A10 - Sanday, May 16, 1982 - North Shore News

inquiring reporter ee by Ellsworth Dickson

The North Shore, like any other com- munity across Canada, has a number of problems facing it. Let us see what problems local people are concerned about.

Today’s question is:

‘What do you think are some of the North Shore’s biggest problems?"

L.A. Jeannotte North Vancouver

I don't think we have any more problems than any- where else ip Canada. The recession and _ the high cost of housing are

certainly nationwide problems. One North Shore problem I can

think of is the cutbacks at Lions Gate Hospital. Oh well, at least we have clean air.

Mrs. Huguette Spungin North Vancouver

We have a_e traffic problem on the North Shore. The Lions Gate bridge 1s so obsolete that at just about any ume of day it is difficult to drive downtown. Also, the high cost of renting or buying

a house on the North Shore 1s a serious problem for many

people

Charlie Cawdell North Vancouver

Housing How

the hell can young people buy a house nowadays’ Also, with so many layoffs, many people are having trouble paying cheir high rents and mortpages

Don MacPhenon North Vancouver The poor cconmomy 1s affecting the North Shore

like the rest of the Country Housing oi oa problem Luckily l bought my house four teen years apo but I know many of the young men b work with cant buy ahouse even though they make good wages The Lions Crate Hospital «ut backs "Ss a sCriOUs problem tow

Kien Laidlaw North Vancouver

The cutbacks atthe € tons Create Hospital ia servos

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pabent there aad bve noticed a general fechag among the staff that they worked lake leo provide better are buat ant

FORMER B.C. Lions player Paul Giroday was one of two North Shore men arrested Wednesday morming when police swooped on an alleged cocaine trafficking ring.

Nine arrests were made by more than 30 police officers as a result of a 10-month

with two counts of traf- ficking in cocaine and one count of conspiracy to

investigation by the import the drug. Coordinated Law Enforce- A second North Shore ment Units (CLEU) joint resident, Warren Paul forces operation in- Schiewe, aged 33, of 403 vestigation. 1363 Clyde Avenue, West Vancouver, has been Among the nine were charged with three counts of Giroday, who was in the’ conspiring to import the

B.C. Lions lineup for four drug and one of possession

years unul 1979. Giroday, for the purposes of traf- who is 31, hves at 1010 ficking. Lillooet Road, in’ North During the lengthy investi-

Vancouver. He is charged

gation, an estimated 27

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N. Shore pair charged in ‘cocaine ring’ bust

ounces of cocaine was seized in Prince Rupert, West Vancouver and Washington States. The drugs ranging in punty from 47 to 98 per cenl, are estimated at being worth $350,000 on the illicit market.

The major charge naming all nine alleges a conspiracy to traffic in cocaine in Vancouver, North Van- couver, West Van, Burnaby, Prince Rupert and other locations in the province during the period datng back to last July 1.

The indictment also alleges Giroday and Gary Christopher John Vicze, aged 29, of Vancouver,

conspired to import cocaine into Canada between last October | and November 30.

Schiewe and Sean An- thony O'Malley, 30, of Vancouver, are also accused of conspiring to import the drug into Canada between November 1! and February 28.

Schiewe and O'Malley sull face charges laid against them in West Vancouver in February.

Police allege the pair were in a car in which a routine check recovered 18 ounces of cocaine with a street value of $200,000. They were charged with possession for the purposes of trafficking.

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