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Columnists discuss money, sex

TWO NEW columnists join the News team today.

Financial wizard Mike Grenby will help North Shore readers with their money
matters in his efluma Dollars and Sense. Dr. Ruth Westheimer will give her
words of wisdom in a sexual advice column, Ask Dr. Ruth.

Dollars and Sense can be found on page 39 of today's paper: Ask Dr. Ruth is

on page 34,

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VANCOUVER'S Vancouver Shipyards Co. Lid.

has been awarded a $6.2 million contract from the federal
government (o build a 700-class icebreaker for the Canadian

Coast Guard.

The announcenient was made
Monday by Capilano MP Mary
Collins on behalf of Supply and
Services Minister Michel Cote.

Shipyard general manager Tom
Ward said Tuesday the contract,
though relatively short-term, was
especially important for his com-
pany because “it is the first new
ship construction contract we have
had in three years and the first ship
construction contract we have had
from the Ministry of Transporta-
tion."

Ward said the contract, which
his company bid on in June, will
provide work for approximately
120 shipyard employees at its peak
construction period.

Vancouver Shipyards currently
employs about 220 people. During
the recent depressed world ship-
building market) Vancouver Ship-
yards has concemrated almost ex-
clusively on ship repair) work,
Ward said.

“It's been steady, but you can't
set any long-term plans on it, We
have been living month to
month."*

Overall the Transport Canada
contract will maintain an average
of $5 jobs at the North Vancouver
shipyard and 50 additional jobs in
associated industries for one year,

Ward estimated that half of the
$6.2 million would be invested in
purchasing materials, 60 per cent
of which would come from local
West Coust industries.

Marine and Shipbuilders Union
(MSU) local S06 business manager
Ron Ferguson said Tuesday the
contract ‘“thelps us out tremen-
dously. We've been in the
doldrums for the past few years.

Ferguson, who said his 700-
person local is 50 per cent unem-
ploved, estimated about 100 MISU
members were currently working at
the North Vancouver yard.

Vancouver shipyards’ contract
follows the Aug. 12 signing of a
letter af intent awarding the design

News Reporter

and construction of the $317 mil-
lion Polar Class 8 icebreaker con-
tract to North Vancouver's Ver-
satile Pacific Shipyards Ltd.

Ward was a member of the local
Greater, Vancouver Coalition on
Shipbuilding, which lobbied io
secure the Polar 8 contract.

SHIPYARD general manager ‘Tom
Ward...contract will previde work
for approximately 120° shipyard
employees.

Though it did not lobby for th:
Vancouver Shipyards contract, the
coalition, Collins said Tuesday,
has helped to raise the awareness
of shipbuilding’s importance to the
West Coast.

Prospects for further
building contracts for the West
Coast, the Capilano MP said,
‘Jooked better now than they did a
year ago.’

The shallow-draught, 160-foot
Coast Guard vessel to be built by
Vancouver Shipyards will be based
in ray River in the Northwes:
Territories.

The vessel will carry: equipment
needed to deploy and maintain
buoys and other navigational aids
on the MeRKenzie River.

ship-