COAST GUARD PERFORMS mock DRILL

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EMERGENCY CREWS froin the Canadian Coast Guard
and six oil companies worked throughout the day Wednes-
day to contain an oil-spill in Burrard Harbor.

such a disaster did occur.

Martyn Green, from Burrard
Clean in West Vancouver, a coop:
eruive organization made up of six

But the spill didn't actually. oc-
cur. i was a mock. exercise to
gauge how well government.:and
industry could) work . together” if

BARRY HORT IN, left, looks over. what remai
North Vancouver's Third Street Pay-N-Save
the driver knowing it, The driver drove away pulling the 2

North: Shore. News
Photographer ay

z

; for the North American Suburban Newspaper Association.

i He placed “third in the SNA liked
awards under the spot news cate-
gory for his May, 1986 photo ofa ‘the aftermath of the train wreck
train accident in West Vancouver, instead of taking the standard shot

Judges said .they

cars.
held in- Montreal Oct. 9. -
North » Shore News,

from Toronto, Peters has worked
here since 1978,. and has been

. This is Peters’
ISNA, He won a second , place in

skateboarder. ‘The skateboard pic-

ture, d said 2. Peters,

favorite, 3 |
The: other.

photojournalism

munity Newspaper
ompetitions

“NORTH SHORE-Ne\

winning
photographer Terry Pete °

$42,000 tow true 3
station. Officials say the fire occurred after an attendant attached the g
pais hose out before the propane ‘explosion.

_—e NORTH dione NEWS photographer Terry’ Peters won
his ninth photojournalism award recently, and his second

Peters
approach to the disaster, showing
( oo of towisted -metal of the train
An awards ‘preseniation: will be
AlLof Peters’. nine awards were

made’ to him for his work at the
Originally

manager: of the News'.
photography | department since
1980. - | a

second. award for:
1980 ‘for. a: sports~.photo ofa
“remains. ° his
‘awards made to. Peters were in the =

B.C. and Yukon Community News

ociation and Canadian Com-
Association:

aid this is the
has: taken pk

oi compinies,
time an exercis

(a

_ involving. both industry. and gov-

ernment.

“What we're trying to do. is
assume there has been a spill of
quite ca Significant proportion
beyond the Coast Guard's ability,
so that the off industry is: going to

after il w: engulfed it in flames in kz

Terry-Peters a North Ame

bes there

THIS photograph’ ‘of the wreekage, which. pecurred after: M
derailment in West. Vancouver, won: North: Shore. News photographer vs
tan photojournalism award. Peters won third
“prize: for a spot news “photo ‘in| the recent North American Suburban :
Newspaper Association Photograph contes :

3'~ Sunday, September 28, 1986 - North Shave News

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helping them." said

Green,

He said a communications cen-
tre was setup at Ambleside Beach,
and) a helicopter was on hand
surveying the disaster area,

Approximately: 60, workers: took
part in the taining area, primarily

propane fire acc
as pump to a van

“in Ambleside Park.

FORMER. WEST

“Vancouver. into its 75th birthday
x elebrations in 19872. 3°

Burrard ‘oil spill’ contained

from the oil industry, he said..

Companies involved | included
Eisso,. Chevron, Shell, Petro
Canada, Texaco and Trans Moun-
tain Pipeline.

Green said an. oil containment
boom, and oil skimmer equipment
were iised to help contain the mock

” spill.

Lanskail

to run

for WV

mayor

WEST VANCOUVER
mayoralty: candidate “Don
- Lanskail. says. that, after

cight years, the municipality
needs a change of leaders:
hip. -

By TIMOTHY. RENSHAW

News Reporter

The. 68-year-old “retired - forest ,

industry executive announced | his
candidacy. in the
forest

perience West Vancouver will need
the .municipality’s continuing

7 wrangle with the Squamish Indian

band over.the fate of cut-off lands

Vancouver
alderman Don’ Lanskail :

ep m° ‘for consentual 'governm-:

ent,” Lanskail said, “*T don’t look

“at myself-as the boss. I) want to”

lead a strong.‘council: —. one that
disagrees with me. from ‘time to
time.’ The present council, : well,

“you just never hear anything from

them.”

Lanskail moved to B.C. in'1945
and has served as a chief executive
of Forest: Industrial Relations, the
Pulp. and | Paper: Industrial Rela-

tions’ Bureau. and the Council of

Forest Industries.’

He was’'a. West. . Vancouver

alderman for 10 consecutive terms”
~until he was defeated in 1982.

TP don’t want.to comment one!
way or; the other.on his (West
Vancouver. Mayor.: Derrick «His

. phreys)’style, but J offer a choice.
Lam a.team player and a profes-

sional negotiator.’”
-. Humphreys, who will be running

for hig fifth term, said it will be his

last tour of mayoral duty if he is
elected.

“ty ‘think 10 years is enough. We Ss
the proper time.’" :”

~The mayor said West Vancouver :

is “tin. good shape. It looks. better:
and feels better. The people of

West, Vancouver ‘pay. one _of the’
" Jowest property taxes in Canada.”?

; Humphreys added that: he was
ooking ‘forward “to ‘leading . West

Nove 15.)
‘municipal election Sept. 19. 0 3y

He said Wednesday his 31! years .
“as a. high-level
- negotiator have given him’ the ex-

industry ~