ND eer eyens dS sna onas YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 AREA sok z Aa ay i is & ! Pe ee rer AIO PAE BEI Cycle through winter PAGE 19 ls : a ( we All dolled up PT ae aes a 2 THE ROCKS lining a stretch of the Capilano River came alive Friday with a flock of seaguils. Basking in the sun, the birds inadvertently ad- ded a feathered Sayer of life to this study in strata. "NEWS Photo Terry Paters es $35,000 found under pillow at Lynnwood inn AN HONEST Lynnwood Inn chamber maid returned what would have been the tip of a lifetime after she found $35,000 under the pillow of one of the North Vancouver hotel’s beds Friday afternoon. Patricia Gillingham said she stumbled on to the money just after lunchtime while she was stripping the bed in room 106. ‘*T found it between the mattress and the heaaboard, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is nice,’ ’’Gillingham said. The money, she said, was in a bag, and her original estimation By TIMOTHY RENSI about contained was that it $15,000. “And, sure, the thought crossed my mind to keep it, | think anybody would have considered that, but | took it downstairs like a good girl,’’ Gillingham said. The cash, which has been reclaimed, reportedly belonged to a Nanaimo fisherman who was in Vancouver to buy a fishing boat. He mistakenly left the money stashed under the pillow in his room after checking out of the hotel and did not realize he had teft the money behind until he was back in Nanaimo. $35,000 CONFIRMED North Vancouver RCMP Cst. Terry Grimm confirmed the Eeaeee aes ea Semiiy oe 3 Aa rae : saa Pre es amount found by Gillingham was $35,000, and added that the hotel guest had requested his name not be released. Gillingham, 38, has worked at the Lynnwood for the past five years and said the money repre- sented more than two years wages to her. She added that she had thus far received no reward for her discovery. The 31-room Lynnwood is a popular stop-over for long-haul truck drivers and fishermen. LYNNWOOD INN chamber maid Patricia Gillingham...thought, “Wow, this is nive.”’