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PATRONS of the = In-
temational Plaza Hotel who
Jeft their cars) parked on
lower Capilano Road Friday
mght were in for a nasty
shock when they returned to
their vehicles to dnve home
Someone had gone down
the road hurhtag rocks
through windshields — six in
all In addition, one dnver
had had $100 worth of
cassette tapes stolen from a

vehicle, while two others
had thei registration and
insurance papers stolen

Total damage from the
vandalism spree amounted
to SHSO) Tt was spotted by a
pehee officer on patrol at
> 45am

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occurred sporadically at the

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A5 - Wednesday, March 16, 1983 - North Shore News

Girl Probation officer

finds a job for Welsh

‘Suitable for his talents’

IT’S all settled. North
Vancouver District
Municipal Manager
Doug Welsh has been
given his work order
and will be making
things up to. the
community, atoning for
his fire alarm caper —
under the supervision
of the local probation
service.

The $75,000-a-year top
municipal servant will be
working off time to a total of
24 hours — his price for
coming home drunk from
the municipal awards dinner

of February 9, when he
returned to the Seymour
Budding of North Van's

Woodcroft apartments at 3
a.m., found he didn’t have
his keys and pulled the fire
alarm in order to get the
door opened.

__. Several of the tenants of

the 19-storey building, who
were wakened by the alarm

and clambered down the
stairs to evacuate” the
building have called the

News to complain that the
case 1S not going to court,
claiming favoritism by the
legal system to Welsh
because of his position.

However, local director of
the North Van_= adult
proBation§ service. Peter
Seivenpiper, thinks exactly
the reverse is true.

He says community work
iS a routine penalty for such
an offence and that rather
than having things. easy
because of who he is, Welsh
is being “publicly crucified”
(by the media) for that very
reason. .

Community service officer
Wilma Dungey met with
Welsh last Friday and made
arrangements with him to
work off the 24 hours.

But she will not disclose
the details of the work Weish
will be doing.

“Y don’t reveal with other
chents, other than the hours
are definitely going to a good
agency in the community.”
she says.

Dungey is miffed at an
article appearing in the
Province newspaper which
stated Welsh would be
applying his engineering
skills to sorting out a
flooding problem outside
Maplewood School, insisting
it is Completely incorrect.

She says she was pressed
for details as to what type of
work would be given to
someone im that position
ordered to do community
service and merely gave it as
an example as the file
happened to be on her desk.
Further, she says the
flooding was at Maplewood
Daycare, not Maplewood
School as reported.

It appears North Van
School Board did contact the
probation service

specifically concerning
Welsh, saying it would be
glad to provide = service
projects for his skills.

But Dungey says Welsh’s
work order has already been
agreed and though she will
not give details, she insists:
“It has absolutely nothing to
do with daycare, or with the
school board.

“I found something |
consider far more suitable
for his talents as an engineer.
The scheduling will be
between myself, Mr. Welsh
and the agency.”

As to whether the job in
question would’ merely
involve Welsh in some desk
work or whether it would be
physical labor, she says: “It
will amount to a little bit of
both.”

She says one of the
reasons the matter was
diverted to community work
service by the prosecutor's
office is because Welsh had

atready attempted to make ~

amends with the people he
had inconvenienced, by
appearing before the strata
council of the Woodcroft
block and apologizing.
Crown counsel Don Celle,
who made the recom-
mendation for community
work in the first place, says:
“He has apologized to
everyone concerned in this
thing and taken steps to get
some control over his
alcohol problem. Most of

this was done on his own.”

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