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Needle exchange opens in North Van James Weldon
jweldon@nsnews.com
VANCOUVER Coastal Health has opened a free needle exchange on the North Shore.
NEWS photo Cindy Goodman
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FAOLIN, Jack, Charro, Frankie and Dagger in the back of their ride after attending Dogfest 2010 on Sunday at A Spot for Spot doggy daycare and photo studio.
The facility, located in the medical health building at 132 West Esplanade in North Vancouver, is up and running as of this week, according to a representative for the regional health authority, although no official announcement has been made, and it has not yet received any clients. The sixth-floor facility, open Monday to Friday during regular office hours, will allow users of illegal intravenous drugs to bring in used hypodermic needles and swap them for clean ones, free of charge. Similar services have been available for some time in other communities overseen by the authority — including Vancouver, Richmond and the Sunshine Coast — but until now no such facility has existed in North or West Vancouver. The idea is to curb the spread of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis by reducing the incidence of needle sharing, said Brian O’Connor, VCH’s medical health officer for the North Shore. “We acknowledge the fact that people See No page 3
RCMP hobble 200 km/h speeders Street-racing Ferrari and BMW impounded for 7 days
Benjamin Alldritt balldritt@nsnews.com
A pair of young Vancouver men had their North Shore joyride cut short by the North Vancouver RCMP Saturday when officers spotted them racing their sports cars up Mount Seymour Road. Several motorists called in a dangerous driving complaint at 10:45 a.m. that day, which was passed on to a Mountie patrolling
near the top of the mountain. Moments later, the officer was stunned to see a sky blue Ferrari Scuderia streak past him at speeds approaching 200 kilometres per hour, pursued closely by a BMW. The two men, 21 and 22 years old respectively, were forced to slow down as they approached the resort’s parking lot, just in time to see the police cruiser pull up in their rear-view mirrors. “They were penalized under the street-racing laws,” said Cpl. Peter DeVries, spokesman for the detachment. See Young page 3
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A street-racing Ferrari is towed from Mount Seymour.