NEWS BRIEFS
Man fined for theft

A MAPLE RIDGE man was fined $2,000 recently in
West Vancouver provincial court on charges of theft
under $1,000 und possession of stolen construction
equipment.

Michael Green, 31, pleaded guilty March 18 before
Judge R.D. Grandison to theft of two Spiker nail guns
and to being in possession of a stolen Brod nail gun and
two stolen Duo Fas stapler guns in connection with Sept.
13, 1989 incidents.

Green was also placed on probation for one year.

Crew rescues boaters

THE NORTH Shore Lifeboat Society was called out to
Vancouver's Wreck Beach Sunday morning to assist a
small vessel that was taking on water.

Lifeboat Society spokesman Dave Lamb said one of
his crews was dispatched to Wreck Beach at approxi-
mately 9:15 a.m. on Sunday.

He said that when the North Shore-based crew arrived
at the scene they found two men chest deep in water ai-
tempting to bail water out of 16-foot runabout vessel.

The lifeboat crew towed the vessel to a second nearby
beach where all of the water was bailed out.

No injuries were reported in the incident.

Missing skiers found

THE NORTH Shore Rescue Team, using the help of a
helicopter, rescued two 12-year-old Maple Ridge boys
Tuesday afternoon from Seymour Mountain.

Ross Peterson, coordinator of the search and rescue
team, said his members were alerted at approximately
4:30 p.m. by North Vancouver RCMP that there were
two lost skiers on the mountaii. They had becn reported
missing for about two hours before police contacted
search and rescue.

A ground search team was dispatched to Seymour
Mountain, as was a helicopter.

“We were concerned that they would try to rescue
themselves by going towards Indian Arm and that’s a
pretty rugged ares so we tried to cut them off,’’ scid
Peterson.

He edded that the helicopter spotted the pair and
picked them up at Depencier Lake, which is located
behing Brockton Peak, and flew them out of the area at
about 5:45 p.m. They were not injured.

Peterson said both boys got into trouble when they
began skiing in an out-of-bounds area.

“Both boys had skied in an unpatrolled area to Depen-
cier Lake. The area is not designated for downhill skiers.
This is ancther situation of out-of-bound skiers,’ Peter-
son said. “I wish all rescues could be this simple,’ he

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

District OK’s
int’?] marathon

NORTH SHORE residents will be
able to cheer an international field
of long distance runners on May 5
following North Vancouver
District Council’s decision to
allow part of the Vancouver In-
ternational Marathon to be run on
district streets.

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

Last year’s race was run
without incident and council had
no hesitation in granting unani-
mous approval to the request
from race organizer Ken Tully for
permission to use a similar route.

The runners will start at BC
Place Stadium, head west to
Stanley Park and then north over
Lions Gate Bridge.

A tour around Park Royal! will
bring up the 20-kilometre mark.
The marathon route will then run
east along Welch Street and Low
Level Road before hitting the
short but difficult slope up to the
Second Narrows Bridge at about
the 30-kilometre mark.

The runners will finish back at
BC Place after approximately 42
kilometres, or 26 miles and 385
yards,

The Marathon Society will be
required to insure the district for
$2 million in public liability and
property damage as well as pro-
vide adequate traffic supervision
at key intersections.

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Marine union fumes over
Polish shipyard workers

THE UNION that represents B.C.
shipyard workers has accused the
federal government of ignoring
allegations that Polish tradesmen
are breaking Canadian immigra-
tion laws to do repair work on a
fleet of Polish fishing vessels
docked for repairs at North Van-
couver’s Versatile Pacific Ship-
yards Inc.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Marine and Boilermakers’ In-
dustrial Union president George
MacPherson said the company
that owns 10 Polish trawlers
docked at Versatile has brought in
hundreds of shipyard workers
from Poland to do repair work on
the fleet.

He added that the work should
be performed by Canadian ship-
yard workers and that the federal
government should crack down
on what he alleges are Canadian
immigration violatiors.

“These are people that are ac-
tually a flying squad. They are
playing games with Canadian im-
migration and it’s very hard to
catch these people once they've
signed on the ships,’ said Mac-

Pherson.

He added that Versatile laid off —

all its workers on Friday.

“We asked the Industrial Rela-
tions Council to Jook into the
matter, but they said they will not
get involved,’? MacPherson said.

Union secretary-treasurer_ Bill
Scott added that the Polish
workers give false names when
they come to Canada. .

“They are breaking Canadian
immigration rules ty doing repair
work on the ships. These guys are
tradesmen from the shipyards in
Gdansk and they are posing as
seamen,’ said Scott. ‘In the
manifestos they list their names as
Smith and Brown.’’

Scott said there are currently
1,200 Polish shipyard workers
employed on the fishing fleet
docked at Versatile.

“Hundreds of Polish workers
are in the yard doing the work.
They spend as few dollars as
possible and Canada benefits very
little,” Scott said. ‘‘There are
regulations, but the policing of
them is pathetic.””

Canadian immigration officials
did not return News phone calis to
press time.

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