Sts nese vatuane bit

"Ki5-Sunday News, February 17, 1980

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What you should know about
Pennine.

IGNORING TRAFFIC as it roars beneath them, Highways Department workers get
on with construction of formwork for pillars that will support the new pedestrian
overpass across Upper Levels Highway at Jones Avenue in North Vancouver. (Ian

Smith photo)

There’s gold in
them there homes

..and there's thieves after it

Police on the North Shore
are experiencing a major
increase in break-ins of local
homes. And the reason
seems to boil down to the
price of gold and silver.

The upsurge in break-ins
in the past couple of months
has been just as drastic as
the mse in the price of the
metals and RCMP say it ts
now commonplace for
valuables stolen from in-
dividual houses to total
several thousand dollars.

A break-in to a home on
Capilano Road Tuesday
resulted in a loss of property
totalling $65,000, mostly in
gold and silver items.

Among the haul taken was
$1,100 in) pre-1948 © silver
dollars, as well as Olympic
coins and a gold-plated
antique car model set

Coin dealers are being
particularly hard hit) these
days and police caution
people of the inadvisabilty
of keeping their collecttons
or large amounts of valuable
yewellery in their homes

An RCMP spokesman
comments “If ever we
necded Neighborhood
Watch, we need it now

“The requirement for
neighbors) watching cach

other's houses and reporting
suspicious people is certainly
a high priority now as a lot of
people are losing a lot of
valuable property.

“It’s all across the North
Shore and police just can’t
be everywhere at all times
These break-ins are hap-
pening ail times of the day
and night.”

WEST VAN

Police in West Vancouver
echo the sentiments, urging
residents to be more aware
of what is going on in their
neighborhood and to imm-
mediately report anything
suspicious to the police.

In the past, police have
recovered several large
hauls of stolen property after
residents have called in

hen their suspicions have
been aroused. In some cases
it has merely been a matter
of noting the licence plate of
a car which seems out of
place in the neighborhood

The frequency of break
ins in West Vancouver has
doubled over the past couple
of months, although tems
stolen are far more vaned
than just gold and silver

Apphance thefts are
becoming commonplace.

with people losing TVs.
stereos, microwave ovens
and small appliances.
although jewellery is taken
when it's there.

West Van Pohce say that
when break-ins take a
sudden leap as they have
done recently that it ts often
a concerted effort by a small
group of individuals.

Of people keeping large
amounts of jewellery and
coins in their homes, the
RCMP spokesman said

With some people it just
doesn't strike them bul a lot
of houses are a major
financial proposition. We're
talking about thefts way up
in the Uhousands of dollars ~

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