WEST VAN fire-fighters got soaked when they defended their hose reel race championship
last weekend at Mahon Park. The local department couldn't quite make it two titles in a row.

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THERE’S A new king of the
hose reel, with defending
champions West Vancouver
biting the dust in last
weekend’s third annual Hose
Reel Festival.

Firefighters from Dela
scooped first place in the
hose reel competition and in

the bucket brigade race,
drawing cheers from a crowd
estimated at about 3,000
people,

West Vancouver’s team
finished second in the col-

orful but grueling hose reel
race while the consolation
prize in the event went to the
UBC firemen.

In the bucket
New Westminster finished
second while New
Westminster and North
Vancouver District were
one-two in the tug-o-war.

Organizers are calling the
day a success, with people
two-deep along Lonsdale to
watch the opening parade
and a sell-out attendance of
550 for the dinner-dance that

brigade,

NEWS photo Eric Eggertson

No word on
next move

THERE’S NO indication yet of what
in the dispute between

next

will be

the Independent

Canadian Transit Union and the Metro Transit

Operating Company.
Mediated talks between

the two. sides continued

through the week, without

enough progress made to
stop a semes of rotating
strikes.

A news black -out has been
imposed on those talks
making it difficult to deter
mine their effectiveness.

The umon shut down bus
service in) North Vancouver
Thursday and in Vancouver
Friday, leading to
traffic snarls in the city

To press tame for
edition, the union had

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announced it would follow
the shut-downs of the this
week with further action.

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pages marked an escalation
of job action by the umon,
which has led to fears that
the next step could be a full,
general strike unless a. set-
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FD wins
reel title

ended the day.

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