Trial set in drugstore hold-up TWO GRASMERE, B.C.,men will appear Aug. 6 in North Van- couver provincial court for trial on five criminal charges laid against them in connection with an alleged April 30 hold-up at- tempt at a North Vancouver drugstore. . George Randall Gravelle, 39, and Wallace Leon Gravelle, 24, are jointly charged with two counts of robbery, one count of using a firearm during the commission of an indictable offence, and poin- ting a firearm. : Wallace Gravelle also faces a charge of dangerous driving. The charges were laid against the two in connection with an April 30 incident in which two men allegedly attempted to rob the Queensdale Pharmacy. ; . Pharmacist Bettina Voigt’s:Rottweiler dog was shot during the incident. : os ; Furnace ignites contact cement A MAN was injured Sunday afternoon while working with contact cement in a hallway outside a bathroom. A pilot light from_a nearby furnace ignited flammable fumes frora the glue. an Chris O'Neil, 32, of 2312 Williams Avenue in North Vancouver District, was sent to hospital with a first degree burn to his right thigh and has been subsequently released. ; . North Vancouver District Five Department reported fire damage to the immediate area and smoke damage throughout the house. youths in closet NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP ‘received an anonymous call Monday reporting a suspected break and enter and a suspicious vehicle parked outside a home on Dollarton Highway. Attending police discovered a quantity of belongings had been moved to a doorway in the house. Further search of the residence revealed a 16-year-old youth and a 17-year-old youth hiding in a closet. . , The two were arrested and face charges of break and enter. ‘North Vancouver RCMP remind residents to report any suspictous activity to.the loca! detachment.- _ N. Van men | face charges — THREE NORTH Vancouver: men appeared Thursday in. North Vancouver provincial court to face one charge of break and enter ‘ and two charges of possession of stolen property worth over. ~ $1,000. ; ; Brian Christopher Hanley, 18, Clifford: Wayne Pearce, 22, and : Preston: Richard Stauffer, 21, were jointly charged with the of- ‘fences following a May 20 incident in which North Vancouver’s ‘Buy Low Foods store was burglarized. ~ . Police subsequently seized a 1980 Chevrolet van, the property of . Findlay Imports Ltd., and 210 cartons of cigarettes, coffee, spices and other Buy Low merchandise. ~~ Appearing before Judge J.B. Paradis, the three were remanded . to June 3 to fix a date for trial on the charges. City talks on fuels wrap up | . SAFETY DISCUSSIONS on alternate fuels will be finished soon and North Vancouver City staff will report on regulating the fuels within the city, a report says. Development and licensing director Fred Smith indicated. Mon- i to restrict ‘day that staff will report on proposed bylaw changes : sales, storage and transportation of propane and liquified aatural as alternate fuels within the muncicipality. . * A Sept. 25, 1986, propane fire at a North Vancouver gas station prompted city council to look at ways of avoiding similar alternate fuel fires in future. . The move, however, issues have been completed. re LN was put off until discussions on all safety NORTH VANCOUVER School troduction of province-wide sex education at its Tuesday meeting. “tam delighted that the ministry has come up with some- thing and it's not geared just to il- Iness and the aberrations in socie- w,’' board member Margaret ‘Jessup said. She said the program's aim — to teach people how to live in nu- clear, heterosexual families — is admirable. Board member Dorothy Lynas said the education ministry has closed its eyes to problem: related to sexual ignorance in the pro- vince. North Vancouver School District has already instituted basic sex education programs for senior high school students, but its programs Jack the scope of the provincial program. This spring, the education ministry designed a sex education program for 1987/88, partly as a result of the AIDS scare. ; The provincial program, varia- tions of which will be taught to all students in Grades 7 through 12, discusses individual awareness, social roles and family expecta- tions, reproductive biology, sex- . ually transmitted diseas¢és and responsible decision-making. Assistant superintendent Robyn Bryane told the board ;that the province will give the school district $84,000 to teach the pro- gram in 1987/88, and jhe course 5 - Friday, May 29, 1987 - North Shore News NV School Board cheers provincial sex ed program By ROBERT BEYNON Contributing Writer materials should arrive by mid- summer. ‘The framework of the program is now very sketchy."' 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