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Locals survive
bus plunge

TWO NORTH Vancouver residents were released Tuesday from
hospital in Alaska after a tour bus plunge that claimed the life of
one man last week.

Jim King, 70, and wife Eleanor, 67, were aboard the Holland
America Westours-operated bus when it plunged off a gravel road
180 kilometres ezst of Fairbanks.

The Kings were among 29 passengers sent to hospital. Four re-
main in critical condition and six remain in serious condition.

Forty-one passengers were aboard the bus when it left Taylor
Highway 35 as it was descending from the 1,500-metre American
Summit, where weather conditions are often unpredictable.

Vancouver man Walter Meyerhoff, 57, was the oaly fatality in
the crash. He was the first passenger death in 42 years for the Seat-
tle-based company.

Appeal blocks
rail spraying

AN APPEAL faunched by Pemberton city council to halt BC
Rail’s attempt to spray herbicide on its track running between
North Vancouver and the Pemberton area has effectively thwarted
the rail company’s plats to spray this year.

Opponents claim the herbicide, containing tebuthiuron, muy
cause cancer, liver damage and diabetes.

But BC Rail maintains the amount of active chemical in the her-
bicide has the same toxicity as aspirin or table salt.

Demo forest
opens again

NORTH VANCOUVER'S Seymour Demonstration Forest
reopened Friday in another installment of the forest’s open again,
closed again saga this summer.

The 5,600-hectare Greater Vancouver Regional District forest
has been closed several times this summer because of high fire
hazards, with the latest closure coming Sept. 2.

Before that, the forest was initially closed July 27, reopened
Aug. 16, closed again Aug. 27, reopened Aug. 30 and closed Sept.
2

“Unless there is a return (o a spell of warm dry weather it is
likely the forest will remain open indefinitely,’’ GVRD spokesman
Bud Elsie said Thursday.

Police seize
heroin

POLICE RECOVERED approximately $500,000 worth of heroin
Wednesday following ar investigation initiated by the North Van-
couver RCMP drug squad.

A Search warrant was executed in Vancouver, where police seized
approximately four ounces of the drug.

Charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of traffick-
ing are 39-year-old Kenneth Lester of Vancouver and 28-year-old
Kristine Carleson of Oregon.

Coroner calis
for canyon signs

THE CORONER investigating the circumstances surrounding the
July 18 death of 20-year-old Stephen Daryl Lynch in North Van-
couver's Lynn Canyon has recommended that North Vancouver
District erect warning signs near the canyon's natural swimming
pools that are frequented by cliff-jumping youths every summer,

The coroner's report released Wednesday termed tie death ac-
cidental.

Coroner Ken Pitt found that reasonable safety measures were
already in place, but advised the district to place warning signs ‘as
near as possible to the most popular jumping sites.’’

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LGH readies for inspection

LIONS GATE Hospital is pearing
up fora Sept. 1 and lo standards
of quality inspection as part of a
Quality Assurance Accreditation
program.

The purpose of the program is
to ensure LGH sets and maintains
certain patient-care standards as
established by the Canadian
Council on Hospital Accreditation.

Beginning Thursday, the pro-
gram’s team of quality surveyors
will observe simple procedures
such as housekeeping objectives —
how long it takes staff to clean and
prepare a room for incoming pa-
tients — and more important pro-
cedures such as how staff report to
the hospital's board of directors on
the standards maintained.

“It's valuable because it shows
the Ministry of Health how we're
spending our money,"’ said Lions
Gate Hospital president Bob
Smith, ‘ht also gives assurance to
the people on the North Shore chat
we maintain a high standard of
care.”’

Three years ago Lions Gate
received the highest award of ac-
creditation: three years. Since then
staff have monitored quality daily
by inspecting rooms, tasting food,
reviewing charts and meeting regu-
larly with senior managers to
review how the hospital carries out
specific support services.

The Hospital Accreditation
team, with representatives from
the Canadian Hospital Associa-
tion, the Canadian Medical

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