‘ts North

THREE FIRES set early Tuesday morning at a school
under construction were doused by West Vancouver fire-
fighters just in time to prevent a major blaze, said fire
prevention Captain Aime Lehouillier.

A call from a worker who arrived at the Rockridge
school site Tuesday morning alerted firefighters to the

re.

Caulfeild and Horseshoe Bay fire halls, along with a
peacue track from Fire Hall 1, responded and put out the

res,

“Another 10 minutes and there would have been a
good roaring fire,” he said. “It was close.”

Lehouillier said three fires had been set.

West Vancouver Police estimate damage at $3,000.

Body identified

WEST VANCOUVER Police have identified the body of a
so discovered in a burned out car on Cypress Bow! Road

Police have identified the man as 40-year-old Eart
Morse of Alberta.

According to Sgt. Barry Nickerson, evidence points to
suicide as the cause of death.

The case is still under investigation and investigators
await an autopsy report.

Club deal

NORTH SHORE Winter Club members overwhelmingly
approved a $3.6-million proposal to buy back their club
from landlords Marksearch Properties and Cooperators
- General Insurance.
Winter Club treasurer Al Brown told the News the club
- is now pursuing financing and hopes to have the deal final-
ized by the end of December.
‘- Members lost control of their club in 1986 when the
debt-plagued club was purchased by the North Shore
Credit Union. °
‘Recently, after a change in club ownership and a court
. battle, club board members struck a tentative deal with
landlords to purchase their club.

Thieves busy

THIEVES TOOK $22,000 worth of property and left
$1,500 damage in the wake of a break-and-entry spree
_ between Dec..12 and early Dec. 13 in North Vancouver.

On Dec. 12 at about 11 p.m., the service door to a 1300-
block Main Street store was pried open and goods were
stolen. ;

At.1:30 am. Wednesday, glass was removed from a
business window in the 3600-block of Capilano Road. A
small amount of cash was taken from an office.

An hour later, a door to a shop in the 1400-block of
Charlotte Road was forced open. Snowboarding equip-
ment was stolen. Police are looking for three males who
were observed leaving the scene in a white Ford truck.

Cail the North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1311.

Transit Santa

JOLLY OLD St. Nick will be parking his sled and riding
his specially decorated Reindeer Bus to spread good tid-
ings and cheer throughout the Vancouver region.

On Saturday, Dec. 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Santa will
be celebrating the festive season with SeaBus passengers.

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Shore

sports |
leader
passes

THE NORTH Shore has lost a
friend in Keith Millar, a man
who spent many of his 71 years
devoted to making sports an
integral part of the community
in which he lived.

By Colin Thomas
Contributing Writer

Millar passed away Dec. 8 suf-
fering from heart and lung ail-
ments.

In 1984 he helped establish the
recreation advisory council in
North Vancouver.

In 1991 he was made a life

KEITH MILLAR ... dedicated
his tife to local amateur sports.

member of the British Columbia
Soccer Association (BCSA).

“He was a great server to soc- .

cer,” said BCSA technical director
Alan Churchard. “He was recog-
nized by his peers as a guardian of
the game.”

Tom Walker, community ser-
vices coordinator of the North
Vancouver Recreation
Commission, said Millar was made
a lifelong member of the commis-
sion “in recognition of his commit-
ment to local soccer and his leader-
ship qualities on the commission.”

Walker said the commission,
which Millar was a founder, was
vital in North Vancouver’s success-
ful bid for the 1996 B.C. Winter
Games.

Millar has a huge list of organi-
zational and managerial accom-
plishments in soccer.

He began coaching in 1967. In
1972 he established the North
Shore Girls Soccer Association and
coached until 1989.

Millar established the North
Shore Intermediate men’s soccer
league in 1977.

In 1980 he became president of
the Vancouver Metro Soccev
League and helped it become the
Lower Maintand’s senior winter-
circuit, relegating the Pacific Coast
Soccer League to summer action.

Millar, along with current presi-
dent Gil McGarva, helped forge the
Metro premier league into one of
the top amateur soccer leagues in
Canada.

Millar also had strong links with
Little League baseball in North and
West Vancouver.

He began coaching Little
League in 1962 with Cypress Park
and was president of that league
from 1966 to [970.

Millar was born in Colorado, By
the Second World War he was liv-
ing in England and became a pilot
with the Royal Navy.

in 1948 he moved to Vancouver
where he and his brother estab-
lished Sentinel Heating.

He retired in 1979,

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