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Crashes kill

TWO MEN died in North Vancouver this week after succumbing to injuries sustained in two separate motor vehicle accidents.

Randall Ian Ross, 24, of Coquitlam, died after the new Suzuki 600 motorcycle he was driving on Mount Seymour Park Road failed to negotiate a sharp curve and crashed over a barrier en the west side of the read- way.

The accident ov curred at about 7:30 p.m. on June 18.

According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, Ross’ companion, Greg Pearson, had just made the sharp tura on his motorcycle. He aoticed Ross was no fonger behind him and discovered that Ross had gone over the barrier. Ross died later at Lions Gate Hospital.

Meanwhile James Oltenberger, 32, of Vancouver, died Wednesday at Lions Gate Hospital following 2 May 31 single motor vehicle accident on an off-ramp near the Upper Levels Highway and Lonsdale Avenue.

According to the police Ollenberger’s 1979 Mustang left the highway at the Lonsdale exit, struck a barrier, overturned and struck several trees. The driver sustained head and spinal injuries.

Ollenberger was welterweight boxer.

a former Canadian junior

Charges dropped

CHARGES against a veteran RCMP officer stemming from a March 1990 incident in which a North Vancouver man was shot in the chest during a North Vancouver RCMP drug raid have been dropped.

On March 19, 1990, David Lorne Glover was shot in the chest. Glover was holding a TV remote contro! when confronted by police. He was subsequently charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.

In August, Cpl. Glenn Magark was chsrged with crim- inal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated assault as a result of the shooting.

The indictment against Magark was not proceeded upon following a judicial finding that his actions were not unlawful.

Glover has launched a civil suit against Magark seek- ing damages from the shooting.

NV board introduces new smoking policy

Seniors concerned

A CHANGE in the 1991 provin- cial supplementary homeowners grant has decreased the difference between homeowners grant money available to seniors and handi- capped people who own homes and homeowners under 65 years of age.

By Michael! Becker News Reporter

North Vancouver District senior Patricia Dunn said her tax bill “just didn’t look right’ when she went to check the figures.

“t's to do with the school taxes. I thought we seniors didn’t pay school taxes. The seniors grant has always been there and now they are taking it away. I'm upset because the grant is going down. What they’re doing is transferring the difference some- how to those who are under 65, My girlfriend’s son, he’s got a $200 credit this year which sur-

would have paid in 1989.

But the difference in 1991 has been reduced to $135.

Added upset 76-year-old North Vancouver District homeowner Enzi Mueller, ‘‘Apparenily there’s nothing we can do — the school tax benefits. You assume you get the deductions. They didn’t even warn us old-age pensioners. I’m certainly angry.’’

But said North Vancouver District assistant treasurer Nor- man McCormick, ‘‘What rhe seniors are complaining about is that there always was a spread of $270 up until the supplementary grant was introduced (in 1990). So the seniors don’t benefit propor- tionately. The seniors see themselves losing owt because the

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Added McCormick, ‘But in most situations they are getting more of a grant than they origi- nally got. The complaint seems to

over grant changes

The change to the suppiemen- tary grant this year means home- owners will receive a supplemen- tary grant equal to 50% of school properly taxes in excess of the basic homeowners grant amount. Last year the supplementary erant was worth 25% of schoo! property taxes in excess of the basic grant

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SMOKING POLICY can be par- tially decided by individual schools as of September, the North Vancouver District 44 Schoot Board decided recently.

By Patrick Raynard Contributing Writer

Trustees voted June It to amend a motion that would have banned smoking at all school district buildings, grounds and in vehicles.

They argued that school ad- ministrators would have found the smoking restrictions too difficult and time-consuming to enferce.

The amendment will allow indi- vidual schoals to apply to the board for either exemptions from portions of the new program, or a slower phase-in of some portions.

Under the new non-smoking program: © an information blitz in the form of posters and brochures will hit all schools and students before the end of this month and again in September; © student/staff/community com- mittees will be formed in each secondary school to co-ordinate implementation;

*a program entitled Making Decisions will be integrated into the Learning for Living cur- riculum in alt Grade 6 and 7 classes;

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Assistant superintendent Chris Kelly, who chaired the committee that developed the policy, said he felt the amended policy was better than no policy at all, which would have been the result if trustees had defeated the original motion.

Kelly also thanked Franca Ber- toncin of North Shore Health for helping to develop the policy and for promising to provide help and information on cessation pro- grams to interested parties.

According to the district brochure, deaths due to tobacco total aimost eight times the deaths caused by accidents, suicide, murder, AIDS and drugs combin- ed.

For every 100,000 smokers now aged 15, fully 18,0C0 will die be- fore age 70 because of their nico- tine habit, compared with 1,200 in accidents, 900 by suicide, 130 through murder, 70 from AIDS and 10 from drug abuse.

Anti-smoking campaigns work, Kelly explained in the brochure — the number of Canadians over the age of 15 who smoked dropped from 43% in 1966 to 28% in 1986.

Nevertheless, Kelly said, he re- mained ‘‘baffled’’ by the statistic that states that by far the highest group of beginning smokers con- tinues to be adolescent girls.

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