APRIL 26, 1998

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on rape

Michael Becker

News Editor
michacl@nsucws.com

AB.C. Supreme
Court judge awarded
a North Vancouver
woman $211,800 in
damages for repeated
sexual assaults she
suffered as a child.

In February of 1995, a jury
convicted S: Hammer of rape
and indecent assault.

Hanimer was sentenced roa
30-montit jail term for raping a
young native girl over a nw
perind in the Jaw 1970s while he
was cniployed as a janitor ata
Sherwood — Park chementary
school,

The victim of the ual
assaults is now in her 20s.

na ruling issued April 20,
Mr. Justice David Vickers cat

lined his findings on the issue of

damages. Hammer and the
North Vancouver school district
board were named as defendants
in the plaintiff's pursuit of dam-

g the board, He
found in part that the board had
done all it could te ensure chat
Hammer was suited to work asa
janitor ar an elementary school.
He found the board should not
be held accountable for all
actions of its employees.

The = court heard that
Hammer first sexually assaulted
the pain when she was in

T he abuse ended when

fansterred to anol her school,
As a Grade 3 student it was
~ the girl’s job to take dirty brush-
es from classrooms down to a
brush cleaner in a boiler room
used by the school janitors.
At the time Hammer worke
asthe nighte-shift janitor. He was
generally” known te be friendly te

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CATAMARAN Ferries International Inc. chairman Jack Munro takes a breather during the unveiling of future fast ferry fare at its
North Vancouver assembly facility. Items such as quiche and wraps will take over from the traditional burgers and fries.

Ferry corp.

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New cuisine unveiled as first fast ferry launch date nears

Robert Galster
News Reporter robert@usuews.com

FOLLOWING a flurry of negative publicity,
B.C. Ferries executives are surely betting on all
fast ferry detractors to be eating crow before the
year is out.

But first many are a sampling of the recently Hnalized menu intended to

case future Horseshoe Bay-ta- Nanaimo commuters in 45 minutes or less,

sting of the planned menu was held on Thursday at the Nerdh Vancouver

rv assembly facility, which an intimate gathering of media repre-

sentatives among some 200 welders, fitters and electricians all feasting on the
complimentary grub,

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The menu was developed by Stuart Leslie-Young, on-board services man-
aver for the fast terries.

“We've had to be very, very innovative with the menu,” said Leslie-
Young. “We wanted to set a difterent tone for ferry food.”

What he came up with features a selection of dishes that includes sushi,
quiche, lasagna, chicken wraps and chili, What is noticeably missing is the
burgers and fries that have come to anchor the B.C. Ferries menu over the
year

“We've basicatly trashed our old menu,” said Leslie Young.

The new mena appeared to have passed the first taste test during its first
official brush with outsiders.

Fred Abney, a welder with Vancouver Shipyards, ate a slice of pizza, ham
sandivich and a roast beet saric h

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