West Van: eniployees, ‘he.
said, would: eventually -
receive the same setilement

as, Vancouver employees. 7

He. suggested strike action
‘was therefore unnecessary.
:'sMembers of the West Van
Municipal Employees .
Association picketed the

Blue Buses for the first three
days of the week, leaving

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. Andrew Riddell, a Grade 10 student at Argyle echndary. Andrsw hadto ' Other’ events to help raise money for athletic. programs. sinlade agri
eat the chocolate cream ple without using warts fork. It was but one of race and a water halloon throwing contest. (Ellswo

lud geoning trial winding up

A jury -will consider
this week whether a
man charged with the’
_hlndgeoning death of
+ two North Vancouver
residents is guilty of

second degree murder.

The B.C, Supreme Court
jury of nine men and three
women was expected to
begin deliberations Friday
on the murders, Auguat 12,
of Wendy Bourne and David
van Wild Rode, both aged

For the. past two weeks,
Robert ‘Barker, aged 23, of
North Vancouver,.has been
on trial for what happened at
894 Frederick Road, in Lynn
Valley, where- Bourne and
Rode were discovered
beaten to death with a metal
baseball bat.

Barker has denied: killing
the couple. ,

He teéstified that he
discovered the bodies of his
former fiancee and her new
boyfriend when he visited
the home shortly after 5 a.m.
and found the door ajar.

He said. that he returned
later and doused ‘the bodies
and. the room in’ which the
bodies were: found,.-with a
can of-gasoline, because he
feared if he reported the
crime he would be regarded
as the prime suspect.

Police. arrested and
charged: Barker .a few days
after the bodies were
discovered.

Prosecutor Don Sorochan
said Thursday in his sum-
mation to the jury that
Barker could have been up

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