Pipe bomb injures youth A 12-YEAR-old North Vancouver youth was injured Halloween night after he was struck in the stomach by shrapnel from a homemade explosive device. North Vancouver RCMP said a group of youths had exploded the device, believed to have been a pipe bomb, on a Myrtle Park bench at approximately 9:50 p.m. The injured youth, who police say was not connected with the group igniting the bomb, was approximately 30 feet away from the bomb when it blew up. The youth was transported to Lions Gate Hospital, where he underwent abdominal surgery. The police investigation continues. ‘Vandals smash school windows HALLOWEEN NIGHT vandals smashed over 30 windows at West Vancouver Secondary School sometime before midnight. Windows were broken in the school’s shops wing, west wing and theatre foyer. Damage has been estimated at $2,500. A window was also broken at Sentincl Secondary School. Van- dals threw firecrackers through the broken window, but there was no fire damage to the school. There was no major damage reported for schools in the North Varcouver school district. Charges laid in accident case THE 28-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver mag charged with three criminal counts in connection with a fatal May 15 accident in North Vancouver has been ordered to stand trial on the charges in Vancouver county court. Ltoyd Robert Johnson was originally charged with dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing death and failing to stop at the scene of an accident following a May 15 collision be- tween a pickup truck and a Chevrolet Chevelle at the intersection of Fern Street and Lillooet Road near Seymour Parkway. The driver of the Chevelle, Jan Christer Evinger, 44, of West Vancouver died as a result of the accident. - Johnson has elected to be tried by a judge without a jury. No trial date had bees set to press time Tuesday. NV firm wins export award NORTH VANCOUVER'’S Pacific Truck and Trailer Ltd. (PTTL) was one of five B.C. companies named as 1988 Export Award recipients in an announcement Friday from the Ministry of Inter- national Business and Immigration. The North Vancouver company, which manufactures logging uiid other trucks, currentiy exports approximately 65 per cent of its recoduction. Its sales are primarily to mining and forestry opera- tions in the United States, Chile, Australia and New Zealand. Last October, PTTL signed a deal worth an estimated $23 mil- lion to export 100 logging trucks and their trailers to a Borneo- based logging compary. “‘Hard work and innovation are key to succeeding in the inter- uational market place,’’ International Business and Immigration Minister John Jansen said in announcing the awards, ‘‘and all five companies we honor today showed these characteristics.”’ He said exports from B.C. in 1987 reached an estimated $15.7 billion, which is a 23.4 per cent increase over 1986. Besides PTTL, Kilborn Engineering and Mr. Jax Fashions, both of Vancouver, Rogers Foods of Armstrong and Burnaby’s Bedford Software were also presented with 1988 Export Awards. 5 -_ Wednesday, November-2, 1988 - North Shore News .. NV height bylaws cause concern UNLESS discrepancies between North Vancouver’s Official Com- munity Plan and zoning laws are resolved, residents may be facing walls of concrete instead of sun- dappled waves in the future. 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