December 30,1994 | 36 pages

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@ Weekly Real Estate
section: 25-36

Heritage look at the
McNair house: 12

@ Classified.................20

@ Entertainment.............16
@ Inside Stories..............11

#@ Sunshine Girl..................9

TV Listings. 14
B What's Going On.........13

a A Sook at some of the
sports highlights of
1994: 10 :

Weather
_ Saturday: mainly cloudy
with showers
High 7°C, low 1°C.

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The party’s over Mikey
WEST VANCOUVER-GARIBALD! MLA David Mitchell puts the stranglehold on Mike Harcourt
look-alike Kevin Crofton. The North Vancouver comedian is half of the satirical duo Local
. Anxiety, which is performing The Year in Revue at the Arts Club until Jan. 7. Mitchell is

expected to make a cameo appearance New Year's Eve when the duo will perform such
musical classics as The Ballad of Gordon and Judi and I’m White, I'm Straight, tm Sorry.

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THE YEAR
IN REVIEW

The second instalment in
our look at the news events
of 1994.

AN INVESTIGATION | by
CunadianOxy — determined
that a secondary treatment
reboiter vessel teaked approx-
imately 180 kilograms (396
ths.) of Hquid chlorine Dec.
i4.

By fan Noble
News Reporter

The leak led tc a one-week halt in
production and $1.5 million in loss
es for CanadianOxy. said
CanadianOxy plant manager Brian
‘Thorton, lt also caused the evacua-
tion of the North Vancouver water-
front plant and warnings to those in
the vicinity to stay indoors.

CanadianOxy, a producer of
caustic soda and chlorine for B.C.'s
pulp mills, said in a Dec. 22 press
release that the leak occurred due to
localized corrosion from the vessel's
interior caused by a failed steam
coil,

The accident was the second in
six months at the plant.

ti also marked the first use of the
North Shore Community Alert
Network. an automatic dialing ser-

66 ...the system made
3,300 telephone calls
the morning of Dec.
14 to tell people of the
leak... 99

vice that warned nearby residents
and businesses of the Jeak by phone.

According to CanadianOxy, the
system made 3.300 telephone calls
the morning af Dec. 14 to tell people
of the leak and dater give the all-
clear. The leak tasted one hour and
43 minutes and was stopped at 10:53
am.

Production at the plant has been
switched over to a standby process-
ing system while the other system
undergoes repairs, said Thornton. He
added the standby system has been
thoroughly tested and is capable of
running for long periods of time.

When asked whether the 180
kilograms of chlorine represented a
significant Isak, North and
Vancouver Emergency Program
coordinator Ross Peterson said that
was 4 complicated question.

He said the seriousness of a chio-
rine leak depends upon the tempera-

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