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Accident aftermath

PARAMEDIC Darrell Mussatto treats a child with cuts at the scene of an accident at 13th and Hendry in North Vancouver on
Thursday morning. Both the child and an adult were taken to hospital. The two victims were in a northbound car when it was hit

See Fight page 3 by an eastbound van. The eastbound driver has been charged with failing to stop at a stop sign.

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: 14 years in city location bers were out of luck,” said Rankin. “So we tried to make

arrangements here to avoid that.”

By Robert Ealster His solution was to approach Gold’s Gym, located behind
Be News Reporter robert@nsnews.com Capilano Mall, to work out a deal. The terms Rankin hammered
: bor . . ne _ out with Gold’s owners Roy and Wade Baumgartner calls for
a LOWER Lonsdale’s Empire Fitness Centre Empire members to pay a transfer fee of $39.95 in exchange for

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area’s pr emiere fitness facility. are upset about the distance, but that would have happened any NEWS photo Mike Waketletd
“Judy (co-owner MeVeigh) and myself have been feeling 9 war” EMPIRE Fitness Centre’s owners (left to right) Judy

stressed for a while now and we came to the point where we can’t McVeigh and Steve Rankin with Roy and Wade
(continue sometime last week,” said co-owner Steven Rankin. Gold's pase 3 | Baumgartner of Gold's Gym.

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