TRACEY likes outdoor activities such as swimming, cycling and baton twirling. She also likes country music and eventually hopes to be a pre-school teacher. (Elsworth Dickson photo) Grouse up for sale Following a continuation of the worst year Grouse has ever had, the parent company has announced it 1s hunting for a new buyer for the resort. And failing that, S.B. McLaughhn Associates of Toronto said it ts also considering some sort of “reorganization satisfactory to the company and to the bankers.” Margo France, sales and marketing director for Grouse, said that the McLaughlin announcement came as “no surpnise.” The resort, which has had three disasterous ski scasons. went into receiversmp in June France said this was more a case of the bank wanting to get a better idea of what was going on with the finances of the resort, rather than poor management. To date, she said plans to find a buyer for Grouse appear to have been “ineffective.” Despite a couple of weeks of sunshine, France said this summer has been one of the worst for Grouse because of the wet weather But she said the same number of staff were hired because “we always an- licipate good weather © Whatever plans McLauglin’s France = said (srouse intends to “operate as onormal” during the coming ski season are. An 18-year-old man was dragged from his car and beaten and kicked unconscious early Saturday morning by a group of about fifty people in West Vancouver. A West Vancouver Police spokesman said police cars were pelted with rocks and beer bottles when they attempted to investigate the incident. The whole affair took place after 1 a.m. Saturday morning at a beach party Kids scare North Vancouver RCMP launched an intensive search of an area near Plymouth School in North Vancouver Sunday after a report that a man attempted to lure three children into bushes. An RCMP spokesman said three boys said they were playing at the school at AS - Wednesday, August 26, 1981 - North Shore News near Pier 101 of Vancouver Wharves Ltd. The spokesman said close to 200 people were partying in the area when almost all West Van police on shift responded to “a barrage of disturbance calls.” After several hours and when over 30 liquor seizures had been made, the gathering dispersed. Three people were arrested and charged with breach of the peace and causing a disturbance. The incident in which the man was, beaten started when two men who had been walking in the area just after 1 returned to their car. At this point the car was surrounded by about 50 people. The spokesman said the driver, an 18-year-old Vancouver resident was dragged out of the car and kicked and struck repeatedly. He was then left un- conscious beside the vehicle. 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