Gunmen
hijack

forced a North

Vancouver man to

hand over his truck
Hon Wednesday after-
gnoon.

B . According to a West
qVancouver Police
spokesman, ihe driver was
ordered from his 1989 Ford
Bronco in the rear parking

Balot of the West Vancouver
Earls Restaurant on Marine
Drive at about 1:30 p.n

The suspects sped

Police say the victim
alked home before report-

ing the incident.
. The track was ater

Rerecovered, abandoned about
pfour blocks from the 300-
block Marine Drive restau-

ant.”

According to North
‘ancouver RCMP Const.
atherine | Galliford, a
Capilano area resident heard
description of the truck
d its licence plate number
roadcasted by a radio sta-
ion. ~

She saw the iruck parked
ear her home as she pulled

into the driveway.

1. The. Mounties were
alled: in to assist West
ancouver Police at about

0 p.m. to search the
ene.

A: Mountie police dog
as able to sniff out a partial
ack, but-ihe suspects were
ot located.

West Vancouver Police
gt. Barry Nickerson said

ice have no motive for
¢ hijacking.

The: investigation is con-
inuing.

‘The suspects are described

being in. their 20s. Both

Are Caucasian, both have
rown hair and are about six
et (1.8 metres) tal}.

One of the men was wear-

Three open

get attention
Contributing Writer

Vancouver District
could be choosing

' between as many as a
dozen candidates for

m By Michael Becker
q News Editor
TWO men with a gun

municipal election.

council,

council seats
By Martin fillerchip

ELECTORS in North

the three open seats on
council at November’s

With a new mayor to head
disaffected vate

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

A littie night music

Cuthbert’s desire to give his
family more time after three
terms as councillor and
Coun. Pam Goldsmith-Jonés
decision to return to her pri-
vate law practice and not
challenge Bell head-to- -head,
three seats will be open at the
council table.

Coincidentally, three for-
mer district councillors could
be on the November ballot.

Paul Turner and Rick

- Buchols have confirmed! to
the News that they definitely
will be running.

Turner lost a hard-fought
battle with Dykeman for the
mayor's chair three years ‘igo.

Turner is challenging all
candidates to turn out atithe
Cates landing public hearing

opment and the preservation
of the district’s remaining
forested urban reserve preoc-
cupy voters.

Equally possible, howev-
er, is a scenario of out with
the old and in with the older.

The News has already
reported the reasons behind
Mayor Murray Dykeman’s
decision not
to seck re-
election for a
third term as
mayor.

Coun,

Don Bell
announced

last year he

would be
stepping up Bell... bid
for a second for mayor

THE Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Clyde Mitchell, played to a full house at Centennial Theatre Wednesday. The con-
cert was held in support, of music education in North Vancouver and was attended by music students, school officials and teachers.

from coun- FRR “I don’t believe the
cil at the ; answer to every development
same time problem is to turn it into a
and was park at public expense,” said
immediate- Buchols.
ly elected as Former fong-time coun-
a school cillor Joan Gadsby told the
trustee News she has not finally
only to be decided “whether to ran for
fired “last 8 council, mayor or at ail.”
year when Goldsmith- Said Gadsby; “It’s impor-
the provin- Jones... tant to me that we have good
cial gov: returning to solid candidates running who
ernment law practice. arc committed to our com-
d the munity.”
entire school board. If voters decide they want
Buchols says he is not in new faces there will be a lot
favor of a total moratorium

on land development. See Voters page 13

could be forgiven fer chanti-
: other was wearing 2° ng “out with the old and in

zed, black and white track with the new.”
uit. One possibility could see

Contact the West ction of a number of
ancouver Police with infor- candidates from the Seymour

ing a_bluc and. white track

‘fitting of the unopposed?

mayor’
chain.

And to press time, it looks
like Bell's grab for the brass
ting coukd be unopposed.

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