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Vancouver - youth has been
charged with being
responsible- for three armed

robberies at corner grocery
stores.

He is accused of the
February 17 and March 3

A boat owner who decidea

_ to take his craft out at about

1 a.m. Monday got into
more trouble than he could
handle before he had even
left the dock.

‘The 18 ft.

fibreglass
outboard

corner.

_A 16-year-old North.

Superette store,

was areal

robberies of the Delbrook

Delbrook, North. Van-
couver, and the March 29

_ robbery of Hardy's Grocery.

RCMP .-say total cash
stolen in the three holdups
amounted to about $424 and

lis

Started up the motor and let

it run for a while to warm it’

up.

But as he climbed off the
boat to release the mooring
lines a fire started in an
electrical wiring junction at
the front end..

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store holdups |

that

a C02 pistol was
recovered. in connection -
with the investigation.

Police had suspected all
three robberies were
committed by the same
person and arrested the
youth Tuesday.

ster

larger fire- extinguisher. By
the time he returned he had
a full-sized fire to contend

with.

That was’ when North
Vancouver District Fire
Department was called and

Hound Dog was. moored "at

-Deep Cove Marina and

owner Osmo Halme, of 4431
Cambridge Street, Burnaby,

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Lynn Canyon suspension
bridge is open again

It only took one night to
bring it down but it took
more than three weeks and
$10,000 to put it back up
again.

The only free suspension
footbridge in North
America, which spans Lynn
reopened. again.

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busiest weekend of tie year.

And after being closed
since July 8 by a vandal who
sabotaged the bridge by
sawing through one of the
steel syspension cables, the.
bridge could well be in for
use by record numbers this

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weekend, Lynn Canyon's..

weekend, with people
wanting to test it out.

At the time the cable was
cut, parks staff wondered.
just how the bridge would be
rebuilt — whether a new
cable would be fired across

the ravine and then hooked
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As it turned out, the repair
experts took neither course.
They let off the slack on the
broken cable, clamped the
two sections together so the
bridge was then back upright
and could be walked upon
and then a new cable was
winched across.

VOLKSWAGEN ENGINE FIRE

Van burns out in N. Van

Firemen used three dif-
ferent types of fire ex-
tinguishers on a van blaze in
North Vancouver early
Tuesday evening and by the
time they'd put it out the van
had to be towed away even
tw make it to the ICBC
centre.

The fire started in
engine compartment
197) Volkswagen van owncd
by Donald Tracey, of 812

East 13th Street, while it was
on the 500 block East Keith

Road.

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of a

The new cable is about
one and five-cighths inches
thick and is a little heavier
duty than the previous one.

A parks spokesman said
‘that both cables on the

suspension bridge are more .

8 bly
thinner cables would also be
able to do the job.

The thick cables are more
than is required and their
value is largely
psychological to give
confidence to users of the
bridge.

North Van City” Fire
Department responded to
the call with a pumper anda
inini-pump and tackled the
blaze with a dry chemical
extinguisher, CO2 and
water. It is thought the fire
may have started from a gas
leak.

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Halme tried tackling it
‘with a small fire extinguisher
but the blaze quickly took
off and he went to get a

—by the time the blaze was out
the boat was still floating but
was a write-off and boats
moored on either side had
beendamaged by heat.

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