Fire smarts save the day DON Jamison and his trusty personal fire extinguisher were praised by police for saving about seven vehi- cles from fire damage on Sept. 23. A North Vancouver RCMP spokesman said the 51-year-old North Vancouver resident was driving by when he spotted a glow inside a parked vehicle near 15th Street and McGuire Avenue. |_ Jamison emptied his fire extinguisher into a small hole in a window “and put out the fire. : Six other cars were iparked near the vehicle. ; Police said the 9 p.m. | fire was likely caused by an electrical problem. Deep Cove backs family A giant garage sale will be held tomorrow at Cove Cliff elementary school gym to help the family of a five-year-old boy with rare cancer. '_. The sale to help Lucas Rupert-Brown _ takes “place 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The school is located at .1818 Banbury in Deep Cove. Baked goods and a “slime-making” booth will be available. 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Because of the ramp, he must transfer when the chair is nearly a foot from the bench. “Es get wei dangerous,” Now, Allain usually washes at the sink. He wants the the Mount Seymour Lions Housing Society to make his shower flush with the floor and said he has asked for it to be done since it was put in in late February. Dudley Kill, the director of the housing society, said the solution to the problem is a roll-in commode, which resembles a_ plastic wheelchair and can go into showers. “Iris not our responsibility to provide that for him,” said Kill, The roll-in commodes go for approximate- ly $200 to $800. The ramp to the shower cannot be lowered because if there wasn’t the sloping lip he would flood the bathroom, Kill said. He added the society spent hundreds of dollars converting the bath rub to a shower. Allain said he asked the housing society to get rid of his bath tub because getting into the tub could be difficult and caused spasms in his leg. He sometimes fell between the bath tub and his chair. Senior wanders from nursing home A 79-year-old man who went missing from Cedarview Lodge in Lynn Valley for eleven hours on Tuesday was found exhausted, but in good health. Dunean Gardiner was found at 2:20 a.m. on Wednesday at 15th Street and St. Georges Avenue in Central Lonsdale. He wandered away at 3:30 p.m. the day before from his home near Kirkstone Park. Cedarview Lodge Intermediate Care Facility Seymour mul By Andrew McCredie business, Indeed, with a bur- is located in the 1200-block of Cedar Village. Gardiner has Alzheimer's disease. An extensive search was launched for Gardiner in Lynn Canyon Park after a resident reported seeing him near there at 5 p.m. Twenty-five North Shore Rescue Téam members, North Vancouver RCMP officers plus a police dog searched the upper area of the park and checked door-to-door at nearby residences. — Anna Marie D'Angelo is Nort 1994), and that the North Community Editor IT’S usually bad news for business when a competitor sets up shop right across the road. But for Seymour Golf & ’ Country Club pro shop man- Sanderson, the Monday . opening of Northlands Golf Course means little in the way of lost ager Bill Thursday Friday & Saturday Nights & Sunday } Brunch . Dundarave Cafe 2427 Marine Dr. W. Van. 926- 8838 g COMPARE ode 7 mio tripte foats cove foten, scotch-qasded futon cover, gillows aad pide covers. Kite quastites last 267 €, Ist. W.Van Mon.- Sat, 11-Gpm Sunday 12-5 pra 904-4504 e North, Vancouver . © Coquitlam e Victoria © Saltspring Is. geoning golf population, the North Shore could probably add another new course with- out affecting Seymour. “Sixty phone calls fill us up, so we probably won’t feel any impact frem Northlands,” said Sanderson of Scymour’s two public golf days a week (Monday and Sunday). Considering the busiest public day in Seymour's histo-, ry was 428 golfers {in July, Shore has thousands of golfers who travel across the Lower Mainland is search of public courses, Sanderson sces plenty of room for Northlands. A unique aspect of golf is that only a relatively small number of players can use a course in a given day, unlike say, a ski hill where the num- bers can reach into the thou- sands. According to Sanderson, Ww, TiMAPIDIUBE Lonsdale at 43th 988-4050 Coupon may wwlter otter. 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