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KEVYN HARVEY glowers his frustration at being fired as
assistant manager of North Vancouver’s Century Apart-'
ments. Harvey, who has worked as the building's assistant
manager for three weeks, claims he has been unfairly treated

Fire practice
makes perfect

A LITTLE knowledge went a long way for Lions

Gate Hospital staff.
Last week members of

North Vancouver city fire.

department instructed
hospital employees in fire
and other emergency pro-
cedures.

On the weekend that
knowledge proved useful in
a real fire emergency.

Firefighters were called to
the hospital Saturday at 8:35
p.m. with-reports of a fire in
room 710:

Insp. Dave Burgess said
the blaze began when an air
conditioning unit in the
room: shorted out. Drapes
and a full.linen cart were too
close to the air conditioner,
causing a heat buildup,
Burgess said. The unit
shorted out and ‘‘arced’’
setting fire to the linen and
drapes. —

A patient in the room
notified nurses who put into
effect the theory they had

learned just a few days

earlier.
Burgess said the nurses
must be commended for the

orderly way they got patients.

out of danger and the effi-

cient way the fire was at-

tacked.

Upon arrival, firefighters
finished extinguishing the
fire.

North Vancouver District

and West Vancouver
firefighters also attended the
fire which caused about
$3,000 damage.

The city fire department
had held three seminars daily
the Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday preceeding the
fire.

Hospital employees were
shown procedures to follow
regarding care and evacua-
tion of patients, calling of
emergency officials and ex-
tinguishing of fires.

‘anonymous,

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THE BATTLE of the Century Apartments has
claimed another two victims.

Management of the 102-
suite building at 250 East
15th were both fired last
week over a disagreement
with the building’s owners as
to what constitutes proper
building maintenance and
management.

Kevyn Harvey, the
building’s recently removed
assistant manager, says he
and his manager, who
preferred to remain
were both
dismissed because ‘‘we were

trying to get things done, but’

the owners just would not
cooperate. Apartments leak,
the pool needs repairing, and
the plumbing in the building
is a total mess.”’

The building’s manager
says he was hired July 2,
while Harvey began July 26.
Neither, he claims, have
been. paid for the: 14-hour
days both have put in since
they took over manégerial
duties. He says he is con-
sidering legal action. The

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

area manager who hired the
two has since been fired.
Irene Glazebrook, the
newly hired area property
manager for the building’s
owners, Nacel Properties
Ltd., says she fired the two
because they were incompe-
tent and the apartment is ‘‘a
filthy, disgusting pigsty.””

ALCOHOL ON BREATH

She added the apartment’s
manager was withholding
rents from 32 suites, had
alcohol on his breath when
she talked to him, ‘‘and the
other one did not know the
first thing about repairing
even a leaky sink.”

According to Glazebrook,
the manager has been paid
and Harvey will be paid,

“‘when we figure out exactly

what work he has done. We
didn’t even know he was

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working here. We have no
record of his employment.””

On Tuesday, Harvey said
he had been paid $19.30 for
his three weeks of work.

The apartment’s manager
says he.took Harvey on as
an assistant to train him in
the trade and to help ex-
tricate him from welfare
payrolls.

In. April, two stories ap-
peared in the North Shore
News documenting com-
plaints of Century apartment
residents over the building’s
poor repair and lack of
maintenance. Consensus of
opinion from residents in-
terviewed last week is that
earlier complaints have gone
unheeded.

One such resident, who
has been in the building for
13 years, told the News the
Century used to be a first
class place to live, ‘‘but it
has been allowed to
deteriorate rapidly.”

RAPID CHANGE
Asking not to .be iden-
tified, the woman said there

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|]Century battle
iclaims 2 vict

ims
used tobe the proper
number of staff to attend to
the building’s maintenance,
adding that recent manage-
ment change over at Century
has been rapid and regular.

Dave Potter, a resident
since 1980, says he has seen
at feast. five management
teams hired and fired in that
time.

“The general complaint, I
think, of most people living
here,’’ says Poiter, ‘‘is the.
difficulty. of getting repairs
done.”

Agreeing with other resi-
dents, Potter said that both
Harvey and the building’s
manager ‘‘seemed to be do-
ing a.good job. Those guys
were always working from
what I could see.”’ . .

Norman . Cressey, owner
of Nacel Properties, which
owns four North Shore pro-
perties and a total of 60 in
the Lower Mainland, says
his company has owned
Century for 10 years. .

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NEWS photo Mike Waketield