BEV LOVES SKIING even though she hails from Savannah, Georgia. A travel consultant on the North Shore, she enjoys most outdoor activities including boating and racing four wheel drives. A lover of sunshine and plants,Bev also has modelling experience. (Elsworth Dickson photo) Cats, _ dogs shot in N. Van A North Vancouver woman watched her dog limp home last Monday and knew that for the third time in under a year it had been shot. Louise Girard of 2078 W. Keith Road said, “I let him out for fifteen minutes and he came back limping.” The nine-year-old spanicl cross miniature collie has a pellet lodged in the muscles of his leg and the vet has told Girard he may or may not survive, since the pelict cannot be removed. “A I want is to have it stopped,” said Girard referring to the shooting. Last October she said someone shot her cat, and she said she knows of five other people in the Pem- berton Heights areca whose pets have been shot- She reported the shooting to the police and the SPCA, but said they have not been able to do anything yet. Police talked with a neighbor said to have several guns but reported that he “seemed like a respectable citizen.” She said the SPCA told her they couldn't do anything unless she did know for sure who was doing the shooting, in which case they could prosecute. It's) not compensation Mrs. Girard wants. “] don’t really want the moncy that all the vet's bills have cost,” she said. “I don’t really care if the man is charged, I just want it stopped.” She said she is now afraid to let her dog out to run loose. “I walk him = three times a day and the rest of the day he is in the back yard.” Aggravated by the fact the police and the SPCA cannot do anything, and concerned with the safety of her pets, Girard wonders what will happen next. _ investigation” A wave of vandalism’ that swept through .the British - Properties-Park Royal area . between March | 26.and ‘April 4 has sparked “ an intensive. -by. West Vancouver Police. . A police spokesman said 39 car windows were van- dalized and there were five - attacks on private property during thattime: There were two reports of motorists having windows in their cars “shot out” while driving, a practice police consider extremely serious. thought to.be involved. Vandalism in the other instances was inflicted on parked cars, windows in private homes and street lights. Police say the vandals struck between 8 p.m. and midnight, attacking three to five. cars in a night. At present, the police spokesman said they have no idea what is being used to inflict the damage, although some sort of projectile is Depending on the type of glass, he said, some windows were shattered while others just had a hole through ‘them. “We have never yet - found any pellets,” he said. Police describe the vandalism as “malicious,” and without an apparent’ motive. “It appears they were just driving along and any cars on the road - bang, bang, bang,” commented a ———spokesman: | Police investigate classroom fire at Sentinel school — ‘A classroom at Sentinel Secondary school at 1250 Chartwell Drive in West Vancouver suffered ex- tensive damage after a fire early Sunday morning. Pet owners fear pellet gun sniper “First he’s shooting at animals. 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