MIDLAND WA LIWYN Call Today for your Kit on Free “The Best i INCOME Investments” “quantues Lrndted to fist 25 caters West Vancouver office: 925-9210 ™ BLUE. CHIM THINKING 1. agement of Matlond Wahwyn Copia in, Metnben — Carkidint investor Protesters Furwt By Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter A report from a B.C. coroner’s inquiry has revealed that Marilyn Jean Kelly had a blood alcohol level of -27 when she drove the wrong way on the Trans-Canada Highway on April 26 and hit another vehi- cle head-on near the Caulfeild exit. The 47-year-old ‘West Van- couver woman died in the crash. The driver of the other vehi- cle, Christos Tsogas, 22, of West Vancouver, also died. Kelly's alcohol tevel was more than three times the legal limit. DAMON Halowchak (left), Dano Underwood recently to stress conflict resolution with p See Party page 3 Supreme Court of Canada awards $91,000 to firms in fraudulent cheque fight By lan Noble News Reporter THE Supreme Court of Canada has ordered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) to pay $91,289.54 to two family-owned souvenir busi- nesses in North Vancouver. The Supreme Court found that a CIRC branch, formerly on Lonsdale, honored. (raudu- lent cheques for that amount and handed the money to bookkeeper Donna Alm, who pleaded guilty to fraud and forgery and was sentenced to three years in prison in 1990, Boma Manufacturing and Panabo Sales Lid. local:mo Positive drama on East First in North Vancouver will receive approximately $150,000 from CIBC when inter- est and legal costs are added to the bill, said Bruce Clark, the lawyer for business owners Boris and Ursula Mange. Boris said that after 10 years, iCs about time the case is finished. He's proud he’s beaten a bank. “Irs definitely a relief the thing is over. I find it very frustrating because it’s obvious the Buys that have the money can drag (the case) and make life difficult. Lots of time and money are involved ia fighting the bank,” he said. Alm embezzled from the Mange businesses through a series of fraudulent cheques written over a five-year period until 1987, Alm and the two owners were signing officers with the two companies. Cheques drawn required only one authorized signature. Alm used the businesses’ pre-printed cheque forms to create 155 cheques totalling $91,289.54 that were payable to a number of peuple, inchid- ing employees of Boma, which manufactures gilts and souvenirs, and Panabo, which distributes them. Alm signed 146 of the cheques on behalfot usiness fo eA SE S. tains par hen brant hohe life pt3 (centre) and Julie vanden Born of the 841-KOZ D ositive alternatives to violence. the owners; Boris Mange signed the other nine. Alm, who had worked for the Manges since 1967, deposited all the cheques into her three accounts at the CIBC en Lonsdale and) First Street. The bank usually requires a third-party cheque to be endorsed by the payee. However, the bank accepted 107 cheques without endorse- ment and the others with forged endorsements. According, to Clark, CIBC forwarded the cheques to the Royal Bank, the Manges” bank, which paid the CIBC with money trom their account, The fraudulendy negotiated cancelled cheques were sent to the businesses and most were removed and destroved by Alm. Ain’s antics were not discovered until May IT, 1987, by a new assistance bookkeeper, Mange and his wife argued thac the bank was negligent for honoring the cheques and won a B.C. Supreme Court cial The CIBC appeated, and the judg- ment was reduced. Rut the Supreme Court decision has now over- turned the appeal decision. Alm served eight months of a three-year sentence, Mange won $277,908 in a civil action against Alm, but said he received only $20,000 from Alm. sports pBt WEATHER Monday: Perivds of rain, High 6°C, low [°C. La oa NEWS photo Mike Wakefield rama Troupe visited Keith Lynn school index @ Bright Lights & Celebrations... @ Collins... Crossword... @ Health Trends... 54 i Horoscopes.. @ North Shore Alert & Other Voices & Talking Personals @ Travel... Month Shore Hews, founded im 1409 ay an ade Pendent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule Hf, Paragraph 111 ofthe Excise fav AG, ts published each Wednesday, Friday ar Sunlay by North Shote Free Press Lid. and drstrivated loevery door on the North Shore, Canada Post Canadian Nubheations Mail Sales Product Agreement No ORTIK, Marling cites available on request. i, oy