Shaken hikers
saved

TWO WOMEN hikers were plucked by helicopter off a cliff face in
the Lions Bay area Sunday.

Doris Hodel aad Beatrice Gubeli, both of Surrey, had been hik-
ing with ar organized group of E1, when they went missing Satur-
day after taking the wrong trail.

The Lions Bay Search and Rescue team, with assistance by the
Nocth Shore Rescue Team, were able to locale the women earls
Sunday morning.

An RCMP helicopter was called in from Vancouver tstand but
because of the difficulty of the terrain, a smatler commercial
helicopter made the airlift aC around 1:30 p.m.

The women were reported to be cold and hungry, bul they did
not sustain any injuries.

Ken Hopkinson, search master with the Narth Shore Rescue
Team, said the women were located in a hazardous area of Harvey
Creek,

Six yes earlier the local rescue (eam was involved in a search
where one mun had died after slipping and falling in that same
area.

Firefighters kill
flatbed blaze

NOKTH VANCOUVER District firefighters were called Thursday
to put out a fire in a Smithrite flatbed.

The early-morning fire caused about $5,000 damage to the truck
and appears to have been started by an oil-line break, a fire official
said.

The driver was not injured in the blaze, which broke out when
the truck was midway up a section of the Upper Levels Highway,
known as the Cut, near Lonsdale Avenue.

Thieves hit
motor home

POLICE are reminding people to Jock their vehicles, after an inci-
deat last week where a motor home was broken into and valuables
stolen.

Stolen from the motor home were two plane tickets to Berlin,
Germany, camera equipment and an undetermined amount of
jewelry.

The motor home was in the parking Jot of the Capilano Suspen-
sion Bridge when the break-in occurred last Wednesday, sometime
between 2:15 and 2:45 p.m.

North Vancouver RCMP are investigating the theft, anc request
if anyone has any information to please cull 985-1311 or
Crimestoppers at 669-TIPS,

Yolice are advising residents and tourists that if they must leave
thei valuables with a parked vehicle to at feast secure them in the
trunk,

B&B's petition
Expo firm

A PETITION is being civculated amongst hosts involved with Ac-
commodations Only — an Expo booking firm,

Organizer Pauline Currie said hosts who are not satisifed with
Accommodations Only are being asked to contact her in order to
register their dissatisfaction,

She said when enough names are collected, the petition, which
currently has about 80 names, will be sent to the provinciai goy-
ernment’s Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs.

Contact Currie by writing 5335 Monarch Street, Burnaby, B.C.
¥5G 129 or call 208-2492.

Assault leads
to trial

A 30-YEAR-OLD Norta Vancouver man has been ordered to stand
trial on charges of aggravated assault.

Colin Roy Robevts appeared in North Vancouver provincial
court Aug. } charged with four criminal counts in connection with
an Azz. 28, 1984 fracas that involved two other males.

In addition to aggravated assault, Roberts was also charged with
assault causing bodily harm and two counts of using a weapon, a
knife, during the alleged assault.

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