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escape
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Anna Marie D’Angelo

News Reporter
dangclo@nsnews.com

SHANE S&rendon
Eschner walked away
from New Haven
prison on Nov. 16.

The 25-year-old North
. Vancouver resident escaped
from the Burnaby prison less
than ewo weeks after a North
Vancouver. provincial judge
- sentenced him to jail.
2. Eschner was sentenced toa
year. in jail on Nov. 3.
,; He was convicted of
“. breaking into the Shoppers
Drug Mart store on Sept. 28.
.. Three. .men, __ inc! uding
* Eschner, who was wearing a
. Ski mask, rammed _a stolen car
through the front of the Lynn
‘Valley Centre store. .
~*  A-C@oast Mountain Bus
Link driver was credited with

foiling the burglars. The bus -

driver.: drove. off -his early
morning Lynn Valley, Road
route, across the miall’s

giars’ car. <3,

%. Eschner; Timothy. Hayes
and. another man were in the
‘ear about to take off when the’
bus, driver blocked them. The
car: was loaded © with. stolen.
cigarettes.

«Burnaby? RCMP
‘Spokesman Sgt. ‘Derek Cooke’
said that Eschner walked away
from. ‘the minimum-

Oni Wednesday,

$s park- |
ing lot,.to:block ‘off the bur-

‘should «call

secu-” .
0 . “Vancouver RCMP? at: 985- .

SHANE Brendon
Eschner wanted for
prison escape.

break-in, Eschner was charged
with possessing, stolen proper-
ty in connection with another
incident: He pleaded guilty to
that unrelated charge of pos-

. sessing a stolen power saw and

seceived a concurrent four-

“month jail: sentence. That
offence took. plane on Dec.

21, -1998, in’. North
Vancouver City.

The third co-accused in

_the drug store burglary, Grant

Allan Salter, 29, of Surrey, is
slated for a court appearance
in mid-December..

Anyone with ‘informstion

about Eschner’s whereabouts
the

1311. or. Crime Stoppers at.!

7 669-8477.

.. North -

NEWS photo Mike Waketietd

MAYOR Jack Loucks took the wheel of an Indy Car, but he rarely had to race for
his job. First elected in 1977, he was unopposed ‘six tirnes and had to feng off.

challengers only twics.

Tributes

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traditions, and indeed a love-of
the North Shore and also a
great warmth and affection for
peonle, be they great or siviall.
“Tack knows how to get
money and spend it locally. The

result of this is that the City of.
North Vancouver is absolutely.

clean of debt. Jack inherited
this long-term policy from pre-
vious city administrations,
agrees with it and has left city
taxpayers and residents with
something to be really proud
of.” Loucks says his 22 years in
office were: made possible by
the team at city hall. It’s not
something he could have done

- by himself, nor if, he didn’t have -

a background in education
administration.

“Ir’s not me alone, it’s the
people I've been working with.
1 was a school principal. ‘You
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think about, you have your
teachers to think about, your
parents to think about and
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