A8 - Wednesday, March 9, 1983 - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter
P|
by
Ellsworth
Dickson

It seems that about half the couples I know
have lived together for a while before getting
married. Some have had _= successful
marriages; some have not

Today’s question is:
‘Does living together
first make for a

better marriage?”

Karin Essinger
North Vancouver

I sometimes think yes
and I sometimes think no.
I don’t think it hurts to
live together first. It is
better to be informed
than naive. But I really do
believe in marriage.

Dorita Lanther
North Vancouver

I don’t think so. If it ts
not going to work out, it
doesn't matter if you are
marmed or not. I beheve
that marmage is a good
way to live. It all depends
on the personalities of the
individuals and = their
efforts to make the
relauonship work

Doug Ross
North Vancouver

Presently. I am living
with the woman | am
engaged to | think we
have a good plan and we
are happy together = |
think same couples hve
together before marnage
for cconomic reasons It
is whatever seems
work the best

to

Angela Gronhols
North Vancouver

1 think
couples.

that for many
hveng together
before marnage is good
preparation for the
future 1 do believe in the

commitment of mariage

Phil Roch
North Vancouver

Yes Ethink so dt helps
you to get to know your
partner better It alse
prepares you for the daily
problems and ccahtics of
marriage

&

By CHRIS LLOYD

GUNMEN held up a North
Vancouver bank and a West
Vancouver trust company
Friday afternoon
although police have not tied
the robberies to the same
person.

First of the two robberies
occurred at the Bank of
Montreal at 21 Lonsdale
Avenue, in North Van-
couver, at about 2:50 p.m.
when a man armed with a
handgun held up two tellers
and stole abeut $2,000.

He fled on foot, west-
bound on Esplanade and was
believed to have a vehicle
parked in the area.

RCMP are asking to hear
from anyone who may have
seen the man — aged about
30, 5S ft. 8 in. tall, weighing

GUNMEN GET $6,000
Two bank holdups in one day

145 Ibs., with shoulder-
length, dark greasy hair,
who was wearing either a
waist-length brown leather
jacket or blue jean jacket.
Police say he may be a drug
addict.

The second robbery
occurred at 4:15 p.m., at the
Royal Trust branch at 1760
Marine Drive, in West
Vancouver.

This time a man believed
to be in his early twenties,
also armed with a handgun,
approached a teller, leaned
en the eounter, produced
the gun and told the teller to
hand over all the money.

A West Vancouver police
detective spokesman told
the News: “It would appear
he didn't feel the teller was
responding to his request
fast enough and so _ he
reached over and helped

Thieves staying

underground

THEFTS from vehicles in
underground parking areas
— long an area of major
concern to North Vancouver
RCMP — are accounting for
one out of every three theft
incidents in West Van-
couver.

And pohce estimate that
as many as 95 per cent of
thefts from autos occur in
underground parking lots.

Last year saw a total of 497
thefts from vehicles in West
Van — a 21 per cent in-
crease over 1981 figures.
And the increase in the
crime is consistent, since
1981 also saw 21 per cent
more thefts from autos than
1980

Stereo cassettes are the
favonte target, along with
cameras and any other

valuables left in a vehicle so
they are visible from outside

However, some thicves
are quite specialized. As
well as people who custom.
steal bumpers and other
body parts of cars, there ts
also) someone’ who - steals
custom hcence plates

One set stolen” read
MAYOR — stolen from the
car of Mayor Derrick
Humphreys which was
parked in the underground
lot of the apartment block
where he lives

Pohice are concerned over
how to deal with the thefts
and beheve one of the better
prevention measures is for
owners buildings = with
underground parking blots to
install sccurtty doors

Pobce have cven been
wondering about starting
tne ycle patrols to check the
underground lots so officers
would be ablc

of

for swoop

down on them at night
without being heard rather
than alerting Ghieves by the
sound off a can on cchotp
footsteps

Ihe idea doesnt seem to

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consideratiow** yet and
meanwhile police patrols are
being stepped up in the areas
of underground parking lots
— by car.

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himself to cash from the
drawer.”
The

money — $4,080 — into his
jacket pocket and left the
bank.

man __ stuffed

Drinking
drivers

RECENT drinking-driving charges by North
Shore police have resulted in the following
convictions (penalties shown are in addition
to licence suspension):

STRONGE, Jacqueline Mary, 246 West Sth
St., North Van ($350); WIEMKEN Brent
Murray, 13116 Huntley Ave., Surrey ($500).

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