Gunman strikes

A GUNMAN held up two North Vancouver businesses
on Friday, March 5, .

According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman,
the armed robber hit the Super Valu outlet at 3030
Lonsdale Ave. at 8:55 p.m.

The suspect entered the store just before closing time
and made a small purchase. He presented it to the ca-
shier, When the drawer was open he pulled out a black
semi-automatic handgun and helped himself to money in
the till. ;

At 10:27 p.m., the same man robbed Parkgate Video,
located at 1151 Mount Seymour Parkway.

He took a quantity of cash from the till at gunpoint
and filed.

The suspect is described as. being a white male, 19 to
20 years old, of slender build, clean shaven with short
medium-brown hair. oo

He was wearing a dark jacket, tight fitting blue jeans,
black cowboy boots and either a bandanna or 2 baseball
cap on backwards. ; .

Trio arrested

THE VANCOUVER City Police arrested three teens in-

volved in 2 weapon-related incident in North Vancouver
on Sunday, March 14.

According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman a
man was driving his vehicle into a secured parking tot in

‘the 100-black of West 2nd Street ‘1 North Vancouver

City at approximately 12:30 a.m.

A. dark blue Mercedes stopped searby ‘and a man
armed with a shotgun approached the driver. The driver
sped off into the parking area and the blue Mercedes left

the area. . |

Vanconver Police investigating an carlier theft of a
“blue Mercedes subsequently arrested. three youths in-
.. Vancouver and recovered the car.

NVD negotiating to
create wildlife reserve

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A MAPLEWOOD wildlife
‘sanctuary could. be on the
drawing. boards
“ agreement on contractual

if ‘an

“and . financing. respon-
‘sibilities.can be. reached: be-
tween North - Vancouver
District,.. Environment

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‘B.C... Waterfowl
‘(BCWS).

By Martin Millerchip

Society

“Contributing Writer

Richard Beard, chairman of tlie
.BCWS | conservation’ committee,
appeared’ before the district’s

. _“‘planning* and development stand-

_ing’ committee on..Monday., night
to outline a proposal. that would

_‘vsee the society take on the day-

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_to-day operational responsibilities |

‘of a unified conservation area.

'.The sanctuary would incor-
porate approximately 57 acres (23
hectares) of VPC . Maplewood

Fireplace burn
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discourage all but those most in

«need of a burning permit — $150

‘inspection fee and an extra $25
per burn — be levied. /
Hutchinson argued unsuc-
cessfully that the requirement for
neighbors’ consent for a nearby

burn be changed to a simple

notification.

Referring to information
delivered to council earlier in the
evening from the GVRD air quali-
ty’ control . administrator, Bob
Smith, Danyfiu noted that fewer
than 5% of West, Vancouver resi-
‘dents had. been burning garden
waste outdoors in recent years.

: We were no longer offending
the rest: of the Lower Mainland,”
he said. —

tne AN

DISTRICT COUNCIL -

mudflat land leased to Environ-
ment Canada in 1990 for 49 years

for rehabilitation study purposes.

Many of the district land and
water lots would also be desig-
nated as conservation area in the
Maplewood Official Community
Plan,

While Environment Canada is
committed to establishing an En-

vironmental Sciences Centre. on .

five acres (two hectares) of the site
it has neither the funding nor the
mandate to operaie a_ public
wildlife sanctuary.

BCWS is a non-profit society
that ‘manages the popular Reifel

' Bird Sanctuary in Delta.

Beard told council that neither
the VPC nor the district lands
“could be managed ‘effectively”’
on their own but that a unified
sanctuary could de managed
without long-term subsidies.

The society envisages a three-
year transition period. Entry to
the site would be by donation.

ban ‘unrealistic

Smith had shown how local
wind patterns push pollution from
the Vancouver area further up the
Fraser Valley.

Acknowledging the GVRD’s
continuing disapproval of outdoor
burning, Mayor Mark Sager asked
Smith if local concerns about an
eventual ban on burning wood in
home fireplaces had amy. founda-
tion. ;

Although some fireplaces and
woodstoves are worse than others
in the production of the’ same
smoky byproducts that have led to
the ban on outdoor burning,
Smith said banning fireplace burn-
ing was ‘‘unrealistic.”’ ,

“But we will ask that people
use only properly dried and
seasoned wood,”’ said Smith.

NEITHER RAIN, nor rain
(nor even more rain) could
slow down the 1993 edition
of The Great Capilano
River Duck Race.

By A.P. McCredie
News Reporter

The brave little ducks hit the
icy, rushing water at 1 p.m. sharp
last Sunday, and it was a fast and
furleus float to the finish, in an
impressive 15-minute race.

The owners of the first 10.

ducklettes to cross the finish line
won prizes:

® The 1993 grand prize winner
was North Vancouver resident
Cheryl Robbins.

Up to press time, both Robbins
and her duck were unavailable for
comment. Her grand prize is a
trip for two to London, England,
via the Concorde, then a trip to
Venice aboard the Orient Express,
then back to Vancouver. All first
class.

@ Second prize, an all-ex-
penses-paid seven-day trip to Bri-
tain, went to Chris Hansen of
Sechelt;

@ Third prize, a fully paid trip to
cither Mazatlan or Puerto Vallar-
ta, Mexico, went to Langley's,

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Habitat Reality

Wednesday, March 17, 1993 ~ North Shore News —

NV duck owner wins
London trip for two

SCA PPTINTED YS OGRTORE GEAR OSE

Prints from
Michael Olsen;

@ Fourth prize was won by Van-
couver resident Kathie McDonald;
c.C. McEwen of Burnaby claimed
fifth place; sixth went to Pippen
Osborne of West Vancouver; sev-
enth prize to Alain and Clair Mir-
zaci of Vancouver; Surrey’s Cliff
Pybus claimed eighth place; ninth
place went to David Stuart of
Port Moody; and 10th place went
to Mike and Nick Ross of North
Vancouver.

The total value of prizes ex-
ceeded $58,000.

“To our many sponsors, sup-
porters and volunteers, we say
thank you,’”’ said Lynda Fogle,
spokesman for the Rotary Club of
North Vancouver, the race orga-
nizers.

Up to press time Tuesday, the
total money raised was
unavailable. ;

The winners of the ‘Window
Display Duck Dressing’’ contest
are: The Queensdale Gallery, best
in show; Flowers by Lily, first
runner-up; The Blossom Shop,
second runner-up. /

Honourable mentions go to
Writings Too, North Shore Credit |
Union, Hangers, Orchid Fiorist,
Capilano Design. i

The race was sponsored in part
by the North Shore News.

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