2g 3 sundas, March 26. 1989 0 North Shore News WV to appeal boutique decision WATERFRONT BUSINESS DRAWS FIRE FRO.VI NEIGHBORS MAYOR DON Lanskail announced that West Vancouver District Council will be appealing the recent provincial court decision that gave Marilyn Diligenti permission to continue operating her retail clothing store, Champagne Tastes, out of her marina-zoned boat house at Garrow Bay. “We will be appealing the deci- sion to higher courts."’ Lanskail said Monday night. The provincial court ruled that a retail clothing store is a permitted use under West Vancouver's bylaw concerning marina-zoned parcels of land. By MAURE CURTIS Contnbuung Writer But the decision did not eo down well with some of the resi- dents in the Garrow Bay area, who have been annoyed by the en- croachment of commercial activity in their neighborhood and the ure of the public beach in the bay. The group of residents urged council to continue ta pursue op- tions available to it, pointing out how the waterfront business handle the volume. The residents also want applica- the foreshore and water lot associated to be area tions for private use of with Champagne Tastes denied, and the marina rezoned tO protect recreational beach use of the Garrow Bay beach. The beach and beach access also need to be upgraded, accarding to in- creases traffic in a neighborhood where the roads are ill-equipped to local residents, who say that rock debris has been dumped on the sand. Champagne Tastes was original- ly operated out of the Diligenti home until the municipality levied fines for operating a business out of a private home and without a business licence last year. NEWS photo Kike Wakelleid HEART ATTACK survivor Judd Warner, left, recently met with Dr. Warren Mayo and other Lions Gate Hospital ICU staff. Warnec was sown the new monitoring equipment purchased through a fund-raising campaign in which he was involved. New state-of-the-art heart equipment comes to LGH NORTH SHORE residents suffering heart attacks won't necessarily have to cross the bridge any more to get to the special kind of care and facilities they need. Lions Gate Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is now as good as you could find anywhere. **Now we only have to take our patients over to Vancouver if they require open heart surgery or rena) dialysis,’ said Dr. Warren Mayo, who is justifiably proud of ICU's new state-of-the-art monitors. LGH has six new monitors, partly because of 34-year-old lawyer Judd Warner, who suffered a heart attack Nov. 3, (987. Kept alive by two North Van- couver Crown counsel sherriffs who were skilled in CPR, Warner was transported to LGH's ICU, where monitoring equipment pro- vided the information on his vital signs that the medical staff needed in order to stablilize his condition so that surgery could be perform- ed. In a recent reunion at ICU, Warner met some of the staff that worked through the night to keep him alive, including RN Sally By MAUREEN CURTIS Contributing Writer Burke, who monitored him at his bedside. He shook bands with Dr. War- ren Mayo, who accompanied him the next morning by ambulance across the closed centre lane of Lions Gate Bridge to St. Paul's Hospital! for open heart surgery. But LGH also has a warm regard for Warner, who, following his recovery, participated in a4 highly successful fund-raising drive to update the [CU monitors that played such a key role in saving his life. There were only three outdated monitors available in the busy six-bed ICU back then. Warner wrote a letter that was sent by the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation to every home and business on the North Shore last June. “When you or a member of your family suffers a medical emergency, you want to know that the best possible equipment and expertise will be waiting for you at your local hospital,’ Warner wrote, Response to the letter was so great that $130,000 in donations were received. “We were overwhelmed. There is a very strong bond between this hospital and the community it serves,"’ said Melanie Wheating, the hospital foundation's devel- opment director. The six new Marquetie bedside monitors provide staff with a wealth of information and can even allow a nurse stationed at one bed to monitor a patient at another bed. Each bedside computer is also connected to a ventral terminal in the nurses’ station. A memorial gift of $40,000 from the family of Susan Elizabeth Duncan will add a Data Processing Monitor Review Terminal that will take reading samples from the monitors at predetermined inter- vals and store it for doctors to review. This will be an asset as the hos- pital moves towards computerized charting, which will free nurses to spend more time on patient care. At the reunion, Dr. Mayo show- ed Warner the portable systern that continues tc monitor a patient who is being transported to the operating room or even by am- bulance to St. Paul’s for an opera- tion. An earlier LGH Foundation campaign also allowed the hospital to purchase new specialized beds for the 1CU which help nurses position a patient and even weigh or x-ray him without his being moved. The Foundation is hoping to duplicate last’ year’s successful campaign to meet this year's cb- jective of $500,000 for top priority hospital needs, and $500,000 for equipment in the newly renovated maternity ward. “We are very oplimistic. The support of the community makes such a difference,*" said Wheating. Don WEST Vancouver Lanskail ...appealing the decision to higher courts. Mayor Acid spill impact tested THE PROVINCIAL en- vironment ministry is cur- rently conducting tests to assess the environmental impact of two targe acid spills into Howe Sound from the Woodfibre pulp mill. Zaheer Manki, waste manage- ment officer for the provincial Waste Management Branch, said Thursday test results should be available in the next few weeks. He said 40,000 litres of 93 per cent pure sulphuric acid spilled Oct. 10, 1988 into Howe Sound followed by a 30,000-litre spill of the acid Jan. 5. Boih spills resulted after the acid made its way into the mill's sewage system and was discharged into the Sound. Areas of Howe Sound adjacent to its Woodfibre and Port Mellon pulp mills were closed last November to commercial and rec- reational crab, shrimp and prawn fishing after results from a federal Fisheries and Oceans Canada study showed elevated levels of dioxins and furans in Howe Sound fish samples taken near the mills. Business . . Classified Ads.......... Editorial Page.......... 6 Fashion ............... 13 Horoscopes ..... seeeees BO Bob Hunter........ | Lifestyles.............. 27 Maiibox........ se eeaee 7 WEATHER Sunday threugh Tuesday, periods of rain. Highs near 39°C; lows near 2°C. Second Class Registration Number 3885