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TIMES-COLONIST Sunday, December 6, 1987 Mv3 'Cook was peaceful, easygoing' I tfl i A reward fund, now at the $52,000 mark, has been set up for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers of the young couple. Anyone ishing to add to the Tanya and Jay Reward Fund may send donations to: The Tanya and Jay Reward Fund, co Brian C. Roberts, 710-U75 Douglas Victoria, B.C.. V8W2EI. service, saying it was important to "remember the person Jay was the fellow that seemed shy until he was wound-up and then he would tell story after story." A similar service was held last Saturday for Van Cuylenborg.

Police in both Snohomish and Skagit counties in Washington are searching for clues, as are Saanich police. spirit. "A bunch of us were staying the night at Prospect Lake but Jay had to work late so we didn't think he'd be able to join us. It started to pour rain, and at about 1 a.m., there was a knock on the door. There was Jay, soaking wet, with a pizza box over his head.

He'd made us all a pizza, then biked all the way out there in the pouring rain to join us." Reverend Eric Stephanson led the 7 UK 3 Jay Cook was a peaceful, easygoing young man who enjoyed meeting people, liked a good joke and could be counted on to help his friends, a memorial service was told Saturday. Hundreds went to the service at the University of Victoria Interfaith Chapel to pay their respects to the murdered 20-year-old. Many relatives and friends left the memorial service huddled together in grief, as they remembered Cook and the tragedy that befell the young Oak Bay man and his 18-year-old girlfriend. Tanya Van Cuylenborg. Cook's body was found Nov.

26 near Monroe, while Van Cuylenborg was discovered Nov. 21 in a ditch on an isolated road near Alger, Wash. She had been shot in the back of the head and he had been strangled. The couple had left Victoria Nov. 13 on what was to be a two-day trip to Seattle.

Several of Cook's friends spoke at the service, some of them weeping uncontrollably as they told of their love for the slain man. "He was a warm, peace-loving person, very easy going and mild-tempered," said Kathy Clarke, who called Cook her "first love." Said Doran Schiller: "Jay was very warm. He enjoyed meeting people, but he didn't like hanging around people who brought him unhappiness. He was strong, and he'd want us to be that way too." Kevin Dueck recalled a story he though best epitomized his friend's 1 1 Ed Broadbent Mike Harcourt Working with you. rf trk yr Lhmw I DemocmB DlltCh yillO John McKay photo Vanessa Braun, 2V2, dances with a member of the Vancouver Island Netherlands Society as they greet Sinterklaas at the Inner Harbor on Saturday.

After the brief ceremony, Sinterklaas was escorted to Holland House to attend a children's party in honor of his feast day. 7:00 Sunday CHEK-TV 7:30 Sunday iWy CRD says Prospect drinking water fine By Stephen Hume Times-Colonist staff The Capital Regional District has offered to sit down with Prospect Lake residents to reassure them that they are in no danger from contaminated groundwater caused by the Hartland Avenue garbage landfill. CRD engineering chief Mike Williams said Saturday that Don Sanford of the Prospect t' Lake Community Association agreed to try to form a committee of residents to work ith the CRD following a raucous public meeting last Wednesday. Williams said, however, there is no tcch-nical basis to believe that groundwater built in 1988 to serve the landfill and three homes at the top of Hartland Avenue which are potentially at risk from leachate contamination of their water supply. Residences at 10, 27 and 15 Hartland Avenue have been receiving bottled water and would be connected to the water main ithout cost to the property owners for the connection.

Williams said monitoring of bore holes surrounding the landfill is continuing. He said Prospect Lake residents at Wednesday's meeting were invited to discuss health and other issues with two consultants, five CRD staff members and deputy medical health officer Tim Johnstone. Williams said there's no reason hy homes on Hartland Avenue can't apply to Saanich to hook up to the new ater main hen it's built. However, he said "there are no plans by the CRD to pipe water to the unserved areas of Prospect Lake; there is no technical reason to think well water in those areas is affected or is likely to be affected by leachate." Residents have complained about the effect of the landfill on their lives; Williams said CRD engineering is "doing everything we can" to reduce the problems. He said the number of seagulls at the landfill has dramatically declined and that an odor problem caused by leachate spraying will end when a pipeline is built by the end of 1988 to carry leachate to the Macaulay Point outfall in Esquimau.

He said Hartland Avenue has been partially reconstructed and there are plans to complete the improvement in the next two years. "We've also initiated a noise survey to find ways to mitigate the effects of the noise from the landfill on the nearby residents." I WILLIAMS between the landfill and Prospect Lake has been contaminated by leachate, which is formed when rainwater or groundwater has passed through the waste at a landfill. He said monitoring by the CRD and Gartner Lee environmental consultants has shown no contamination of domestic wells in the Prospect Lake area or at the top of Hartland Avenue near the landfill. However, slight leachate contamination as found at the landfill suppl well. The CRD sanitation and water committee recommended last week that pumping of the landfill well eventually be stopped because it lowers the water table and induces the movement of leachate to the southeast.

In addition, the committee recommended that a water line be The Board of Directors of First Pacific Credit Union wish to clarify a number of issues which have recently been publicized in the media and which, understandably, concern members. In the first instance, there have been statements to the effect that "First Pacific is being undermined so that it can be taken over by Westcoast Savings Credit Union." We can unequivocably state this is not the case. In fact, we have been working long hours on a business strategy that will increase the financial strength of First Pacific as quickly as possible. Second, although amalgamation with Westcoast may be looked at again at some future point, we are concentrating on the current problems of increasing revenues and providing more efficient service to our members. First Pacific, as you know, does not meet its reserve requirements under the Credit Union Act and therefore, for the past three years has been administered by the Credit Union Deposit Insurance Corporation of B.C.

(CUDIC). CUDIC guarantees, without limit, all deposits and non-equity shares of all credit union members in British Columbia. Their mandate is to assist First Pacific in strengthening its financial base so that it will no longer require subsidization by the rest of the credit unions in the province. To accomplish this, CUDIC has asked our Board to operate First Pacific so that revenues will be increased and costs will be reduced wherever possible without affecting service to members. We have centralized commercial lending operations in our Head Office and reorganized the way it has been handled in the past.

This means that we no longer require as many specialists in commercial lending, particularly in the branches. Additional savings in the administrative area will be realized by the consolidation of some of our branches under regional managers. This, of course, means that several management positions have become redundant and we have had to lay off some of our people. We regret the impact this has had on the lives of those affected but our senior management made its decision on who was to be laid off based on the ongoing needs of the credit union. First Pacific made the decision to become a co-tenant with Westcoast Savings Credit Union in a building on Cormorant Street.

This move was made to effect savings in a number of areas. Our Head Office, Commercial Lending and Retail Services will remain separate and distinct under the control of the board and management of First Pacific Credit Union. The move to Cormorant Street will allow for small immediate savings in Head Office costs but more importantly it will make possible substantial savings in training programs, data processing, ordering of supplies; and some advertising. In fact, over the period of a fiscal year we can envisage savings in excess of half a million dollars from the above initiatives alone. We are also exploring some other joint activites with Westcoast Savings Credit Union in offering insurance and real estate services to our members; if agreement is reached, these two services can be offered to more members at better rates with greater income being generated.

Negotiations on the terms of the possible insurance and real estate agreements are still underway, and they will be agreed to only if they are in the best interests of First Pacific Credit Union and its members. The Board of First Pacific Credit Union is determined to make the organization as efficient as possible while continuing the high level of service to our members. We would like to remind you of the "Meet Your Director" sessions in the branches during the coming weeks. Dates and times are available at your branch. Clipper's trip cancelled as high winds hit Island High winds also hampered the search Saturday for a small commercial plane carrying a pilot and three passengers which disappeared Friday on a flight from Bella Coola to Campbell River.

A Victoria Rescue Co-ordination Centre spokesman said high winds producing severe turbulence have not allowed access to the primary search area, along the mountain route from Bella Coola to Campbell River. The search Saturday was largely confined to other areas. No trace has been found of the missing Britten Norman Islander wheeled aircraft containing pilot Dave Mason of Bella Coola, passengers Dale Chase of Courtenay and Len Barkley of Union Bay. The third passenger's name has not yet been Strong inds slammed most of Vancouver Island Saturday but B.C. Ferry Corp.

said there were no cancellations at the Swartz Bay terminal and the 9 p.m. sailing departed on time. However, me 1:30 p.m. sailing of the Victoria Clipper from Ogden Point to Seattle was delayed several hours and then cancelled. Victoria police said Dallas Road between Moss and St.

Charles Streets was closed due to high waves. The Victoria weather office said gusts of up to 80 kmh were reported on Trial Island. Strong inds and rain were blamed for 11 motor vehicle accidents in the Nanaimo area Saturday, including a four-car pileup. Minor injuries and "a lot of property damage" were reported by Nanaimo RCMP. Jury can't reach verdict with three counts of sexual assault for allegedly fondling and touching three female students, and will now have a new trial.

The incidents are claimed to have occurred between September 1983 and June 1986 when the girls, ho cannot be named because they are minors, were 1 1. 13 and 12 years old. All three testified in the four-day trial. Young will reappear in court Tuesday to fix a new trial date. A county court failed after 18 hours of deliberation to reach a verdict in the sexual assault trial of a Victoria elementary school teacher.

Judge Robert Hutchinson invoked Section 580 of the Criminal Code and dismissed the six-woman, six-man jury Friday night. The jury began deliberation at noon Thursday, were sequestered overnight and debated Friday for more than 10 hours. John (Jack) Young, 11. is charged (raf 9 1 4 of.