Clash over park: 3

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* March 3, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 . Circulation 986-1337 52 pages 25¢

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TWO MEN charged with the December 21 rob-
bery of a North Vancouver bank have been sent
to trial after a day-long preliminary hearing here

Thursday.

Ronald: Cardinal and
Keith Pelkey, accused of
carrying out the robbery,
will see a‘date for their trial
on the charges set sometime
next week...

Four witnesses appeared

for the Crown at Thursday’s
heaving, describing the rob-
bery and the actions of two
men in assisting police in
making arrests near the
Bank of Commerce at First
and Lonsdale.

Acccording to David Reid,
one of the two, he stood in
line with a man he identified

as Cardinal and chatted with
him for 10 minutes just be-
fore the robbery.

“He seemed like a really
nice guy — 1! was kind of
shocked,’ Reid said after
testifying he overheard the
man warn the teller he was
armed and then demand
money.

Reid said he followed
Cardinal from the bank,
across Lonsdale and into a
nearby alley.

“I was scared I could be

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‘Pelkey,

identified as knowing what
he looked like, so I kept my
distance,’’ Reid said.

Reid watching from 50
feet away as the man in the
alley switched jackets witha
second man, identified as
and turned the
money over to him. When
they separated, Reid trailed
Pelkey, and wrestled him to
the ground.

When the man was pinned
to the sidewalk, Reid yelled
to passer-by Leonard Beck

to grab the other man.

Beck testified he walked
up to the man and asked him
to return to the scene. The
man ignored the request’ and
walked into a nearby hotel
where the arrest was made.

Evidence submitted by
prosecutor Wallace included
a gun, jackets, money re-
covered at the time of the
arrest and a record of mark-
ed bills that are said to have
been included in the almost
$2,000 given the robber.

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As well as testimony by
Reid and Beck, the court
heard from RCMP members
and two bank teilers.

Defense lawyers Tony
Allen and Dimitri Kontou
questioned witnesses on their
identification of Cardinal
and Pelkey but called tio
witnesses of their own.

‘The purpose of the pre-
liminary hearing is to deter-
mine if there is enough
evidence to send a case to a
full trial.

City to

join
trash
fight?

THE DISTRICT of
North .Vancouver,
already facing criticism

over its decision to
close the Premier Street
landfill by the end of
this year, may find
trouble from a
neighbor over the issue
Monday.

A motion going to North
Vancouver City council
Monday night, if approved,
would see the City come out
against the planned closure
and Mayor Jack Loucks
directed to inform = the
Greater Vancouver Sewerage
and Drainage District of the
lack of support.

The motion is similar to
those approved by Van-
couver and Delta councils,
who are basing their opposi-
tion to the closure on the
fact that North Shore gar-
bage would then have to be
hauled to the Burns Bog
landfill in Delta.

Opposition is also bused
on the draft plan of the
Lower Mainland Refuse
which recommends
the Premier Street site be left
open until at least October . °
of 1986. .