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THE VOICE OF NORTH AN

COMBING FOR CLUES to the origin of a mystery fire last weekend at a
luxury West Vancouver home ander construction (see insert) are West
Van's Chief Fire Prevention Officer Art Ridley with W. Norman of the

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Office of the Fire Commissioner. The blaze gutted one wing of the half-
completed watertront house at 4036 Marine Drive, destroying wall
framing and beams. Sce story page A5 (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

11-year-old attacked in Deep Cove

By PAT RICH

An tl-year-old_ girl
was raped Saturday
after a man led her
and a companion into a
secluded wooded area
of Myrtle Park in Deep

Cove.

Police are urgently
requesting any
trom the pubhe in con
nec fon with the incident

A North Vancouver

RCMP spokesman said that

assistance

shortly after 230 pm on
October 4 the two girls aged
nine and li “were enticed
into the woods at Myrtle
Park to look fora dog ”

The spokesman said a
man. unrelated to the in
cident, had offered a reward
to anybody finding = his
missing colle dog, and the
girls who had been playing in
the park went looking for the
dog

A man used this cxrcuse
the spokesman, said to lead
them into a secluded area at

the south end of the park
bounded by Seycove School
and Strathcona R vad

Here the girls were
threatencd and the = older
girl, a Vancouver resident,
was raped The younger girl,
from North Vancouver was
not molested

Kventually both girls were
then able to leave the arca,
and after the incadent was
reported a caxatensive search
of the arca was launched.

CONTINUED ON PAGE A2

Tougher
school

action
urged

By NOEL WRIGHT
and
AMANDA KING

Parents of
Vanconver'’s

West
Sentinel

_Schoof students want to

throw the book at a
minority of alcohol and
drug offenders'who last
year brought the
school’s social and
extra-curricular § ac-

tivities to a virtual halt.

They are backed by the
new school principal who
took over last month, but the’
West Vancouver School
Board is reluctant for the
moment to endorse the stern
measures they are
demanding.

Some 20 Sentinel parents
made it clear to the school
board at its Monday mecting
that apathy is no longer the
word now that Sentinel’s
new administration has
begun to revamp the school
spimnt) and plan aéionew
program of activities for the
coming year.

CONTINUED ON PAGE A4

WEDNESDAY,
Overcast in the morning,
becoming sumny
tm the afternoon.

THURSDAY,
Sunny whh a tew