BRIEFS Blaze destroys N. Van house FIRE DESTROYED » Squamish Band home Saturday North Vancouver Distvict Fire Departmen: firefighters were called to a house at 462 Chiet Jimmy Harry Dr just after 4 p.m. North Vancouver ROME are investigating the cause of the fire. According ¢: 3: fire department spokesman, witnesses saio thes saw childrev ruaning tran the garage of the bouse before the fire broke out. ing with matches He saic: othe: witnesses reportes seeing childrer play- NV man guilty of assault, mischief A 28-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man was sentenced Sept. 5 te un total of five months in jail for various assault and mischier charges. Leonard Bruce Preeper was given a four-month jail term after he pleaded guilty in North Vancouver provincial court to charges laid against him in connection with an Aug. 19 incident. Preeper was chargec’ with assaulting u man. mischiel $1,000 for damaging « holiday travet trailer. under and mischiet over In addition to the four-month sentence. Preeper was handed another month iu jaii after he pleaded guilty to assaulting thai same woman it an earlier incident on July 27. Judge A. McKenzie ' t | | { $1,000 for damaging » woman's car. { recommended that Preeper serve his | sentence at the Allouette River Unit. Voters undecided, MOST NORTH Shore residents wouldn't know who to vote for if a provincial election were to be called tomorrow A telephone survey of 466 resi- dents conducted last Wednesday by the North Shore News indicates that a whopping 43 per cent of those polled are undecided. Or those committed, 2¢ per cent woula vote Socred. 14 per cent woulda support the NDP. about five per cent would vote Liberal and just under two per cent would vote for other politica’ parties. About three per cent of those polled said they would no. vote at all. When compared with the numbers revealed’ in i similar News poll conducted during the 1986 provincia: election campaign, lasi week’s polit result; show Socred suppori has slipped 10 per cent while NDP suppor’ 1s up by four per cent. In October 1986, 34 pet cent of residents contacted indicated they would vote Socia! Credit. Ten per cent said they would vote NDP. three per cen. Libera: ana one per cent said they woula suppor: other parues Bur the majority. remained undecided. The three incumbent Socred MLA. went on to sweep the North Shore ridings in 1986 North Vaneouver-Capiiano MEA Angus Ree said he isn't surprised by the high number of undeesded voters in the lates. poll results “To othink they woula firm. up more inte an election People aren't faced with a deersior now. Ang people that are tree enter prisers respect then privacy about pohics ana generally won’. tell you © Ree sad Meanwhile §2 per cent, some pundits are to poll By Michael Becker News Reporter speculating that last Thursday's massive NDP win in Ontario will give Premier Bill Vander Zalm se- cond thoughts about considering. a fall election. But said Ree. ‘Governments are voted out. not voted in’ i guess what happened in Ontane 1s very akin to what happened here in 1972. The NDP got abou the same percentage — noi an over- whelming majority, but the way the distribution is, they got the seats. i don’: know whether tt will or not have a bearing fon an elec- tion call in B.C.” North Vancouver Lonsdale NDP candidate David Schreck said the latest News poll results are consistent with past election results. But said Schreck. who began door-to-door campuening on North Vancouver-Lonsdale at the end of August, ‘‘From what i see in North Vancouver-Lonsdale. the results would be considerably dit ferent. | fully expecs i te be oa close race between Soci! Credi and NDP in Lonsdale. The other three ridings have traditionally had very) strong Soci Credv votes “Tn terms of the {undeeidec votes). what happeneu in Ontano shows that those ‘dor - know ould be tolks whe are dissasttties ane would vote noir proportion te ‘the deerdeds bur will vote er masse for change And. think that ridings Jike Wes: Vaneouver-Garbald) and even North Vancouver-Sevmour could go NDP vt people belive un Brit- ish Columb the was thes behas ed in Ontario © Schreck satd ‘don knows 2° S59 Cm De PY - | sFormely West. Coast 11 Veodt@n Mais) > an a y- Wednesday September %2 1SSC - North Shore News - BACK TO FITNESS. 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