Shipyard wins
ferry contract

NORTH

VANCOUVER-based Vancouver

Shipyards Co.

Ltd.(VSY) has won a $1.5-million B.C. Ferry Corp. (BCFC) con-
tract to remove asbestos from the Queen of New Westminster.
Tom Ward, VSY general manager, said the ferry arrived at the
company’s North Vancouver shipyard last Friday.
The asbestos must be removed before the ferry undergoes a
major re-fitting job, a contract Ward said VSY also plans to bid

on.

The contract for the asbestos removal will (ake an estimated

two months to camplete.

NV man jailed
for possession

A 27-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver was sentenced Dec. 6 in
North Vancouver provincial court to five days in jail for posses-

sion of narcotics.

James Reginald Watson pleaded guilty to possession of can-
nabis resin in connection with a June 13 drug seizure.

In connection with an unrelated case.

Watson appeared

Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court to set a date for trial on

various criminal charges.

Watson is charged with attempted murder, assault causing
bodily harm and arson in connection with events alleged to have
taken place April 2 on East Third Street in North Vancouver.

Shoppers warned
of purse snatchers

FHE WEST Vancouver Police are warning Christmas shoppers to
be extra aware of nimble-fingered purse snatchers.

Three wallets were stolen from purses over a two-day period
earlier this week at the Park Royal Shopping Centre.

Thieves got away with a total of $1,400 in cash and numerous

credit cards.

A police spokesman said the victims had left their purses unat-

tended in shopping carts.

Chief medical officer backs [|
condoms-in-school proposal |

AN INCREASED accessibility to condoms in secondary
schools would be a positive health-care move that would

not promote promiscuity, according to the North Shore’s -

medical health officer.

Dr. Brian O’Connor made his
comments following a Dec. 10
West Vancouver School District
45 Board decision to confront the
issue of whether to install condom
machines in some of its schools.
The board accepted the recom-
mendations of superintendent
Doug Player to ask the West
Vancouver Parents Association to
seek input on the issue from
parent advisory groups active in
district elementary and secondary
schools.

In addition, the board will in-
vestigate the responses of students
in the seven B.C. school districts
where condom machines have
been installed.

Player said it was ine. itable that
the school board wouid have to
face the condom machine issue
that has divided many other B.C.
school districts.

“Ic had to come some time. It’s
an issue. Let's face it, people are
dying,’” he said.

According to O’Connor, as of
August 1990, 113 AIDS cases over
the past five years have involved
people under the age of 20.

And although the decision rests
with the school board, O’Connor
said he would advise the board to
install the machines in senior sec-
ondary schools and possibly in
junior secondary schools.

“If anyone were to ask me, |
would say that I believe the
availability and the accessibility to

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

condoms in a_ non-threatening
arena, if you will, is a very ap-
propriate thing. | don’t think their
availability in any way leads to
increased sexual activity. But I
think it does provide the necessary
information and the necessary
preventive measures for those
young people who are already
engaged in sexual activity,’* he
said.

Purchasing condoms in schools
may be less intimidating to stu-
dents than in drug stores, he said.

The board’s action was
prompted by a letter from a
mother cf elementary schoo! age
children that asked both North
Shore school districts to address
the issue from a preventive health
perspective.

In her letter, Janie Robinson
stressed that only Vancouver and
Victoria have more AIDS cases
than the 35 (all-age groups) on the
North Shore.

But O’Connor said the figures
were not surprising considering
that the North Shore is a farge
urban area.

“[ don’t think that that means
there’s anything particularly ‘un-
toward going on here. It’s just an
urban area right on the fringe of
Vancouver, and 150,000 people
five here,’’ he said.

PROVING THEY could be as
gracious in victory as they had
been obstinate during the pre-elec-
tion struggle to save old-growth
trees, Friends of Cypress repre-
sentatives Mondas night: presented
West Vancouver District’ Council
with a painting by local artist
Daniel Izzard.

By Maureen Curtis
Contributing Writer

“This is what you have saved,”
said Izzard, presenting his paint-
ing of an ancient cedar painted in
the Cypress Ridge area to newly-
elected West Vancouver Mayor
Mark Sager.

tzzard's actions were in
response to Sager'’s inaugural an-
nouncement last week that work
cn a long-range plan for the
Cypress Ridge old-growth forest
would be undertaken.

The artist's words were in sharp
contrast to the criticisms he had
levelled at council in the past for
planning to lease a 320-acre parcel
of municipally-owned land off
Cypress Bowl Road for develop-
ment as a golf course.

Sager said that council was
looking forward to working with
Friends of Cypress members.

He announced the appointment
of a committee that will include
Friends of Cypress representatives

Friday, December 14, 1990 - North Shore News - 5

Course foes come bearing gift

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

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who will help establish a
wilderness nature park at Cypress

Silk Plants

Ridge.

In January, the commitice will
examine the park's legal desiena-
tion, the construction of a trail
sestum, information booth and
parking, and the permitted reere-
ational uses of the park.

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