Boarders spend
night on Cypress

Robert Galster

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com

THREE snowboarders
were forced to spend
last Friday night at
Cypress Bow! after
becoming trapped in a
aly.
ee the three 21-year-old
males arrived at Cypress Bowl
at about 10 a.m.

More than 17 haurs later,
West Vancouver
received an overdue snow-
boarders call. It was 5 a.m. on
Saturday by the time North
Shore Rescue personnel
began their search.

The rescuers were able to
track the threesome after
locating three sets of tracks
heading into an out of bounds
area.

The group had split up
during the night: wheu their
attempts to climb out of the
gully triggered a series of
small avalanches.

“These guys are very
lucky,” said) North Shore
Rescue squad member Tim
Jones, “The key to this is
snowpack stability changes all
the time, It’s unpredictable.
What is predictable is don’t
go skiing out of bounds.”

One of the three was first
spotted from a helicopter at
about § am. where he was
hanging onto a tree to keep
from falling down a 60 degree
slope.

He was airlifted to satery.
The remaining. nwo. snow-
boarders were located a short
time later and Likewise airlitted
ro satety about an haur-and-a-
half later.

Police-

“The whole operation was
a very good tactical opera-
tion,” surmised Jones adding
it also involved risk to the res-
cuers,

Brew Carey
sued by A&W

Robert Gatster

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.cont

A disagreement
between a fast food
chain and its
spokesman is heading
for the courts.

Last week, North
Vancouver-based A & W
Restaurants filed a statement
of claim in che Supreme Court
of B.C. against U.S. comedian
ant actor Drew Carey.

“We had a contrace with
Mr. Carey that explicitly stipu-
fated he net endone another
(company),” said A & W's
director of marketing Monica
Jacschkey.

The suit alleges Carev
broke the contract last) year

during one of the episodes of

The Drew Carey Show which
“prominentiy featured 3
McDonald's restaurant in
Beijing, China.

“During othe program
Carey advertised and publi-
tized McDonald's and_ its
products or, alternatively,
publicized, promoted — or
endorsed McDonald’s and its
products, contrary to the
agreement benween the plain-
uff and the defendants,”
alleges the claim.

The chim names both
Carey and his company Work
Hard, Inc. as defendants.
Both are based in Los
Angeles, California.

The episode in question
aired on Nov. 18, 1998 and
was entitled High Road To
China.

Carey signed a contract
with A & W Restaurants on
Feb, 18, 1998. It guaranteed
Carey $450,000 US for the
first year and included an
option for the restaurant chain
to extend the cantract for an
additional year at $600,000
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