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HIN. Shore Alert

Student influx to
be studied by city

. . “" LOWER MAINLAND driving

@ Sunshine Gir'..............22 yy Pare Pear schools using North Shore resi-

MTV Listings 26 e Re sh ede ne ‘ dential areas to instruct new dri-

: ee = vers have people liviag near the

@ What's Going On.....32 ts. ge ad ° local Motor Vehicle Branch fum-
S ing.

By fan Noble
News Reporter

The influx of students eager to pass
driving exams by becoming familiar with
the test area is driving fed-up residents to
seek the city’s help.

North Vancouver City councillors
instructed staff to study the problem
Monday night.

But help won't come soon enough for
East 8th Street resident Marlies Stotts.
She said the constant flow of cars ruins
the character of her otherwise quiet sin-
gle-family neighborhood. The area is
located about four blocks from the ficers-
ing branch. ;

It was her fetter to city council that

‘ec : ae highlighted the problem.
NEWS photo Mike Wakefield “Before it becomes a war, TH go
through the proper channels,” Stotts said.

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On a sunny weekend, she counied 61
S ifti nN Gg re Mm a i nm S driving school vehicles go by in a two-
hour period. Many cruised her street more

FIREMEN GRANT Frost (red helmet) and David Dorey of North Vancouver City Fire than ence.
and Rescue perform the dirty work of sifting through the remains of a shack ~ Stotts believes the cars and their inex-

& Jane Adams at the destroyed by fire at the Versatile Pacific Shipyards site Tuesday. See story page 5.

Ferry Building: 29 i ee See Driving page 3

Husband & wife

redefine redesign: 17 WV hit and run ;
sports incident sickens

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hoped: 42_-‘|| Man struck by vehicle, left for dead

fi Kearney ~ Cail to FRIENDS OF a brain-injured West Vancouver man
‘play ball’ tenuous:13 can’t understand how anyone could have left him lying
on the road to die.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

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# . er. “That's what we find so sick.” friend Debbie Goepel said on

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2 DAKOTA RANCH STEAKS “First of all someone actually got out of their car and saw what

condition he was in and put his jacket over his face. And secondly. not

OULY 61 0.98 2 to call 9-1-1, even anonymously.”

‘Peter Curt Wennberg, 28, has remained unconscious since he was eee ne cgrmeee sentont
NEWS pheto Terry Peters

2, APR AD: A struck by a car outside his house on March 26, —_— — _
983 3040 1g TRINA DUPLESSIS (ieft) and Debbie Goepel with one-year-old
ae See Police page 3 son, Brian, ask the public to help solve hit and run.