Attempted abduction

THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP are searching for a man who attempted to abduct a 13-year-old female walking in the 600-biock of West Third Strect at about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9.

Police say the teen refused the suspect and he drove away.

The man is described as being a white male in his late dis with a receding hairline. He was driving a white two-door vehicle.

Information regarding this case may be forwaried to the police at 985-1311.

Brawl erupts

THE WEST Vancouver Police were called in to break up a brawl involving approximately 30 youths in the 1400-

8.

block of Marine Drive just after noon on Monday, Feb.

A police spokesman said the ruckus erupted following

a verbal dispute between two groups of teens. Several, minor injuries resulted, but no charges were

Theft foiled

AN ALERT West Vancouver resident is being credited with foiling the attempt of a detention centre escapee to

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- steal a vehicle.

/ AL about -10:30 p. ni., Tuesday, Feb. 2., the West Vancouver Police were alerted to an attempted auto theft

in progress. .

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A citicen interrupted the suspect as she attempted to ‘steal:a vehicle parked in an alley located | in the 1300-

. block Marine Drive. .

The whiness gave the police an accurate ‘description, and the police were: able to arzest the suspect moments later in the 1400-block of Clyde Avenue.

‘A 16-year-old female faces charges of theft over $1,000 and being unlawfully at large.

Highway delays BRIVERS could run into brief delays on Squamish Highway 99 between West Vancouver and Squamish.

Minlstry of highways crews are currently scaling rock

- faces to remove foose rock and trees weekend by carly thaw conditions from the bluffs. just north of Porteau

Cove.

~The work is part of the ministry’s five-year, $3.5 mil-

lion siope stabilization program, now in its third year.

’ More extensive scaling and rock-bolting, involving ‘delays of up to.2% hours, will be undertaken from April

43 to June 25 and from Sept. 7 to Oct. 15.

‘A’ Mazda Miata was extensively damaged by a smal! rockfail from the bluffs on Tuesday, Feb. 2. _-No. injuries were reported. Last spring, a man was killed when he drove into oncoming traffic to avoid rock

om on the: road. voy

! we've become more aware of it. Alt switches - from’ * place - to ‘piace. ; When somebody (a drug - user): finds a quiet: spot -then other people use it until the pressure. is on by officials,. _ whatever.” Oostindie said his staff are oS made . aware. of the potential - danger posed by the needles. 2" That is a problem we all have ‘to be trained in and become aware

“of, especially gardeners -who do’

‘weeding in the. shrub beds. When ,. you - have. bark .mulch on top, “when the fellows use their hands, . they: have to be very careful, ” he

“said. |

Bill, Kimmett, director of en- “vironmental health for North Shore Health, said that because of the | increasing .use’ of ‘needles,

whether for. legitimate use or.

» otherwise, there is always a con- cern’ about: proper syringe disposal.

«Talking about the legitimate use. of, needles, ‘there are ‘special containers that you buy and all the .sharps .go into that. Other

‘alternatives would be, say some-

me. at. home -is diabetic “or

police - or.

“you don’t

whatever, -you can get a: plastic

‘container: with some bleach in it

and empty your: sharps in that,” Kimmett said.

But he advised people who find discarded hypodermic syringes not to touch them. ;

“The first temptation would be to pick these up and look for a garbage can. The danger would be

“that if you grab it you may in-.

advertently. prick yourself, and want to do that,” Kimmett said.

Used needles pose the risk of

‘hepatitis B ov HIV transmission.

Kimmett said an individual who is inadvertently pricked by a discarded needle should phone the

family physician. “In the. interim I think you

should really wash the wound thoroughly,’’ he said.

“If you find them in any of our

parks’ you could phone” North Shore Health (983-6700) and ob- viously address. it through . the parks | (986-9141). Depending on the magnitude of the problem a health inspector would go and sid retrieve these,"” Kimmett said:

comply with the act.

Independent commissioner would back up new law

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deny the existence of a third par- ty’s personal information;

® extend the legislation to include health-care records held by all public and private sector health- care providers;

@ begin the development of “‘whistleblower’’ legislation to protect a public servant who in good faith ‘‘blows the whistle’? on public body wrong-doing.

The list of organizations . the Jones report proposes for coverage by the extended legisla- tion is broad and includes:

@all types of municipal authorities;

@ health-care operations such as provincial mental health facilities and hospitals;

® municipal police forces (the RCMP could ‘‘act as if’? the legis- lation applied to it); -

@ schools, universities and col- leges;

@ libraries;

® and self-governing professional bodies such as the Law Society of 8.C. and the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons of B.C,

Jones said one of the recurring concerns expressed to him by rep- resentatives of public bodies dur- ing his investigation was a fear of the potential cost of implementing and responding to the new infor-: mation access conditions.

But Jones said he found that:

® in 1991 the average number of | requests for information in On- |

tario was just over four per in- stitution, with one appeal per five institutions; ® police serving populations fess than 100,000 have not required full-time staff to deal with infor- mation and privacy requests. . Meanwhile, extended freedom of information and privacy legislation the head of a public body must make every reasonable effort to assist appli- cants and to respond without delay tu each application ‘openly, accurately and completely.” “That's the law. What backs up that law? An independent com- missioner with the power to order from the premier on down to And if you don’t there is a $5,000 fine,” he said.

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