NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP have identified one of the two wonien whose bodies were discovered last week off In- dian River Road near the base of Mount Seymour, Staff Set. Tom Hill said Mon- day the woman discovered in a police search of the area has been identified as Karen Ann Baker, 20, a Vancouver exotic dancer. Originally from Kamloops, Baker was last seen in Vancouver in mid-September. “We have no suggestion she was a prostitute,’’ Hill said. The other woman, described as 22 to 26 years old, about 1.5 metres tall (five feet, three inches), weighing 49.5 kilograms (110 BC Transit BARRING Reporter pounds), with fine features, dark brown short hair and teeth in ex- cellent condition, remains uniden- tified. North Vancouver police have so far released no information about when the woinen = were killed. Cause of death of both women is still unknown, Hill said. Police said Jast week they believed neither of the women was ae By Lisa Marie Morrison, 21, a Seattle prostitute missing from Vancouver since March. “But we're not totally ruling anybody out until we've got her {the remaining woman) iden- tified,”* said Hill of the body discovered in the bush Dec. t4. The nation-wide search to establish the other woman's identi- ty is continuing using dental re- cords, Hill said. Baker was iden- ufied through dental records. Fingerprints will also be used to identify the woman, found in isolated bush. ‘If she has a fcrim- inal) record they will be on file,’’ said Hill. NEWS phato Neil Lucente SANTA CLAUS was caught without his rein¢éeer during a pre-Christmas Eve run on the North Shore last week. Tonight, of course. Santa will make his rounds going from house to house delivering gifts to good boys and girls. 3 - Wednesday, December 24, 1986 — North Shore News INDEX Auto ........0.. Business ..... Classified Ads.. Doug Collins. Comics Editorial Page. Bob Hunter... Lifestyles .... Mailbox... ... Sports...... TV Listings...... What's Going On. .. 1B FRONT PAGE PHOTO Meeting with Santa THE KINDERGARTEN class at Queensbury Elementary School visited Santa Claus recently at Japan Camera Centre ia Lynn Valley Centre. The five year olds walked the mail from their school. Pictured on Santa's knees are Kimberley Dunbar (left) kand Krista Tusko (right). Police refrain from making ord murder POLICE ARE retusing to speculate on the possibility that the murder of a North Vancouver woman found in Van- couver Friday is linked to the murders of two women discovered last week near Indian River Road at the base of Mount Seymour. North Vancouver RCMP Staff Set. Tom Hill said Monday infor- mation has been requested from Vancouver. He refused to discuss possible links in the murders. “It’s a litle early to say ‘Yes, she is tied in,’ or ‘No, she is not tied in’ (to the Seymour deaths),”’ Hill said of the death of Leah Ann Reynolds, 26. “We want to know about that Reynolds’ death, too,’’ he added. On Friday, a group of children playing in Vancouver's East side discovered Reynolds’ body wrap- ped in a blanket beside a building at 447 East oth Avenue. “Apparently it (the body) had been there for some time,’’ Van- By STEPHEN BARRINGTON News Reporter couver Police Cst. Steven Pranzl said Monday. The cause of death is yet to be determined. Pranzl refused to say if the woman was a prostitute and ref- used to speculate on any link be- tween this body and the Mount Seymour bodies found. ‘‘We’re not releasing any information,’’ he said. Pranzl said he ‘tunderstands”’ Reynolds was from North Van- couver. ‘She lived at one time with her parents in North Van- couver,’’ he said. Water main closed for two more weeks REPAIRS TO the Capilano reservoir water main are still underway and officials warn it may be two weeks before the pipe can be used to pump water again. By STEPHEN BARRINGTON News Reporter Water officials used a special Greater Vancouver Water District chief engineer Art Purdon said Monday crews had finished filing a half-inch crack running around the entire pipe, which sup- plies water to the North Shore, downtown Vancouver and the West End. ‘*Now we have to wait four days for it to cure,"’ said Purdon. On Saturday, crews will start to pump water out of the vertical pipe and add more filler. After the second application cures, the entire pipe will be fMlush- ed, he said. The origina 30-foot section of the main that burst early Dee. TE was repaired Dee. 12, but cracks were found farther down the system ina different pipe. Returning the system to its ca- pacity after the repairs are com- pleted will most likely take some tine, said GVWD operations su- perintendent Hans Krause. “Outside water has got in there,” Krause said. ‘‘E don't know how long it will take. but we will have to flush that out. That might take some time."* As well, the pipes will have to be disinfected to ensure the reopened water supply is mot tainted, said Krause. ‘Il would think it might take up to three days to flush it and a fourth day to disinfect it — about four to five days."" camera to search out further cracks in the line and the photographs show no added trou- ble with the 400-foot pipe, said Purdon. As well, he said similar tests in Stanley Park’s south shaft show no cracks. About 130 feet below ground, the crack in the north shaft marks the point the pipe meets bedrock. “ft's in that zone where you go in- to the rock,”’ he said. In service sinee 1933, the pipe has suffered a lot of stress from earthquakes and shifts in bedrock, he said, noting crews are working around the clock. When the main pipe section burst Dec. 11, health officials warned residents to boil their water to safeguard against possible bacteria entering the system. The warnings were lifted Dec. 16 when tests showed the water to be safe. Water diversion from the Capilano reservoir to the Seymour reservoir stirred up sediment in the pipes and in the reservoir, turning lap water murky. The GVWD is relying on water from North Vancouver’s Seymour reservoir.