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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

north shore

summer

madness hits

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THE HOT weather seems to be affecting heads in West Van- couver, which ex- perienced a non-stop weekend of wild and rowdy parties, car. thefts and dozens of incidents of vandalism.

Police were stretched to straining point as_ calls poured in one after another, while crews on roadblock duty were also busy con- fiscating liquor from youngsters pouring onto beaches.

For one resident of Southridge Avenue, in the Westmount area, the weekend of mayhem started day carly, becoming a recurring nightmare.

Overnight Thursday-Fri- day his 1977 Pontiac Parisienne was stolen. He found the car dumped nearby at Southridge and Westmount Road.

Saturday night it hap- pened again, to his 1979 Cadillac, which was later found by police on Craig End.

Police are assuming it was taken by the same people who went on a rampage of

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weather

WEDNESDAY Mainly sunny

THURSDAY

Some cloud

same

BELL... quitting

BAKER... running

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BALL... fence-sitting

POWELL... mayor for two months

N. Van District's first woman mayor?

NORTH Vancoaver District council may well be chaired by its first-ever woman mayor as of November.

Mayor Don Bell Monday confirmed all the rumors that had been circulating in the past week and announced his resignation to take up a job as public affairs manager for Safeway. And his announcement was immediately followed up by one from Alderman Marilyn Baker that she would be resigning a ycar early to run for the mayor's chair.

Bell's carly resignation, of which the first suggestion was madc in last week's North Shore News, becomes” cffective Sep tember 21 — two months

before has present term of office is duc to end. Alderman Peter Powcil will serve as interim mayor until the November clections. This is sccn as a

By CHRIS LLOYD

compromise choice since Powell is not running for re-clection, and probably the only possible ac ceptable solution on a council so deeply divided on political stands

Bell declared with a smile “This is called an evening of serious an nouncements!"

And there were others from both the remaining aldermen whose terms are up in November.

Jim Ball indicated he may well provide Baker with competition in her bid lo become mayor.

“T have not as yet made up my mind,” he told Beil. “LT had intended to run for office but do not know whether tt will be for your chair or my present chair. I have some decisions to make in my personal and

business hfe which might influence that’

It he now decides to run for mayor, ato likely to

cause Bell embarrassment

over which candidate he

would publically support Ball has in the past said he would never run as Mayor against Bell, because of their friendship. However, Bell has let it be known in no uncertain terms that the person most in tune with his own politcal views which he considers to be middle of the road - 1s Marilyn Baker

Baker's) public support was clear last November when she returned = to

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