that.the number of students
the "West Van system by

1986.will have dropped from

-9;500 to 3,800.

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rwoman
ledto
gun threats —

Pistols, rifles seized
in domestic squabble

Cloudy with
sunny periods.

some

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Point Atkinson tides:
Jows 0015 hrs and 1205
hrs; highs 0515 hrs and.
1930 hrs. .

MONDAY OUTLOOK
“Little change.

Point Atkinson tides:
lows 0110 hrs and 1255
hrs; highs’ 0550 hrs and
2025 hrs. : _

SHOWING OFF HIS JOGGING STYLE, pint-sized Joshua Goos (ex-.
treme left) exemplifies the theme of West Vancouver's Community Day -
Fitness Festival -- “Fitness is a Family Affair”. Festival events take
throughout the coming week, culminating the major activities

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Guns were twice
‘used as threats to add
leverage im rows
between ai North
Vancouver couple .

A man held a rifle barrel
to his mouth and threatened
to shoot himself when his
wife sdid she was leaving

because of -his ‘relationship.

with another woman.

The wife repeatedly told:

her husband she was going
to: murder the other woman
and during another row
with him she said she was
going to shoot somcone
with one of his pistols she
had hidden.

At North Vancouver
Provincial Court |Wed-
nesday, the husband was
opposing a Crown ap-
plication to dispose of his

loaded

Community Day next Saturday, June 2. Community , |
Sager reports that a record 50 floats have already been entered for the hig
place Community D DOM

Day Parade. See also story on page 10.’
slated for ‘(Graeme Stuart photo) — on

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two semi automatic pistols
and two rifles. *

Crown counsel Jean
Connor said the weapons
were seized without a
warrant asa result of a
domestic dispute attended
by RCMP March 30.

Police had gone to the
couple’s home on.East 3rd

Street after a call from the

husband that the couple
was arguing. They: found a
pistol in the
bedroom and a loaded rifle.

Constable Emil Axness
said the woman told him
her husband was having a
relationship with another
woman and that she wanted
to kill the woman. She later

said she would not use the

gun on the other woman.

The constable said he
feared the return of the

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SAS

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guns would present a very

dangerous: situation through

them being available for use
as a ‘lever..in . further
domestic quarrels, He said
they had already been used
as such on. two: occasions
and were meant to be
stored unloaded.

me
way

. The woman ..told the
court she and her. husband
had been married for 22
years. ".

SUICIDE THREAT
About a week before the
incident. of ‘the 30th, she
said, she had. wondered
about leaving her husband
and he had put a rifle to his
mouth and threatened to

shoot himself if she did,

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