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A new look for a new job Is. displayed by
Conservation Officer Lance Suniquist. Local
ministry of environment. offictals Sunquist
and Dave Crack, along with. sixty others -

from-around the province, have recently

completed training at Police Headquarters
In Vahcouver. They have taken over the -

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" Conservation Officers in
British Columbia have a new
image and a new respon-
sibility in dealing with en-
viroamental protection. As
of March 31, conservation
officers throughout the
province will be attired In a
new blue uniform and will be
responsible for dealing with
& wide variely of. acts ami
regulations in addition ‘to.
their traditional rote with the
flah and wildlife branch..

Conservation officers are
now part of the Conservation
Officer Service, the in-
vestigative and enforcement
_arm of the ministry of en-

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vironment, This service has
the ‘responsibility for
maintaining standards of
environmental quality ‘that
are definied by legislation
administered by the
ministry. .

Environment . Minister
Stepllen Rogers said that the
new organization is more
than just another police
force. ‘‘The philosophy is to

encourage = a more

cooperative approach by .

making sure people are
‘aware of environmental laws
and then maintaining a
surveillance system to en-

enforcement ‘of a

. number of acis and

regulations In addition to their traditional
duties as Fish and Wildilfe officers.
However at present they must lay charges |
through private citizens pending ter-
minology changes In various acts which

would give them enforcement powers.

sure that: standards are.

observed,” he said.

Conservation officers,
about 105 of them, will be
stationed throughout the
province. They will cm-
céstrate on enforcement of
legislation and regulations
dealing with pollution,
water, and firearms, as well
as. fisheries -and wildilfe.

Also, they will be responsible.

for the: control of dangerous,

‘Rogers said that while
many people and industries

abusing environmental laws,
many violations occur
because of people being
unaware of the rules. Asa
result, one of the goals of the
new Conservation Officer
Service will be to maintain
an educational program that,
will solicit the cooperation of
“the public in identifying and
reporting possible violations.

The new .uniform:was

: introduced to give officers a
* identity - as en--

unique
forcement representatives of
the Ministry of En-
vironment.

_ Sick child is now all heart

“TORONTO (CP) -- Billy
McKay looks like any four- .

yearold scamp.

: The shy, quiet Woodbrige, —
Ont, boy is as rambunctious
se any. youngster despite a
heart defect which, at birth,
led doctors, to believe he had |
x alim‘chance of, living.

It took two major
yperations to correct the
fefect and holes in his heart
and - three ‘operations to in-

sext or repair pacemakers. .-
. He has spent more. than “A

‘parler. of his abort fe in

wepital. —

When Billy was only three
iays old, his parents, Dianne
ind Ken McKay, learned he’.
iad a rare condition known
as truncus ‘arteriosus. The
sondition occurs in only one
» two per cent of the elght
songenital heart disease
sasen in every 1,-000 births, -
His mother explained! it
he pulmonary artery, ¥!
akes blood to the lungs, and
he aorta, which pumps the
dood into the. body from the ran
art were “one and the

: robe was gating some blood

han the end of a man’s

- humb — also siidn't have a” Response

plenary valve. Ht lie
arge tole: in the lower

shamber dnd a susaller bale

” Untik his birth, only one in
10 bables who had the
corrective surgery survived.

“They. (the. doctors). sitll -

‘don’t know how or why he

survived, to begin with, but

“be has," hid mother said.
The -

Children. has .128 childres
ranging in age from two to 17

Billy Joel _
slick performance.

EDMONTON (CP) —Billy
Joel. strutted, jumped,
teased, mimed and postured
his way through a allek,

energetic, twohour per- -

formance at Northlands
Coliseum Sunday night. .

- Wearing a tar-and-paisley
jacket, black shirt, skinny
yellow tie, blue jeans and
white running shoes, Joel

rans between one plano
another, belting. out a
medley. of his bits, including
You May Be Right, Don't

-Ask Me Why, Angry Young

Mad, Zataibar, Honesty and
Only The Good Die Young.
from about
16, 000° ‘well-scrubbed

manent

cardiac -unit of
“Toronto's Hospital for Sick

who, like Billy, have per-
cardiac | pace-

When Billy underwent sur:
gery at the age of three
months, surgeoos gave him a

- 9%-lo-one chance of survival.

At the time of surgery, Billy

was fitted with an exterior’.

pacemaker that lasted until

be was given @ permanent

gave

restrained during the first
part of the cancert.
But aftet the first hour,

~ many of the fans gathered in

front of the stage, feeding off,
. the energy “pf ‘much’ Joel -
. rockers al Sometimes A
‘Fantesy, Big Shot and It's

Still Rock and Roll To Me,
_ With Russell Javora and
David Brown on guitar,

aid - Doug Steameyer on basa,

Richie  Cannata on
saxophone, fate, keyboards
and harmonica and Liberty
Devitto on drums, the man
billed as the tough litde guy

from Long island, N.Y., con-

stantly moved around the

lying on @ grand plano,

ae

pacemaker two months
later.

"Tf he has a short life, he’s
lived it fully,- doing things
other kids do. If it's kng,
he'll have a bot of fim.”

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Havilland ““ Aircraft’ * of:

Canada Ltd. and Seaforth.
Maritime. Ltd. .of Britain
” pide ‘to individual platforms, :

have teamed up to study a
. Proposed floating airport to

. “serve workers manning :

E@ use by short takeoff and

landing (STOL) - -aircraft,
could: accommodate de
Havilland’s 50-passenger

; Dash-7 plane.
The most likely area. for’

the port is the East Shetland
Basin . of .the North . Sea,

which has 11 production -
_ platforms

served | by’
helicopters that make long

, flights in a region noted for
‘its hostile weather. More

platforms are expected,
"The oil nies
brought to our atténtion. the.

’ sheer logistics problems and -

costs involved, not oaly in
money but in human terms
in moving people from
Aberdeen, Scotland,” said
James Hann, managing

director ‘of Seaforth; a.

builder of ‘oftshore plat-
forms. .
Currently, workers ‘and

supplies are brought by |

“TORONTO roan = pe

‘companies *

flane tom. ‘Aberdeen to.
_Saimburgh ‘in| the Shetland’

Islatids, where: they: are’

tranaferred for'a belleopier :

Hann said this route ac-

_ Counts for 275,000 passenger -

trips a year at exceptionally.

“> high cost to the. oll com-:
‘panies. Workers are’: paid

from the time they board the
aircraft at‘Aberdeen.:
In the Dash7, men and
supplies would be flown over
the entire 434-kilometre.

toute from Aberdeen to the -
“ centrally-located STOL, port .

in the basin:

. “Transport by helicopter: .
‘fs very ‘costhy,”” Hann sald.
“They: (helicopters) will.

unload people to put on | more.

fuel depending on the head

winds."

The production, platforms, | oo
-dorated: northeast of the J
"Islands, are. @::

- manned by between. ‘0 and-:

Shetland

200 workers who are shuttled’

’ back and forth by helicopters .
for two weeks at atime. - ~

Hann said Seaforth came

up with the’ ‘concept of the”
semisubmeraible STOL port, .
. which would be supparted by’

luge underwater pontoons.
The 608-meire Poet would

Atlanta hunts

The volunteers who gather
each week to scour Atlanta’s
forests, creeks, and
alleyways for traces of slain
and missing children never

creamed their hunts would .
last this long. .

“Most of us -thought the
police would catch the killer
in a few weeks, and ‘maybe

- we'd be able to belp with

. Some , clues," said a U.S.
Army major who refused to
. beidentified. "We get pretty

have no.compunction about %areh last October.

discouraged, but now we're -
hooked. How could'we give

up now?"

greetings
‘those they met at the first

Never before, contends
City Councilman Arthur
Langford, have citizens in
any —U.S.. city banded

"together so: tightly té help:

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police solve ‘a series . of

crimes. Langford heads the
United Youth-Adult Con- :
. ference, which sponsors, the.
A special police task tree :

is investigating the slayings

of 22 young blacks and the
inves of two others

slnce July, 1979. Authorities

Riyer since they last met,

“One of the victims was 13- |

year-old Timothy Hill, whose

family had joined the hunt *.
the previous weekend. Hill
and his friend, Eddie .
“Duncan were .

make sure you get all

_ Toting sticks festooned .

% are nightmares -

ATLANTA, : Ga. (AP) —

Duncan, a- AL-year-old
mentally retarded: man, is

* the first adult whose-death is. .

being investigated.- by « the
special police task force.-

‘ floating ~ ‘STOL
concept for lis’ operations in’ ° finds
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38 KALUM ST.

The Herald, Monday, April 4 1981, noe ‘

: New oil p plane: is under-st

‘rise ainiost 28 metres above Fg

"water level and woulitegat
much’ “as.*.9450':: millio

‘Analysis shows the, STOL

airport could save.as much

‘a8 $90. niillion.a ytar.

De Havilland says the
STOL port concept- is

- superior . to any helicopter -
‘operation in terms of safety,”

comfort, convenience . and

of what they are under, the
helicopter system, 8
Hann. . sald

Petroleum ‘Co. of Bar-_

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Phillips

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Hoating: hotel- pattora®. :
off-duty workers, leaped b .-

: prompted: ‘ : Phillips ~ and.
. ‘Statoil, the . -Norwegiad
. efficiency. It says opecating ca

costs would be 25-33 per cent °.

_ (Former. Health Spa).

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