threats and pulled the plug
on him.

B.C. Hydro Press Officer
Peter Fricker told the News:
“If he had bothered to con-
tact us at any time he was in
arrears it was possible we
could have worked out some
arrangements but we receiv-
ed no communication until
today (Wednesday), when he
was disconnected.

“Instead, he just put in
pieces of payment. Instead
of just slipping cheques into
our mailbox he should have
answered the notice he
received and we might have
been able to do something
for him.”

Fricker explained: “Hydro
works the same way as any
other organization. If we are
not paid we cannot provide
the service.”

So now he had undertaken
to pay the $200 balance by
Friday would he be recon-
nected?

“I was told the only way he
would get reconnected ts to
pay his bill in full.” said
Fricker, adding “There may
be a service charge for
reconnection.”

been given permission to
land in Norseman Park at the
end of the month by North

helicopters on etther May 30
or May 31 to film a concert
by the folk singer Valdy at

used to film Valdy’s arnval

and departure, City

Vancouver City council.

the North Vancouver
BCTV applied for

Engineer Alan Phillips said
Centennial Theatre

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