Two busted in WV drug raid

A BURNABY man and a West Vancouver man face multiple drug-related charges following an April 6 dzug raid by West Van- couver Police on a hydroponic marijvana-growing operation at

1540 Taylor Way.

Officers seized 175 marijuana plants and $30,000 worth of

hydroponic equipment in the raid.

The estimated vatue of the plants seized is $70,000. In a related search on the same day, police seized $20,000 worth of marijuana from 2 house at 5755 Charles St. in Burnaby.

Charges of cultivating marijuana, possession of the narcotic for the purpose of trafficking and conspiracy to traffic in a narcotic have been laid against 33-year-old Allen Todd Blace, of 5755 Charles St., Burnaby and 30-year-old Randolph Carl Deboer of 1540 Taylor Way, West Vancouver.

Dry grad party

called a

success

BY ALL accounts the North Shore’s first-ever ail-night alcoho! and drug-free indoor beach party was a splashing success.

Said parent committee representative Yvonne Cramer, ‘‘The atmosphere was just great. We plan a bigger and better one next year. (But) thanks should go to the kids on the District Schools’ CounterAttack Committee and the parent volunteers for this

yerr.””

More than 300 North Shore grads attended the all-night affair held at the recCentre Lonsdale over the weekend.

Sutherland student Heather Logan wert home with a new sailboard, the big prize of the evening.

Partying teens took in a mele wet T-shirt contest, a singing in the shower contest, limbo dancing and a break-cf-dawn breakfast.

The party was sponsored by the North Shore News, ICBC, White Spot, Pepsi, Shaw Cable, North Shore Credit Union, Sussex

and Dino’s.

Vietoria threatens to close mills if standards not met

; From page 1 .

In addition, the pollution abatement order:

edirects that there be no drains in the containment area for toxic wastes;

ecalls for two-way radio contact to be set up between the chemical unloader and the storage tank per- sonnel when dangerous goods are being off-loaded or transferred; etells the company ‘‘to acquire and construct or carry out any fur- ther works that are necessary to control, abate or stop the pollu- tion.”

But Lukosevicius said Weod- fibre was caught off-guard by Reynolds’ pollution abatement order and admitted the compaiy will have a tough time constructing chemical containment devices around its tanks by the April 18 deadline.

“It sure came as a_ surprise because the deadline to build con- tainment facilities is tight...you’re talking eight days,’’ said Lukosevicius, who added that sev- eral of the items listed in the abatement order are projects the mill has already been working on.

“As for the containment for the chemical unloading tanks, this Project we already started in December. The engineering on that is well in progress and would have been completed by the end of the year.”"

“But now we have to find some way to find containment around the old tanks. The deadlines are extremely tight...it’s hard to say (if the deadlines can be met),”' said Lukosevicius.

He added that Woodfibre has already contacted an outside con- sultant to carry out an en- vironmental audit and launched a

full review of chemical unloading and personnel training procedures in the wake of the Friday spill, which sent a quantity of sodiurn chlorate solution into Howe Sound after a tank on a barge overflow- ed

Woodfibre technical and en- vironmental manager Bill Rempel said he believed about 500 gallons of the chemical was discharged in- to Howe Sound, although the mill is still trying to determine the exact amoun'

He added that the chlorate barge was being unloaded when the spill occurred, sending the chemical on to a slab and then into an outfall pipe that discharges into Howe Sound.

“It (spill) was spotted right away so it was very minimal, but none- theless it was very embarzassing,’’ said Rempel.

Friday’s spill was the latest in a series of chemical spills at the Woodfibre mill in just over a month. ;

On March 8, 500,000 litres of black liquor was spilled at the milt after a pump casing cracked, whiie on the previous day 15,000 litres of caustic soda solution flowed into Howe Sound after a_ barge overflowed.

In February, 540,000 litres, of chlorine dioxide solution was discharged into Howe Sound after a mechanical and computer malfunction at the Port Mellon pulp mill.

New Democrat environment critic John Cashore said he wel- comed the abatement order, but was concerned that there were no regulations in place to enforce the Waste Management Act to ensure that spills were reported.

5 ~ Wednesday, April 11, 1990 - North Shore News

Aiderman makes apology RICK BUCHOLS SORRY FOR SLCPA COMMENTS

NORTH VANCOUVER District Ald. Rick Buchols formally apolo- gized to the Save Lynn Canyon Park Association (SLCPA) at Monday night’s district council meeting for remarks published in a March 28 North Shore News arti- cle,

By MARTIN MILLERCHIP Contributing Writer

In the News story chronicling the district’s vote to uphold the In- ier-River Review Committee’s rec- ommendation to designate the Lynn Canyon and Seymcur River corridors for environmental pro- tection and nature park uses, SLCPA spokesman Bruce Edwards charged that the district had an “unwritten policy’? to develop “‘any land it can piecemeal.’’

But Buchols responded that, “I don’t know what that group is up to. I really don't. If we had given them everything they had wanted I would still expect them to have that kind of attitude. Quite frankly I haven’t talked in any detail to any of those people because | don’t see them as legitimate inter- preters cf community feeling. | think some of them are out-and- out liars, but it doesn’t surprise me thet they see we have some hidden agenda no matter what we give them. But I think the community is going to be happy.”

In a subsequent News letter to the editor Paul Hundal, another SLCPA member, described Buchols”’ statement as “slanderous’’ and ‘‘a shameful example of the sloppy unprofes- sionalism on the part of this eiected representative.’’

N ORTH WANG COUVER

Said Buchols in his apology, ‘*! refer to a statement made by me March 28. I apologize to the

association and its members for making the statements quoted in the North Shore News which refer- red to the characters of some members of that group and I fully retract that.’’

Buchols refused further com- ment.

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