ridge jumper

A 35-YEAR-OLD New Westminster man died on Monday after Jumping from the centre span of the Second Narrows Bridge.

Ports Canada Police and coast guard auxiliary recov- ered the'man’s body, but rescue personnel were unable to resuscitate him.

The incident occurred at 5 p.m. on the west side of the bridge. The man’s name was not released.

Escapee arrested

A 28-YEAR-OLD escapee from the Chilliwack Correctional Centre was arrested on Monday morning after allegediy driving a stolen 18-wheeler in West Vancouver.

West Vancouver Police stopped the 1994 rig near the Horseshoe Bay area. Robert Edward Mellish is charged with possessing stolen property over $1,000, driving without a licence and being unlawfully at large.

Outstanding journalist passes away at age 71

MAC REYNOLDS, an award-win- ning newspaperman who lived in West Vancouver, died suddenly Oct. 12 of a heart attack.

Mr. Reynolds, 71, had been a columnist, editorial writer, features writer and editor with the Vancouver Sun. In 1980 il} health forced him to Tetire.

“He was an outstanding writer,” said Sun and North Shore News columnist Trevor Lautens. He described Mr. Reynolds as the best scribe of his generation at the Vancouver daily. “The best of his columns are absolute gems.” .

After a Soviet-Canada hockey series in the early 1970s, Lautens

recalied, Mr. Reynolds wrote an NEWSPAPERMAN MAC

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last weekend and attracted 1,000 people, said Lori.

By Sunday morning there were only Tl suites unsold, but by Sunday night some prospective buyers had apparently reconsid- ered and there were 17 units still available.

The fractional interests deal being offered by Seabright Holdings is similar to one pro- posed for 302 Arbutus Gardens apartments in Vancouver.

The Vancouver proposal was Jed by a group which included Nelson Skalbania.

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Neither Seabright director Samuct Belzberg, building owner Zev Shafran nor Bellevue sales office staff returned phone calls to the North Shore News to press time on Tuesday.

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“enormously funny” column pictur- ing Canada playing hockey against Saudi Arabia.

“He was a very funny, very witty, terrifically humorous man.”

Mr. Reynolds began working for the Sun in 1948. In 1954 he won the National Newspaper Award for fea- ture writing. In 1956 he won the Kemsley Scholarship in Journalism, which entitled him to a year in

Reynolds passed away earli- er this month.

newspaper chain.

Mr. Reynolds’ daughter, Jenny, said her father’s diabetes affected the nerve endings in his fingers, and after 1980 the pain made him cut back on his writing. “He was a pro- lific reader and writer and (curbing his writing) was very hard for him,”

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