46 - Wednesday, January 15, 1992 — North Shore News

Since then thousands of delighted local hockey fans wholeheartedly agree with Walsh as the Vancouver Canucks continue to top their division and are one of the best teams in the National Hockey League, if not the best. The Inquiring Reporter asked hockey fans to give a mid-season update on the local professional hockey team.

PROBABLY ONE the best quotes that didn’{ make the News’ quotes of 1991 came from North Vancouver’s Jerry Walsh who bolgly predicted the Canucks’ fate at

the beginning of the hockey season.

“With the new acquisitions, the hard times are over. They are playing for real now,’’ said Walsh in an Oc- tober Inquiring Reporter column.

What is the Canucks’ winning secret this year?

Anna Marie

Coleton Maurer

INQUIRING REPORTER

Francis Guerrero

North Vancouver

Their goalie for one. | think they are all pretty good, even-strength players.

North Van foreman wins $5.9M in Lotto/649 draw

[T’S A long way from Neptune Bulk Terminals along the North Vancouver industrial waterfront to the sunny skies of Arizona, but that’s exactly where a Neptune head foreman is going after he and his wife struck it rich in a re- cent Lotto/649 draw,

Andy Andersen and Mudite Adams of Vancouver won $5.9 million on the Jan. 8 draw.

Adams, 45, dropped by her neighborhood Canada Safeway store to pick up her usual Lotto/ 649 tickets: wo Quick Picks with the extra.

Adams and Andersen missed watching the televised draw because they were out for dinner.

What the couple didn’t realize was that they had correctly mat- ched the six winning numbers for a total cash prize of $5,938,327.70.

Adams bought a newspaper on her way to work and discovered she was a major winner.

“1 put on a pot of coffee and then sat down and checked our ticket,"’ said Adams.

“*E just couldn't believe my eyes, I felt sick. My coffee was

_Teady so I got myself a cup and looked at our ticket again.”

She checked and rechecked the ticket.

“I wanted to make sure the date was correct,’ said Adams. “God, it was like a dream. I call- ed Andy and he asked me to get the ticket verified.”

Adams, who works as an ad- ministrative manager for Pacific Coast Systems in Vancouver, ask- ed one of her colleagues to go to a nearby store and pick up a win- ning numbers list.

After checking the ticket again, there was no doubt: Adams was

_ holding a ticket worth almost $6

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million in her hands,

She then ‘called Andersen back with the news.

Andersen, 47, said he took a taxi to Adams’ office. The couple then took a taxi home to think about what had just happened.

Another cab ride brought them to the B.C. Lottery Corp. office in Richmond to claim their prize.

The couple plan to share their New Year’s Eve fortune with their four children.

“We had a trip planned to Arizona so we'll still do that,” said Adams. ‘*We'd like to get a nice houseboat and Andy would like to restore his Jaguar.’”

Henry Batt

Kristy Budd

Toni Beaulac

North Vancouver it’s the players,

North Vancouver

The new player Pavel Bure. He has really en- couraged the crowds and is getting some en- thusiasm back from the crowds. The other players are feeding off

really.

North Vancouver

1 think it’s the contribu- tion of coach Pat Quinn, work ethic, team play,

fan enthusiasm and, of

course, the little Russian cheesecake.

North Vancouver

I think they have a good attitude this year, and a geod team,

that.

A DAY IN COURT

THE FOLLOWING people appeared in North and West Vancouver courts recently to face various charges.

Before Sudge Thomas D. McGee in North Vancouver provincial court on Jan, 7:

Paul Drda, 25, of North Vancouver, was fined $250 after he pleaded guilty to assault on Jan, 15, 1991,

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Edward Nimchuk, 56, of Vancouver, was fined $300 after he pleaded guilty to fail- ing to remain at the scene of an accident on Nov. 9, 1991.

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Before Judge Doug Moss in

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North Vancouver provincial court on Jan. 8:

International Military Surplus, also doing business as International Movie Services, and Ian Davidson Newby, 47, of North Vancouver were fined $500 after picading guilty to unlawfully selling or having in their possession meat products imported to Canada in vio- lation of the Meat Inspection Act on Sept. 11, 1998.

Before Judge Thomas D. McGee in North Vancouver provinciat court on Jan. 9:

Nicholas Jaseph Kennedy,

38, of North Vancouver was sentenced to jail for 14 days and placed on six months’ probation after he was found guilty of the Feb. 3, 1991 theft of diapers which were the property of Overwaitea Foods Inc. in North Vancouver District. eee

Before Judge Doug Moss in North Vancouver provincial court on Jan. 10:

Jason Charles Wiiks, 23, of North Vancouver was placed : on two yerrs’ probation after he pleaded guilty to theft under $1,000 on Feb. 6, 1991.

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