Short list
for bids

nexi step
in project

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because the technology is se.
new and complex.

He abo insists the plant
will not be “privatized.” The
GVRD will own the building
and control the daily testing of
the water. Neden added that
each company except for
Epeor is a Canadian subsidiary
of its foreign-owned parent,

While public-private part-
nerships ae common inthe
United States. Canadiin
Municipalities are also putting
their water operations up for
bid. The city of Moncton and
the regional
Hamilton Wentworth have
recently contracted out opera:
tion of water treatment phints.
Port. Hardy has signed a
design-buitd-operate contract
with Epcor.

Neden said: design-build-
operate contracts are cost offi
cient. GVRD statt will choose
a- short list of two or three
companies which will then be
asked to submit bids. The
unsuccessfil bids will cach
receive an
$100,000. In) return, the
GVRD holds the right to use
any of the ideas.

Cars go
through
bamicade

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vet been laid against the 31-
year-old male driver, who is
from Surrey.

Prowse had been restoring

“the car, “It was a creampaff,”
he said: “It had only 58,000
original miles. I was going to
get it painted and then the
next step, [was going to get
collector's plates for it.”

Down on Marine Drive,
cwvo West Van police officers
had been monitoring tratlic a!

a barricade closing off the road
for. “Christmas in Dundarave,”
an event organized by the

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Association. When the officers
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highway accident, the barti-
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According to unconfirmed
reports, two vehicles drove
into the barricades in the dark
and sustained damage.

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A Seattle woman has
been charged with
impaired driving causing
death in connection
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charged with impaired driving
causing bodily harm and failing
to provide a blood sample for
alcohol testing.

According -to | Squamish
RCMP, Mayne Island's Kevin
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vehicle was struck by a vehicie
heading towards Whistler that
had fost control and went inte

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@ drinking alcohol on “May 16, May 25 and June 21;
B refusing to submit to a breathalyser test on June 27.

Before Judge Bill Rodgers on ‘June 30:

Robert David Hetherington, 45, of North Vancouver, was
fined $500 and: had his driver's licence suspended for three
months after he pleaded not guilty to impaired driving, but
instead pleaded guilty to the lesser or included offence of dri-
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