NORTH Vancouver District’s new
fire chief Gary Calder.

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397,128 a vear.
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challenge.”

ther ahead.”

1981,

forward to mamtaining a high level of
service to the public in an era of shrink-
ing budgets. Bat!"

When he joined the department back
in 1972, there was no hazardous materi-
als’ team, no fireboat and no alarms to
signal a downed comrade.

“Everything these days is far more
modern, Safety procedures are much far-

Calder spent nine years as a firefighter
before being promoted to officer in
Ten years later, in 1991, he was
made captain. That same year he became

Chief Calder in charge
of $11.2m annual budget

assistant fire chief in charge of training.
Calder will be responsible for manag
ing the district's tive fire stations and 143

ascd” he said. “TP look

mM sure We'll rise to the

employees —- 12) of whom are firefight-
ers. He will also act as principal advisor
on fire suppression, prevention, investiga-
tion and education policies.

In his spare time, he plays acoustic

guitar, preferring Irish and English tradi-
tional songs and “60s music.
West Vancouver with his wite and two
children,

More chan 80,000 people are served
by the district’s fire department. It has an

He lives in

StL.2 million annual budget. Calder is

the second new chief on the North Shore
in recent months. Ren Olson replaced
retired Chief John Rowlands in West
Vancouver in December.

Path would avoid old-growth areas

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Lake parking lot, run along the
west side of the existing road
and end at the Patton Creck
Bridge, just south of the
Seymour Dam.

For most of the way the
path would incorporate a four-
metre width of pavement for
roller bladers and cyclists and a
two-metre gravel strip for

* pedestrians.

Big tree researcher Ralf
Kelman welcomes the plan. He
has been building trails to mas-
sive old-growth trees in the
forest. reserve for years. The
new trail would bring more
people to the massive trees.

“Given the magnitude of
the loss of the mainline road
for recreational purposes I
believe that if we do lose that
they should go all out to create
a world-class trail network with
the main trail they are promot-
ing as the centre of that.

Kelman praised regional
forest reserve planners for cnvi-
sioning an overpass crossing
the mainline road at the nine-
kilometre mark. The crossing
will connect to an extended
tail to run to the fish hatchery
and the river. “My vision of
this is to put a foor bridge
across the river and then link
with the east side gravel road.
That means for long-distance
running, or cycling it would be

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the landbase. In terms of path-
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most cases avoided — these
areas.”

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avoid old-growth areas. Fretz
said a report outlining the path
design and public reaction to
the plan will be presented to
the water committee in April
or May. “At this point we
would be asking for approval
to proceed to a construction
phase,” said Fretz.

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