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By Anna Marie D'Angelo “News Reporter

THE verdict is in on the future of the West Vancouver provincial courthouse.

The facility has been tound guilty of redundancy; the sea tence is death,

On Wednesday, the Ministry of the Attorney General in Victoria announced the courthouse will close in August.

West Vancouver provineial court will then be handled at the North Vancouver provincial courthouse, located in the 200-block of East 23rd Street,

say the move could cost West Vancouver taxpayers an extra $500,000 3 year.

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A. fight for pension benefits has ended successfully for North Vancouver’s Donna Sauve and at least 249 other B.C. widows.

Premier Glen 9 Clark has announced the widows will be eligible for survivor pensions and retroacuve benefits to 1985.

The widows’ husbands were killed on the job and the widows had all remarried before 1985.

Changes to the Workers’ Compensation Act in 1993 rein- stated benefits for surviving spouses, but only for those who semarned after i

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widows who remarried betore 1985 will get the benefits.

“We shouldn't withhold pen- sions from them simply because of the date they Clark.

5 BNA. J NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

vity worked its magic. A temporary accumulation caused a deep pond of water to build up in the Seven Seas Seafood Restaurant parking lot.

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West Vancouver Police officers waiting to testify in’ North Vancouver,

The West Vancouver courthouse is located next door to the Wea Vancouver Police stauon in the 1300-block of Marine Drive.

Sager said the current system is cost-effective because offi- cers working at the stanon can quickly go next door to testify in COUrE cases.

“We have made our case over and aver to the provincial gov- ernment. J don't think provincial mismanagement should: be inflicted On a community in this manner, ” said Sager.

The three clerical workers and one court clerk working, at the West Vancouver court registry will move to the North Vancouver provincial courthous

The North Vancouver provincial court employs £3 court

gistry staff and seven sheriffs.

The sheriffs serve both North Vancouver and West Vancouver courts.

The attorney general ministry announced the “centralizing” of court service in West Vancouver, Laney and Richmond to

incouver, Surrey and Vancouver respectively,

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