84 - Friday, September 12; 1986 - North Shore News :

Keeping your home secure |

Be it ever so humble “your home is your own. So is everything i in it. And uninvited intruders are most certainly not welcome.
Sadly, too. many people wait until after they've had @ break-in (and there's one every 3.5 minutes in Canada) to make their home secure.

There ure. many excellent clectroni¢ systems. available, but. even taking the. few simple precautions listed below will certainly help protect your home. And remember:

most burglars i ie. young amateurs Who just want to get in’ grab anything portable and ‘saleable’ then vet out withour anyone noticing. Don't make e Your house-an cusy target.
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© Keep foundation shrubbery trimmedssind.well away from windows, doors and the “9 Join “Operation Identification’: have call valuable — and poriabie tens marked
driveway, Why give a prowler a place to hic ; with vour social insurance number! Call your ity potice for details:

See-through fences makeit easy for neighbors andj psscrs-hy to keep an eye on

SOUP property.

Don't put your namie an the gute. or exterior of

your home: it makes: loo easy to find your phone

number and check to see it anyone's home,

® Make a written Inventory of all valuable tems in your homie, Record serial
numbers. take close-up photos of jewellery and:

phatograph all rooms ti sour bame from

VaraUs iupides:

6 @ All docks shod be deadbolts.

® Secure vill basement window saith docks and wire

Keep garaye deor locked.
nssh covering

Al exterior Hetits should shine towards your
home. and should be located so that. the bulbs
cannot be reinoved or dam: ied. ;
[sou havea ladder. keep itwell out of reach
Do not leave a key under the mate i aomaitbas
or other obvious spot And never leave notes ”
for anyone: those notes are writen iby tid

to thieves

@ MMintain: nord lighting throughout vedr house,
even w he fi You ‘ye not home.

@ Secure inside basement, door with deadbalr or
hardened ateal look,

t forget to secure sk sil hits and pater doors.

your guide.

Sussex < Realty Corporation. 2996 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver. 8. c, V7 N 35a (60. 4) o8: GFN