AND WEST VANCOUVER aa CABLE OPTIONS North Shore's Shaw Cable taking different approach to Rogers in the introduction of ST. ROCH RCMP auxiliary schooner an display at January 6,1995 48 pages Mside tne news 66 When organization meets anarchy, anarchy _ always wins. You learn so many life lessons at a thing like this. GD 77 West Vancouver councillor . Andy Danyliu on surviving the Polar Bear swim (Trevor © Lautens column page 6). — =: Pl AY rT 3 2 Classified. ...enccucu..19 6 tiome & Gardon..........9 Inside Stories. “Bi Mailbox ‘5 North Shore Alert.......4 W Sunshine Girl.....-...8 @ TY Listings.................14 ' i Weekly Real Estate - section: 25-48 @ Learning about interior . design: 9 _ Weather Saturday: increasing cloudiness High 4°C, Low -5°C. Bano new specialty channels. 6 ae al Display Advertising 980-0511 maritime museum. Distribution 986-1337 25¢ NEWS photo Cindy Goodman WITH HIS timely birth at 12:25 a.m. Jan. 1, 3.2-kg (7 lbs.) Zack Blakeman became the North Shore’s first baby of the New Year. Joining him at his home just before nap time are proud parents Trish and Bob Blakeman and three-year-old sister Emmi, Giri, 16, escapes return to A 16-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver girl is back home with her family after her former Vancouver pimp abducted and threatened her on Dec. 30 near the youth centre at Ron Andrews recreation centre in North Vancouver District. By Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter The teen told the police that she was accosted by a group of males in a blue Honda outside the youth centre while she was smoking a cigarette. One of the males was using a cellular phone. According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, the girl's former pimp, aged 17, pulled up shortly after in a Pontiac Grand Am. The North Vancouver teenager had been working as a prostitute for the pimp since she was 13. The pimp is. under age 18 and cannot be identified as stipulated by the Young Offenders Act. , A North Vancouver RCMP spokesman said the girl entered the pimp’s car because “she had previous dealings with him” which included beatings. The pimp threatened to kill the girl's family and boyfriend. He stated that he “had the ways and means” to stage a home invasion at the girl's residence. The teenager said she was driven to Broadway Avenue and Clark Drive in Vancouver, where the pimp ordered her to start turning tricks, claim police. The pimp also told her she had to check in with him every half hour to make sure she was stil working the streets. If she didn’t call. the pimp said he would kill her and her family. , The teenager had left the pimp seven months earlier after bringing in “quite a bit” of money for the pimp through prostitution. Meanwhile on Broadway. the girl hid in a store and said she saw the pimp drive by several times looking for her. The girl called her father, who picked her up. The girl is a witness ina case involving one of the pimp’s associates who is charged with living off the avails of prostitution. The charged associ- ate is also under age 18 and cannot be identified. The pimp was arrested in Vancouver after the girl phoned the Nonh Vancouver RCMP from prostitution trade her home. The pimp is charged with living off the avails of prostitution, exercising control over a person under the age of 18 for the purpose of prostitu- tion and threatening. The pimp is on probation for three separate criminal convictions: possessing stolen property, obstructing police and taking an auto without the owner's consent. The pimp also has a court-ordered weapons prohibition, but the police claim that he carries an ice pick to back up his threats, . The pimp has four robbery convictions. He was (3 when he was convicted of his first rob- bery. His criminal record also includes convic- tions for theft over and under.$1,000, assaults, possession of stolen property. escaping lawful custody and the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. Police suspect the pimp is responsible for recruiting other North Vancouver girls as prosti- tutes. The North Vancouver RCMP are concerned that the pimp may commit a violem crime if he is released from jail. He has been remanded in cus- ' tody until Jan. 9, when a decision on whether to keep him in jail will be made.