BRIEFS

Thieves break into
IN. Van apartment

THIEVES BROKE into an apartment at 160 West 5th. Street on
March 17, making off with a stereo system, microwave cooker and
a cassette tape recorder, North Vancouver RCMP reported.

The burglars entered the locked North Vancouver suite in broad
daylight. RCMP suspect tht more than one person was involved in
the theft because of the size of the stolen goods.

The thieves are believed to have carried the goods to the ground
floor level and loaded them into a vehicle at the parking garage, or
on Sth. Street in front of the building.

Anyone with information on the crime is requested to phone the
North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1311.

Loan awarded
to improve marina

Mosquito Creek Marina, West Vancouver-Howe Sound MLA John
Reynolds announced recently.

The loan, which will be used to improve the marina’s electrical
system and docks, is among the first to be approved under the new
First Citizens’ Fund loan program, which is administered by the
Ministry of Native Affairs and Delta Credit Union.

The fund is a $25 million special account that supports 80 to 100
hurearies for Native students, 22 Native Friendship Centres aczoss
the province and native economic development projects totalling
approximately $1 million. "

Thes far, 10 loans totaliing $650,000 have been awarded to
native eatrepreneurs from Bella Coola to Grasmere.

Three face
theft charges

| THREE LOWER Mainland m:n are facing 2 total of four criminal
1 | charges, including assauliing a police officer, following an alleged
; theft of skis from the Cypress Bow! ski area.

Flynn Michael Sheedy, 24, and David Weiss, 24, both of North
, Vancouver, esd William David McNabb, 22, of Vancouver were
originally charged jointly with theft under $1,000 and possession of
stolen property worth under $1,000 in connection with a Jan. 18
fecident in which a pair of Olin skis and Salomon bindings were
alleged to have been stolen from near the Cypress Bow! cafeteria at
soproximatcty 9:50 p.m.

McNabb was farther charged with causing police to enter into a
chase, and Weiss was charged additionally with assaulting a police
officer.

All the charges were Inid after the trio failed to stop at a West
Vancouver Potice roadbiock that had been set up after police were
alerted to the alleged sid theft.

Police chased thz three approximately 500 metres, at which point
their vehicle was pulled over and an altercation allegedly ensued.

| | Blackcomb ski
race set

THE THIRD anoual Labbatt’s Blue Saudan Couloir race wili be
} beld at Blackcomb Mountain on March 25 22 10 a.m.

; Starting at the top of Blackcomb’s Seventh Heaven chair, racers
mest ski through 60 gates in this Super G-type race to the bottom
1 of Jersey Cream chair.

“The race is undoubtedly the most harrowing, demanding, un-
forgiving, awesome and demented form of ski competition on this
coutinent,”’ is how chief of race, Dave Perry describes the event.

For more information phone 669-5050.

A $75,000 First Citizens’ loan bas been approved to expand the |

Naughty
students
cause
spirited
board
debate

STUDENTS ARRESTED at the
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal sev-
eral weeks ago are being disciplin-

ed by both West Vancouver Police ‘

and the West Vancouver School Grand Court:

Board, assistant school superin- * chocolate Easter eggs for the F

tendent Doug Player recently kids |

revealed. ‘
“They were stealing candy from * a bunny hep contest at 1 p.m. eo

the machines,’’ Player said, adding
that it was B.C. Ferries security

staff who alerted police.

The three students, who live on
Bowen Island, were suspended and
lost their travel privileges, Player

said.

youths’ punishments.
He described
**junior students."*

The arrests created an animated
debate among board members,
especially over the question of who
is legally responsible for students
in transit and how the students

should be supervised in future.
Trustee Michael Smith

sion to seck a legal opinion was
waste of taxpayers’ money.

“There is an ancient law that
says the captain is the unquestion-

ed boss of the ship,'’ Smith said.

May told the board he had per-
sonally visited the B.C. Ferries of-
fice and been told that the cor-
poration was not responsible for

the students.

Smith said the issue was one of

motivating & fercies bureaucrat.

**Maybe we should hire little old
ladies to picket the ferries and pro-
test that some of the students are
unruly,’’ Smith said. ‘Then maybe

the bureaucrats would act.””

Board chairman Jean Ferguson

pleaded with the board to put

policy into place ‘‘before a serious
accident happens,’’ adding that the
question of legal responsibility has
without
results for the 2% years she has

been “kicked around"

been on the board.

The board passed a motion,
proposed by trustee Margot Furk,
instructing May and Smith to visit
ferry officials one more time to
ascertain who should supervise

travelling students.

Board secretary-treasurer John
that
‘ultimately, the parent is respon-

Cassey told the board

sible for the child.’*

vo.

NOTICE 7O OUR
CUSTOMERS

Please note the following

ran March 1-4, 1989. The
# &xplorer! Car Booster Seat
& from Cosco, style #299 is
§ for children 40-65 Ibs., not

inconvenience
— have caused our cust-
A omers.

Player did not divulge the name
of the school the young offenders
attend or the duration of the

them only = as

said
Tepeatedly that the board’s deci-

change in our "Little Book §
BE of Big Values” Flyerwhich §&

for children, 30-60 Ibs. as §
previously stated in the J
Flyer. We apologize tor any «
this may

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