Al0 - Wednesday, March 23, 1983 - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter
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by
Ellsworth
Dickson

During the past year there has been much
speculation regarding a provincial election.
Presently, we seem to be going into another
stage of pre-election fever. With this in mind
the Ing. Rep. asks:

“If a provincial election were
to be called this spring, what
issue would be important to

you?”’

Bill McManus
North Vancouver

The

State of the
economy is of concern to

me. Unfortunately, both
partes show no. insight
into the present situation.
Perhaps we should start
our own party!

Willie Davis
North Vancauver |

Having’ just arrived
from England, I can see
that the economy is the
most imporatnt issue.
>. Also, EXPO 86 is of
interest to me. Certainly
inflation and unemploy-
ment must be of concern
to both the government
and the people.

lrene Hibbert
North Vancouver

Since |] am a

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housing 1s of importance

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This as

Kelly Ryan
North Vancouver

Unemployment Im

unemployed right Thoow
and Pve been looking for
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months Pan pust oonming
bach from the to bt

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North Vam ouver

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Dobody s hiring

RCMP feared pizza seige

FROM PAGE A1

among the biggest cases
handled by the RCMP, the
circumstances of this inci-
dent indicate the police
response was far from being
an over-reaction.

For one thing, the men
who held up the pizza driver
were armed with a rifle. And
when police went to check
out a supect the lights of the
house were turned off and
sounds from the home in-
dicated the occupants may
be barricading themselves in
for a siege.

“We knew a rifle was in-
volved,’ an RCMP detective
spokesman told the News.
“So, rather than force entry
and risk an armed confronta-
tion we elected to contain
the residents with the
emergency response team
and call in a negotiator to
talk them out of the house.”

The spokesman = said
follow-up investigation in-
dicated the only reason the
drama occurred in the first
place was because a relative
or friend of one of the

suspects appeared to have
been monitoring police radio
messages. The activities in
the house are believed to
have been prompted by the
Suspect receiving a phone
call warning him that the
police were on their way.

The robbery had occurred
in the usual way, by a pizza
being ordered for delivery to
an address where the rob-
bers were waiting for a
driver.

When the driver arrived to
the address on Tobruk
Avenue, a rifle was shoved
in his ribs and two men stole
his wallet, some other cash,
the pizza and his car keys
and then ran off.

The pizza driver dashed to
a nearby intersection where
he had noticed a police car
while on his way to make the
delivery.

The police officer radioed
back to headquarters with
details of the holdup and it is
believed the police messages
were being monitored.

“This in turn generated
the unusual activity within
the house,” the detective
spokesman told the News.

Edward Douglas Lakes,
aged 19, of 889 Tobruk, and
Michael Graham Hopper,
also 19, of 314-555 West 28th
Street in North Vancouver

appeared in provincial court
in North Van on robbery
charges and were released

on their own recognizance of
$1,000.

Parking study awaited

THE FATE of North
Vancouver City’s parking
commission will be decided
before June 30 by a com-
mittee composed of
members of the commission,
City council and City staff.

The committee will decide
whether the parking
commission has fulfilled its
function and should now be
disbanded. In the meantime,
the commission's life has
been extended to March 24,
1984.

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