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By PAT RICH

- The provincial’ govern- ment will consider using only

part of the North Vancouver .

Secondary School site for a courthouse complex. ;

And City council -will be trying to find any way it can to save the remainder of the site and retain the gym- nasium, playing fields and tennis courts.

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But time is running out as the British Columbia Building Corporation’s

option to buy the whole site from the school board, with all buildings levelled, runs out July 31.

These were the main conclusions of a public meeting held Wednesday night to discuss the future of the NVSS site.

About 40 local residents met with representatives of BCBC, the NV_ School Board, and members of City council, and voiced almost unanimous support for attempting to save some of the buildings on the site.

Members of BCBC gave a presentation in which they outlined their proposed plans for the site.

Residents were told a two storey courthouse complex consisting of four cour- trooms, accomodations for judges, offices, and parking are planned.

The complex with parking would take up 2.85 acres, according to the proposed plan, leaving an area of about 1.5 acres upon which BCBC said housing is planned to be built.

Numerous members of the

public said they were op-

to any housing on the

site, and building the houses

would necessitate rezoning the area.

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People are not objecting to the courthouse, they are objecting to the use of the other land,’ said Mrs Webb, a local resident.

In answer to questions concerning. the rezoning, Ed Robinson, the vice-president of BCBC, said the cor- poration would be willing to buy the site even if they could not get part of the land rezoned for housing.

Yes we would. buy the property,” he said. ‘Exer- cising our option (to buy the land) is independent of our applying to council for rezoning.”

The meeting then moved

on to the issue of the

levelling of all the buildings on the site.

City council had already passed a motion before the meeting, to try and retain the gymnasium, tennis courts and playing fields.

‘Would you consider buying less of the provided we can work out the parking you need and the

space you require,’ Alderman Gary Payne asked Robinson?

*Yes,’ Robinson replied.

City council was questioned as to whether they would be willing to buy

the remaining land and preserve the recreational facilities,

‘Having counted the votes of council members present, it appears City council would work hard to see if they could get the funds for it," Mayor Jack Loucks said.

The next step in the process will be for BCBC representatives and City council to meet and sec if things can be worked out in terms of city by-laws.

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In order to build the courthouse on a smaller site,

the City would have to work.

out exemptions for the complex so some parking could be located elsewhere on a shared basis, and other by-law regulations would have to be relaxed.

‘There are going to be more meetings and decisions are going to have to be made,’ Loucks said.

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At this stage they called in _RCMP bomb disposal ex- * perts who dismantled the contraption at West Van- couver Police headquarters.

Police say the incendiary device was built out of model rocket engines, radio parts and a switch and had | been designed to explode ; z ‘from it its own heat.

. Detectives involved were Ron Denney, who led the investigation along with John

Looije; and Constable David Weaving.

The bomb device was discovered at about 11:45 a.m. and by 4 p.m. a juvenile had been taken into custody.

He was later charged with possessing an explosive

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Police maintain. it is the same youth who -was responsible -for the: firebombing attacks on: Gleneagles. School earlie this year.

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For those offences he was

hours of community’ work” and make restitution of $600 damage.

Police allege the youth was spotted by a Woodward's security officer who saw him acting suspiciously and- suspected he might be a shoplifter. The security © officer is reported to have . seen him place the package - in the store and then leave.

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Police hunt for grabber

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It is the fourth such attack reported to the RCMP sincé ‘April and ‘the assaults have occurred about every three . weeks.

One of the assaults took place at the roof car parking level. In each case the women have resisted and the grabber has fled immediately after the incident.

Police are on the lookout for a man aged 25-28, 5 ft. 5

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in. to 5 ft. 7 in. tall, who has blond hair in a style over his ears. Thursday he was wearing a long sleeved tan. shirt and matching pants.

A police spokesman said of Thursday’s assault: “It would appear similar to.ones

that have happened there before.. He touched her breasts, which is similar to the other incidents.

“All have been at Capilano Mali. and they're all very similar:“All happened in the _ elevators.”

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