NEWS BRIEFS Suspects arrested THE WEST Vancouver Police assisted the North Van- couver RCMP in the arrest of three suspects following a July 27 cigarette theft at the Westview Mac’s conve- nience store. Police dog Ferro and his handlers were called to the Upper Levels Highway near Mosquito Creek at approx- imately 6:30 a.m. The robbery suspects had abandoned a vehicle and escaped on foot. Three suspects were subsequently located at a house in the 1900-block of Westview Drive after Ferro tracked to the location. The police arrested three North Vancouver men. The investigation continues. Couple charged A VANCOUVER couple face charges following a recent fraud altempt at a West Vancouver bank. The West Vancouver Police were cailed to investigate a complaint of a fraud in progress at the Central Guaran- tee Trust Park Royal branch at approximately 5:30 p.m. on July 10. According to a police spokesman, police seized a number of bank statements. An attempt had allegedly been made to withdraw money from accounts attached to the statements. Sharon Daggitt, 28, and Reginald Daggitt, 40, both of Vancouver, were subsequently charged jointly with forg- ery and five counts of possession of stolen property. The two are scheduled to appear in West Vancouver provincial court Aug. 14. B&E interrupted A WEST Vancouver man faces a charge of break, enter and theft following an early morning incident July 2! on Lawa Road. According io a West Vancouver Police spokesman, 2 woman awoke just before 5 a.m. to find a man removing the stereo equipment from her living room. She chased the suspect out of the house onto Capilano Road, and returned home to call the police. The police arrived and observed a man carrying stereo equipment in the area of Marine Drive and McGuire Avenue. The suspect was arrested after police dog Razz was called in te confirm the path of the suspect. Christopher George, 23, has subsequently been charg- ed with break, enter and theft. Pipeline opened THE VANCOUVER Island gas pipeline has began to deliver natural gas to Western Pulp Limited Partner- ship’s pulp mill at Squamish. Jack Weisgerber, B.C. Minister of Energy, opened a valve at the pulp mill site’s meter station Monday to mark the delivery of natural gas to the project’s first customer and the first of seven pulp mills along the route to be serviced by gas. Natural gas will replace more than two million barrels of bunker fuel oi! burned annually by the mills. First Night Organizers _ drop N. Shore venues Lower Lonsdale storefronts. Freestone said he was given the impression that ‘‘it wasn’t a big ORGANIZERS FOR First Night, Vancouver's New Year's Eve celebration of the arts, have an- nounced that the North Shore has been dropped from their 1991 season. By Evelyn Jacob News Reporter The cut, they say, was due to last year’s heavy snowfall, which resulted in a dramaiic drop in button sales. “Overall. First Night was a success, bui the weather was abso- lutely disastrous. That reduced our profit considerably,” said associate producer Brian Freestone. ‘‘We had to look at how we could make things more economically efficient.” Last year was the first time the North Shore hosted First Night celebrations. It included live per- formances at various indoor venues and a walking art tour of deal’? for North Shore First Night-goers to make a 10-minute trip across the bridge to downtown Vancouver. Another factor, he said, was that North and West Vancouver municipalities, each of which con- tributed roughly $3,000 to First Night last year, were not prepared to give as much this year. “The feeling I got was that they had already poured a Jot into the B.C. Festival of the Arts and the Harmony Arts Festival, and that they could not support us in as large a way as they did last year." But he added that First Night may appeal for support because of the event’s popularity. All three municipalities have been asked to contribute to this year’s grand fi- nale, one option being a massive fireworks show in Vancouver’s inner harbor. a Capilano DESPITE the near absence of coho salmon in Georgia Strait, coho are returning to the Capilano River hatchery to spawn in large numbers this summer. By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter Approximately 9,300 coho have returned to the hatchery thus far this year, almost three times the number of coho returns recorded this time last vear. On July 27, 1990 only 3,200 coho had returned to the hatchery. Although the Capilano River is now running low, wet weather and higher river levels in the spring helped earlier coho returns, ac- cording to Lesli Schubert, assis- tant manager at the Capilano hatchery. **That’s as many as we get in an entire run some years, and I think we're going to do a lot better than that,’’ Schubert said of this year’s returns. Fisheries officer Ted Perry also HOW MANY CANADIANS VOLUNTEER TO PROTECT Wednesday, July 31, 1991 - North Shore News - & coho retur said coho returns to the hatchery are promising. “In generat, it's looking very good,”’ he said. 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