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48 Pages

Racing
bike
returns

Andrew McCredie

Editer
andrew@nsnews.com

ALISON Sydor is
accustomed to the
highs and lows of
international
competition.

Last
Thursday, the
three-time
mountain
bike — world
champion
had that
steely resolve
tested. And
she —s wasn’t
even in
race. ,

North
Vancouver
tider’s — cus-
tomized
Cannondale racing bike was
stolen from in front of the
Mountain Equipment Co-Op
store on West Broadway in

_ Vancouver. The bike, featuring a
“prototype aluminum frame, tita-

-nium-spoked wheels and disc
brakes, was locke

“I went in the store for just
five minutes, came out and it was
gone,” Sydor said an hour after
the bike vanished. “With four
World Cups in Europe coming
up, it’s really bad timing.”

With both Vancouver dailies
not publishing on Good Friday,
and Sydor scheduled to hop on a
plane to Europe Saturday, the
31-year-old scemed resigned to
the fact that she’d be heading to
Portugal! without her bike, which
has been estimated to be worth
over $5,000.

This was the fow point.

Just over 24 hours later, how-
ever, came the unexpected high
point,

“Somebody bought it down-
town ina bar, saw (the story) on

Alison Sydor
has reason
to smile.

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NV tennis s

Martin Mitlerchip

News Reporter
miller@nsnews.com

ADVANTAGE, indoor tennis.

Months of lobbying paid off last week when

North Vancouver District Council unanimously -

agreed to consider a zoning amendment that
will allow the construction of a year-round facil
ity for the summer sport.

However, the price tag has risen by
$500,000 from what was originally forceast.

The proposed site is a di
the southeast corner of West
Lloyd Avenue.

The castern Norgate site backs onto MacKay

ird Street and

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North Vancouver District
approves funds for new
Norgate-area facility

*reck and is located across from the BC Transit
garage used by West Vancouver’s Blue Bus sys-
tem.

The recreation commission first identified
the need for an indoor tennis facility in the 1991
Parks and Recreation master plan.

District voters approved the borrowing of
$1.5 million for a four-court tennis faeili
part of ihe massive 1996 referendum ¢

But getting plans for the courts ting

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taken longer than expected.

Other options existed for the Third and
Lloyd lot. Council delayed any decision while
Lo Capilano residents studied potential
recreation and community centre sites in their
neighborhood.

Meanwhile, a newly-formed North Shore
Indvor Tennis Centre Association (NSITCA}
took over temporary operation of the tennis
bubble at the old CapWest Country Club
owned by Larco Investments Lid.

Based on its experience running the bubble
N ‘A pressed council to’ consider covering
six courts in a permanent facility at Third and
Lloyd.

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