Bus depot
move discussed

THE VANCOUVER Regional Transit Commission will be making
a recommendation on tae fate of the North Vancouver Transit
Centre June 1. .

Transit commissioners met May 9 in North Vancouver to con-
sider arguments for and sgainst moving 77 B.C. Transit buses,
currently based in North Vancouver, to a garage in Burnaby.

B.C. Transit wants to base the buses in Burnaby. But the two
North Vancouver municipalities and the bus drivers would like to
see the North Vancouver buses share space with West Vancouver's
Blue Buses, located at the Lloyd Avenue transit centre in North
“Vancouver.

The June 1 meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. in the Richmond
Room of the Airport Inn Resort. The recommendation made by
the transit counmission will be forwarded to the B.C. Transit board
for final consideration. ,

Man guilty of
possessing cards

A 20-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver men was ordered to pay
$1,200 in restitution to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Visa centre after he pleaded guiity May 12 in North Vancouver
provincial court to possessing stolen credit cards.

Scott Alexander Flemming was originally charged with stealing,
possessing, and using credit cards in connection with incidents in
which Visa, PetroCan and Texaco credit cards were alleged to have
beco stolen. .

Appearing before Judge J.B. Paradis, Fiemming pleaded guilty
to the charge of possessing stolen credit cards.

A stay of proceedings was entered in the other two charges.

Flemming received a conditional discharge and was placed on
probation for nine months,

He was crdered to pay the $1,200 in restitution by Aug. 30.

Reform MP
to speak

THE REFORM Party of Crnada’s first MP bas been scheduled to
speak Friday, June 2 at a fund-raising breakfast for the party's
Capilano-Howe Sound constituency asscctation.

Beaver River, Alberta, MP Deborah Grey will address the
meeting, which is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. at West Van-
couver’s Dundarave Czie, 2427 Marine Dr.

Grey, who wen her seat in a March 13 federal byelection, wiil
also be the feature luncheon speaker at a Saturday, June 3 meeting
of Reform party members from all over the Lower Mainland.

The all-day meeting is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. st the Coach
House Inn, 700 Old Lillooet Rd., North \ ancouver.

Tickets for the June 2 breakfast are $13.50; registration fee for

5 - Wednesday, May 24, 1989 - North Shore News

FIRST QUARTER RESULTS

BC Rail announces profits

THE BRITISH Columbia Railway
group of companies announced
unaudited consolidated net income
of $19.3 million for the first
quarter of 1989, compared with
$14.3 million for the same period
in 1988.

Railway operating income for
the first three months was $25.2
million, compared with $20.2 for
the first quarter in 1988.

Revenues for the first quarter of
1989 totalled $83.4 million, against
$83 million for the first quarter of
1988.

Carloadings show a slight
decrease from 59,271 in the first
quarter of 1988, to 55,098 for the
same period this year. This is at-
tributable to a variety of factors
including larger capacity cars.

BC Rail Ltd., the operating sub-
sidiary of the British Columbia
Railway group of companies, has
reported an unaudited net income
of $2.9 million for the first three
months of 1989, after interest ex-
penses of $22.7 million prisaarily
paid to British Columbia Railway

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