4- Wednesday, March 1, 1989 - Capilazo Chronicle Manure sold GET READY for the gardening season and support your local Boy Scouts at this weekend’s manure le. On Saturday and Sunday, March 4 and 5, the 15th Capilano Scouts will be selling manure at the Edgemont Village Texaco station. One bag will sell for $3.50; three photo Nell Lucento- |? NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP say break and enters are an 1 the tise in the Capilano area, but Klaus Thiel and Sue Shives are among those helping to clamp down on crime. The Thiel and Shives households are co-block captains ia the Block Watch program thet sees neighbors banding together to secure their area from thieves. Police call on citizens — to help curb increase of Capilano break-ins" RCMP FILE # 88-34045 ‘At approximately 1740 brs. 2 North Vancouver resident returned to > her home and discovered it had been broken into. A neighbor approached her to advise he had seen two young males leave the residence at 1400 hrs. carrying a red suitcase with them. They cut across his yard and then peared on a path beside a creek. He didn’t want to meddle so didn’t disap call the poli ice. THIS SCENARIO, one » that continues to frustrate RCMP officers, does not occur in neighborhoods participating in the. Block ‘Watch ‘program, where residents have banded together to fight crime. : Unfortunately, . borhoods are comparatively few, and Cst. Cliff Doherty of the ’ North | Vancouver. .RCMP - says ‘Block ~ Wateh. “for each household and drop into 'each block meeting, Doherty says that it is up to the block captain to -. host the meetings, which occur at ches.”* ‘Im - 1987, . there” were approx- imately 200 break and enters in last June, the Block Watch system involves residents of a block coming together under the . leadership of a block captain to . keep a close cye on any potentially : Suspicious comings and goings in that area. : Across” the North Shore, 90 _. blocks, . encompassing . 1,600 homes, are currently involved in captain, ; provide written © material program.’ While the RCMP train the block’ : least once annually. “Research has “shown that the most successful '. programs are those where citizens strongly | encourage . : that area to organize Block Wat- have the most involvement and the police have the least involvement.”’ At the omceting. residents might ways to neighborhood and hear an update “on crime-in that area’ from the visiting RCMP officer.. Klaus and Viola Thiel were en- couraged to become block captains after having experienced a burglary in their . Delbrook-area_ home. . “You only need a small warning sign to be stirred up.” said Klaus Thiel. Watch concept of neighbors wat- : ching out for neighbors.” “telephone - fan-out’’ further safeguard their - Thiel especially likes the Block . “*That’s the only way to live in our society,”” he said. ‘“We've got to support the police. It’s a matter of -people looking. after themselves.”* Thiel says all the homes on his block have had their . valuables marked and. display the Block Watch decal to’'warn would-be robbers --—- a. highly effective manoeuvre, according to Doherty: “Early indications are that the criminal elements are recognizing "the. Block Watch ‘decals and are preferring to go to areas where the decal is not displayed.’’ '- One benefit of the program, - - Thiel notes, is the opportunity to meet. with neighbors; both established residents that one has “never met and new: homeowners - * just moving into the block. “It’s a’ good program .... It brings people together.”” through which a large number of people are mobilized quickly in the event of a missing child or other urgent occurrences. Thiel asks the residents on his block to encourage their friends living on other North Vancouver Streets to establish Block Watches of their own. ' The RCMP holds twice-monthly information sessions on organizing . a. Block Watch program in your . neighborhood. Next dates for the meetings are March 2, 16 and 30 at . North Vancouver District Hall, . 355 W. Queens Rd. For more in- © formation on the program, call. * 985-0800. 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