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THE HIGHWAY of
death connecting

Squamish to the North
Shore was expected to,

_reopen ‘for car traffic
this weekend. |
‘Highways: Department

- personnel were aiming to

have the link restored for
‘light traffic ‘by. 2 p.m.
yesterday (Saturday)
following the final stages of
installing a Bailey bridge

over the M Creek where. at.
people died

least five
Wednesday.
However, as the projected
completion time neared, 1
looked as if bad weather
might delay the final stages
of building the replacement
bridge.
permanent crossing to
replace the wooden bridge

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NEW BRIDGE being erected over M Creek to open up ‘Squamish Highway to

light traffic has kept construction crews working round the clock. (Terry Peters
photo)

, getting a

.couver SecondarySchool to.

Bear’ West-Fed leader. Elme

"But. Knutsen.. assured the
faithful few that in the rural
areas .of the .West his
‘meetings are packed. with

people: “who understand ‘the:

importance of owning their
own land. and’ are: the. true

“pioneers of separatism.

And it appeared to be for
these ‘pioneers’ that Knutsen
‘had prepared his speech,

Using. the language of a
“sensible rural farmer, his
illustrations and analogies
revolved around common
praire concerns: grain,
livestock, and, of course,

‘oil.

His address contained
nothing that westerners
dwn’t already know but
everything the converted
wanted to hear again,

The West, he said, is
‘raw deal
,, economically and politically
“from the “central govern-
ment” of Ontario and
Quebec.

“Economically we would
be better off if we bnilt a
wall at the On-
tario/Manitoba border and
said ‘go to heck’ ” exclaimed
Knutsen, amid loud = ap-
plause.

His solution is for the four
western provinces to unite,
giving cqual representation
to cach, and use the com-
bined political clout like “a

big stick”’-on. the. govern-
ment, which he related to a.
lazy mule needing a’ wallop
between the eyes. before it
pets to work.

power ‘the
West could confront the East
and say “We've: grown up

now. and we -want to sit

around the same table and
say ‘we're as powerful as you
Mr. Quebec ‘and you Mr.
Ontario...This time we mean -
business...This time . it's
either/or...1 don’t ‘think.

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weather

SUNDAY
Heavy rain, poasible
storms
MONDAY
Little change