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84 Pages

Youth
atiack
assailed

Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews

A Lynn Valley man
whose family went to
the aid of a brutally
attacked neighbor and
then had his own
house pelted with
rocks and sticks has a
big problem with the
Young Offenders Act.

“These kids were standing out
in front of my home screaming,
‘We are going to kill someone
tonight’,” said Robert Poburko
yesterday.

Poburko said he is furious that
he cannot find out the names of
four 16- and = 17-year-old
tecnagers arrested on Saturday
near his Bushnell Place house.
The four were responsible for 3
violent rampage that began about

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Valentine’s Day
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Special deliveries

FOUR-YEAR-OLD Lois Lee gets a boost from teacher Pat Uren to mail handmade valentine cards. |.ee was joined by 17 other tod-
dlers from Seymour Heighis Parent Participation Preschool during the trek to the mailbox on Tuesday. The cards should be in the

Sve Man page i hands of loved ones by St. Valentine's Day, which is tomorrow.

NV senic

Affordable housing crunch
feared as Lower Lonsdale
Kiwanis facility to shut down

Jolanda Waskito
Contributing Writer

AFFORDABLE housing in North
Vancouver City is disappearing, claim
seniors and the city’s Affordable
Housing ask Force.

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Senior Erma Basaraba has been lising at the Kiwanis
Apartments on East First Street tor 12 years and she docsa't

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The non-profit Kiwanis Senior Citizens Homes Ltd. is
closing down 38 low income units for seniors in two 40 vear-
old buildings on First Street.

The organization wants to sell its property ar 33), sal and
371 East First St. to a developer who has no plan te build
affordable housing.

Kiwanis has offered to relocate seniors living at First
tt. tea the Kiwanis Towers on cast Second Street) and
terfield Avenue, or to its Kiwanis Lynn Manor located in

Lyan Valley.

But the move would mean anise in rent for the fixed:
invome seniors raba said.

Seniors now pay $230 1. montit plus urifities atthe Kiwanis
Apartments. The Kiwanis Towers charges $290 a month, util

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SENIORS (right to left) Roy Blainey, Erma Basaraba.
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