AB - Wednesday, December 28, 1983 - North Shore News inquiring reporter by Ellsworth Dickson THERE HAVE been a few very sad fire stories in the news lately and I would like to pass on some seasonal fire safety tips from the Fire Fighters of the North Vancouver City Fire Department. Today’s question Is: ‘What are some seasonal fire safety tips?’’ Paul Bouchard Firefighter Your gas or ot! furnace should be serviced once a year and the aur filter changed. Make sure yur furnace vent pipe ts clear of anything leaning on it. It is very hot. Your fur~ nace intake pipe should be clear, too. Bruce McKinney Firefighter As far as your Christ- mas tree is concerned, keep it well watered. Add sugar (oO the water. Don’t put too many lights on one circuit. Don’t use real candles on the tree. It is not advisable to leave a lit tree alone Dean Larivee Firefighter Make sure your fire place chimney is clean by a visual inspection It should be cleaned every six months if’ you use at tegularly If you have an au tight free standing wood stove make sure its Nueces and chimney are clean Doug Potter Firefighter If your lich CNCLEV cnn tree on che vies valvhes fire wake Vor thy Peeoase ato get them mut oa fast os Keep wootbnet prorssityde COL Y conne fogyethes hernes chose the Goon and call the fire Gepartinent feo the Hrosptiboor (on 4 house Vet ative yee baa kh vac thye LY ee RS Rick Cannett Firefighter Which proside MIS tae booty crf Loupe ben when ash trays bangpty them inte CARERS CE dower the tonhet Bnd pot cate yore bate fren garbage Lom t go to ted when everyone leaves Cheek yours chesterfield Foor caparrette bratt, Mahe Sure you base a setyohke detec tar and ‘ent oecamseonally FOR DISARMAMENT | Veterans join push THERE ARE some new players in the B.C. anti- nuclear drama — veterans of the armed forces. By NEWS STAFF ‘‘We’re trying to add some weight to the anti-nuclear group,’’ says Redner Jones, a West V ancouver man who 1s among a dozen attempting to launch the B.C. veterans. The B.C. group, the oft- shoot of a similar group already established in Halifax, had its beginnings at a Vanier Park anti-nuke rally earlier this year in Vancouver. The speaker was a military person — ‘*who gave quite an intelligent talk’? on disarma- ment, according to Jones — who invited veterans to meet with him after the speech. A handful, including Jones, did and the decision to launch the B.C. group was made. The first meeting of the group — nine former members of Canadian armed forced and two observers — was held at Jones’ West Van- couver home week. Out of that meeting has come the decision to add the veleran’s perspective to the peace movement, both through the B.C. Veterans for Miulti-Lateral Nuclear Disarmament, and through formal or informal ues with such existing groups as the Royal Canadian Legion and the Army, Navy and Aiur Force Veterans. Jones sees the organization of the veterans as another means of giving the ant- nuclear movement credibility. ‘This past year, we've seen a lot of different groups formed to fight nuclear weapons,”’ says Jones. He mentions the Physicians for Social Responsibility, profes- sional engineers - and now the proposed veteran's groups — as groups that are WE SUPPORT showing the genera! public that ‘‘we’re not just Commie dupes and pacifisits.”’ ‘It’s a challenge that faces all of us,’’ he says of the nuclear arms race. **We (the veterans) aren’t trying to add anything new to the debate — we don’t have any special ex- pertise — but we are trying to present another perspective. ‘*We represent people who had to make some pretty serious decisions some years ago. As one of the people said at the meeting last week, we're people who have been there.”’ Jones, 58, served with the Canadian Armed Forces for three years during the Second World War, with both the Royal Canadian Aur Force and the Army Parachute Corps as a paratrooper. He was, he says, a ‘‘low ranker’’ but others involved in the Veterans for Multilateral Disarmament are career officers. One of those is Lt.-Col. W.W. **Woody’’ Coward, who is chairman of the B.C. group. Coward, Jones and the others involved in the initial meeting are going through the process of putting the group together now. As well as preparing for anti-nuke demonstrations ex- pected in the spring of next year, Jones says the group will approach the Pacific Command of the Royal Canadian Legion to discuss the role of veterans in the peace movement. 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