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INQUIRING REPORTER

AFICIONADOS OF the sports betting scene were gaing wild
on Sports Action’s Over/Under game lest week, The B.C.
Lottery Corporation, which is hurting from the National
Hockey League's labor dispute, set the line of total points
scored in each basketball game. Players bet on whether the
tota! would be over or under the “pre-set line”’ The corpera-
tion closed down the game when betting appeared to be
unusually high on 7 pre-season basketball pames. They cited

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concerns that the game was possibly being used to launder
money. But Finance Minister Elizabeth Cull said “It seems to
me what happened was that individuals... saw a good thing
and took advantage of it,” she said. The lottery corporation
reportedly paid out 700% of all bets on the Over/Under game
due to generous odds. Sports Action players were furious that
the game was closed down and said B.C. Lotteries changed the
rules because it was losing,

Should Sports Action be abie to close down if it’s losing on bets?

lan Lade

North Vancouver

No they shouldn't. Once
betting has started, it's
like a contract. Stopping
would be a breach.

Andrea Tichy
Vancouver

Not if betting has
already started on a
menu, But it would be
fine prior to releasing a
new menu.

Erwin Schneider

West Vancouver

I don’t think they should
be able to, Sumeone
obviously didn't do their
research.

dennie Bolza

North Vancouver

! agree that Caxpayers
shouldn't support lottery
losses, and they should
have been well orga-
nized. I would have

Olga Locke

North Vancouver

Not if they're (the lot-
tery corp.) in for the
gamble. If they're going
to play the game, they
should follow the rules

a day bo court =o

THE FOLLOWING people
appeared in North and West
Vancouver courts recently to face
various charges:

Before Judge Bill Rodgers in
North Vancouver provincial court
on Sept. 28:

Robert Evernden, 51, of North
Vancouver, was fined $350 after he
pleaded guilty to driving without due
care and attention near the intersec-
tion of Mount Seymour Parkway
and Riverside Drive on July 20.

eon

_. Beau Payne, 21, of North
Vancouver, was fined $400 after he
pleaded guilty to the following
charges stemming from July 9 inci-
dents in North Vancouver District:
@ failing to produce written informa-
tion after being a driver involved in a

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@ driving without a valid licence.

Before Judge Bill Rodgers in
Worth Vancouver provincial court
on Sept. 27:

Patrick Wade Wright, 27, of
North Van, was fined $300 after he
pleaded guilty to assaulting a male
April 30 in North Vancouver City.

Before Judge Bill Rodgers in
North Vancouver provincial court
on Sept. 26:

Erich Gustav Reisen, 25, of North
Vancouver, was fined $100 after he
pleaded guilty to driving without a
valid licence on May 4 in North
Vancouver District.

Gary James Rodman, 19, of
North Vancouver, was fined $350
after he was found guilty of carrying

a concealed weapon on Oct. 26,
1993 in North Vancouver District.

A black pellet gun was ordered
forfeited to the Crown. Rodman was
prohibited from possessing firearms,
ammunition or explosives for five
years,

Before Judge Jerome Paradis
in North Vancouver provincial
court on Sept. 26:

Pasquale Ciambrelli, 62, of North
Vancouver, received six months’
prebation after he pleaded guilty to
assaulting a female on Sept. 2 in
North Vancouver City.

John Matthew Steel, 55, of North
Vancouver, was fined $750 after he
was found guilty of assaulting a
female on May !8 in North
Vancouver District.

been annoyed if | was
playing.

they set in the begin-
ning.

Whistler mayor
seeks Liberal spot

B.C. LIBERAL party West
Vancouver-Garibaldi chairman
Sonja Sanguinetti announced
recently that the riding is the first
to have selected a candidate for
the next provincial election since
the party’s freeze on nomina-
tions was lifted at the end of
September.

Ted Nebbeling, the mayor of
Whistler, is uncontested for the
nomination and will be formally
appointed Nov. 22 at the Furry
Creek golf course clubhouse
near Squamish.

The riding’s current MLA
David Mitchell left the Liberal
party to sit as an independent.

Said Sanguinetti, “Ted has
worked tirelessly to attract capa-
ble ‘people to his team and sign
up hundreds of new party sup-
porters in the riding and we are
all now anxiously awaiting the
opportunity to defeat the NDP
government and restore fiscal
responsibility to the province.”

Prior to becoming mayor of
Whistler in 1990, Nebbeling
served as a council member.

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