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Hall torched
after spree of
destruction

By CHRIS LLOYD

Volunteer Week got
off to a sour start even
before it began when
vandals dealt a_ crip-

pling blow Friday night
to four social service

agencies .in North
Vancouver's Edgemont
community.

The interior of the
Capilano Community
Services Hall - used to house
a local Red Cross group. Big
Brothers society, St. John's
Ambulance group and
service. for North Shore
physically handicapped was
almost destroyed when it
was torn apart and then set
on fire.

Staff say the extent of the
ddmage - totaling = $15-
20,000 - was so extreme that
they calculate it must have
taken af least an hour to

“systematically and
methodically smash
everything” before the

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April 23, 1980

FRAMED BY TOTEM

Tet. 985-2131

POLES, smoke billows

Classified 986-6222

from the remnants of th
Squamish Indian band longhouse on Mathias Road in West Vancouver.

The wood building
see page AS. (Ian Smith photo)

=

Vancouver man held by police

The body of a
murdered 18-year-old
woman was found at a
Mount Seymour picnic
area early Monday
evening.

North Vancouver ROMP
officers using tracker dogs
jomned investigators from
Vancomiver Pohee manor
crime section in the search
for the body which was
started as a result of a phone
call to the police made in

Vancouver

The dead woman was
found hidden in bushes at
the four-mile picnic area on
Mount Seymour Parkway

The woman, thought to
have been killed six days
earher possibly ino a Van
couver apartment where she
had been hving with a man
for two weeks, appeared to
have been beaten in the face
and an autopsy showed
death was duc to
strangulation

The man hving at the same
address as her, 3 year old

David Lawrence Brydon, of
605.725 West 70th Avenue.
was picked up at 10 30 pm
Monday in the Hastings:
Cassiar area of Vancouver
from where police say the

Phone call was made

A Vancouver Police
detective said in an interview
that Brydon had turned
himself in At News press
time he was still being held,

pending investigation, and

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WEDNESDAY:
cloudy, cooler.

THURSDAY: Cloudy
with a few showemn, cool.