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BIRTHDAYS are for celebration, so the North
Shore News is celebrating the first birthday of its
newest baby — the Friday News.

News publisher Peter
Speck and staff launched the
Friday edition a year ago
today.

‘Speaking on behalf of
Speck, marketing . director
Bob Graham said the growth
and success of the paper’s
third’ edition can be at-
tributed to the support and
input of the community.

By BARRETT FISHER

“The first Friday news
edition we published was 16
pages,’’ Graham said, ‘tand
today’s is 60 pages. Judging
by the support of advertis-
ers, the encouragement of
readers and the fact that in
1984 we were named best

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Mary Collins was a
welcome guest at Queen
Mary School where she
presented a $1900 cheque.

| Friday News turns one

castle.

suburban newspaper in
Canada, that spells success.

As the size, wealth
and sophistication of the
community grows, there’s an
increasing need for a news
and advertising medium that
speaks of the community,
for the community and to
the community on a more
frequent basis.”’

Graham said the Friday
edition has ‘‘created one
more opportunity in the
week for the news depart-

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Songwriter Megun Metcalfe
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song.

ment to communicate with
the people in our communi-
ty. There’s more going on
here than we were able to
report in our Wednesday
and Sunday newspapers.
“The Friday News : pro-
vides an opportunity in our
market for the businesses to
communicate more frequent-

‘ly with local consumers,”*

Graham continued.
“Specifically regarding real
estate advertising. The first
edition we published 11%

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real estate advertising pages,
and in one of our more re-
cent editions we published
38% real estate pages.'”
Graham said the paper has
survived’ and flourished
despite a depressed

economy. ‘‘We're crawling

out of a recession,’’ he said,
“and we’re not out of it yet.

But our readers are the
richest ‘consumers in
Canada. When our advertis-

ers connect with them,
everybody wins.’’

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Community response to
the publishing of a third edi-
tion has been ‘‘great,”’
Graham said. ‘‘Over the past
12 months readers and ad-
vertisers have become ac-
customed to our increased
distribution schedule and the
response has been great.’’

Graham says plans for the
newspaper’s future include
“producing bigger papers
and better papers to give our
readers and advertisers only
the best.’’

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RACCOONS are being brutally maimed in the
North Vancouver Kings Road area and one resi-
dent wants to see it stopped..

By BARRETT FISHER

Art Pfefferle, a Kings
Road home owner, said
every night he has about
eight raccoons visit” his
house, and seven of them
have been badly injured.

“One has a-tail ripped off,
another has a broken tail
half ripped off and one has
its hip sticking out with its
fur pulled off. It looks like
they’ve been hit with a shov-
el. It’s very inhumane and it
has been done deliberately.”

Pfefferle said a neighbor

told him it was ‘open
season’? on raccoons, a
statement refuted by North
Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Don
‘Jette, who said, ‘‘it is

against the law to maim or
injure animals.”

According to section 402
of the Criminal Code, it is

an offense for anyone who
wilfully causes or permits

“unnecessary pain, suffering
or injury to an animal or
bird.”’

The maximum penalty
that goes with the offense
includes six ‘months in jail
and or a $2,000 fine.

Regional conservation of-
ficer Bill Hazledine said that
unless a person has a hun-
ting license and is trapping
the animals in a legal fash-

FEEDING a racoon in the tree at his North Vancouver home, resident Art Pfefferle has befriended eight of the creatures, ion, it is not right to be hur-
I seven of which he says have been maimed and injured. Fish and Wildtife Branch do not recommend feeding and ting the animals.

domesticating the animals.

**We'll investigate,’’

Hazledine said.. ‘‘If people
are doing that, we certainly
want it stopped.”

But Vancouver SPCA
spokesman John Van Der
Hoeven said it is his experi-
ence that raccoons often get
injured through fighting
with other raccoons or
domestic dogs. He added
that the possibility leg-hold
traps are capturing the
animals is unlikely.

Pfefferle, a self-acclaimed
animal lover, said he has
been feeding raccoons for
about four -months now,
leaving bread crusts and
cookies out for the animals.

“T feed animals all winter,

I'm soft-hearted,”” Pfefferle | ©

said. “If you treat animals
good, they treat you good.
I’ve never been bitten or
scratched. They've never
bothered our garbage cans. I
have two dogs and two cats

- and they haven't bothered

any of them either.’’

But Hazledine said, ‘the
way to love animals is to
have them behave in the
wild. It's a.difficult problem
we face, because people love
animals, but their love ex-
tends to domesticating
them.”’

Added Hazledine: ‘*We
don’t attend to raccoon
complaints. What we do is
provide literature for people
to take preventive measures
to discourage the animals.”’

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