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CHRIS Wynick (foreground) joined ringette player Melanie Thomas (behind) and soft to right West Van Mayor Ron Wood and councillors Victor Durman, John Clark and Bi!l Saprovich to break ground last Wednesday for the ice arena upgrade.

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Marcie Good Contributing Writer No. 153 is gaining momentum.

Sulla long way fram its, former lite Gn the streets of North Vancouver, the restored electriy Gir is gener ating energy --- at feast in theor

The streetcar, which tra- versed Lonsdale Avenue for decades, is currently stored under the stadium in Mahon Park. North Vancouver City Mayor Barbara’ Sharp, as reported ina News story on Feb. 27, now wants to get it up and running.

North Vancouv council gave the on March 6 agreed to have their

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ory Committee look at the issue.

“Because

District aoa nod when they

there was a streetcar system in the district, I] would like to

expand that idea and see if

we can do something our- selves,” said Coun. Ernie Crist, who suggested sup- porting the city in any initia- tive to bring back the street- car. He pointed out that the electric cars are silent, pollu- tion-free, and beautiful to look at.

No. 153 is a fine exampie in those terms. Impre

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CITY mayor Ba-hara Sharp: ali kinds of peo- ple want to be involved

restored by retired architect Bob Booth and. shipwrights Carl Andersen and Stephen Ley, the tragedy of the street- car is that it has languished in solitary storage since 1991. The North Vancouver streetcar syste ed operating in’ 1906, had refines — one up ale to Windsor Road, ston First Street pro- ceeding to Grand Boulevard and Lynn Valley Road, and one west on First and ending up at 25th Street and Capilano. The last streetcar ceased operating in 1947, as the city wanted to make way for automobiles and buses. As it was for decades, Crist pointed out, revamped

THE following people have appeared in North Vancouver provincial court:

Before Judge William Diebolt on Jan. 31:

Karen Ann Beyers, 38, of North Vancouver, was jailed four months and received 18 months’ probation after she pleaded guilty to defrauding a woman of money on March 8, 1999 in North Vancouver.

Beyers was required to pay $370 restitution to London Drugs.

The jail sentence was rec- ommended served by elec- tronic monitoring.

Before Judge William Diebolt on Jan. L1:

Maurice Roland Therrien 33, of New Westniinster, was jailed three months, received two years’ probation and had his driver’s licence suspend for 12 months after he plead-

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streetaars could: be an inte- gral part of the North Shore Transportation. system.

x Don Bell the North Shore representative to TransLink, conceded that the idea has “a certain apy and suggested hav- ing TPAC took further into it.

Coun. Doug MaeKay- Dunn pointed out other ben- efits, such as how it could draw tourists and increase pedestrian traffic to the SeaBus at the bottom of Lonsdale Avenue.

A study commissioned by the city in November 199] estimated thar ic would cost $75,000 a vear to operate one streetcar. That figure was based on operating the car seven hours every day of the week, and could: be lower if volunte ed in to help.

Lots of those are already pledging their support, says Mayor “Barbara Sharp. She was pleased to hear of the district's endorsement of the idea.

“it's unbelievable,” she said. “All kinds of people have be:n phoning and say- ing, ‘I want to be involved.”

vor Don Bell put the topic of the streetcar on the meeting scheduled for Tuesday night for all five North Shore municipalities to discuss TransLink’s strate - gic plan.

ed guilty to:

& driving while prohibited on the Sea-To-Sky Highway in West Vancouver on Oct. 15, 1998,

§ possessing a stolen licence plate ;

@ obstructing a West Vancouver Police constable; Mi failing to go to court on Dec. 15, 1999;

@ driving while prohibited on Adanac St in Vancouver on Nov. 28, 1998;

BB assaulting a woman on Sept. 25, 1999 in Coquitlam.

Before Judge Bill Rodgers on Nov. 8, 1999:

David Glenn Hurst, 41, of no fixed address, was jailed two months after he pleaded guilty to committing mischief by damaging a vehi- cle’s roof and window . between March 31, 1999 and April 4, 1999 in West Vancouver.

Before Judge 3 c JK. Shaw on Oct. 13, 1999:

Daniel James ‘Hawkins, 20, of North Vancouver, received 24 months’ pro tion after he pleaded guilty to possessing stolen hockey cards on Sept. 11, 1998 in North Vancouver City. ,

Hawkins was required to perform 50 hours of coim- munity work.

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Anthony Fitzgerald, Bruce, no age available, of Vancouver, was jailed 60 days after he pleaded guilty

a breaching a Young Offenders Act probation order by failing to live where directed in July 1999; @ breaching pr obation by failing to report to a proba- tion officer in September 1999; =z breaching probstion by being found in area bordered by Cambie, Gore and Pender streets on Oct. 8, 1999.