3 - Friday, May 10, 1985 - North Shore News Doug Collins........9: Entertainment ..... 53 Bob Hunter.........4 Real Estate........17 TV cc cece cee eee ee OF What’s Going On...5 EATING-OUT: 56 oo Table hopping Timothy Renshaw takes you dining and dancing with Charley. WHISPERS: 53 Disco moves into local rock at Whispers. GOOD CAUSE: 60 “North Shore realtors fight for young MMS victims. “. WEATHER: ~< Friday and Saturday, doudy with sunny periods. Gane of rain, Friday. Pet dog poisoned Suspect '. From Pago 1 ‘Adam said: ‘she’ only. put cy UNE . also let her dog out. every poison; “plenty of which’ was ‘still left, and it was safely locked up. She fears the dog _ ‘was deliberately: poisoned by . someone else. "YOUNG eighteen month Christina Adam ‘sits with a picture of her seven-year-old black labrador that was killed by poison. Christina’s mother Susanne is concerned if the dog was ’ ‘deliberately poisoned, because she says her daughter or the neighborhood children could have Adam had received com- plaints from neighbors about her dog barking, reported to her by: the. bylaw officer. She morning, and said he’ might have bothered someone. “lf you’ re upset about a dog, you can: call ‘the picked up poisoned bait and got sick. Surprise. talks « elay strike action , “TALKS ARE continuing int "weekend. : This would ‘clear . the: way :to strike action by ithe B.C. Rail dispute:aftera ‘request - from. . provincial :Labor Minister Terry Segar- ty for the mediator’s report. © ” Segarty “asked” provincial mediator Fred Geddes Wed- nesday- fora report by the the seven B.C. Rail unions or lockout action by the _tailway. The unions have been without a contract since February, 1984. : But talks Thursday saw Geddes meet again with SPCA,”’ Adam said, ‘‘but to use dangerous poison — it’s not fair. to make an animal ~suffer like that. It’s not the animal’s fault. — it’s the owner’s fault. If someone called’ the SPCA I would have to pay the $50 to pick him up, and I would learn. But if they threw poisoned NEWS photo Torry Peters Norm Farley, of the Joint Council of Trade Unions. Geddes was to meet Thurs- day evening with B.C. Rail offi cials. AC government press release said Segarty asked for Geddes’ report at the re- quest of the parties. The rat meat over my fence, or in my yard, my 14-year-old daughter could pick it up, or any of the neighborhood children.” Engelmann said there’ is no proof ths dog was poisoned by someone, nor is there proof of where the poison came from or what kind was used. Due to the cost of having an autopsy, the chemical in the dog's body was not analyzed, but symptoms suggest some type of rat poisoning. Engelmann said as a rule poisons sold to homeowners like Adams are not. particularly: attractive to dogs, versus some commer- cial poisons which may have peanut or fish odors to make them attractive. “There have been cases of dogs getting into poisons and getting sick, but in most cases the dogs responded to treatment,’’ Engelmann said. ‘“‘This dog did respond a certain amount, but then the situation turned for the worse. It makes me_ believe he might have had one’ of two .chemicals -restricted to commercial use only.’’ Engelmann said single- dose anti-coagulant ‘com- mercial rat poisons are more effective and absorbed faster than the traditional rat poisons... The poison. can therefore stay in the system: longer and resists treatment. . Commercial. poisons can , only be legally obtained by licensed pest, control opera- tors, Engelmann said, or by’ people working in agriculture. “Possibly a poison was inadvertently put out with the garbage,’* Engelmann said. Engeimann warns homeowners to take caution with poisons, and to keep them safe from children and pets. press release said the parties wanted to allow negotiations under pressure of a deadline and,in the hopes that that would produce-a negotiated settlement. ; : The’ press release, ’: issued” said-. Segarty . Wednesday, had advised the parties of his ‘| By BARRETT FISHER _ about: 140 km.” flees in high speed car chase |! A HIGH-SPEED chase had police racing from Lions Gate Bridge. in West Vancouver to..Indian morning. The chase. started with West Vancouver Police, and brought in the assistance of Vancouver Police and North Vancouver RCMP. a As a result of a road block on the bridge, a 24-year-old West Vancouver man was stopped and requested’ to take a breathalizer test. Refusing, the driver of the vehicle fled back to his vehi- cle and took off at a high rate of speed, spokesman Cst. Colin Bursill from West Vancouver Police reported. Police followed the vehi- | cle,. which was travelling at an’ hour, eastbound on Marine: Drive. : The’: chase continued . -along “Third Street and on to Main: Street. ot The 1985 four-wheel drive pick-up headed up the exit ramp: for northbound traffic coming off. Second Narrows Bridge, so’ the: vehicle was heading south in the wrong lane of traffic. '. The driver took a quick U-turn: ‘coming back at the police car, Bursill said. The police car evaded the car and chased it back ‘into North intention to ask the mediator to book out by the end of the week if the dispute had not been settled. The - minister has been advised by the deputy tninister, Graham Leslie that bargaining was at an impasse and the parties felt .the release of the medi- ator’s report would provide . Z up River Road in North Vancouver at 3'a. m: Tuesday Vancouver. _ The chase then continiied the. Mount: Seyniour Parkway exit to Strathhaven Road, where the: driver | ap- plied. his‘ brakes, /attempting to have. the. police car rear end the vehicle; Bursill said. Two more -U-turns’ were made by the driver and West Vancouver: Police ‘continued ’ to chase the vehicle eastward on Indian River Road. , ..: The driver . then . stopped the vehicle and exited. on foot. . A Vancouver’ : policeman and tracking dog’ came to the scene, searching ‘ the area, without result. i : North Vancouver RCMP assisted West Van police in blocking -off the Seymour. area. : Tuesday night : ithe. driver of. the pick-up attended West Vancouver Police Station. Appeering in court, Dean Alan. Larson-of 315 Lawson Avenue, West .. Vancouver was charged with impaired driving, refusal to take a breathalizer, criminal negligence in operating a motor: vehicle and escaping lawful custody, Next appearance in court - will be May 15.. the” stimulus’ necessary to. produce a negotiated settle- “ment, Pe 4 « The: parties | ‘are no position for. a-~ strike!:.or lockout,. ‘according ‘to. the Labor Code, until’ they. have been advised :by the: minister (Segarty). thatthe: mediator has reported to the minister.’