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A NORTH VYancouver pharmacist — unsuccessful to date
in her three-year lobby to keep a guard dog on duty at her
drugstore — says she will continue to keep the dog on duty,
continue her fight, and look to be compensated for her legal

FIVE-YEAR-OLDS Graham (left) and Mathew close their eyes, reach for the sky and hope to catch the

pall during a T-ball game at Lynn Valley Park.

NEWS photo Terry Peters

costs.

Queensdale Pharmacy owner
Bettina Voigt, who was held up in
August and December 1983, and
involved in an attempted hold-up
April 30, is challenging the College
of Pharmacists of B.C. (CPBC)
for her legal fees and other ex-
penses incurred from Feb. 14
disciplinary hearings over her using
a guard dog.

The college currently disallows
guard dogs in B.C. pharmacies
because of health reasons.

Voigt purchased a Rottweiler
guard dog following her first two
hold-ups. During the third, the dog
was shot and injured, but was
credited for scaring off the
suspects.

A CPBC council, which met
Thursday to decide whether or not
to allow B.C. pharmacists the right
to keep guard dogs on duty, drew
a five-five vote on the issue with
one member abstaining, Voigt
said.

“The chairman of the standards
committee told me the issue is dead
until October," she said.

“Tm shocked. It procrastinates
the issue further. The history of
my disciplinary hearings was not
even known to the council
members. ['m going to have to
send all of the members copies of
what happened at my disciplinary
hearing."

The college disciplinary commit-
tee found Voigt not guilty of
negligence and misconduct, but
recommended that she discontinue
keeping a dog in her pharmacy.

“The dog is in my pharmacy
and I haven't removed it,” she
said.

Voigt said the college position,
which argued during the
disciplinary hearings that guard
dogs were disallowed in phar-

By MICHAEL BECKER

ws Reporter

macies by virtue of the provincial
Health Act, is a red herring.

She said the Ministry of Heath
regional health department recent-

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QUEENSDALE PHARMACY

owner Bettina Voigt...’' very
disappointed.”

ly sent a fetter to CPBC standards
committee chairman George Petty,
indicating that there were no ob-
jections to guard dogs on duty in
B.C. pharmacies.

“According to the letter, we're
not Hable under the Health Act,
and they passed the decision on to
us."" said Voigt.

“| will argue in October that the
new Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms gives me the right to
protect myself from armed rob-
bery.”*

There were 47 armed robberies
in B.C. pharmacies last year.

Voigt said she has a petition
signed by hundreds of her phar-
macy customers supporting her
position,