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December 17, 1980

Tel. 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

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in N.Van.

Two women have been
raped in their homes in
North Vancouver's Lower
Lonsdale area in the past
week ... while their
families slept on, unaware
of what was happening.

There have now been
three such rapes in a month
and RCMP detectives say
that thé man responsible is
obviously unafraid of either
the public or police.

Even while Saturday's
rape was happening, police
were on the same block, in-
vestigating a complaint by a
women who had en-
countered the man walking
into her home on the 400
block East Second Strect a
short while earlier, while she
happened to be holding a
butcher's knife

And RCMP believe the
rapist may already have
wandered around vanous
other homes in the area,
looking for victims while the
occupants sleep on

A police spoke$man says i!
is thought the man operates
on an indiscriminate basis.
trying homes at = random
rather than making a note of
where certain women hve

Pohce are anxious to hear
from anyone who may
suspect thear homes were
entered by the same man

He is described as being
“non white” possibly a
black with dark afro hair
clean) shaven with = hagh
check bones He ts aged 25
30, about S ft Ooi and
weighing 160 pounds

Homes he enters are
either left: unlouked or in
secure with inadcquate lock
ing systems and his victims
have ranged in age from 15
to 31

After entering a home tt 1s
suspected he wanders

2 Reac

While families sleep

around and checks _ the
various rooms before going
into the bedroom of his vic-
tim.

On waking her, he im-

mediately threatens violencé™

and tells them to undress.

The first reported attack
was on November 17 on a 17-
year-old who was raped in
her Lower Lonsdale home in
the early hours of the morn-
ing.

Thursday last week the
rapist struck again at a Home
on the 200 block West Se-
cond Street A 15-year-old
girl there was awakened in
her bedroom at about 3:15
a.m. and raped while her
parents and younger sisters
slept on in two other
bedrooms.

Then Saturday night the
same man visited al least two
more homes

In the early hours of
Saturday Morning a woman
living on the 400 block East
Second awoke and sensed
something was wrong

She went to check her
door and took a butcher's
knife with hes which she in-
tended sticking in the door
amp so. the
close lighter

door would

It was at that moment the
rapist walked through the
door and on seeing ber stan
ding there with the knife he
walked back out

She called the pobce and
while they were «hee hing the
area the intruder was raping
a Vl year old) woman living
on the same block at about 4
am Her husband was sleep
ing in another bedroom and
her children
asicep

were also

An ROMP spokesman says
Of the rapist Ch appears he
has not much fear. cuther of

the public of the police ”

A $14 million plan to modernize its North Vancouver
plant has been announced by Canadian Occidental

(Hooker Chemicals)

chlorine manufacturers.

And

works manager Brian Thorpe stresses that the company
has no intention whatsoever of relocating the North
Vancouver plant - in spite of District council having
received a report it commissioned which recommends
the winding down of the operation.

The announcement of the
modernization and

‘Eperading project was made

~ Tuesday the morning after

District council had agreed
to initiate a ban on above
ground storage of hazardous
materials. (See page A9 )
for details of the council
decision).

Hooker’s decision was

agreed at a board meeting
held in Calgary Monday and
Thorpe said the project had
been in the pipeline for the
past two years. Completion
is set for early 1983.

The project was im-
mediately denounced by
Sheila Gordon, a member of
the Community Hazards
Task Force appointed by

h Shore Night Schools courses i

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

District. council, which
reported back recently, urg-
ing that measures should be
taken to achieve the reloca-
tion of the chlorine
manufacturing plant and
that further expansion
should meanwhile be bann-
ed.

GAUNTLET

She described the Hooker
announcement as being ex-
pansion in the guise of
upgrading and said: “It is
certainly in defiance of the
municipal government's task
force report.”

Gordon declared: “It

FLYING SAUCER ON LONSDALE received stares by passers by as tt was whecled up the hfll to the North Van

headquarters of the Salvation Ampmy tor usc in a play The UFO was built by another local branch of the Salvation
Amny. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

WEDNESDAY:
Cloudy with periods of
“light rain or drizzle.

THURSDAY:
Cloudy and cooler.

sounds to me like they are
throwing down the
gauntlet.”

Thorpe insists his com-
pany has no intention of
waging a war with the
municipality but is equally
insistant that the North Van
pliant will not relocate.

“I don’t look at it as being
a fight,” he commented.
“We have worked with
municipal agencies in a lot of
areas.

“We haven't ignored the
task force report. We are
studying it very carefully and
are working with it. Reloca-

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