Plan your + weekend with Now January 4, 1989 News 985-2131 NEWS photo ithe Woxefiokt = FIVE-YEAR-OLD Tara Haskill has a lot to be proud of. Showing off one of her S trophies, the North Vancouver youngster from the North Shore Taekwondo School placed first in the five to 10 year-old sparring division at a recent national tournament in Reno, Nevada. Don’t mess with Tara | FIVE-YEAR-old Tara Haskill would like to set the record straight on her achievements. ““That’s six trophies, not five,’’ the North Vancouver Taekwondo whiz-kid says correcting her mother who lists off a string of trophies Haskill has won for excellence in the Korean aartial art. Haskill holds a green-belt in Yzekwondo which she recently put to use at a national tournament in S Reno Nev. The youngest entrant, Haskill placed third in the giris*five to 10 year-old sparring division. Four members of the North Shore Taekwondo School attended the three-day competition. The schcol is the largest, full-time martial arts school on the North Shore. WASTE DISPOSAL CRISIS Service cuts loom at LGH LIONS GATE Hospital will be forced to decide which med- ic: services to cut at the end of this month if a solution to s bio-hazardous waste disposal crisis is not found soon. LGH president’ Robert Smith said Tuesday he will meet with the hospital’s board at) the end of January to make the necessary budget decisions if no additional funding for bio-hazardous waste removal is forthcoming from the provincial government. As chronicled in a Dec. 11 News story, the problems hospitals face in ridding themselves of bio- hazardous waste had become so serious that Smith and = ad- ministeators from Royal Colum- bian Hospital and Mount St, Joseph's Hospital appealed to the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s board of directors for solutions in a Nov. 30 in-camera meeting. Estimated annual costs for removal of LGH's solid) waste jumped 272 per cent in one year — from $44,000 in 1987 to $120,000 in 1988 — after the hospital stop- ped burning its potentially hazard- ous waste in its own incinerators last April and began shipping it to an incinerator in) Washington Stale. Waste disposal costs have con- sequently begun to cut into other areas of the hospital's budget. The hospital stopped burning bio-hazardous wastes, which = in- News Reporter clude human tissue, hypodermic needles and material from infee- tious wastes, because LGH in- cinerators could not be upgraded to meet air poffution standards. There are currently no bio-hazar- dous waste disposal facilities in the Greater Vancouver urea. In addition to the costs of bio- hazardous waste disposal, LGH is faced with the uncertainty of ship- ping it across a border that could be closed to the waste at any time and possible suspension of garbage disposal services if bio-hazardous waste accidently finds its way into the regular waste processed at the North Shore transfer station. Smith said appeals to the pro- vincial government for help in covering the cost of bio-hazardous waste disposal have yet to result in any additional funds for LGH. And the longer it takes for that approval, he said, the less flexible the options become for the hospi- tal’s budget. Ministry of Health spokesman Graydon Gibson said Tuesday the ministry was committed to finding a long-term solution to the pro- blem, ‘not 4 quick fix." Thief killed in jail PRISONERS ARE being questioned and an autopsy has been ordered following Sunday's death in Kent federal prison of a 24-year-old man originally convicted in a West Vancouver jewel and gold robbery. Raymond Clifford Chartrand was found in the prison’s: gyi nasium at approximately & o.m., an apparent sich of strangula- tlon, Also known a8 Raymond Sparks, Chartrand was found guil- ty in March 1988 of robbing a West Vancouver man after two masked thieves armed with a shotgun broke into the home of a West Vancouver fish buyer, ter- rorized his family and made off with an estimated $200,000 in gold nuggets and jewels. Chartrand was convicted and sentenced (2 842 years in jail after a running shue imprint found at the scene was linked to shoes he was wearing when arrested. The imprint from a Nike ninn- ing shoe was pieced together from broken window pane fragments, and 10 identical comparison points in the imprint and a subsequent plaster cast taken) from = Char- trand’s foot were identified by podiatrist Dr. Norman Gunn. Chartrand was sentenced to eight years on a charge of robbery and a further six months on an additional charge of wearing a disguise while committing a crime.