AUGUST 31, 1997

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GAS station co-owner Llana Hegedus Is missing cigarettes and cash after a burglar cut this hole
into the West Vancouver outlet last week. This is the station's third break-in in eight months.

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Station ewner questions response
By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter dangclo@nsnews.com

LIANA Hegedus is a frustrated victim of three

burglaries to her Ambleside gas station.

“We lose moncy every time it happens. And nobod, seems to care,” said

Hegedus.
egedus and Tony Martin are co-owners of the Petro-Canada station at
[5th Street and Marine Drive.

On Monday, between midnight and 6 a.m., a burglar broke into the sta-
tion by cutting a hole through a wall in the station’s public washroom.

Although the station has an alarm system, the thief managed to avoid
detection and made off with more than 100 cartons of cigarettes and some
cash. The haul added up to more than $4,000.

Te was the third burglary to the station in cight months. The first nwo
break-ins ~~ smash and grabs —- occurred 1} days apart in December. No
one has t:cen charged for the December break-ins, even though police recov-
ered a burglar’s fingerprint in the second hit,

Hegedus said the alarm sounded in the ewo early morning break-ins, but
the police response time was too slow.

After the latest thett, Hegedus said that 2 West Vancouver Police officer
taking pictures of the crime scene told her the officers who are trained to
obtain fingerprint evidence for the police department were on vacation.

“Basically | am out of luck,” said Hegedus.

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Business group gives a
failing mark to North Van

By lan Noble

News Reporter
jian@nsnews.com

THE news was bad when the Canadian Federation
of Independent Business delivered its report card
on North Vancouver Thursday.

According to the federation's small and mid-sized business owners, the city

and district fail miserably when managing nuunicipal responsibilities that affect
business,

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