NEWS BRIEFS

Missing person

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP are searching for a
missing person who watked away from Lions Gate Hos-
pital at 2 p.m. on Aug. 20.

Jane Perry Scammell, 34, is described as being suicidal
and has attemped suicide once before.

Described as having a petite build, black hair and sev-
eral tatoos on her left arm between her wrist and her
shoulder, Scammell was last seen wearing street clothes.

She is known to frequent the Park Royal Shopping
Centre in West Vancouver.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked
to call either the North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1311 or
the West Vancouver Police at 922-4141.

Blasts scheduled

RESIDENTS near North Vancouver's Versatile Pacific
Shipyards Inc. (VPSI) will hear two loud bangs Tuesday.

Lightning Productions Ltd. will be filming the new TV
action series “Lightning Force’’ Aug. 27 within the
shipyard site; part of the filming will include setting off
“two rather loud bangs’ during the day, said Lightning
Productions location manager John Penhall.

He added that one explosion will go off between 9
am. and 10 a.m. and the other will go off between I
p.m. and 2 p.m.

“The District of North Vancouver and the RCMP
have been advised of this and have given their approv-
al,’* said Penhall.

Story corrected

A STORY in the July 31 News incorrectly reported that
Sharon Daggilt, 28, and Reginald Daggitt, 40, both of
Vancouver, had been charged with forgery and five
counts of possession of stolen property in connection
with a July 10 incident at the Park Royal branch of
Central Guarantee Trust.

While Sharon Daggitt was charged with one count of
forgery and one count of uttering wu forged document in
connection with the incident, Reginald Daggitt faces no
charges.

A Nov. 84 trial date has heen set for Sharon Daggitt
in West Vancouver provincial court.

NDP calls for federal
support of shipyards

THE FEDERAL and provincial governments should do
. everything they can to support B.C.’s ailing shipbuilding

industry and its workers, the New Democratic Party has

said.

NDP finance .critic Glen Clark
and labor critic Moe Sihota said
Ottawa should recognize its re-
sponsibility to B.C.’s shipbuilding
industry and that Victoria has an

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Sunday, August 25, 1991 - North Shore News - 5

GVRD board to discuss
Seymour dam options

THE FUTURE of Seymour Falls Dam will be the subject
of a Greater Vancouver Regional District board meeting

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obligation to help ease the transi-
tion of workers during industry
restructuring.

‘Workers and their families
should not have to bear the brunt
of downsizing and restructuring in
the B.C. shipbuilding industry,”
said Sihota. ‘‘A New Democratic
government will participate and
negotiate to see that workers af-
fected by shipyard closures get
fair treatment.’’

Meanwhile, North Vancouver-
Lonsdale NDP candidate David
Schreck said a confidential North
Vancouver City report obtained
by the News Aug. 4 that says the
Vancouver Port Corp. is consider-
ing developing the Norterm site
near the Versatile Pacific Ship-
yards Inc. (VPSI) property as a
forest products terminal, ‘‘in-
dicates how B.C. ship workers
have been betrayed.”

He added that Norterm and
VPSI’s $60-million floating
Panamax dry dock, cannot share
the same deep-water berth.

VPSI wants to sell the dry dock
to an unnamed Asian buyer for
$14.8 million to help pay off a
long list of creditors. Failing that,
it wants the federal government to

purchase the dry dock for $7.5
million. Ottawa initially invested
over $28 million in the dock.

“First and foremost the provin-
cial government must emphasize
federal responsibility for the Port
of Vancouver and for keeping the
dry dock,’ said Schreck. ‘‘But in
the event Ottawa again abandons
B.C., then the province should at
least represent the interests of the
shipyard workers in restructur-
ing.”’

Last week Capilano-Howe
Sound MP Mary Collins said the
federal government will work with
the provincial government and
VPSI to find a way of keeping the
dry dock in the port.

But she said Ottawa is not in-
terested in operating the dry dock.
She did not offer any details on
what measures the federal gov-
ernment might take to keep the
dry dock in the port.

Seven of 10 classes of VPSI
creditors have approved the North
Vancouver-based company’s
restructured business plan.

The remaining creditors will
meet with VPSI on Aug. 27 to
discuss the plan.

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The board will hear consul-
tants’ recommendations on a
variety of options for the North
Shore dam.

According to John Morse, chief
engineer of the water district, the
options include rebuilding the en-
tire dam or doing $18 million in
remedial work to bring the dam
up to current earthquake stand-
ards.

In an earthquake, the Seymour
dam would have little resistance to
cross-valley ground motions, ac-
cording to an earlier report.

Morse said broad estimates on
replacing the 30-year-old dam pin
the cost at $36 million.

If replaced, the new structure
could triple the reservoir capacity,
which is currently 20,000 acre-feet
— a measure of volume equivalent
to 20,000 acres of water one foot
deep.

The Seymour reservoir is one-
third the size of the Capilano res-
ervoir. If Seymour is replaced, the
mew reservoir would have the
same capacity as Capilano, 60,000
acre feet.

Morse said the existing Seymour
structure was intended to be raised
57 feet.

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