exclusive quality installations by appointment only Call NORTHERN ALARM SYSTEMS LTD. 983-2255 Bank robbed A NORTH Vancouver Bank of Montreal branch was ; robbed by a fone male on Dec. f1. te eo The mau welked into the bank located at 21 Lonsdale “ani - " : Ave. at about 2:45 p.m. Mercedes-Benz BMW He approached a teller and indicated that he had a weapon. He received an undisclosed amount of money Porsche Toyota and left. The police believe he may have escaped via public Acura Honda transportation. The suspect is described as being 35 years old, 5°10°* The Cesirabie trades are found at: (177 cm), 140 pounds (64 kg), and of slim build. Mercedes-Benz He was wearing a black besebcll hat, a dark bomber- Style cloth jacket and wire-frame glasses. He was un- shaven. Information regurding this robbery may be forwarded to the North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1311. See this issueof Automotive Classified 1375 Marine Dr. North Van 984-9351 Snow closes hwy THE FIRST snowfall of the season hit the North Shore on Wednesday, resulting in the closure of the Squamish Highway for several hours as the police dealt with numerous minor accidents along the road. Whiie snow accumulations were not substantial, the show made driving conditions treacherous in some areas. A Squamish RCMP spokesman said the highway was in good condition on Thursday morning, but the police were “bombarded”? with accident complaints Wednes- day. . The Squamish Police were attending to minor acci- dents from Horseshoe Bay to D’Arcy. None resulted in fatulities. Onc accident in Squamish caused injury. Fraud warning THE GREATER Vancouver Food Bank Society is advis- x ing the public to be cautious with individuals who say lise they are collecting food or money on hehalf of the Van- R | ? couver Food Bank. Cyc e : The solicitations are in no way connected with the BCRECYCLING HOTLINE Vancouver Food Bank, which does not solicit money 3 732-6253 # door-to-door. is However, it occasionally authorizes community food 5, i ‘ drives. Anyone who is, connected with the Vancouver Food Bank will have Food Bank ID or a letter of authoriza- tion. wee kee ag" Reduce, R FOR CHRISTMAS A Tilley Hat! You know who would took good in and enjoy a Tilley Hat. NV City lobbying Victoria for building code revisions to allow secondary suites — From page 3 be between 3,000 and 4,000 suites, and district staff say that whether or not secondary suites are pro- hibited they will continue to be buiit. According to a report from licensing manager David Pawson and social! planner Mark Bostwick: ‘‘The conditions resulting in secondary suites need to be addressed. Legislating against them will not resolve the problem,” . . Council had asked staff to con- sider the implications of legalizing secondary suites if they: @ met the building code; @ provided on-site parking; @ did. not exceed 800 sq. ft. (74 sq.m); @ paid a fee equal to district costs; @ were built before 1993; @ were owner-occupied; @ were limited to one suite per house. But staff were dubious about the success of any registration scheme that required complete building code compliance, fees, owner occupation and was restricted by when a suite was built. . The district’s previous attempt to register illegal secondary suites (initially without a fee and without full building code re- quirements) in a five-year phase-out program captured only 297, or an estimated 12%, of the existing suites at an estimated net cost of $200,000. Pawson and Bostwick conclud- ed that in order to charge fees for secondary suites it would be nec- essary to operate a registration program, but they noted that ex- perience has shown that ‘‘only these honest owners who regis- tered and whose suites which met building code standards would pay fees.” . They concluded, ‘It is sug- gested that this number would be so small as to render any registra- tion program unfair, costly and ineffective.” Coun. Rick Buchols agreed and also suggested that council may not be in a legal position to en- force owner-occupation as a con- dition of reguiation. “Whether or not it infringes the Municipal Act, I can imagine all sorts of Charter (of Rights and Freedoms) defences to that one,’’ Buchols told the News. Buchols said the present situa- tion of enforcement upon com- plaint ‘Shas worked reasonably well for us for a long period of time. At least it gives the owner a vested interest in policing his suite in order to placate the neighbors.” Council will now have to decide what, if anything, to do in 1995 with the ‘‘honest’? owners who voluntarily registered their suites and have paid fees and costs for five or more years when their suites are ‘‘phased out’’ and revert to being illegal. Meanwhile, North Vancouver City has introduced a bylaw that would legalize suites in all single- family dwellings and urged the province to revise the building code for those same suites. ar ec TS SIR EDMUND HILLARY “The Conqueror ot Everest” tn his trusty old “Tilley” Being the best outdoor hat in the world, it floats, ties on, repels rain, won't shrink, has a lifetime guarantee and four-page Owner's Mariual. 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