Stamp heist

TWO MASKED suspeets made off with several sheets of
stamps on May 24 after an armed robbery ata printing

shop at 120 East Est St.

A staff member had just opened the business when te

saw the suspeets ceme in through the door at 8:30 aan,
according toa Novth Vancouver ROMP spokesman.
_ ‘Phe suspects produced a semi-automatic handgun and
forced the clerk to hand over the keys to the front door,
During the cobbery, the suspects realized there was
another store employee, a female, apstairs, Police say she
was confronted and forced to reveal where the business
safe was located. The suspects “decided against taking
anything” from the safe, according to police,

The men loaded the stamps ina black gym bag and
leftin a blue vehicle that was tater determined to be
stolen from Vancouver, They are described as:

@ Suspect one: 25 to 30 years old: 6° (1.80 m), 160 - 180
Ibs. (72 « 81 kg). He was ‘wearing dark, loose clothes and

agrey Balaclava.

® Suspect two: Cancasiun; approximately | years old,
5°97" = 5°9" (1.67 ~ 1.73 m)s 15 - 155 ths. (68 - 70 kg):
elean shaven with black short hair. He was wearing loose
clothes, gloves and 8 grey mask,

Contact Const. Brendan Fitzpatrick at 985-1311,

Exposer sought

TWO INCIDENTS of a man exposing himself in North
Vancouver City were reported on May 24.

In the first incident, the victim walked by the suspect
near West Keith Road and Bewicke Avenue. He asked
her for the time, according to x North Vancouver RCMP

spokesmen.

The victim, a woman, looked at the man and “real-
ized” his pants were down to his knees and that he was
fully exposed, according to police. The incident occurred

at approximately 10 a.m.

Later on that day at approximately ‘s p-m., two t4-
year-old girls reported seeing a man masturbating at
Mosquito Creek Park. The man ran at the teens, but they
were able to run away, according to potice.

Poiice were unable to apprehend the suspect despite
blocking off the area and using a tracking dog. North
Vancouver RCMP believe the same suspect is involved in

both incidents.

The woman described the suspect as a Caucasian, in
his 30s, clean-cut with straight collar-length brown hair.
He was wearing brown shorts.

The teenagers described the suspect as 25 years old
with brown or blond hair in a pony tail. They said the
suspect was wearing a white T-shirt, shorts and possibly
glasses. Contact the RCMP sex crime unit at 985-1311.

Water decision soon

From page 1%

water disinfectant question.

It received a flood of phone calls,
letters, faxes and petitions protesting
the use of chloramine as a secondary
water disinfectant.

In response to an April series of
GVWD.-sponsored public informa-
tion meetings, newspaper inserts and
telephone surveys to determine pub-
lic opinion on which secondary
water disinfection treatment should
be used in the GVRD water system,
a majority of Lower Mainland resi-
dents registered their support for
options that did not include chlo-
ramine:

61% of respondents chose ozone
with biological filtration as the pri-
mary disinfectant;

HI 58% chose chlorine as the sec-
ondary disinfectant;

G8 30% chose chloramine as a sec-
ondary treatment option;

fa.9% opposed any disinfection
option.

Between Jan. 1 and April 31, the
GVWD received four petitions con-
taining 2,474 names, all objecting to
chloramine and advocating ozone
coupled with chlorine.

More surprising, however, is the
faci that 60% of Lower Mainland
residents are willing. to pay around
$410 per year —- more than doudle
their current average water rate of
$130 per year — for their favored
disinfection method.

Only 16% chose options costing
$160 to $185 annually, or those
involving chlorine as both a primary

ee

and secondary disinfectant or ozone
with biological fi filtration used with
chloramine as the secondary treat-
ment. ;

The survey results were received
by GVRD board members last
Friday and were deferred to the
water committee for further discus-
sion.on June 10. The final recom-
mended option will go to a GVRD
board meeting at the end of June for
a decision.

While the public sentiment is
clear, government agencies differ on
treatment options.

Both the Department of Fisheries
and Oceans and Environment
Canada prefer chlorine over chlo-
tamine because of its lesser potential
impact on fish and aquatic organ-
isms.

The agencies sent a letter to the
GVRD opposing its proposed use of
chloramine.

Some members of the public
have suggested hydrogen peroxide
as an alternative to either the addi-
tion of more chlorine or chloramine.
But GVRD staff indicate hydrogen
peroxide hasn’t been used anywhere
in the world as a secondary or pri-
mary water disinfectant. And studies
of its effectiveness have shown it to
be a poor disinfectant, 500 times
less effective than chloramine.

Meanwhile O'Connor said the
most common disease-causing
organism that could be spread by
drinking water was giardia, com-
monly known as Beaver Fever.

‘Giardia causes intestinal prob-
lems in people.

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