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Saturday: periods of rain, windy
High 11°C, low 8°C.

Festive
spirit
stolen
in NV

theft

CHRISTMAS DAY turned sour
for a North Yancouver mother
who found her home ransacked
by burglars.

By Anna Marie D'Ange
News Reporter

Leanne Marshali and her seven-
year-old daughter came home after a
Christmas breakfast to find their house
a shambles,

“She clung to my feg and said:
‘Mommy, they took all our Patt":
an upset: Marshall two days after
Christmas.

“Bong Christmas, at was just the
lowest, lowest... This is going to hang
ith ous forever for my daughter to
watch in hocroras her mom freaks out”
she said.

Thieves broke into the Seylynn area
home through a pried window some-
time between 1! a.m. and 2 p.m.

“There was pictures and stuff we
had all over the floor.” said Marshall,

“L went in and ran into the living
room and saw everything was discon-
nected,” she said.

The thieves took wrapped presents
from under the tree including a stereo
system for Marshall's parents.

Other items stolen included a TV.
two VCRs, heirloom jewelry, children’s
videos, cameras, CDs. liquor and a
Filter Queen vacuum cleaner.

“T don’t know what the presents
from relatives were because they were
wrapped.” said Marshall.

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD LAUREN Marshall remains upset after thieves ransacked her family’s

North Van home on Christmas Day. The burgiars took wrapped gifts left under the tree.

See Woman page 2

Lawyers join club fray

Capilano Sportsmens Club plans to stay

CAWYERS ARE invoived in a dispute
between West Vancouser District and
the Capilano Sporitsmens Club.

By lan Nable
News Reporter

The Capilano Sportsmens Club has been
asked to leave its municipally owned
Ambleside location to make way for a youth
outreach program.

West) Vancouver offered the Capilano
Sportsmens Club, located in the same building
for more than 40 years, an extra month beyond
an original Dec. 31 deadline to remove its pos-
sessions.

But club president Lynn Coules said: she

does not agree with some of the canditions of

the extension, Instead. the club will have. its
lawyer respond to the district's proposal.
“EE they want to play hardball, we can too.”

she said. “Our position is we're staying there.

“We have offered to work with them to find
a better location for our youth. The youth out-
teach group is just as important as ours, but not
more important,” she added.

District lawyer Paul Wilson told the club in
a Dee. 18 letter that West Vancouver would not
provide the three moni: extension the club
recently asked for because the fucility is needed
for the youth outreach program.

‘However!’ said Wilson,

year, the council will allow your club the mouth
of January to complete the removal of its pos-
sessions from the building and to complete the
+ of vacating provided that certain condi-

¢ agreed to.”
¢ club must obtain the municipal manag-
approval for removing anything from the

premises.

REACHING EVERY. DOOR ON THE NORTH SHORE-SINCE 1969...

“in recognition of
your request and the besyness of this time of

Ron Collins, of West) Vancouver-based
Collins Consultants, told the News that approx-
imately $250,000 worth of work would be
required to bring the facility up te cade if the

y usage is changed,
preliminary opinion report outlined
problems including electrical and plumbing
systems that require a complete upgrading, #
fireplace and chimney that need extensive work
and an attic that requires firewalls.

Wilson said that if the club does not agree to
the district's conditions, the notice to vacate at
the end of the month stands.

He said he would he going back to the dis-
trict for instructions, but does wot know what
council's response will be if the club refu
move. Club lawyer Jonathan Baker
believes the club will go directly to counc
ask to enter into an agreement to rent of license
club premises.

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