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LORI Aizer and her Irish setter Fenny will be at the Fide Pet Look-Alike contest this Saturday, at Park Royal Shopping Centre (south mall) between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. The contest is based on the Microcell ads that featured owners and their dog doubles, and is open to all types of pets. The winner will get a Fido cellphone and three months of airtime, wortit $250, and until March 25 Microcell will donate $10 to the West Varcouver SPCA for each new customer that signs up for Fido's wireless services at Park Royal focations. For more information, visit <www.micro-

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facilities and prisons to the smoking status quo they enjoved before January 1.

“We're extremely disap: pointed.” said Andrea Doby, manager of the Raven in Deep Cove,

Raven described the deci- sion as “backward. Things were going well for us. The stall were loving (the ban), they felt great after work. This is going to be a non-smoking, world one day. We're just pro- longing it.”

Doby said the respons the ban had been so positive that for now the Raven would remain a non-smoking pub, with outside facilites for smok- ers.

“From our perspective,” said the North Shore Health Region’s Clay Adams, “we're extrem disappointed that the ruling was struck down. It meant a significant reduction in people’s exposure to second- hand smoke.”

But Queen’s Cross pub owner Dave Crown was in a celebratory mood. He said the court decision had prompted “an immediate reaction” amongst his customers.

Said Crown, “We were very pleased at the decision. People were hearing it on the radio and coming in.

“The WCB was fundamen- tally wrong. They say one thing and do another. We had meet- ings and they always cold us they'd accept a ventilation solution. Then suddenly it was zero tolerance.”

Eighty-five per cent of workplaces throughout B.C.

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staurants) — went smok NM accordance with WCB guidelines in Apnil 1998. On Jan. 1, 2000, the remainder were told to comply with a complete ban in order to protect workers from second: hand smoke.

The WCB encouraged the

use Ora “snitch line” to report venues that were not in com-

he WCB* said ina release been “no veritiable impact from the introduction of

et members of the he tality industry, who collec challenged the ban, are claim- ing the loss of around 700 jobs across B.C. since January.

“This has never been a health issue,” said Crown, a non-smoker himself. “It’s (the WCR's) fight with the tobacco industry, and we're the pawns in the middle.

Black Bear Neighbourhood Pub manager Denise O’Hare said staff were “pretty disap- pointed that (the ban) didn’t work out. It was working, real- ly well for us.”

Stromberg-Stein’s decision means that municipal bylaws will once more govern the allowance of smoking.

As of Jan. 1, the City and District of North Vancouver matched the WCB ban. West Vancouver's bytaw is almost identical, with the proviso that smoking i is permitted in a com- pletely separate, airtight room.

West Vancouver municipal clerk Margaret, Warwick said contravention of the smoking bylaw was a ticketable offence.

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“fT think it would be very beneficial for Reform party members here to be exposed to people like Stockwell Day, just to see the style and how relaxed he is and how he could make a good prime minister of Canada. I’d_ like them to be able to see Keith Martin here as well talking about the need to change the medical system drastically to introduce parallel private choice.”

John Reynolds admits he is a Preston Manning supporter, but wants to remain on the sidelines because of his role as chairman of the Reform elec- tion readiness committee.

“It’s going to be a good race, we’ve got three good conservative people with provincial or national pro- files,” said Reynolds, MP for West = Vancouver-Sunshine Coast.

“The more in the race, the merrier.”

Klees could be the kcy contestant, he said. The cabi- net minister in Ontario Conservative premier Mike Harris’ government could help membership in the new party mushroom,

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