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NEWS phote Stuart Davis
FUN IN the snow is a family affair, especially at such local **hot spots’ as Cypress Bow!
during the holiday season. The same slippery staff that put big grins on these faces, put

scowls on the faces of local motorists, however, with a cash of minor accidents duc to
snow, sicet and ice.

with a fond look back at a local,

A3 - Sunday, January 1, 1984, - North Shore News

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Automotive........B5
Classified ........ Al2
Entertainment... . . . B6
Fashion...........G
Food .............C4
‘Mailbox .......... A7
Sports ............Bl
Hayden Stewart... . .C5
Travel ----------- G4
What's Going On. ..B8

PROTESTING RESIDENTS of Bowen Island may
have won a hearing with the board of directors of
the B.C. Ferry Corporation, but they’ll still face
what they consider to be unfair increases in ferry

fares, starting today.

Georg Helenius, the island’s
Greater Vancouver Regional
District representative and a
member of the committee
fighting the increases, says it
will be late January before
the mecting takes place.

Unyl then, he says, resi-
dents face the prospect of
paying as much as 84 per cent
more for the crossing than
they have.

The committee won the
decision to face-off against
the board of directors at a
meeting of residents Wednes-
day. It was called in reaction
to a 50 cent across-the-board
cul in) proposed increases
which residents welcomed
bul said wasn't enough

Helenius said the fight will
centre on passenger fares,
which he calls ‘‘ridiculous”’

‘The car fares aren't bad,
but the 50 cent reduction ac-
tually throws cverything into

a mess,’’ Helenius said Fri-
day. *‘On some runs, some
people will be paying six per
cent tess while some of the
fares will still go up by as
much as 84 per cent.’’

““Off-island people who
own property here or who are
visiting can actually get a
return fare for six per cent
less,’” he said. ““The day-to-
day commuter will have to
pay 48 per cent more. That's
where the real objection is to-
day. If it weren't for the com-
muters, the ferries wouldn't
have any traffic at all,”

Helenius said the commit-
tee will attempt to-.convince
the beard that it should roll
back increases to 10 or 15 per
cent.

“But it’s going to be an
uphill struggle from now
on,’’ he says.

Collision claims two

from West Van

IWO WEST Vancouver
residents are dead foflowing a
head on collision ncar
badysmith on Vancouver
Island Tuesday

John Henry Skater 71) and
his 68 year old wile Mary.
were among four people kill
ed in the crash

Two others riding tn the
same cal Paul Shark,
4) and sen Cameron, cight,

of Whiiby One were also

killed

Sharrock’s wile Beverty
43, won hospital ino serious
condition

The driver and lone ou
pant of the other can involv cd
in-othe ocyash, 18 year old
David Batley of Ladysmith
received only minor myufics

Pohce ino Ladysmith are
rcleasing few detasts of thy
crash pending Complenian ol

thetr raveséi ation

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