Brigit Lights Claasitiads Crossword 000 dS r Garage Sales oon hh 1 Inquiring Reportar ee 12 Worth Shore Alert see 15 TW Listings 000 28 Wright __! neo it eee 40 aa REN ANNI Ln + = ogee ny: ec MAUR EE Waited ph bea ee { eet at | “ ‘Bomb scare p "lhreat forces two North Van Safeway closures Sinking feeling LUKE and Daniel Pangman hunker down in a hole that spontaneously opened up in the parking lot at the McDonald's on Marine Drive in North Vancouver on Wednesday. The hole swallowed up some pavement and extended approximately three metres (10 ft.). Redesigned Altima i smoother, quieter ride » ‘Kidnanpers jailed By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com ONE of two men sentenced to jail on Wednesday for the violent kidnapping of a West Vancouver art dealer blamed the cause of the crime on his criminal lifestyle. But Michael Owens, 30, refused to tell Judge Ellen Burdett who had given him the loaded gun, police scanner and kidnapping instructions. “S would like to see society again... F wouldn't Duo sentenced for kidnapping of West Vancouver art dealer even make it through my incarceration ... To say who sent me, you are basically signing my death warrant,” said Owens. The ex-convict, whose fast address was in Hope, was sentenced to eight years in jail for his part in the Nov, 1, 1996, kidnapping of West Vancouver art dealer Paul Kyle. Owens’ co-accused, Norman Cousley, 36, of Princeton, was jailed for five years. Judge Burdett called the planned and orches- trated circumstances of the kidnapping “despica- ble acts” during sentencing proceedings in North Vancouver provincial court. Burdett began her summary of the kidnapping by saying that on Oct. 31 last year, two men knocked on the door of the art dealer’s West Van house in the 2500-block of Mathers Avenue. One of the men, Owens, said his mother had died and he had some of her art to sell. Although the art dealer thought the pair looked “rough,” he arranged to meet them the next day. They met in Burnaby and got in a van. In Surrey, one of the kidnappers covered Kyle's head. During the melee that followed, Kyle’s knee See Victim page 3 Profile of NV’s Michael McCarthy North Shore This Week p21 $1.00 ed Racer honors friend By Andrew McCradie Associate Editar andrew@nsnews.com AT its extremes, David Rutledge’s chosen vocation is bordered by victory and death. The nineteen-year-old race car driver experienced both the highs of one and the depths of the other this past week. Nine days ago, one of Rutledge’s best friends, 18-year old Roger Ament, was killed by an avalanche while attempting to climb Mount Robson, Four days later, Rutledge shat- tered two track records at the fabled Watkins Glen International Raceway in New York State en route to both the pole and the race victory for his first Formula Ford 2000 win. Following the race, the West Vancouver resident dedicated his weekend effort to his friend Roger. “He was on my mind the whole — weekend,” recalled Rutledge on Wednesday of the friend he made at Argyle See Climber page 4 f- DAVID Rutledge (above) dedicated his first-ever FF2000 win to his great friend Roger Ament.