Friday, December 28. 1990 - North Shore News - 5

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MARTHA STURDY JEWELLERY 16 West Sth Avenue

NE W. Van home
WS FIRE DAMAGED A West Van-
courer hame Dee. 23
ar aed West Vancouver District Pre
nd Departinent firetivhters were calle
"=. ed to SES Mathers Ave. ar 5:39
ae am. Chey found the roet oof a
ae house on fire.
e Two firefighters were hurt baal:
ccuse dna ers ine the blaze when one fell from
the roof and another injured his
a back on rock.
a ear In t The house was under renovation
pp cour at the time. Investigators believe
. the fire, which caused between
FOUR GF the seven people charged with various offences in $30,000 and $40,000 in damage,
connection with the weekend kidnapping of the daughter of West may have orginated in a
Vancouver millionaire Jim Pattison are to appear in North Van- bathroom.
couver provincial court today.
Chad Karl Dafoe, 19, of Richmond appeared briefly in court
Thursday morning. He was remanded in custody for another day ‘ r . gS ety AI Ee oe
untit the prosecution and defence are prepared for a hearing to . cas Axed eB),
determine whether Dafoe should be remain in custody until a = " Og: : f,
trial. He is charged with possession of stolen property. :
Three 16-year-old male youths still in custody, who are charged
with crimes ranging from kidnapping and unlawful confinement
to possession of stolen: property, are scheduled to appear in court
today. A female youth was released Sunday night.
Also charged in connection with the event is Chadwick Shayne
Mulvahill, 21, of no fixed address and Sheldon Frederick Kwan,
18, of North Vancouver.
Pattison’s daughter, Cynthia Kilburn, 30, was kidnapped from
her home Dec. 21 and later released after a £200,000 ransom was
paid.
LIONS GATE Hospital switched back to using natural gas Mon-
day morning after cold temperatures forced the hospital to use oil
last week.
Neil Kool, LGH director of plant services, said the hospital was
on oil for six days and added ‘‘it cost us a lot of money.”*
“The cost of using natural gas is about half the cost of using
oil,” said Kool, who was unabic to put a price tag on the amount
of money spent by the hospital to use oi.

tusrt Davis

mas lights after

8.C. Hydro appealed to the public to cut down on power con-

sumption during the cold weather. The extensive display annual-
ly attracts visi:ors to his West Vancouver home.

Pattison turns off light
display to save electricity

AN APPEAL last week by B.C. Hydro asking residents to
cut down on their power consumption during the recent
cold spell, shut down the extensive Christmas light display
at Jim Pattison’s West Vancouver home for a while.

Pattison’s Christmas lights have "

become a traditional festive fix. By Michaei Becker

ture. The light display dominates News Reporter

the night-time North Shore skyline

every Christmas season and is eas-

ily visible beyond Burrard Inlet. display 22 years ago at the request
“Hydro made a public address of the widow of Fred Hume, a

to reduce energy, and so I just former Vancouver and New

shut off our lights to try and do
our part. We shut them down the
day Hydro requested that
everyone conserve encrgy,”” said
Pattison.

Pattison has been decorating his
home with an claborate display of
lights for the past 22 years. This
year he had approximately 14,000
lights up. Tt took three weeks to
install the display, which — has
become a popular destination
point for Christmas light’ wat-
chers.

Pattison said he began the

Westminster mayor who lived at:
Sentinel Hill and then shortly at
the address where Pattison now
lives.

“He was an electrical contrac-
tor. So he started lighting — his
house up on Sentinel Hill. And
then he moved to the area that
I'm in now, although the house
was quite different. He died right
after he moved in. When [ bought
the house from his widow, she
specifically asked me to keep the
Christmas lights. And | said 1
would.””