Donors alerted

NORTH SHORE Search and Rescue is alerting the
public regarding a fundraising drive currently belay con-

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ducted hy the Search and Rescue Society of B.C. ( pee su ntanners

North and West Vancouver Emergency Program
Coordinater Ross Peterson suid he has received several Introductory offer
2 for 1 tanning.

complaints from North Shore residents who have been
contacted by the Search and Rescue Society, an organiza-
tion unrelated to North Shore Search and Rescue.
Peterson. is concerned that confused donors may be ‘
sending cheques ta the Victoria-based orgenization, Sessions as low as
mistaiing it for North Shore Search and Rescue.

Speeder jailed

A 23-YEAR-OLD Lions Bay man was recently jailed
three days in connection with charges of speeding and
failing 10 stop at a stop line and stop sign in West Van-

;

couver.

Sames Ashley Osborne pleaded guilty

charges,

to the Aug. 18

He is prohibited from driving for six months.

The charges inchuded:

@ speeding at 40 km-h above the speed limit;

© failing to stop at a marked stop line located near the
Trans Canada Highway and Woodgreen Drive;

@ failing to stop at a stop sign at Woodgreen Drive and

Northwood Drive.

Judge Bill Rodgers sentenced Osborne on Novy. 10 in
: West Vancouver provinciat court.

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s deli ransacked

‘LINDA | FLETCHER | ‘knew:
‘something was wrong the
moment. she pulled up in
front of her restaurant.

Charlotte Parsons.
' Contributing Writer

It was 6:30 on Monday morn-
ing, and the interior of B.G.’s at
731 Lonsdale Ave. should have
been lit to a pinkish glow by the
electric sign onthe ice cream’
freezer. =

Instead,’ the cafe was completely

dark. Fletcher’s unease turned to
’ fear as.she reached the front door
and found it unlocked.:

As she stepped through’ the
door, the ‘smell of rotting food

_greeted her.

Loaves of bread had been:

~~ ‘strewn across the floor.

. On the door to the freezer, the
word “bitch” had been: spray-

_ painted in black.

Inside, the words ‘‘l hate you’’
had-. been scrawled across ‘the
freezer’s back wall. r

“I ‘almost threw up,”’ said the
43-year-old restaurateur. ‘‘The
place . was absolutely trashed.
Honey and syrup had been
dumped out of jars, and the inside
of the freezer was dented where it
had been hit with a metal bar.”’

The intruder had torn out the
wiring in the back of the
refrigerated display counter.
Water puddled at its base.

in the kitchen, the stove had
suffered similar treatment.

Nothing had been ‘stolen. A

“portable microwave sat peacefully

Gn ‘unusual’ break-in

behind the broken display counter.

‘It looks like a revenge thing to:

me,’’ said Fletcher, who pur-
chased the restaurant in February.
But she doesn’t believe that she

. was the intended victim.

She speculated that the vandal
may not have known that the
business had changed hands.

‘I don’t have any enemies,”’
she said, smiling slightly beneath
her black, baseball cap. “Everyone
likes me.”’

She pointed out: a spidery hole
near the top of the bistro’s glass
front,

It had been made by a pellet
gun during the previous owner's
reign, said Fletcher.

She added that the window had
also been attacked with a sling-
shot

North Vancouver RCMP Const.
John R. Green said the break-in
was unusual.

“ft’s the first case like this that
I’ve seen,’? he said. ‘Obviously
whoever got in there was trying to
put her out of business.’’

fronically, Fletcher sold the
business last Saturday. Now she
worries that the incident will scare
off her buyer.

“Om advising (the new owner)
to change the name of the deli to
make it clear that it has changed
hands,”’ she said.

Meanwhile, she and her staff
(which is composed mainly of
friends and family) have begun
cleaning up the mess and repairing
the damage.

Fletcher wants her customers to
know that she will try to reopen
the cafe by next week.

Filter system planned for reservoir

From page 3

Capilano lakes reservoir drinking
water.

Some environmentalists claim
the need for filters and more
disinfectant in the drinking water

Today's the day togetin gear. )
Leave the car at home and take
your bike.

is related to turbidity stemming.”
from watershed logging.

Neden said a public consultation
phase will be conducted next
spring before a recommendation
on the issue is submitted to the
GVRD board.

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