A8 - Wednesday, January 11, 1984 - North Shore News

Break-in headache

AN EARLY morning sneak thief wound up on the
wrong end of his own pry bar Saturday in North

Vancouver.

The occupant of a
residence in the 300 block of
West Fifteenth Street was
awakened by someone prowl-
ing through his house just
after 7 a.m. Saturday.

He spotted the man, who
was carrying a_ two-foot
length of steel pipe that he
had used to pry open a door,
and took action.

The homeowner surprised
the man, wrestled the length
of pipe away from him and
then smacked him on the side

of the head with it.

Police arrived to take the
man into custody.

Charged with breaking and
entering is Robert Edward
Johnson, 29, of Vancouver.

A second weekend break
and enter incident went much
better for the bad guys. So-
meone entered a house in the
1600 block of St. George’s
Avenue and made off with an
electric shaver, a hairdryer
and a portable cassette
player.

HELENA Antkiewicz is grim-faced as she displays a Joseph Conrail first edition that, with other rare books and her company’s
records, were soaked when flooding hit her Deep Cove business. See story below. ~~

DEEP COVE DA IMAGE HEAVY
-.Mlessage mix-up >

leads to floods

A MIXED-UP message may have been the reason
for flooding which caused hundreds of dollars
worth of damage to businesses in Deep Cove.

One of the worst hit by the
floodwater which poured
through the ground floor of
the building on the west side
of Gallant Avenue iast week
was Le Petit Cafe.

’ {it was closed for three days

and furniture had to be mov-
ed to the sidewalk while the
owner got on with mopping
up operations.

Next door at MHelena’s
Honey Goodies Ltd. the
water was six inches deep and
it ruined more than a thou-
sand dollars worth of
materials.

The flooding occurred dur-
ing the heavy rains when
water welled up in blocked-
up drains behind the
building.

And store owncrs are upset
because they say that several
weeks carlicr a plumber had
warned the landlord that the
drains needed clearing out.

“But | never got the
message,”” landlord Michael
Lam told the North Shore
News this week ‘‘The

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Challenge Your MP

As your Member of Partiament tor North
Vancouver Burnaby. t invite you to participate
in the Public Meeting and Accountability Ses
sion to be held in the nding on January 12th

Feel tree to bring any questions and criticisms

| would also lke an opportunity to discuss with
you recent and future events in Ottawa and
plans of the Progressive Conservative Caucus
and our new leader Bnan Mulroney

The meeting will be Informal with Coffee and

Time 8 OO pm Thursday, January 12th 1984
Place Capttol Hilt Community Hall
361 Howard Avenue Burnaby Gust
north of Hastings)

North Vancouver-Burnaby
Chuck Cook, MP

plumber thought the
caretaker of the building had
told me and the caretaker ex-
pected the plumber to tell me
about it.

“If I had known, of
course, I would have had
them cleared out right
away,”” said Lam.

As a result of the mix-up,
when Helena Antktewicz
opened the door at her coffee
and goodies store the morn.
ing after last week's heavy
rainfall a stream of water
came gushing out.

An entire shipment of
plastic bags which had just
arrived from Hong Kong
worth $1,300. were ruined.

Much of her personal col.
lection of books and art
works, including a rare first
edinon copy of the works of
Joseph Conrad, which she
had brought to Canada from
Europe, were ‘also water
damaged

She lost a new pair of
boots worth over a hundred
dollars and ts now living with
the smell of a watersoaked
floor. .

Linoleum has trapped
water in a felt underlay but
because of the heavy equip-
ment in the store it cannot be
taken out to be aired.

‘‘It’s heartbreaking,
everything is such a mess,’’
said Antkiewicz who wants
the landlord to compensate
her for the losses.

Her friend Kjerstin Redden
who took over Le Petit Cafe
restaurant next door in July,
had just put down a
$1 ,000-plus carpet.

And she lost three days’
business amounting to about
$1,000 while the waterlogged
carpet was hauled oul to be
dined and cleaned.

**it’s quite a setback for
me,’” said Redden who lives
in the Cove with her husband
and two daughters ‘‘My
restaurant was ruined over-
might | arrived in the morn-
tmg and there was an
Olympic sized pool at the
back of the building "’

She atso feels that the

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landlord should be responsi-
ble for the damage she suf-
fered to her business. She
said that when the drains
were finally cleared it was ob-
vious from the amount of
debris that they had not been
cleared for a long time.

Lam, who manages the
building on behalf of his
mother, claimed that
material washed down from
the construction site higher
up Gallant Avenue had con-
tribued to the blockage.

**l feel very sorry for these
people,’” said Lam, ‘but
there was unusual rainfall
and flooding everywhere at
that time and my insurance
company does not believe |
am liable.”’

He added that he had
helped to pay for the clean-
up operation and done the
best he could to help his
tenants.

Lam said that he had per-
suaded the insurance com-
pany to investigate the case
and there was still a chance
the tenants might get some
compensation.

**But | don’t see what else |
can be expected to do.”’

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