NEWS BRIEFS High speed chase

A 19-YEAR-old North Vancouver man faces several charges after he led West Vancouver police on a high- speed chase July 7.

A police spokesman said a ‘‘suspicious’”’ vehicle was observed travelling westbound along the Upper Levels Highway at 2:16 a.m. The driver failed to stop when police attempted to pull the vehicle over.

The driver led police on a high-speed chase along the Upper Levels. and then north along Highway 99 into the Lions Bay area.

The suspect vehicle then hit a curb before coming to a

_ stop at Calvin Grove Roud. The suspect fled the scene ‘on foot.

After a short foot chase he was arrested, aiong with

three other occupants of the vehicle.

Police found the vehicle had been reported stolen from

North Vancouver earlier in the day.

Michael Rodney Baker, the driver of the stolen vehi- cle, has been charged with possession of stolen property, dangerous driving and obstructing a peace officer.

He.is scheduled to, appear in West Vancouver provin- cial court on Aug. £8.

Van fire

THE NORTH Varcouver City Fire Department responded to a van fire early Thursday morning at 333 Brooksbank Ave.

A fise department spokesman said a security guard in the area bad noticed the van parked on the street at 1:40 a.m. The guard walked over to the vehicle to take a closer leok. .

He noticed the igaition was hanging down and thai the ‘key was still im the ignition. The security guard then decided to take the key out of the ignition and lock the vehicle but when he settempted to remove the key the engine of the van suddenly started, catising a fire.

The fire department was called and extinguished the fire. The van was a total loss.

Complex opens

LYNN YALLEY Lions Housing Society’s new 46-home townhouse complex called Lions Premier Court will be officially opened on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The complex is for iow-income families tiving in North Vancouver. It was paid for under federal and provincial social housing programs.

Lions Premier Court is located at 1055 Premier St.

Nerth Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA David Schreck will _ attend the opening ceremony. The event includes tours of the compiex coaducted by members of the Lyan Vatley Lions Housing Society.

Tenants of the rew complex spend no more than 30% of their incomes towards rent. The federal government contributes two-thirds and the provincial government one-third of the $721,000 annual subsidy required for the housing compiex.

Driver sentenced

A 50-YEAR-old Bamfield man was. sentenced to 14 days in jail on three motor vebicle charges cecentiy.

Gary Edwin Wenstob received <wo concurrent seven- day jzil sentences for driving without a licence and driv- ing without insurance on Marck 31 in West Vancouver.

In addition, Judge Reginald Grandison sentenced Wenstob to another seven days in jail for driving a vehi- cle with piates that were not issued to that vehicle. __

Wensteb was sentenced in West Vancouver provincial

Police funds

THE DISTRICT of West Vancouver is one of 12 B.C. municipalities to receive a total of $5.7 million in In- dependent Police Equalization grants for Municipal Affairs Minister Robin Blencoe has announc- ed.

West Vancouver will receive a grant of $528,938.

Other muncipalities receiving the grants are Van- couver, Victoria, New Westminster, Delta, Port Mocdy, Saanich, Central Saanich, Esquimalt, Matsqui, Nelson ‘and Oak Bay.

“These grants ensure that citizens throughout British Columbia have police protection at a cost they can af- ford,” said Blencoe.

The grants. are used to reduce the disparities between the 12 municipalities that pay 100% of their police costs and other 8.C. municipalities that share police costs with the federal government.

Under the program, self-policed municipalities are provided with 2 grant equal to federal funding for an RCMP contract, or the cost of policing 5,000 of the community’s people, whichever is less.

“Despite the government’s budget limitations, we wil! continue to assist municipalities that support independent police forces,’’ said Blencoe. ‘‘The citizens of these rounicipalities are entitled to the same peace and security that is enjeyed throughout the province.”’

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From page 4 term facility in North Vancouver.

John Ellis, Lynnterm manager of sales and administration, said the facility is fecling the effects of the strike more than some other industrial operators because Lynn- term exports both pulp and lumber.

‘*July and August look pretty pathetic for us. We’ve seen a 50% drop in wood pulp and a 20% drop in lumber.

**I don’t know what the dollar cost is to us but it’s lots. We’re not laying off anyone right now but we’re also not hiring as many casual workers as we normally would,”’ said Ellis.

He would like to see the strike settled by July 15 but he has heard it could last until September. ‘

Barrie Wall, spokesman for North Vancouver-based BC Rail, said the company has been losing an average of 113 carloads of woodchips, pulp and paper and chemicals a day since the strike started June 15.

The strike is costing BC Rail an average of $123,200 a day.

“There have been no_ layoffs yet. Train crews have been en- couraged to take vacations during the pulp-dispute period,’’ said Wall. “If the strike continues, however, layoffs could become necessary in the near future.’’

Seaspan International Ltd. has laid off 120 of its employees. Most operate tugs that transport wood chips and chemicals for the forest industry.

Two other North Vancouver companies that have been affected by the strike, but to a lesser extent than some others, are Fibreco and the Dow Chemicais terminal.

Jim Coutts, Fibreco vice-presi- dent of operations, said his com- pany has not been direcily hit by the strike because most of its shareholders are based in the Inte-

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rior of B.C. Fibreco is still taking shipments.

But he added the company “*has lost some business’’ because it sells wood chips to coastal pulp mills. That accounts for about 30% of Fibreco’s business.

Coutts said he does not expect any layoffs at the North Van- couver facility.

Meanwhile Mike Martel, man-

ager of Dow Chemicals, said the ~

strike has had some effect on the company’s operations. ‘*We normally ship two or three barges of caustic soda a week to . the pulp mills and we’re not ship- ping anything right now,’ said Martel.

_ Bill Hughes, president of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Ltd., said people should be more worried about the long-term effects of the strike. He added that the unstable

labor climate in the Canadian pulp and paper industry is driving off potential investors.

There are about 500 workers on strike at Howe Sound Pulp and Paper. -

“It’s (strike) knocked the hel} out of production,” said Hughes. “In terms of how much money it’s cost us, that depends on who is doing the counting.

“Iv’s true that we’re Icsing (money) right now -when we can ill afford it.”

The industry has offered the unions a two-year contract retro- active to May 1, 1992 with wage hikes of 30 cents in the first year and 70 cents in the second. The industry is also offering pension improvements but wants the unions to give up one of its four annual statutory holidays, which . the unions have refused to do.

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