Bob Mackin Contributing Writer NORTH Shore community health nurses took to the streets Thursday aftertioon to protest a pro- posed cut to their car allowance. iv was the Jatest in escalating, province wide job action far othe BaCL Nurses Association. Nurses, induding, some 700 at Lions Gate, Hospital and more than 100 in the community, have been ina strike position since Saturday, Nurses instituted awork-to-rule campaign and were threatening a weekend Jong han on overtime to begin.at 3 p.m. today. Negotiations with the Health Einplayers Association of B.C (HEAIIC} were ongoing and expected to continne through the “Weekend. Main issues include workload and pay equity, 2 Phe community purses, who are currently paid between $20 “and S25 per hour, gathered at the 1 onsdale recreation centre's parking Jor around avon, drove down St. Georges past LGH, ‘aimed right on Lonsdale Avenue and south to Eap-lanade. ,. Their, destination was North Shore Health’s administrauon) “softies at 132 West Esplanade. “ would relrain from honking near 1 GH; sitice it ‘a quiet “ine “We! re hoping, that everybody looks aut their windows and car, eastbound pile-up ¢ on the Trans: Canada Highway n near Taylor Way. at approx- imately 4:30 p.m: Tuesday Two people were treated and released from hospital. The highway was: closed and traffic'was re-routed down 15th Street while firemen mopped’ up. A Squamish man was: charged with’ excessive speed relative to the road conditions. : - Actions of retired wv. realtor ‘disgusting’ North Vancouver prabation offiger or doctor, The judge confined. Matty to his home at night “after 6 p.m, every day Of the week for the next two A retired: ‘real estate agent received a conditional sentence on Wednesday for sex crimes committed against three young girls about 23 years ago. oo vere-aged: 1) to 13 at the time of. passage Istand near “Wes sentence, “years. Marry. WO yeas, ac pring to aterm in the conditional Escalating job action in B.C. nurses’ contract dispute boils over.on to North Van streets waves,” she said ere aa Mominge They were ake hoping, the HEABC would senap a proposal to reduce thmenthly car allow ance pant to commninity health Care DUTSES We havd, to provide Onn Own “ir, bux cour own insurance and pay if it, breaks down, * Spntau s sand. “Tf you do less kilome tres, voure pad higher, based ona sliding scale.” Sostad said gas isa fninof expense compared, sith the vost of _ purchasing and mi ainsaining, Acar oO visit patients at their homies. “ the police and sity cmplovees don't have te use their awn sits,” she said, “Wer re still out there in bad weather. In some parts of the ‘province, they need four wheel drives to. get - P thrash tough toads.” She said ifthe HEARBC vets the concession, it could cost the nurses who travel the most kilometres $100 a month. Uli Haag, North Shore Health's vice-president of human resources, dee clined to comment on the issue or disclose how “dents. The judge “ereport the incident, ‘Fhe. victims’ ‘order. not to‘drink alcohol for the next _intheir home. tine iets while she se iiuring one of the inci- id that! Maity" Ss. wile caught him ‘engaging in sex with nwo of the girls and dict not hanies are protected by ¢ court ' Marty has termifal bowel cancer. He’ cares for ~ his wife who has ¢ nphysema and receiv es oxygen “Marty, a father of four, was dies ad i inca blue suit jacker'and g giey slacks. The ruddy mutch nurses receive for their.car alle ance : “Tvs at the bargaining table. so Ini ner, prepared Ao vom nmient,” he sand. “Ht varies, depending on how thes exe their car, 1 cap appreciate it’s a concern to the community heakh care aurses, however it’s an tssac Belin expresses d Mt he bargaining table.” : ‘ Haag said additional management start would {¢ or hand through the weekend a LGH ss cmergenm.y tepartment to com pensate for the nurses” ban-on overtime. One nurse was added to the emergency deparunent™ on Thursday and Friday because of the scheduled dosure of dex. tors” offices. Doctors were continuing their momibhy protest against the government's reluctance to increase their salanes. Haag said: pationt discharges fram) hospital mia also be delayed, pending confirmation of home nursing care. Operation of tie Cedarview, Kiwanis Care Centre and Evergreen House residential Care facilities wasn’t expected to be aitected. But at LGH, 42 of the hospital's 323 beds were to be closed. Neurosurgery and neurology, general surgery, medi: cine, pediatrics, psychiatry and rehabilitauion were to be arteet- ed. The hospital maintains 224 essential service beds, Haag said hospital administrators did not expect a jump in traffic because of Hallowegn, “tfwe need to add more (staff), we'll add more he said: Restaurant hit by fire ‘NORTH Vancouver's : _Moustache Cafe was singed | by fire on Monday evening. Firefighters were called to the restaurant, which ocet- pies a historic house at 1265 ~ _, Marine Dray after. James. * “erupted in the kitchen, around tp ce Tt was the second ‘Moustache location to be hit «by fire A downtown branch | of the cafe was badly burned in January 1996, According to the North _ Vancouver. District. Fire Department, the fire at the Marine Drive location was ; caused by ongoing heat’, - buildup in the kitchen area, - Moustache owner Javan Khazali, who was notin the restaurant at the time, said _ he got.a call from staff sum-.- “ moning him to the blaze. The cafe sustained. heavy ‘water damage as a result of the fire, bur Khazali said the Moustache would be under- going immediate repairs and will reopen again in about “three weeks’ time. ‘ ‘Lost senior. back safe A We ost Vancouve ; - Was found safe'and sound a’: red, silver: ene Court Madam justice Janice Dillon said Matty reyed on the: girls The judge’ ‘disgusting.” ; $ of, bial life, wil be character, Matty purchased Passage Island i in the: 1960s. He lived on the island and developed and. sold Passage Island real estate. The judge summarized the crimes agatast the girls which included ‘sexual fondling, oral sex and . * sexual intercourse. Dillon said that Matty, when in tence of two years less a day to be 8 months of probation. rding to conditions of the non- -custodial * his mid 50s, instructed and watched two of the _ girls perform oral sex: on tach’ other, Het then, “until No! instructed them to perform oral sex on’him. |, The judge stated that Matty “kept” one of the girls, ‘a virgin, for sexual intercourse: He-had sex: ual intercourse. hand of one of with two of the girls. “The judge ' Said. Matty placed his penis i in'th haired man had'two supporters in the courtroom. Crown lawyer Mark Rowan and defence lawyer, Bill Smart agreed that ‘a conditional sentence was, appropriate. Outside court, Rowan said he would’ “have asked fora long jail sentence if Matty was nor terminally We, Pee »The’ judge: allowed Maity to live with ‘his -wife in a house. in the: 1100-block of Riverside: Drive 27. The Matt retaking the seymour area home wy aos Two'of the: victims s present ‘at the declin > day after she went missing, : on Oct. 26. Due : ‘Ingrid Blanchet, 77, aawent missing at 10:30 - "pm. Oct.:25 after leaving Lions Gate Hospital, “according to West... ' Vancouver Police. Police .: - asked the public to help. _ find the missing woman. * Blanchet was found in: | Vancouver the next'day.