SEPTEMBER 17, 1997

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By Robert Galster

News Reporter

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A retiring but not
retreating Doug
Collins has called it
quits giving both fans
and foes something to

talk about.
Today’s final On The Other
Hand column marks the passing

of an era for the North Shore
-News and its readers. Collins has
written more than 1,400 columns
for the paper which, depending
mon a rea crs
int of view, P
tieiliated, > More
amused, infu-
tiated, offend- on Boug
edor anyon Gilins
ination there-
of since 1984. Page 3
“It's simply
that all things have to come to an
8 end —- good, bad or indifferent,”
said Collins. “I'm now 77 and I
don’t feel that old except when [
g run down the road. I owe it to
my wife and to myself to take
things a bit more easily.”
: During his time at the News,
Collins managed to stay true to
the fine line of unsettling both
Me the political left and right —
fsometimes in the same column.
The captain of his own ship with
only his own sense of right and
wrong stecring him through seas
of hypocrisy, Collins spared no
Bonc.

Toumigrants, bureaucrats,
Jews, politicians, gays, liberals
and others have all telt the heat.

To state that he was simply

w controversial wouldn't do the
pyman justice.
“He's one of a kind,” said

See News page 13

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

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Persepolis Restaurant

The Voice of North and We

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NORTH Van RCMP Staff Sgt. Ron Babcock (left), Insp. Gordon McRae and Cons
announce that after a thorough six-month investigation, first-degree murder cherges were laid in the

lurder charges

N. Van pair arrested in Mirhadi case

News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com

TWO North Vancouver men were
arrested on Saturday and charged
with the execution-style murder of
Mohammad Mirhadi.
hadi, 21, was shot at close range in the head

and twice in the body on Feb. 28 as he sat in a front
seat of a packed movie theatre at Esplanade 6
Cinemas in Lower Lonsdale.

Michadi’s killer wore a black ski mask and white

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painter's disposable clothing.

More than six months after the shooting,
charges of first degree murder and conspiracy to
commit first degree murder have been lard against
Jon Ortelo Moroury, 18, and Michael Caster, 19.

Moroury is a student who lives in Lynn Valley.
He was arrested in the parking lot of Lynn Valley
Centre on Saturday.

Caster works at a shoe store at Capilano mall and
lives in a highrise on Marine Drive. He was arrested
on Roosevelt Crescent in the Norgate area.

The pair made a five-minute court appearance in

See Charges page 2

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at Kinsmen Field

Waterfront
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special feature

Port Day p28

NEWS photo Mine Wakefield

Tom Seaman held a pr 1s conference Monday to
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hadi cinema shooting.

MICHAEL Caster (left), 19, and J
Moroury, 18, are charged with murder.