News alert

NORTH SHORE residents are being warned about a
person posing as a North Shore News carrier whe has
been offering homeowners copies of the newspaper.

News distribution. manager Barb Emo suid the paper
recently received a report ofa person who knocked on a
resident’s door and offered the resident copies of the
newspaper,

When the homeowner told the person to feave the
paper at the door, the suspect Jeft the scene without
teaving 2 paper.

Shortly afterwards, the area's actual News carrier ar-
rived and lefts copy of the newspaper.

“North Shore News carriers have no reason to knock
on doors because the paper is given away free, so they
don't have to collect.

“We're asking people to be very careful out there,
’ especially at this time of year,"’ said Emo,

One caught

“CHARGES ARE pending’ against a teen after the North
Vancouver RCMP responded to 9 break-and-enter call in
_ the. 1100- -btock of Cloverly Street at 12:30 a.m. on Mon-
“day. t

Potice/said the victim of the break-and-enter awoke to
the/so nds of her dog scratching on her bedroom door.
‘When the woman opened the door, four males ran past
her and out the front door.

The victim managed to detain one of the suspects and
hold hirn until the police arrived.

“It was later learned the suspects broke through an in-
secure bottom floor window.
’ “Anyone with information regarding the incident is aske
ed to contact Const. Phil Simkin at 985-1311.

Youth, assaulted

WEST VANCOUVER Police . are searching for four
“males ‘after .an..18-year-old. West Vancouver man was
‘assaulted while sitting at a bus stop in the 2400-block of

‘+ Marine Drive in the early hours of Saturday, Dec. 11.
A;aolice spokesman said the four suspects approached
“the ‘victim and demanded eiiher money or cigarettes.
When. the victim “was unable to provide either, he was
‘assaulted.’ The -victim. received facial injuries as A result, -

“ofthe incident.”

nyone with information ‘regarding the incident is ask- :
Vancouver Folice Department at

In in a Dec. 13.fax he wrote:
“The district identifi ed the trees
that were to remain; the district. is

aware. that: after: construction the.

root systems of the trees nay have

dent courge of acl and that a pru-

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i of North Shore business: people to
: support the plan, in the interest of
“cutting, their own phone bills.’ But

he is content that the people have «

“spoken...”
OY: here was a” respectable voter
_ turnout,” he said. . ‘‘Probably
- better: than © the municipal elec-
tion.”
Pearmain says the vote was close
: enough’ that the phone company
may well re-examine the proposal,

‘amend. it and’ bring ‘it back for

another vote within two years.
But ‘BC: Tel communications

4 manager Norm Blain says this is:

followup it inspection: “with © ‘a

Friday, December 17, 1993 - North Shore News -

Damane to two British Properties homes investigated

WEST VANCOUVER
District Council voted Mon-
day to withhold a. blasting
permit from Pacific
Blasting. The move allows
municipal staff time to in-
vestigate previous blasts that
two British Properties resi-
dents claim resulted in dam-
age to their homes on King
Georges Way.

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

by Maureen Curtis

During the public question
period at the council meeting,
Walter Pernfuss and Mac Bird
said a previous blast, closer to
their homes, caused cracks to ap-
pear in the walls of their 27 and
37-year-old homes,

But Pacific Blasting’s blast
manager Scott Parker said the
blast Pernfuss and. Bird experi-
enced was controlled and emitted -

said

Pernfuss' home is the victim of
some other! ‘deep-seated
geotechnical problem" that has
also cracked the foundation and
patio stones and affected the trees
in the yard, Parker said.

He said there might have. oeen
some evidence of this problem
discovered during a pre-blast in-
spection carried out on the house
four or five years ago.

But Bird maintained
house is sturdily built.

Coun. Allan Williams was sym-
pathetic.

“If they're going to make the
terrain fit the house... they should
pay for it,’’ he said.

that his

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old where damage begins to occur.

Parker said the company has
probably already, ‘spent more
money in tests and on consultants
looking into the. claims than the
claims are worth. ‘ : .

Pacific Blasting is ‘concerned
about setting a precedent and is
upholding its conclusions, Parker

“revised ‘list of trees that. are to. be 3 7

maintained.
:“Your’ decision. not; to, do's so, 1

believe to be'reckless.

*"Your. decision ‘to trainsfer’ lias

’ bility. before such an assessment is

“undertaken: and. burden ‘the prop-
erty’ owner with’ the: costs of. an.

"assessment . when the district’ has
qualified staff is unconscionable,

as it would-only result in addi-
tional- expense to the owner who
wouid still require the the district's
permission on any course of ac-

_tion,’’ concluded Sinclair. :

>-introduce idea

unlikely,
‘We don’t have any plans at
‘ this point now the voters have
decided to retain the status quo.
“We're satisfied with the
results. That resolves the issue,’’
Blain said.

North Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce president Judi
‘Ainsworth says her chamber sup-
ported the toll-free area. But she,
too, -is philosophical about the
proposal’s defeat. “It’s like any
time there's a vote: You’ve got to
go. with what the people want,”’

; _ she said.

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Williams said that any cost
resulting. from blasting should be
borne by the blasting company or
the owners of the new house,
rather than the municipality.

Coun, Andy Danyliu. said
council should impose a
moratorium on the blasting until
the dispute between Pernfuss, Bird
and the blasting company is
resolved, > : ‘

When Coun. Diana Hutchinson
brought up the possibility of-lia-
bility resulting from refusing a
blasting permit without a limited,
time period, Mayor Mark Sager
suggested that the permit .be
withheld only until Dec. 20, when”

council can look at it again.

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