-EARLY CLOSING of
Royal Bank in Park
Royal North was or-
dered by West Van-
couver police Friday
after $8,000 robbery.
The robber, a white
man aged about 50, who
was wearing a grey wig
and false eyelashes and
beard, burst into the
manager's office with a
box which he claimed
was a bomb. He left the
package there and
forced the manager to
accompany him to the
central teller, where he
stole $8,000. The
robbery area was
cordoned off by

police, while bomb
disposal experts
dismantled a §con-
traption in the box

which turned out not to
be ai bomb.

A PROPOSAL to run a
Lower Lonsdale tram will be
studied by North Vancouver

City council's Expo 86
committee, council has
decided.

But Alderman Gary Payne
said he was worried council
wouldn't have the political
will to follow through on the
tram without a firm money
commitment.

“This is the most popular

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idea I’ve been associated
with since the Waterfront
Park,” he said.

Alderman Stella Jo Dean,
who runs a store in Lower
Lonsdale, said the Lower
Lonsdale merchants are not
interested in having the

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Wait for tram may be long

street torn up to install tram
tracks. It should run on
wheels if it is to run at all,
she said.

The Expo 86 committee
was set up to find ways for
the City to tie in with the
world's fair taking place in

A3 - Wednesday, April 13, 1983 - North Shore News

NEWS photo Terry Peters

Vancouver in 1986, which
will be based on the theme of
transportation.

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