Newstand Price 25¢ January 31, 1979

Crosswalk

guard hit -

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first in N
Was escorting pupil
across Third Street

Tel. 980-0511

“IT WAS A LONG WAY UP (AND DOWN) last Thursday for John Carter
when he successfully topped this giant 250 ft. fir (left), earlier struck by
lightning, in West'Vancouver’s Verdun Park. He and the firm he works
for, North Shore Tree Service, undertook the job after another com-
pany's climbers had refused to go up. It took John over three hours to

By STEWART McNEILL

Classified 986-6222.

climb the huge tree, which measures 32 feet in circumference at the base,
and complete the topping -- then, with a triumphant wave to his audience

on the ground (extreme right picture) he began the long descent to safety.
(Terry Peters photos).

An elderly North Vancouver school crossing
guard was knocked down by a car while escorting
a student in the crosswalk at Third and Mission

Tuesday morning.

Guard Peter P. Wilson,
aged 72, of 32-135 West 21st,
North Vancouver, is describ.
ed by Lions Gate Hospital
authorities as being in
‘satisfactory condition.”"

He sustained head and
chest injuries in the accident

which occurred = shortly
before 9 a.m.

Ironically, was not even
Wilson’s regular crossing

location. He was substituting
for another puard who wats til
that day.

The RCMP was intormed
thar Wilson, with a) young

pupil nder escort, was
crossing Third Street from
south to north when struck
by an eastbound car.

The driver, described 4s
being in his 70s, apparently
was blinded by the rays of
the sun which was low in the
cast at the time.

The student had gone on
ahead but Wilson had
stopped in the miersection

The accident ts under
investigation by the North
Vancouver RCMP and

charges may be said.

Norm Fulton, Supervisor
of Spectal Services for North

Vancouver School District 44,
says since the school cross-
ing guard service by adults
was instituted four years
ago, this is the first time that
one of the guards had been
struck by a car in a
crosswalk.

North Van has 19 adult-
guarded crossings and three
others patrolled by student
guards, according to Fulton.

Fulton urges motoris{s to
be “‘extremely cautious”
when approaching the Third

and Mission crossing
through the Indian reserve
and which serves three
sohools.

“The solution to climinanng
this havard.’ says Fulton,
who has had 9S years on
various traffic and safety

commiutees, ts to take the
trathic off Third and per the
proposed Lower Road built."

Two rescued
by ‘copter

Monday,

pea

By CHRIS LLOYD

Two. ‘young North

Vancouver men ‘spent

1S hours huddling

‘ together for warmth on
Strachan
Sunday
lost
snowshoeing trek.

Mountain

after getting
while on a

When rescuers eventually
found them at about 3 a.m,
the. men’ were .
suffering from hypothermia
and unable to move and: had

to be flown out by helicopter.

The helicopter, landed . on
the..“field: “area ~ at, Grdiid
Boulevard.and 13th. Street in
North Van. and snowshoers
Barry Fraser, of 328 Seymour
River Place and James
Szakacs, of 3980 Mount
Seymour Parkway, both 20,
were rushed by ambulance to
Lions Gate Hospital. They
were later discharged after
being treated for their
hypothermia.

Searchers would: not
commit themselves as to
whether the two would have
survived the night if they had
not been discovered but
clearly had their doubts.

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Fast haircut
for boy

A Westmount § area
youngster won't be
needing a haircut for
awhile as a result of his
flaming attempt at
cleaning a paint brush
with gasoline in the
carport. West Van
firemen say heat from a
nearby kerosene heater
caused a flash fire. He
flung out the flaming can,
escaping with his hair
being singed.

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