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Time HtJFt.

Friday 2 0135
0615
1315
2040
0215
0700
1355
2105
0300
0755
1430
2135

Saturday 3

Sunday 4

Lesson learne

WEATHER:

Arts Scene
Mailbox

Real Estate
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Travel

Mostly cloudy Friday.
Saturday, sunny with
cloudy periods in the
afterncen. Isolated

showers.

What's Going On

over lost mower

NORTH VANCOUVER consumer Michael Wong starts up his new lawnmower, which he
had to buy to replace another lawnmower a Lynn Valley repair shop lost on him. But Wong
has found out that he can claim the loss on his homeowner’s insurance, and the insurance

company will thea approach the store for the loss.

Parks remain c

DESPITE a cooling of
temperatures in the
Lower Mainland and a
1.6 millimeter rainfall
Thursday morning,
Nerth Shore park
restrictions and
closures will remain in
effect at least through
the weekend.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

Vic Doerksen, operations

ol;

superintendent and acting
district manager for the
Maple Ridge Forest District,
says all backwoods areas
remain closed and the
district’s fire hazard rating
sits unchanged at extreme,
“Shower action has really
only reduced the threat from
flash fuels such as pine nee-
dle litter and dry grass. The
rain has done very little real-
ly, only raised hopes that
something has been done.”
West Vancouver

wilderness parks, Hollyburn.

x ;
NEWS Pholo Stuart ‘Davis

Ridge, Woodward, and
Lighthouse, will not reopen
to the public until there is a
more substantial and = sus-
tained rainfall, according to
West Vancouver director of
parks and recreation, Frank
Kuruez.

“Our stall is out checking
today to see whether any of
the moisture in the parks
made it to the ground,”* says
Kurucz, ‘‘but really we don’t
expect much did. It's going
to take at least two or three
days of heavy rain to change

MICHAEL WONG is
singing the blues.

RREIT FISHER

The 28-year-old singer and
piano piayer took his
lawnmower in to a repair
shop for a routine blade-
sharpening, but the $12 job
turned into a $350 headache.

Business owners of Lynn
Valley General Repairs have
refused to compensate the
North Vancouver man by
replacing the machine or
paying its worth.

“They told me, ‘If we lose
it — too bad. You’ll have to
get yourself a new ‘one,’ ”
Wong repeated. ‘‘But
not my fault that
lawnmower is lost.”*

Wong took his machine in
for repair on a Thursday, he
said, and by Saturday the
company had lost it.

“f came to pick it up on
the Saturday with my claim
receipt, and they searched
the premises and said they
couldn't find it. They said
they would search through
the day's work orders, in
case someone else took it by
accident. I came back a
couple of hours later, but
they said they still didn’t
have it.’”’

The owners would not
return Wong's claim receipt,
and they said they did not
have any insurance to cover
the loss, so he would have to
go and buy himself a new
lawnmower, Wong explain-
ed.

it's
the

See Lawnmower
Page 8

losed

the situation. What fell last
night was not sufficient.’”

Lieut, Grant Gibson of
the North Vancouver
District. Fire Department’s
Fire Prevention unit, says
Grouse, Seymour, and Lynn
Headwaters Parks, along
with the Baden Powell Trail,
will also remain closed
Trails in the Lynn Creek and
Capilano River parks are
open but a ban on smoking
while on the trails remains in
effect. Indian River road is
open to residents only.

3 - Friday, August 2, 1985 - North Shore News

out of

THREE. OF six North
Shore businessmen and a
local female missionary
trapped in Uganda after a
military coup last
weekend_have been safely
transported to Kenya,
and the three men left
behind will be leaving
soon.

Former Ugandan MP
Sherali Bandali Jaffer,
living in West Vancouver,
said he has spoken to the
wives and relatives of the
local businessmen,

transported to Kenya,
along. with a local
woman, without .any
harassment. ‘

Sadru Kara frem West
Vancouver; Karim
Somani, Dorothy
Williams and’ one other
man from North. Van-

dan border: into Kisum,

Canadians. The travellers

riving ‘by Thursday. morn-
. ing.

for. :

break-in ~ of: two “local
26.:

“othe ‘two’stores, one

and) ‘one in. the: Capilano

was taken to Lions Gate
Hospital after a biking
incident July 24.

North Vancouver
RCMP say the 26-year-
old woman was riding
eastbound on 3rd St. ap-

TWO North Vancouver
residents appeared for
trial Thursday in North
Vancouver provincial
court Thursday on two
counts of theft * under
$200.

Forty-year-old Glenn
Douglas McDonald and
29-year-old Robyn Lori
Schmied faced the

News
Brief

Businessmen

and
three have been safely .

‘couver crossed the Ugan- .

Kenya - Wednesday mom. --;,
ing withabout 40° other”

then went. to Nairobi, ar-

Youths + charged 7
armed ‘robbery

Two BURNABY: ‘youths.
‘have: been: chargéd:: with:
‘armed -robbery after. the:

convenience stores J uly.

Uganda

Jaffer said the Cana-
dians drove in a car to the
border, and then walked
over, as custom regula-
tions would not allow the
cars to cross.

Mansour Hudda and
brothers. Samsher and
Haider’ Somani from
North’ Vancouver, are
believed to be still in
Uganda, Jaffer said
Thursday, but should be
leaving soon.

Jaffer said the North

Shore residents will,
probably take a rest in.

Kenya. for’ eight to .10

days before they take the”
18-hour return flight:

home.- ;

The local businessmen
returned: to’ their’ Ugan-
dan-homeland to reclaim
property and, industries
lost:‘to them during: the
reign of Idi Amin, who
was overthrown in 1979,

“Last « weekend's . unex-

president. 'M .
‘Lt.-Gen “Tito Okello was

“ ajea} "were ° broken: into
within 40, minutes: ofeach
other .-—."One- at. 11:10:
“p.m, the’ other: at-11:40

PAM.

: Police’ were called” to -
. the; scene. of the crimes.
: °After’a ‘police -investiga-
the Upper: Lonsdale‘area |

tion,: the: youths were ar-

. rested J uly 29.

allen cyclist
lands at LGH.

A | BURNABY - woman | proaching Canard - ‘when

‘she’ road across a ane

divider.’

The wom a n was
thrown off: her bicycle
and taken to LGH with
minor injuries.

Cyclists are cautioned
to ride with care.

Fine levied
for theft

charges in connection
with an incident that took
place January 9, 1985.
McDonald was found
guilty on one count ‘of
theft under $200 and
assessed a $100 fine by
provincial court Judge
J.D, Layton. oe
Charges against
Schmied were stayed.: °