“THE SHOOTING OF ams DOG, Oly, prompted Darrel | Gatter, to put up this b sign. A . Sign saying “People who allow their dogs to (bleep!) on other people's lawns can’t :-eomplain,” ‘was. put above his sign, and Darrell then added another note in response. : {Terry Peters photo) In W. Vancouver court Alderman pleads guilty to drinking and driving charge _ A North Vancouver City alderman pleaded guilty in court Thursday, to driving with a blood alcohol level of over 08. Gary Payne, aged 37, of 335 East Third Street in North Van, appeared in West Vancouver Provincial Court and was sentenced to . pay a fine of $400. and: was placed on probation for six months. Payne was charged April 15, after he was observed speeding on Marine Drive, .atabout 12:40 a.m. The police report said Payne showed signs of Painters - Plumbers Tilers Glazing and Glass Repairs Gardeners For any job around oe “a ALL TRADES B72=8 GT vows nice 24 HOURS A DAY - Carpenters - - Concrete Contractors - Carpet Cleaning and Janitorial Services - Renovatians - - Appliance Servicamen Each self omployed tradesman estimates competitively — guarantees bis own work and charges you direct. ANY TRADE — EVERY TRADE ONE CALL DOES IT ALL impairment when stopped, and when tested later, he was shown to have a blood alcohol level of .15. Payne said he was returning from a farewell gathering for an old friend, when stopped. He said he had an im- peccable driving record and was a light drinker. ‘I know now that a person who weighs as little as I do doesn’t have to drink as much to be impaired,” he said. In passing sentence Judge Perry Millar said he ap- ALL SUBURBS Electricians - Ceramic Drywatlhing © Handymen - Cabinet Makers T.V. Repairs Rubbish Removal preciated Payne's forthright statement and would take his good driving record into account. ‘I have been turning a very stony face to pleas and litigations,’ Judge Méillar said, ‘but your statement makes it hard for me to impose the penalty I usually do.’ Tm going to do something I haven't done here in a very long time,’ said, and he = sentenced Payne to pay $400, which is . . $100 less than the -judge usually imposes for such a charge. Judge Millar « Another pet shooting, this time-in the Seymour Heights- -RCMP-are™ right“on: ‘his’ side” area of North Vancouver last weekend, prompted “the dog’s. owner: to-put up a sign ‘to let people know what was | going on. After Darrell Gatter, of 2170 Chapman Way put up his sign on the corner of Chapman Way and Riverside . ‘Drive, © countered with another sign, someone and that person Gatter says, is probably the person who shot the dog, although he said he had no way of knowing that. By the ’ time Gatter had added another note to his sign, a number of people were stopping and reading the notices. Gatter said the North Van SPCA told him to humiliate the person who did the shooting, and the RCMP told him to report any other occurences. else- A man was taken to hospital with multiple in- juries, and an_ estimated $8,000 in damage was caused in a two car collision, Wednesday morning. in North Vancouver. William J. Curtis, aged 24, of 1110 East 27 Street, was reported in satisfactory condition in Lions Gate Hospital, suffering from _head and pelvis injuries, after the Triumph sportscar he was driving was broad- sided by another vehicle. A police spokesman said Curtis was driving west on Fifteenth Street when he attempted a left turn onto Londsdale Avenue. Summer SCREENS Unitec installations Larry 986-1998 Peter 985-6225 He ‘aid the SPCA and the’ over the incident. “The: guy is probably having second thoughts now about doing. the shooting,” Ti Gatter said. He said his dog. Oly, a purebred golden retriever, . was nursing twelve puppies ‘when shot sometime last weekend.. Oly has now recovered from the incident. Gatter said there are a lot © of people with cats and dogs in the area, and he says._.{ | people have told him that . shooting pets, “is a erazy « thing todo.” ' He said Oly was allowed to... run loose and is a favourite £ of children in. the neigh- bourhood. 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