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A trio of harbour seals
waits patiently as din-
ner time nears at the
Stanley Park
Aquarium, above.
Left, one of the seals
demonstrates the wet
took after a quick dip
in the pool.

Photcs by
Stuart Davis

3 - Wednesday, December 18, 1985 - North Shore News

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Leak forces
evacuation

A DRIVER’S = sudden
stop is responsible for
causing a propane leak
and an evacuation of the
200 block Lonsdale
Avenue Monday after-
noon.

The propane leak oc-
curred when the driver of
a pickup truck hit the
brakes and caused the
cargo in his. truck to roll
forward and break a fit-
ting on a 1!00-pound pro-
pane tank.

The truck was located
in the lane behind 127 E.

3rd. Street, but the direc-
tion of the wind caused
the propane vapors to
head to the 200 block
Lonsdale.

Firefighters, arriving
on the scene at 4:45 p.m.,
noted the large amount of
propane spilled and
ordered the area be
evacuated.

Firemen proceeded to
disperse the vapors and
keep all sources of igni-
tion away from the
danger area.

Within 45 minutes the
area was back to normal.

Drinking
driver caught

A DRUNKEN joy ride
left a Calgary man in
custody Thursday.
Alerted by an
anonymous caller who

said he saw an impaired.

driver heading across the
Second Narrows Bridge,
the North Vancouver
RCMP caught up to the
Suspect car at 23rd Street
and Lonsdale Avenue,
where the driver had ran

into the back of a vehicle
stopped at the light.

After a subsequent in-
vestigation, police
discovered the vehicle was
stolen in Vancouver.

RCMP arrested two
men and later charged
22-year-old Alvin
Thomas Raweater, who is
being held in custody
pending a court ap-
pearance.

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to trial

CKNW sportscaster Allen
“Big Af’? Davidson was
committed to Vancouver
county court Monday to
stand trial on three ar-
son-related charges.

The committal follow-
ed five days of prelimi-
nary inquiry into the
charges ia North Van-
couver provincial court.

Davidson, 60, faces
one count of wilfully set-
ting fire to a vessel, one
count of wilfully setting a

fire likely to cause dam-,

age to other vessels, and
one count of wilful dam-
age in connection with a
March 21 incident in
which three power boats
were damaged by fire at
North Vancouver’s Mos-
quito Creek Marina.

The sportscaster elected
trial by judge without
jury in the first day of the
inquiry Nov. 25.

Davidson will appear in
Vancouver county court
Jan. 18 to set a date for
trial.

Fire destroys
Cove house

FOUR PEOPLE escaped
uninjured from a fire that
destroyed a Deep Cove
house Sunday.

Dave Soregnson, a
guest of second floor te-
nants Kenneth and Susan
Miller, was awakened by
a crackling noise early
Sunday morning.

Investigating,
Soregnson discovered the
back door and the rear of
the house, including the

patio, were on fire.

He alerted the Millers,
who in turn alerted first
floor resident Stephen
Wayvon. All four
escaped the fire safely.

District of North Van-
couver firefighters arrived
on the scene at 6:25 a.m.
to find the house engulf-
ed in flames. °

-Fire investigators are
searching for the cause of
the fire and estimate
damage at 375,000.