AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE

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A SURGEON from Lions Gate Hospite! will fly to Victoria in a medical helicopter Wednesday to lobby for improved air ambulance service in the Lower Mainland.

Dr. Norman Hamilton, repre- senting the B.C. Medical Associa- tion, plans to meet with B.C.'s Minister of Health Peter Dueck and ask why the province doesn’t have its own medical helicopter.

The government currently charters commercial helicopters when needed, but Hamilton said the Lower Mainland should have its own medically-equipped helicopter, which he likened to a mobile hospital.

He said he believes one in five trauma victims could be saved with the improved service.

“Pm afraid Victoria thinks its emergency system is really great, but unfortunately it hasn’t kept up to world standards. What has evolved is the concept of trauma centres and rapid transport,’’ he said.

Hamilton said he will ask Dueck to view the medical helicopter, which he will be travelling in, chartered from Airlift. Corpora- tion.

He said a helicopter firm in the Okanagan is also producing a medica) helicopter, so at least two could be available to the gov- ernment.

He said a medical helicopter would cost the province about $60,000 per month, but added the Lions Club has expressed an inter- est in helping fund the project.

“They're seriously looking at sponsoring the helicopter, but their major concern is will the gov- ernment use it,’’ he said.

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LGH Dr.

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Hamilton said before his meeting with the minister he will talk with staff from Vancouver General Hospital, to determine the hospita!’s capabilities of acting as a trauma centre, where victims will be flown.

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CEDARVIEW Lodge’s administrator Lenore Paterson (right) and director of resident care Diane Scott (lef signal their satisfaction with the intermediate care facility's new two-year accreditation. Cedarview recently received the award from the Canadian Council on Hospital Accreditation. See story page 4.

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MOTORCYCLIST PLEADED IGNORANCE

North Vancouver noise bylaw out to get offenders

A NORTH Vancouver man convicted of violating tiie city’s noise bylaw received a suspended sentence after claiming ignorance of the recently lowered noise limits.

And noise control office Rick Kwan wants people to be aware vt the noise rules.

Kwan said Thursday the noise limits were iowered in June this year, allowing for a 70-decibel limit for motorcycles and most cars travelling at 50 km-h.

“That particular individual (who was convicted) conformed to the old limit (of 77 decibels) and he argued he was not aware of the new limit,’ said Kwan.

Following complaints of loud motorcycle noise at North Van- couver’s Olympic Hotel, Kwan and the RCMP began to monitor the situation in August this year.

When two men came to court to face charges under the bylaw, the judge handed a suspended sentence to one man and stayed proceedings against the second man.

Kwan estimated a car without a muffler would likely exceed the

noise bylaw.

“The noise level all depends on how close you are tothe source,’’ he said. ‘The bylaw says you have to be at least six metres away when we measure.””

The 70-decibel limit is low, he said, compared to the 85-decibel limit first used when the noise con- trol bylaw was introduced by council in the late 1970s.

“The difference of 10 decibels is double the foudness,’’ he explain- ed. “If you go up from 70 decibels to 80 decibels it is twice as loud.”

Under the bylaw, offenders can be slapped with a $50 to $500 fine on the first violation; the second violation means a fine of $100 to $1,000. A third noise bylaw vio- lation means the offender wil} be slapped with a $500 to $2,000 fine.

P&T developers settiec law suit

lengthy negotiations. “Suffice it to say Park and

From page 1 Developments president Eldon Unger refused to discuss the law suit.

“That’s not the public’s business,’ Unger said in a tele- phone interview from his Sardis office. ‘It’s a private matter be- tween two parties.”

Calling the matter a ‘‘non- issue,’ Unger said: ‘‘The only

issue is the use of the property. .

The issue in North Vancouver is the zoning of the property.”’

Fleur De Lease Properties of- ficial Calvin McCarthy —- son of provincial Economic Development Minister Grace McCarthy — said the suit is a private matter: ‘‘l don’t think it would serve any purpose to comment further.”

A representative of Schenley Canada would not comment on the settlement. ‘‘The terms of the set- uement are not public,’’ said Schenley board of directors member Mortimer Bistrisky.

In a telephone interview from his Toronto office, Bistrisky said the recent settlement was reached “reasonably quickly’? without

Tilford feels the settlement was fair under the circumstances,” Bistrisky said, adding he was never worried about the suit.

Festival Markets and Fleur De Lease Properties lodged the first of the legal blocks May 20 after the alleged breach of agreement with Park and Tilford.

The second of the legal blocks was lodged June 16 when Festival Markets and Fleur De Lease Pro- perties began legal action to have Park and Tilford complete the property’s sale according to the terms of the allegedly broken agreement.

According to the court docu- ments, the sale was subject to ob- taining successful subdivision and a commercial rezoning of the property, which is now zoned as light industrial.

No rezoning has been obtained and a revamped BCED shopping centre proposal for the site will soon come before the city’s plann- ing and design boards for com- ment.