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| in every yard.

CHICKENS are noisy, right? Wake you up too early and then spend the rest of the day velling their heads off and stinking up the neighbourhood. Maybe nor. Soheil Roohani’s neighbours didn’t know he had had the birds in his backyard for a year. They still proba- bly wouldn’t if a neighbourhood dog hadn't tried for a MacChicken to go. Rochani’s story was reported in the News fast week after a North Vancouver District

roperty use inspector threatened legal actic-a against Roahani for failing to comply with a district bylaw forbidding the keeping of livestock. Roohani claims he got the chickens to give his 10-year-old daughter something to do instead of watching so much television. He says it has worked and there are no plans to any of what have become family pets. In these days of dioxin- contaminated protein, Inquiring Reporter likes the idea of fresh eggs and a chicken

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Mike Yachney

North Vancouver

Sure, why not. As long as they are not making a noise past 1} p.m. at night.. Then they get a warning or pay a

Berit Myhrstad

Lions bay

No. If you want a farm you can move out of town,

Warren Norris

North Vancouver

I don’t have any problems with chickens. people have three or four cats and nobody says anything. So

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fine or whatever same as everyone else,

why not chickens? Equal rights for chickens!

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Kevits Glifies News Reporter

A North Vancouver man faces several charges after leading West Vancouver police officers on a high-speed chase on 2 stolen motorcycle. West Vancouver police set up a CounterArack roadblock on Lions Gate Bridge in the carly morning hours of June 9. According to a__ police spokesman, two northbound motorcycles approached the roadblock around 3 a.m. They started to slow down for the two police officers on the roadway but once they

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were within six to 10 feet of the officers, they gunned the motorcycles and accelerated.

“The officers had to jump out of the way to avoid being struck by the motorcycles,” said police spokesman Sgt. Jim Almas.

Police managed to sce one of the licence plates and they

ursucd the two bikes which eaded cast along Marine Drive

before splitting up with one going north on Capilano Road. The northbound bike headed cast on the Upper Levels Highway and police lost sight of the bike that went eastbound on Marine Drive.

But Almas said the bike on the Upper Levels Highway was

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followed and it took the Westview exit, ran a red light, then re-entered the highway eastbound.

With emergency lights and sirens on, police chased the bike, which accelerated to speeds of 180 km-h, at which point, the pursuit was called off. But the bike continued and, failing to negotiate the

Cut, hit the centre barrier just east of the Mountain Highway exit.

“The motorcycle slid several hundred fect before coming to a stop after hitting the centre barrier,” Almas said

The man was arrested on the spot and taken to Lions Gate Hospital with minor injuries. Police confirm both

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The 22-year-old man faces charges including possession o} stolen property over $5,000, causing a police pursuit and dangerous driving.

He was released on a court appearance notice.

Meanwhile a West Vancouver seat-belt check last Saturday at 13th Street and

than unsafe drivers.

A vehicle pulled up at around 1 p.m. A strong mari- juana smell coming from the car led toa search of the vehicle and a seizure of three pounds of marijuana. A 22-year-old Gibsons man faces charges of possession for the purpose of teafficking.

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Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter dangclo@nsnews.com

A teenager was found seriously injured early Saturday morning at the side of the street near St. Andrews and East 8th.

To press time, the 17-year-old was in Lions Gate Hospital with a head trauma and possible blood clots.

North Vancouver RCMP Const. Heidi Hoffman said investigators did not know if the teen hurt himself in a fall or was beaten up. She said the teenager was at a hous= party on Saturday night and was “put cut on the street at 5:20 a.m.”

The teenager gocs to Sutherland sec- ondary, He was injured on the school’s grad party weekend.

Hoffman said investigators had not determined whether the incident was

NATHAN Regalbuto ... beside his mural at Sutherland secondary school.

related to grad activities,

The police constable said the youth was discovered by neighbours in the area who had come out of their homes after hearing a car alarm.

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press time Thursday.

“The neighbors were chasing some- one down the street who got away and then 3!' of a sudden there is a kid laying there,” said Koffman.

Hoffman seid there were a lot of - rumours going around Sutherland high ~ school about th cause of the tcen’s injuries. Hoffman declinca + name the’. teenager. .

He is Caucasian, 1.73 my. %”!, 01 kg (154 ibs}. He was wearing an o~ *2 shirt and a blue sweatshirt-style jac...

- The News has learned that the injured teenager was Nathan Regalbuto, who was featured in a News photo fast week. Regalbuto and another Sutherland stu- dent posed beside a bold mural they cre- ated in a school hallway in honour of the Sutherland Sabres sports tears.

Police are asking anyone who may | have witnessed what happened to call the. North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1311.