Fo 1993 North Van a hot spot for burning stolen cars THE NORTEL Shore has become a popular spot for thieves to park and burn ears stolen from other Lower Mainland areas. North Vancouver District Fire Services iNVIDFS) spokesman Brian Stegavig said the police and fire departments were investigating seven sippicious car fires on the North Shore in the last four weeks, One of the latest suspected ar- sons involved a F984 Plymouth station wagon, which was torched THE TROLL Moodyville’s Richard the Tratl (Schaller) is laboring to bring an oasis to Lower Lonsdale. aa Resterie nee Gf WORKING IT Back-to-school fashion trends for teens include work wear and hiking gear. Classifieds 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 HOLD ON to your bikes. Nine-year-old Danny Purser, in foreground, is among the unlucky and unhappy youngsters who recently had their bikes stolen near a Hamber Place townhouse complex in the Mount Seymour area. A townhouse resident estimates that more than a dozen bikes have been stolen from the area‘in the last two weeks. See the story on page 3. By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter just before midnight at the end of August oon Skyline Drive in Delbrook. Phe car, which was destroyed in the fire, had been stolen from: the frant of its Vancouver owner's home. Stegavig said an accelerant was used in the blaze. A stolen late-model Camuare was alsa torched and destroyed on Aug. 25 in an early-morning f on Browning Place in the Mount Seymour Parkway area Stegavig said the vehicle's owner did not live on the North Shore. An accelerant was also used in the car fire. Meanwhile, in North Vancouver City, a spectacular Aug. 300 car fire — that some residents believed was Larson elementary school burning — guited a stolen BMW. The BMW, owned by a West Vancouver resident, had cartier been reported stolen to the Van- couver City Police. See Cars page & Leth REN g TE REGEN IE PERI TT RETR ATES ithe Wak ane iaktowe Lstine / Future of W. Van post office being reviewed She added that the Shoppers Drug Mart store at 1583 Marine Dr, in West Vancouver began offering postal service on Thursday, Beiks said the main West Vancouver post office is only open Monday to Friday, while the franchise operations are open seven days a week. Canada Post closed its main “Hts an office under review. North Vancouver post office at which is not unusual,’ said 100 East Ist St. to all but Bet business clients in March 1991. “Our customers ure not That move was criticized by really using those main postal the Canadian Union of Postal’ outlets us much: as the franchise Workers, who charged that the oudets. We now have six Crown corporation was ‘clos- franchise outlets in that area Gf Ing its doors to the citizens of West Vancouver.” North Vancouver." THE CANADA Post Corp. is reviewing the future of its main West Vancouver post office at 225-17th St. Canada Post spokesman H- ona Beiks confirmed Friday that the Crown corporation may eventually decide to clase the postal outler. a erect