Construction staff

out of work

CONSTRUCTION WORK on West Vancouver's $8 million fish- eries research building was interrupted Monday for the second time in as many weeks.

According io United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (UBC3) spokesman Jeff Roger, site laborers and the project's 12 UBCJ members were told by contractor R&E Contractors Ltd. at noon Monday that the company did not have the money to com- plete the project.

On Sept. 29, laborers and UBCJ members set up a pickei line around the site in a wage dispute with R&E.

At the time, Roger said carpenters were being paid $14 per hour instead of the $15.25 per hour agreed upon under the Fair Wage

. Schedule, which must be paid to workers on federal government projects. Laborers were being paid $10 per hour instead of $13.90.

R&E had subsequently agreed to pay the increased wages and workers were back on the job site Oct. 1.

But the site superintendent for Belmont Construction Ltd., the overall contractor on the project, said Tuesday, R&E had aban- doned its contract.

John Aquing said Belmont would took into other options, ‘but it's pretty early yet. It only happened yesterday."’

R&E spokesman Rob Ezart vehemently denied that his company had abandoned the fisheries contract, ‘‘Beimont just cut off the payroll. They blackmailed us into giving up the contract.””

Roger said his union would apply to the Laber Relations Board to have the UBCS contract applicd to any new contractor taking over the job. .

Man fined for

grizzly shooting

A NORTH VANCOUVER geologist has been fined $200 on Ovo Wildlife charges laid against him after he shot a grizzly bear.

Peter Michael Holbek, 30, was working with an Esso Resources Cauada mineral exploration crew in northwestern BOC. Aug. 12 when the bear approached.

According to Dease Luke conservation officer Don Thatcher, Holbek killed the bear with three shots from a .44 calibre handgun.

He said Holbek then removed a tooth from the bear before a helicopter dumped the animal into 8 nearby swamp.

Holbek pleaded guilty to dhe charges,

Shoplifting nets jail term

A SIX snonth jail term was given to a 36-year-old Vancoaver man after he was found guilty of shoplifting.

Peter George Lestar appeared in North Vancouver provinelal court Friday charged with one count of theft under $200 In con- nection with a June 13 incident in which he was alleged to huve stolen merchandise from Woolco at Capitano Mall.

Security business |

goes on trial

A LOCAL security business and two employees appeared tor trial lu North Vancouver provincial court Monday to face charges of doing business without a licence.

Nighthawk Patrol Ltd. was named along with James Edward Franchak, 23, of Burnaby and Alfred Rolland Morin, 59, of North Vancouver In one of three charges against the company und the two individuals. :

Nighthawk was charged joint; with Morin with one charge of currylng on business without a ficence frou November, 1985 to March, 1986.

Morin and Franchuk each faced a charge of working as security employees without valid security employee licences.

Appearing before North Vancouver provincial court Judge J.B. Paradis, Morin pleaded guilty to one count of doing business without a ticence and was fined $750.

Charges against Nighthawk and Franchuk were stnyed.

wraps up

MANDATORY speed limits ine stead of speed advisories and im- Plementation of the YL emerger cy number throughout BoC. were two of the recommendations nade Priday by the coroner's jury hear- Ing testimony in the duly truck-bus crash on the Squamish Highway that killed four golfers in July.

The four — a North Vancouver min, two Vancouver men and one Burnaby man — were returning to the Lower Mainlansa from Squamish on July 6 with nine other golfers when their mini-bus slammed into a northbound Esso diesel truck.

Evidence presented at the in- quest, which began Sept. 29, in- cluded testimony from an expert who said the truck was travelling at 67 km/i when it rounded the curve just north of Lions Bay.

The truck and driver Wayne Tyler had passed advisory signs of 60 and 50 km/h prior to the curve.

Tyler’s truck subsequently over- turned in the curve and blocked the oncoming lane.

Legal speed limit in the area is 80 km/h.

In all, 21 recommendations were handed down by the coroner’s jury.

The coroner's jury called for rotation of route assignments for truck drivers, making the Horse- shoe Bay brake-check station a mandatory stop for all commercial vehicles and requiring all new commercial passenger vehicles to come equipped with seatbelts.

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