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Brady Fotheringham

Contributing Writer

GROUSE Woods residents living near Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver say they’ve been sold out by the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

The GVRD, which promised to listen to recommendations from a Grouse Woods citizens group, rejected their proposal Friday to build an access road for heavy truck qaflic away from their homes.

“We in the ict will remember who put the knife in,” said North Vancouver district Coun. Trevor Carolan, referring to what he called the GVRD"’s betrayal of local residents.

The citizens review panel, appointed by the GVRD, was set up look into trucking route alternatives for the $20 million secpage control blanket construction project on Cleveland Dam. The project will involve 20,000 truckloads of excavated fill being transported up the Capilano Valley on Mainlinc Road. The trucks will operate 12 hours a day, six days a week for up toa year. Mainline is a gravel watershed service road that runs parallel to Nancy Greene Way directly behind approximately 50 Grouse Woods-area homes.

Residents have compiained that the truck traffic on the road will be unbearably disruptive during the construction project.

Last year GVRD staff, in consultation with residents, decided on an

See Residents page 11

Lions Gate faces nursing shortage

Brady Fotheringham Contributing Writer THE growing shortage of registered nurses in Canada is becoming a major issue for Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) and local extended care facilities, according to the North Shore Health Region.

Health region chairman Len Kelsey said that 20 to 30 full-time reg- istered murses (RNs) are needed to meet the region’s basic needs this fis-

cal year. However, because of a shortage of nurses graduating from local schools, there were only enough candidates to fill 12 positions for LGH

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Stolen moments

WHALLEY’S John Yiu steals second base as Mount Seymour's Matt Stevens receives a late throw during the provincial junior Little League championship at Kirkstene Park Wednesday night. The defending champs beat Mount Seymour 11-1. Stevens had the only Mount Seymour run on a Kurtis Filisone RBI. See page 8 for a Bright Lights feature on the game.