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TR AVIS Kingston. at the wheel of. tle stolen
hydroplane that he and his Dad had spent the best

. part of two years buiiding. The family is offering a
reward for the return of the speed beat.

Travis’s mom Kare 1, Wal runs a daycare i in the home, was busy. -
» swith the children i in the front yard when the thieves struck.

° “Ie was in the middle of dhe day,” she said. “That's what j just
killed lus; the fact that we were home.”,

The family is..convinced that the robbery was planned. “It

would have taken at least four people to lift it up and a truck to
take it away,” said Karen, “They knew what they wanted.”

Now she and her son are hoping that someone will recognize
the bright red; custom painted boat if they sec it. Police have even
told the family that they, stand a good chance of g getting it back
Gecause it is so  unigie and easily recognized. Lo -

© Still, all of this is of little consolation to son Travis. He says he
docsn't know what he'll dé next but he wants To Keep racing boats
‘av s to get his own back.

“We ‘tl buiid another one Someday,” ‘hes said. . “But I liked this

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“This is about the health,
the welfare, the safety of our
childrett,” said GCre
spokesman Jeff Peterson.

John Moonen of CAFTE
(Citizens: Against Ferry

Terminal Expansion). said his -
group fully supported GCPC’s

move towards an injunction.

“(BC Ferries} should cake
the fret that an injunction is
being sought av an indication
of just how strongly people are
opposed to this,” he said.

West Vancouver council,
under the leadership of both
current mayor Ron Wood and
former mayor Pav Boname,
had previously considered tak-

ag our an injunction against

BC Ferries. Wood © said
Tuesday that council was still *-
hoping BC Ferries would hold —
off on its construction plans
until a long-range plan for the

* area had been completed.

“Weod sent a letter to
Premier Ujjal Dosanjh late last
week reiterating council con-
cerns that the project was “ill-
timed, _ inappropriate, and -
unitecessary.” ’

Veterson said teachers at
Gleneagles elementary already

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the day because of traffic
fumes from the Upper Levels
Highway. “You can have an
industrial ‘site or you can have
a school.” he said. “bur yeu
can’t have both.

“The school was there first.
It's a neighbourhood schosi,
and it has_a significant catch-
ment areca. Edon't five in
Horseshoe Bay, and Pye gota
boy in Kindergarten there. |
don’t want to risk his safer,

don't want him breathing all

those fumes.”

Peterson said some parents
were considering transferring
their children from Gleneagles
if the construction goes ahead.

BC Ferries spokeswoman
Deborah Dykes said the cor-
poration intended ro start con-
struction in November. °
BC Ferries presented its fat-
est plans to the public at a
meeting in West Vancouver in
fate June...

Peterson says the schedul-
ing of an open house one da
later did not give residents suf-
ficient. time to consider. the
plans. He said it was unaccept-
able to. have a7 10-lane wide
ticket and holding area “260
feet from the school. There

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Peterson said BC Ferries’
blasting would also create “a
significant amount of particu-
late” in the atmesphere.

However Dykes said the
corporation — had “greatly
sealed back” its plins to blast
into rock above Horseshoe
Kay in preparation for con-.
struction work. The origins!
plan was to blast 35,000 cubic
metres Of rock near Berth 3.
Now, says Dykes, the amount
is only 7,000 cubic metres. She
said BC Ferries will conduct
air quality tests at the site.

Dykes also said drivers cur-
rently il ting their vehicles on
the highway would be able to
switch thens off-once they
were able to park: in’ an
expanded compound; and that
traffic would be: segregated

‘from Gleneagles: school by”

east- and westbound lanes of
the highway, by Marine Drive,

and by the Lions Club packing .

_ lot overflow.

“We expect emissions to be
less than they are. today,” she
said, “and we don’t see there
would be any trafic issues with
children.”

Peterson refers to the
expansion plans as “a $30- mil-
fon © folly. ‘The wav (BC

Ferries) spend it tl prebably be’ :

$40-50 million. It’s a com-:
pleie waste of: taxpayers

money. They already recogniz

they've outgrown “Horseshoe”
Bay.” «

“Last night concerned resi-
. dente staged an anti-expansion

rally outside West Vancouver.
municipal hall. BC Ferries. was

invited, but declined to atrend

last night's council meeting.

Dykes said BC Ferries staff. ~

was corresponding. directly
with municipai staff to clear Up
any remaining questions.

RC Ferries has not. :y

“secured a blasting permit from

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