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Cops declare war on booze

By CHRIS LLOYD

Gangs of drunken louts who roam through West Van- couver looking for fights and causing mayhem every summer have had war declared on them by the local police force.

Officers were out in force last weekend checking for liquor infractions and by Sunday night their tally of confiscated booze totalled an unprecedented 4,150 bottles of beer, 17 bottles of wine and 12 bottles of liquor.

The police acknowledge that even that total is just a fraction of the amount of booze being swigged in public on beaches and in parks and that the problem is probably worse now than it's ever been.

But deputy police chief Bob Brolly promises that it's going to get better as he says the police are prepared to do whatever it takes to get to grips with the problem.

He says he's had enough of

drunken louts terromzing people on beaches and parks.

Among the activities that have plagued Vancouver and which Brolley says will not be tolerated are:

® Brawling youths having fist fights.

® Loud == music,screaming and foul language.

© Citizens sitting in) their cars and being dragged from therr vehicles which are vadahzed while the 9 oc- Cupants are assaulted outside,

® Famihes with = children getting sand kicked in their food by gangs of 25 of more drunken youths trying to

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L114 HOUR MOVE

NV City jumps on lower mill rate wagon

In an eleventh-hour move North Vancouver City dropped. its~:mill- rate for 1980 by 5.5'per™ cent in response to the lower mill rates. an- nounced in ~- North

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However, this drop in the mill has been more than balanced by a 12 per cent increase in the provincial assessment rate and a 22 per

cent increasé: in’ “total municipal budget ex- penditureS. a

It was necessary for the City’s finance*committee to hold “a special meeting on Monday morning in order fo arrange the drop in the mill rate from 7.25.mills in 1979 to 6.846 for 1980.

Alderman Gordon Cross told council Monday night, when the budget wads tabled, that the move was “predicated on the fact,” that both the District of North Van, and West Van had dropped their mill rates.

At the finance meeting, he said, the finance committee tried to maintain some

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