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PERSONAL INJURY

Judge invites
concession

THE PROVENCIAL government was invited Wednesday to coo-
cede that it didn’t ward residents of the mudslide hazard posed bs
the Sytamish Highway's M Creek.

Presiding over a B.C. Supreme Court negligence suit kuunched
against the provincial government and BC Rail in connection with
the October 1981 M Creck mudslide, Justice James Gow said the
trial, already scheduled to last 25 days, would be catended “into
infinity’? untess the Crown was prepared to concede certain facts
and argue the cause on questions of law.

Justice Gow suggested the Crown could argue ity case from the
point of law that no liahility results from the failure to warn.

In opening the dumage action Monday in which Jack and Mabel
Stainsby and their son Glen are seeking $602,000 in damages,
lawyer David Donohoe alleged the provincial forest ministry was
initially negligent in authorizing extensive logging and providing
inadequate reforestation in the urea, thereby increasing the possi-
bility of mudslides along the highway.

The provincial highways ministry was also criticized by Donohoe
for faiting to recognize what he alleges was the negligent design of
the M Creek bridge.

Donohoe maintained BC Rail was negligent in failing to ensure
thal its bridge over the creck was designed with sufficient clear-

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by the Oct. 28, 1981 mudslide, which demolished bridges and
houses along the Squamish Highway and killed nine motorists.

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Man nabbed
after chase

WEST VANCCUVER Police were led Tyursday on a chase by
road, foot and water as they aftemptec (G capture a
discovered ina house in the Westport area of West Vancouver.

Police said Friday a 36-year-old West Vanceuver man has been
remanded in custody until a Sept. 8 court date affer he was ap-
prehended in waters off Ambleside Beach.

A couple returning home at about 11 p.m. Thursday discovered
a man in their house. After forcing the homeowner to lie down on
the floor, the man fled.

After a high-speed chase along the Upper Levels Highway, the
man jumped from his car near the beach and made for the water,
swimming 200 yards offshore.

Police captured him with assistance from the Coast Guard and
Vancouver's police boat.

No names were released: the howeowner will remain anonymous,
said police.

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WV clerk named

deputy manager Monday, September 7th

WEST VANCOUVER
municipal clerk Doug Allan has
been appointed the municipali-
ty's deputy municipal manager.

The appointment was made
Aug. 17 by West Vancouver
Mayor Don Lanskail.

DOUG ALLAN...new West

Vancouver deputy municipal

manager.

The 34-year-old Allan, who
was appointed the municipali-
ty’s clerk in 1979, has worked
for West Vancouver since 1976,
when he began as acting assis-
tant to the municipality's direc-
tor of planning.

In making the appointment,
Lanskail said it was ‘‘really
recognition of the de facto role
he has been carrying out for
some time. Everybody has been
pleased with his performance so
we thought it was appropriate
to finalize the situation."*

Allan will continue as West
Vancouver’s municipal clerk
and set for the municipality in
the absence of municipal man-
ager Terry Lester.

Included in his new respon-
sibilities will be increased in-
volvement in labor negotiations
with municipal workers.

“I'm pleased (with the ap-
pointment),’? Allan said, ‘‘and
new

unee.
The Stainsbys were paid $104,000 compensation under the Pro-
vincial Emergency fund after they were washed out of their house

looking forward to the
challenge.””

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