Thieves dash

potters’ hopes

All - Wednesday, March 17, 1982 - North Shore News

ONE OF THE FEW
pleces of pottery
remaining after last
weekend's theft is held
by George Matheson,
who hand painted each
of the porcelain items
stolen from the back of

the panel truck.
JUST AS North Vancouver  vanous other pieces into (Ellsworth Dickson
potters George Matheson boxes and lett them in a photo)
and Nick Meissner were panel truck next to. the
feeling good about having trailer, ready to deliver to
gotenough stock logether to stores which had orders.

go Into business, luck turned
against them.

They had spent the past
few months making por-
celain teaware in the old

Sometime Friday or
Saturday evening the
boxloads of porcelain were
stolen from the truck. It was
on Sunday that the potters

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accident ui Stamey Park in tne eany
Mornung of August 23 19Y8BC un winen
a MotorcyChs! was wyured and who
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construction trawler behind discovered their stock had at 687-5744
Meissner’s home at 1059) pone — and with it their
McNaughton Crescent in hopes of going into business

North Vancouver

“We have been working

Quayside

By the end of last week under the most adverse SPEF< [A i PUR<( HA SE
they had more than 100) conditions.” said Matheson
pleces of hand painted “We were sust at the point
porcelain which they had where we could start to see

been busy turning out since
Christmas

The pieces represented
their opportunity to break
out oof the ramshackle
surroundings they had used
lo Start off their venture, by
providing the = start-up
capital for them to become
commercial potters

Their facilites were so
cramped that the potters had
packed up the 20 teapots, 60

some return and a tur-
naround in our situation.”

Matheson can't un
derstand why the tmef took
the porcelain, while leaving
all the tools that were in the
trailer

He wonders how the thief
would consider being able to
dispose oof the porcelain
since each piece is so
disunctuve, hand painted and
bearing the potters’ iden-

Park gets
go-ahead

CONSTRUCTION of a
waterfront park at Lonsdale
Quay was given the go-ahead
by North Vancouver City
council Monday night

The work will involve con-
touring and laying sod so the
park can be in use bv this

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