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(Terry Peters photo)

TAKING A SHORT BREAK from all that pe

vow

dalling, Gre and Woord
pictured at the Tone home in West Vancouver before continuing to Los Angeles.

- For Gre and Wim Woord,
.a Dutch couple, it could be
‘called = a

honeymoon.

Married on March 30,
they set out from New York
on April 28 to.cross North .

. America on their ten speed

bicycles, and last week they
reached West Vancouver.

A driver who attracted the.

.. attention of West Vancouver

“police by’ driving onto the
» . Lions Gate- bridge in a car
' -with'a flat tire, was, fined
$450 for impaired driving,
Wednesday.

~

‘travelling

Staying at the Tone home
at 61 Bonnymuir Place, the
Woords took a brief rest
from their rigorous.schedule
‘before heading south - for
their final destination, which

is Los Angeles.
The Woords set them-
selves a schedule of

travelling 50 miles a day, and

they camped out along the .

route.

’ Flat tire let her down

charged June 20, after being
stopped early that morning..

West ‘Vancouver
‘Provincial Court was told

_ that when police stopped the

- | ......... white Volkswagen Edwards

Grace Edwards, aged 30,
of Port Coquitlam -was

was driving, they saw it had
been in collision with
something, and the right

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are

EMERGENCY MESSAGES BONUS

‘Mt. Seymour to get

Yet another radio com-
munications tower is to be
built on Mount Seymour.

Greater Vancouver
Regional Disrict has granted
a lease to Canadian General
Electric for a 2.62 acre site
on Mount Seymour for the
purpose of erecting an ultra
high-frequency radio tower.
This tower will be used for
mobile radio service.

West Vancouver police
who spent twenty minutes
securing the belongings of an
accused impaired driver
were judged not to have
caused an excessive delay in
getting the person to the
police station for
breathalyser testing.

The judgement came in
the trial of Michael Blond-

field, aged 18, of 1112
Millstream Road, who was
charged with impaired

driving as the result of an
incident, April 28.

The main argument in
Blondfield’'s defense, at West
Vancouver Provincial court,
on Wednesday, was that the
police had taken an cx-
cessive length of time, in

olice vindice
in WV impaire

another radio tower

But the lease is contingent
upon an agreement by CGE
to make space available on
the tower for the regional
district’s emergency public
works communications
system at no cost to the
district.

A report to the District of
North Vancouver Council
Monday by Alderman Peter
Powell indicates that this
will be of significant benefit

getting Blondfield from
where he was stopped, to the
West Vancouver police
station seven blocks away.

West Van Police Con-
stable Paul Briggs testified
that Blondfield, who was
driving a MG convertible,
was stopped at about 10.20
p.m. in Park Royal South,
because his driving was
slightly erratic and because
Briggs had warned = him
carlicr in the evening not to
drive because he was im-
paired.

Briggs said Blondfield did
ngt arrive at the West Van
police station for a
breathalyster test, until 11
p.m., because he said there
were a number of items in

and therefore approval was
given for a lease of 10 years
at nominal rent, with yearly
extensions thereafter.

The lease agreement will
protect the district's interest,
and will provide for payment

of taxes by Canadian
General Electric.

Canadian Natio BUT
and CHQM alrea have

towers on Seymour.

Blondfield’s car that had to
be safely stored.

Briggs also said that the
police patrols were too busy
that ‘night for him to ask
another patrol car to take
Blondfield to the station
while his property was being
secured.

In passing sentence Judge
Moir said the police did not
take excessive time in
getting Blondficld to the
station because, ‘they were
protecting what appeared to
be the property of Mr
Blondfield.’

Moir fined Blondfield
$350 and gave him until
October 26 to pay.

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They said. they really

‘enjoyed travelling. in.
Canada, and found the.
people very friendly and the
countryside beautiful. ,

Three years ago Wim
Woord cycled across ‘the
United . States. for the
bicentennial, but for Gre
this has been her first visit to
North America.

front

vender had — been
pushed into the. tire,
shreddingit. ~~. —

‘Crown counsel, Jean
Connor, said. Edwards told
she had. no
recollection of what-she had ~
run into, except that she
thought it was somewhere on

_the North Shore. . .2-. -.-—----.

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