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rules on
fraud

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A 23-year-old for-
mer bank teller +
stole $265, 291
($180,000 U

from her employer
walked out of court
on Wednesday with
a conditional sen-

tence.

Elizabeth Ross, of no tixed
address, pleaded guilty to
defrauding the Parkgate
branch of the Bank of
Montreal in June 1998.

North Vancouver provin-
cial court Judge Reginald
Grandison sentenced her to a
conditional sentence of two
years less a dav.

She was required to f
$5,000 restitution to her tf
mer employ

Her take in the fraud was
$36,000 ($24,000 US). She
admitted to giving $10,000
US of it to someone to fund a
marijuana grow operation or

“another criminal act™ as the
judge put it.

Ross returned $11,700 US

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Angeia MacKenzie

Contributing Writer

AN overwhelming majority of West
Vancouver residents who spoke Wednesday
at a public meeting pleaded with councillors
and district staff to get on with building a
proposed $6 million western recreation cen-
tre near Gleneagles golf course.

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In contrast to a meeting held by the G
Ratepayers Association (GARA) last week, the majority of the
41 residents who spoke at Wednesday's meeting, at Gleneagles
elementary school strongly supported the realignment” of
Marine Drive to make way for a new ree centre.

The Marine Drive realignment proposal has been the centre
of boisterous debate among West Vancouver residents.

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250 residents packed into the school gym that he hoped they
would put aside their differences and look towards a common

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Keith Bower, vice-president of GARA, has b a strong
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mittee that public consultation about the Gleneagles corridor
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