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NEWS
BRIEFS

Care nurses
favor strike

NURSES AT four North Shore private Jong-term care facilities
are among 400 nurses across B.C. who voted 92 per cent Monday
in favor of strike action to back contract demands.

The B.C. Nurses Union subsequently served 72-hour strike
notice on B.C.’s long-term care facilities on Monday, leaving the
nurses in a legal strike position by Thursday.

North Shore long-term care facilities that could be affected by
any job action are Beacon Hill Lodge, Inglewood Private Hospital
and Lodge and West Vancouver Care Centre in West Vancouver,
and the North Shore Private Hospital and Lynn Valley Lodge fa-

The nurses fave been in contract negotations since March 31,
1990 when their contract expired. Talks broke down on Nov. 8,

Men face
B&E charges

THE TRIAL of two Vancouver men was raised to B.C. Supreme
Court after they appeared Dec. 31 in West Vancouver proviscial
court on two break- and enter-relaied charges.

Tom Jenkins, 20, and Roger Lee Isakson, 22, will face charges
of breaking and entering a 1300-block Marine Drive grocery store
with intent to commit an offence and possession of instruments
suitable for breaking into houses.

Jenkins and Isakson are scheduled to make their first appear-
ance today in B.C. Supreme Court.

Ski Watch session
set at Cypress

THE WEST Vancouver Police will be conducting Ski Watch ses-
sions at Cypress Bowl, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Jan. 25 through

Setting up near the ski area’s restaurant, police wil! be on hand
to engrave driver's licence numbers on skis.
The Ski Watch program allows the police to quickly identify the

Mountaineer rescued from Lions

A 26-YEAR-old mountaineer was
injured Sunday afternoon after he
fell more than 300 feet while
returning from a hike up the
North Shore Lions mountain
peaks.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

According to North Shore
Rescue Team (NSRT) spokesman
Ross Peterson, Dan Jackson and
climbing partner Kris Johnson
were descending a snow slope
mid-afternoon on Sunday when
Jackson fell.

The accident occurred in the
headwater area of Harvey Creek,
southwest of the western peak of
the Lions, at an elevation of
about 4,000 feet above sea level.

Jackson ‘‘trocketted’? down a
snow chute and struck a tree.

Said Lions Bay Search and
Rescue Team member Marcel An-
drie, whose team of nine people
conducted the search for Jackson,
along with 10 NSRT rescuers,
“It’s not a dangerous area. but
(when) the snow crust is so hard,

once you take a fall on this, it’s
like skating on a sheet of ice.”’

The injured man’s climbing
partner hurried down the moun-
tain to Lions Bay and reported the
mishap less than two hours later.
The search and rescue effort was
intiated at 4:50 p.m.

A Labrador search and rescue
helicopter, based in Comox, land-
ed in Lions Bay at 9:30 p.m. to
pick up Johnson for the trip back
to the site where his friend fell.
Jackson was located and lifted in-
to the helicopter by 10:30 p.m.

A Buffalo aircraft assisted the
rescue operation by dropping
parachute flares to light up the
sky above the rescue site. The
flares bathed the Lions in eerie
yellow light and could be seen as
far away as Nanaimo.

Peterson described weather
conditions at the time of the
rescue as good.

He said Jackson and Johnson,
both Lower Mainland residents,
were ‘‘experienced and well-
equipped mountaineers.”’

Jackson was released from
Vancouver General Hospital on
Monday.

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