28 — Wednesday, January 21, 1998 — North Shore News

- Two escape
house fire

Home destroyed in blaze

Robert Galster

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com

FAITH and Gideon
Billy were lucky to be
woken up in the early
hours of last
Wednesday morning.

Tro was just afew hours
atter they had settled in tor
the night.

“We both woke up to my
brother-in-law standing in
the hall screaming, * and
1 thoughts he was joking.”
said Faith as she steod out
side the burnt out wreckage
of what had been until that
night her home.

“We kid) around
each other like that.”

Unfortunately for the
couple, it was no joke as
they quickiy realized before
running to a neighbor's

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with

house to call the tire depart:
ment.

“Eob adoooon
fneighbo
never had
Faith.

As it) turns outs her
efforts were in fare part: for
naught as their Misston
Reserve home in the #00
block of West Ist Street was
Mmost campletely: gutted

According te North

“aneouver Cary Fire
Department spokesman
Gavin Soanes, the fire broke
out around 2 aa. and is still
under investigation

“We suspect an teaposed
light bulb was a contributing
fretor at the base of the
seul,” said Soanes.

The Billy's house was
insured by the Squamish
Nation, which will also sup-
port the couple until their
house is rebuilt.

that
like J

added

dour
botore?

__Abducted cat
turns up dead

Robert Galster

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com

LETTING go of a
loved one is never
easy.

Three years ago, Caroline
Price and her mother were
devastated when their cat
Babe disappeared.

They tied everything to
find it again, bur to no avail.

“We did all the usual
things,” said Price.

“We put up. signs and

_called the SPCA.”

After some time, memo-
ties of Babe faded and the
two Lynn Valley residents
slowly moved on with their
lives, forgetting about the
white fluffy creature that was
no longer with them.

(ef Lansdowne)

Then, out of the blue,
came a recent phone call
from the SPCA as well as a
lady living several cks
away.

Both called to say they
had found Babe — only he
was dead.

Babe had been run over
only blocks from the Price
residence.

It seems whoever took
the cat, adopted it and never
bothered to change its
tags.

“Those people kept the
cat with our tags,” said Price
angrily.

“It’s someone else’s pet
and somebody's been keep-
ing it and feeding it even
though it’s somebody else’s
cat.

“Lhope whoever had him
reads this,” she added.

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