. : ee meena een tiag tn emee sees 2 Te Sea neath 25 EEO MES SERA OEENG . sie ethan OT noon . y green thumb burglars The annual menace of the not even have to break in. robbed until they get back in green thumb burglars’ has They just walk in through from the garden. All they startd up again. - the front door, grab ar- know is they heard the fron ; mloads of valuables and doorslam.” . ; Already, several gar- Move om to the next house =~ , deners have had their homes burgled while they have been working in their. yards and . police warn that the problem is growing each . year. where they can see people working in their yard. “It’s easy and only takes about three minutes,” says Sergeant Ron McKay of the RCMP. General -In- McKay says: “About this . time of the year, every year, a whole bunch of people in North Vancouvér go into their gardens and get hit by the green thumb burglars.” . vestigation Section in North — . For the burglar, the Van. He says gardeners should . gardeners are easy targets. = lock their front doors before. They leave their homes “And the people don't going into the back yard to unlocked so the thieves do even realize they've been work. ~ Morning mystery hospitalizes youth . A Comox youth was The mystery is how the Why he was found soaking ~ rushed to Lions Gate youth ever ended up in the wet ona Bay boats float later Hospital early Monday _ water in the first place. that morning, police say, morning suffering from ° “nobody seems to know.” The youth said he had no recollection of how he ended up where ke did, and police say the youth was not im- paired and it wasn't an at- tempted suicide. — draperies — hypothermia: after being in the water at Horseshoe Bay under mysterious. cir- cumstances. Evidently he arrived in Horseshoe Bay on a ferry at 1:30 a.m., and police say he missed his bus connection West Vancouver police out of the area. said the youth, age 16, was ' < found at 5:30 Monday , : morning, “sitting on the dock in a disoriented state.” He was wearing soaking wet blue jeans and no top-and bviousl ffering fr = hypothermia. the police by S. Laursen oS e patos . said. — : ; After being taken to the Emergency Health Services ambulance, police said the youth was rushed to Lions Gate Hospital and was released later in the day. OUR SUNSHINE GIRL Louise, sure knows how to put on ppy face. A North -Shore resident who works as a cosmetician at a make-up studio, Louise owns her own horse “Bobcat” that she enjoys riding along the many trails around North Van- couver. (Ellsworth Dickson photo) Samp find starts body West Vancouver Police search while. 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