Lost boaters rescued THE NORTH Shore Lifeboat Society was called out last week to help search for three lost boaters. Society spokesman Dave Lamb said three people had rented a boat from Sewell’s Marina at Horseshoe Bay and had run into trouble when a fog bank rolled into the area. Lamb said a society crew was called out at 10:30 p.m. Monday to help in the search for the rented vessel. ‘Actually these people were very smart. As a result of the fog, they managed to find a small cove on the north end of Bowen Island and sat out the fog,’ said Lamb, who added the search for the missing trio ended at 3 a.m. Tuesday. Also involved in the search were two Canadian Coast Guard hovercrafts, the Canadian Coast Guard cutter Teal and a Gibsons lifeboat. Phoney ‘cops’ steal from senior NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP are investigating an incident in which two men posing as RCMP undercover agents stole $400 from an elderly woman. The woman, who asked not to be identified, said she was at a senior citizens complex in North Vancouver taking care of a senior. She added that she was arge‘ng with the elderly man she was looking after when she heard samcone shouting outside of her window. “There were these two men dressed in baseball suits. They said they were with the RCMP and were called to the building because someore had complained of shouting coming from the apart- ment,’’ said the woman. She added that she lei the two into the building and when they reached the apartment door she asked them for identification. “They said they had not yet been issued any identification and asked to come in. They were clean cut and I believed they were with the RCMP,” said the woman. ‘‘One had me distracted (in- side the suite) and that was when the other one took my wallet, I guess, containing $400.’’ When she discovered her wallet was missing she phoned the RCMP. “The police told me they do not have anyone like that working for them,”’ said the woman. She added that she believes the two men are iurking around senior citizens’ residences posing as RCMP officers and she wants other seniors to be aware of it. Meanwhile, the North Shore Christian Centre in North Van- couver reports that someone has been soliciting money on behalf of the North Shore Say No To Drugs campaign. “Please be advised that we do not solicit money over the phone and up to this point we have not asked fer any financial sup- port,” said North Shore Say No To Drugs coordinator Judy Chavner. She added that anyone who solicits money on the group's behalf without providing proper identification should be reported to the RCMP. Ready makes recommendations From page work currently being done by union members cannot be con- tracted out unless the skills needed for the job are not possessed by union members; if there are not enough BC Rail workers to do the job; if essential cquipment is not available; if the nature of the work does not justify the cost in- volved or the time to do the job cannot be met by BC Rail workers; * except in emergency cases or due to time constraints, BC Rail must first consult with the union before contracting out work and if it fails to do so a third party ar- bitrator. can impose a_ penalty against the company; *contracting out of work should not result in job losses of full-time BC Rail workers, except where justified by special cir- cumstances. Foley said the company did not expect some of Ready’s recom- mendations. “I’m surprised at the size of the wage increase and the dramatic changes to the contracting out issues,”’ said Foley. ‘‘Our present contracting out clause has been watered down considerably.’’ While CTU officials were not available to comment on the rec- ommendations, one union member employed at BC Rail told the News that he liked some of the changes proposed to contracting out. “It’s an improvement from what they were negotiating on but there’s also room for improve- ment. That contracting out issue is still vague,’’ said the worker, who asked not to be identified. *‘In terms of the wage, 7.5 and 7.5 is livable. Wages really weren’t a key ingredient. | don’t know how the guys will feel about it.’” Another contentious issue in the labor dispute was BC Rail’s desire to eliminate cabooses, conductor pilots and reduce crews. Ready recommends the two sides negoti- ate on the issues. And if a settle- ment is not reached by March 31, 1991, he will ‘‘render a final and binding decision on any or all of the three issues.”" Ready also rejected most of 18 changes BC Rail proposed to the existing collective agreement. If Ready’s report is rejected by either side, he said he will submit the report and its recommenda- tions to Jacobsen who can then impose a settlement on the union and the company. From pase @ desting with wider, economic issues like population decline and basic communits issues — we're looking at pro- jects.” A number of prajects were presented to the program ins the form of “areas of opportunity’ and ‘taction plans.”" Areas covered included shipbuilding and repair, a local hotel and conven- tion facility, municipal business licensing systems and a retail and commercial neighborhood analy. sis. Pyplacz said the business licenc- ing “opportunity’’ has captured the imagination of the province and will likely be the first of the projects to come to fruition. The economic development commis- sion proposed that a working test site be established on the North Shore to provide a transferable business licensing system that couid eventually be made available to all municipalities and regional districts. Said Pyplacz, ‘‘Right now business licence forms collect all sorts of information including use, square footage, numbers of employees ~—— things of that nature. But that is not entered in- to any of the data systems. Business licence information is not integrated regionally or inter- municipally. Every municipality has a different software. So what some of them collect and what some of them don’t collect is somewhat different. **Fhey don't use business licences as a data base. Business licences were originally set up for building inspections, plumbing in- spections, to make sure that you fit into the zoning. 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