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JAN 25 1982

TO: Mayor and Council

FROM: Ald. Kathleen Muldoon

On Wednesday, January 20, 1982, at the re uest of Mayor
Traboulay, I attended the monthly meeting of the Coquitlam
and District Safety Council, a chapter of the B. C. Safety
Council, at the Moon Palace Restaurant, St. Johns Street,
Port Moody.

Some 25 people attended, including Port Moody's former
alderman Bert Flinn (Chairman), present Mayor Hal Petrie,

and member of Council, Mike Evon; Port Co uitlam's Block
Parent Co-ordinator, Penny Nicholas; Constables Paul Desbiens
and Vic Vanderveer; Auxillary RCMP member Gil Jaeggle;

Mr. Rusty Rustemeyer, B. C. Safety Council's General Manager;
and many other dedicated citizens, including Jean Lomax,
Secretary. .

Alderman Mike Evon reported on his concern and monitoring

of the proposed LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) plant for the

Port Moody area and I requested he approach our Council at
any time to alert us of any dangers and solicit our response.
Mr. Evon points out very clearly that such a storage and
distribution facility could possibly affect many neighbouring
communities with tankers, trains, and trucks going to and fro
carrying this potentially-harmful cargo.

Quite an amount of time was spent discussing Block Parent
business, with members relating how Block Parents had come
to the aid not: only of children but of a young woman
stranded with car trouble at 3 o'clock in the morning.

I was extremely heartened to learn that Block Parents are
there to offer assistance to women in distress, as well as
to senior citizens and young people.

Penny Nicholas, as Port Co uitiam's Co-ordinator of Block
Parents, supervises some 800 volunteers in our community,
with the help of co-ordinators associated with each school.

Other discussion related to concerns about crosswalks

and school speed zones. I was happy to report our Council's
recent decisions to maintain the school speed zone along Tyner
near Mary Hill Junior Secondary School and to have the
appropriate committee look into citizens" concerns about

traffic safety at the intersection of Shaughnessy and Pitt River.