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AS THE weather begins to fMuctuate, the frozen pond at Ambleside is no longer a safe place to play. West Vancouver municipal workers have erected signs to warn of the hazards of
walking or skating on the thin ice. .

HOSPITAL TO RECEIVE $134,000 FOR GARBAGE DISPOSAL

Victoria to subsidize
LGH bio-waste costs

LIONS GATE Hospital's 1988-89 bio-hazardous waste cility in the Greater Vancouver could not be upgraded to burn the bio-hagardous waste, which in-
disposal costs will be absorbed by the provincial govern- Regional District for bio-hacar- material and still meet air pollution cludes human tissue, pathological

dous waste disposal, LGH has standards. waste, hypodermic needles and

: ment. been forced to bear the cosis of Estimated annual costs fo material from infectious patients,
anres LGH > president) Robert Smith By TIMOTHY RENSHAW shipping itt medical waste to uno remove the hospital's average In carlier News stories chronicl-
said Monday the government has soe Sens Repseive incinerator in) Washington state monthly solid waste production of jag the bio-hazardous waste
agreed to pas the estimated ever since the hospital stopped ine 112.600) pounds consequently disposal crisis faced by the hospi-
$134,000 that it will cost the hospi. cingrating ats own bio-havardous jumped 272 per cent in one year -- tal, Smith said LGH would have to
tal to dispose of potentially infec. our back.Jbur the varbare pro- wastes last Apri! from $24,000 in TYST to S120900 0 start cutting services by the end of
ious waste until the end of March. blem is not resolved. ('d rather see The burning of complex and in 1988. January if no additional money

‘And that’s sreac’ Smith suid. | that money go to patient services." potentially hazardous waste was the hospital produces monthly See New

“Ht’s nice to have that monkey off Because there is currently no fa- halted because 1 GH incinerators an estimated 17,000) pounds of Page 3