HAD GUITAR FOR 20 YEARS

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AFTER 20 years of constant musical companionship, North
Vancouver’s Norm Glass lost his prize black Gibson electric
guitar to thieves just before Christmas.

Glass, a 43-year-old professional
guitarist, is heartsick about it, his
wife said Monday, and has offered
a reward for the guitar’s return.

“That's the only guitar he’s had
all those years because he’s never
wanted another,”’ his wife Debbie
Glass said. ‘People recognize him
by that guitar’s sound.”

His wife said the solid body Les
Pau! Custom has ivory inlay on its
neck, three pick-ups and a bixby, a
metal handle that modifies the
guitar’s sound.

On the guitar’s body is a small
sticker with the name Debbie
which faces Glass when he piays.

Glass said her husband travelled
from New York to Mexico and
across Canada with the guitar.
This summer he had all the ivory
replaced and the guitar refinished
because he had worn it down with
use.

Glass lost the guitar Dec. 19
when he was returning home from
Haney alone. Suffering from the
flu, he stopped at a number of
places on the way home to North

SeaBus holiday
traffic dewn

SEABUS RIDERSHIP during
non-peak periods is a lot heivier
than usual but there has been an
overall rider decrease over the
holidays, a spokesman says.

B.C, Transit spokesman George
Stroppa said Tuesday the previous
day’s ridership topped out at just
under 10,000 people, a decrease
from earlier this month.

“The ridership is more evenly
spread, instead of over two rush)
hours,” said Stroppa, who noted
commuter traffic is usually down
over the holiday season.

Holiday skiers, shoppers and
vacationers are altering the SeaBus
traffic flow, he said. ‘‘Schools are
out sc we get a lot of that traffic,”
said Stroppa.

“The overall ridership is tradi-
tionally less during this period,’
he added.

By RUBERT BEYNON

Contribuung Weiter

Vancouver beeause he didn’t feet
well,

When he got home he realized
that someone had taken the guitar
out of his car's back seat at one of
those stops.

He reported the theft to North
Vancouver RCMP but they have
had no feads yet.

Glass plans to place an adver-
tisement in Lower Mainland
newspapers offering ‘‘Reward, if
you can find my baby."

His wife said a friend lent Norm
a guitar the day after he fos’ his
but has not touched it. Last 'Mon-
day he began testing new guitars
for the first time since he lost his
own.

“t's like he lost his right arm,”
his wife said.

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