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Roadblocks net results

ONGOING TRAFFIC safety roadblocks set up in West Vancouver by the West Vancouver Police have resulted in more than 200 fines, orders and notices being issucd to drivers in January and February.

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The police department's traffic section handed out 134 violation tickets and 125 notices and orders. Seventeen vehicles were found to be unsafe and were towed away.

According to a police spokesman, a truck carrying approximately 30,000 litres of propane was found to “have no brakes and bald tires.”’

Among other offences noted among vehicles stopped were insecure toads, inadequate brakes and steering, drivers on the road without insurance and driving while

Police will continue vehicle safety checks throughout

Woman deported to US.

A 62-YEAR-old woman was turned over to U.S. im- migration officials for deportation afier she was arrested March 20 by the North Vancouver RCMP.

The West Vancouver Police were called to the 500- block of Clyde Avenue at 11:17 p.m. after a woman spotted a stranger inside her car. The suspect fled the scene, and North Vancouver RCMP police dog, Jocko. was then called in to track the suspect.

Jocko tracked for approximately 1.5 kilometres before locating the woman, Mary Ann Hyman, in a restaurant.

Quay fall causes death

A 37-YEAR-old North Vancouver woman died Sunday at Lions Gate Hospital after sustaining head injuries from a fall at Lonsdale Quay.

Susan Robbins fell from the second-storey level at the Quay shortly before 2 a.m. March 20. She was found unconscious at the scene by paramedics.

A North Vancouver unit B.C. Ambulance Service ad- vanced life support team was among the emergency

Police nab wanted man

A CALGARY man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for a parole violation was arrested Monday by the West Vancouver Police in Horseshoe Bay.

Police were called to the Horseshoe Bay Motel at 10:30 a.m. and spprehended 29-year-old Robert Carl

Lowrie is also wanted by Victoria police in connection with an ongoing fraud investigation.

Public swim reinstated after daycare protests

THE NORTH Vancouver Recre- ation Commission has reconsid- ered its decision to discontinue the only after-school public swim in North Vancouver City and District after receiving complaints from a local daycare operator.

By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter

Diane Westerlund, owner and supervisor of Princess Park After School Centre, was told on March 15 that March 22 would be the last Friday that recCentre Lons- dale pool would hold its Friday after-school public swim.

Although there are 65 public swims offered each week between the three North Vancouver public pools of Lonsdale, Griffin and Andrews, Lonsdale’s 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m, time slot-on Fridays is the only after-school public swim.

Princess Park and three other daycare centres use the public swim on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

But Lonsdale recreation coor- dinator Margo Gram said the public swim will be reinstated for the spring and possibly for the fal! depending on attendance numbers.

She has since cancelied the

public swimming lessons that were to replace Friday’s public swim. In January 1992 the public swim program will move to the Karen Magnussen facility when the wave pool is completed.

Gram said she initially cancelled the public swim because it was the most poorly attended public swim.

**We were looking at it as a way to cut some costs in an area where st would cause the least impact,’’ she said.

Westerlund said she was pleased she can take the 15 children in her after-school program to the cen- tre, but warns other groups that they will have to “‘use it or lose it.

North Vancouver District Ald. Ernie Crist, who represents coun- cil on the recreation commission, said Lonsdale’s original intention to cut the program was a result of its need to cut costs.

He said there is an ‘“‘unwritten law’? where North Vancouver City and North Vancouver District subsidize the commission for at least 50 per cent of its operating costs.

But that municipal contribution has fallen to as low as 45 per cent in recent years because of budget constraints, forcing the recreation commission to cut programs and raise user fees, Crist said.

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