A3 - Sunday, January 8, 1984 - Nlorth Shore News

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INGENIOUS

A look at a North Shore man

BAGGED.

THE SANDBAGS weren't needed this time, but the prac-
tice Cypress Creek resident: have had in preparing for
floods came in handy as warm temprratures and beavy
cain sent them scurrying to the banks.

with a bent for turning ideas

info inventions.

By NEWS STAFF

The relief came twice dur-
a8 Oe te

Concern .was raised
throughout the week thal
heavy rainfall, combined with
ra¢idly warming = tempcra-
tures that dropped snow
levels in arca mountains,
would again spill creck waicr
into homes.

Residents along Cypress
Creck watched the water with
consiicrable interest, fearing

Thursday cvening at 10:45
pm the Gulf stanon at 1490
Manne Drive was hn for ap
proxumatcly $1,000 by a tone
male who demanded the
moncy from two ull insidc
the station

The man, who indicaicd he
was armed but who did nat
Produce a weapon, stuffed

What’s Going On. .B10

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thar, for the third time since
carly November, they’d be
inundated.

Of particular concern were
weather reports Wednesday
and again Thursday that ma-
jor storm activity accom-
panied by heavy raimfall was
expected.

But while forecasters were
predicting as much as five in-
ches of rain for the mountain
areas of the North Shore on
both arghts, the storms either
passed quickly or did not ar-
rive at all.

What rain there was was
steady but gentle and water

his take into a canvas bag and
then Med the scence on foot

Police wete quichhy on the
sence with a tracking dug but
he test the scem. Icading
police to Octieve the thicf ran
only as far as a waiting car

There arc sumilasitics bet
ween Thursday's theft and
another that occured Dec 19

by slowing
of rain

Predicted deluge doesn’t show

THAT SOUND yoo’ve been hearing is the sighs of
reef from West Vancouver residents who have
twice this winter faced flooded basements and
fevesish activity on the river banks.

ways such as Cypress Creek
were able to handle the water
for the most part.

While there were still in-
adents of Mlooded basements
and soggy yards, the problem
was not nearly as bad as it
has been in the past several
months.

North Vancouver District,
in fact, may have been hit
harder than West Vancouver,
which has borne the brunt of
flooding activity this ycar.

Early jn the week when
rainfalls were heavier, the
North Vancouver District fire
department received 14 re.
quests for heip with flooded
basements and the district
mumeopality another 13 dur-
ing a three and a half hour
penod

Another station
feels thief’s bite

FOR THE second time in a month, a West Van-
couver pas station has been hit by a late-night thief.

at an kaso Station lowated in
the same arca

In that incident a lonc male
excaped on foot after robbing
the station at 10 45 pm ona
Monday oight THe. too. ts
bebeved to have ran to a veh
cle and driven away from the
scene of the crime

Police don't however,
believe there ts a connection
because of differem descmp
ons of the thieven given by
victims