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A vacaint house in North
Vancouver was destroyed by
fire in the early hours of

orning just hours
otter on ROMP had turfed out
about 50 youths who had
been holding a party there.

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The. two. storey house at
4190 Mount Seymour
Parkway. was duc to be
moved for relocation to a lot
further up the same road.

North Vancouver City
Fire fighters ‘were there

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Motorists are warned that

North Vancouver RCMP
and West Vancouver police
will start an enforcement
campaign against drivera
without insurance = one
minute after midnight
Wednesday.

Deadline for 1979 ICBC
insurance and the new bluc
licence plates to be
displayed on vehicles is
midnight Wednesday.

Spokesmen for both police
detachments warned the fine
for failure to have auto
insurance is $250 and aaid
there is a $15 fine for failure

to display new licence
plates, even if the | vehicle
owner has the ‘79 plates in
the trunk.

For a non-moving offence |

of cars parked and not
having new plates are to be
given a week of grace by

West Vancouver police but —

only a few days by the
RCMP before being
ticketed.

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e' mour party

within two minutes
receiving the call but the tive
had already burned through
the walls and the basement
and completely destroyed
the inside.

RCMP had broken up a

‘party that had been going on

there at about 9 p.m. Friday
and the fire department was
called at 2:48 a.m. Saturday.

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A man who is. alleged to
literally have driven into the
Safeway store at 1650
Marine Drive, West Van-
couver Friday afternoon, has
been charged with impaired
driving and with driving with
‘@ blood alcohol count ex-
ceeding .08.

_ The enormous plate glass
window at the corner of th
storefront succumbed to a
1973 Datsun at about 3:40
p.m.

Damage to the car a put at

“window, window frame and
a railing — is estimated. at
$2,500.

Charged is §9-year-old -
Robert Howard Smith, of
704-1740 Esquimalt Avenue,
West Vancouver.

Driver _
fined $500

Two Vancouver Island
motorists who pleaded guilty
to impaired driving in West
Vancouver each was fined
$500 by West Vancouver
provincial court Judge Perry
Millar Thursday.

The fines were levied upon
George E. Davis of Union

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the drinking driving offences
committed in January.

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| Six months. after. night. of horror

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_—On trial on a series of

charges stemming from the
brutal slaying of Andreas
Stamatakis, .34 of 1336
Dempsey, are Ronald Roger
Gourgan, 31 and Lisa
Margaret. Knowles, 24, both
of 3-1131 Burnaby Street.

Stamatakis , was fatally
stabbed in the kitchen of his
home the night of August 19

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but his wife Nansi, 34, and
her mother, Marie Maratos,
61, both were: wounded on a

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Gourgan and Knowles are
facing trial on charges of
first degree murder, two.
counts of attempted murder,
two counts of unlawful
confinement and two others
on charges of breaking and
entry with intent. _ a

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