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Chestnuts chopped
NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
West Vancouver Police Department Const. Todd Mosher talks with local residents
as a district worker cuts down one of many giant chestnut trees along 17th
Avenue. Planted in 1935 by scouts, some local groups lobbied Parks Canada to
have the trees declared a heritage site. West Vancouver District council voted
three to two to remove them. A court injunction stopped the cutting at 11:45
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Record rainfall hits North Shore
A storm carrying moisture from Pacific tropics dumped record-breaking amounts of rain on the North Shore Thursday, with up to 250 millimetres (10 inches) of precipitation recorded at one weather station over 48 hours.
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Terminator not scaring film biz
North Vancouver's film industry isn't yet quaking in its boots over the prospect of Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger attempting to terminate Hollywood North.
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A one-of-a-kind school reunion
CLOSE to 100 former students, teachers, support staff and family members recently packed what used to be the Prince Charles school gym, a space which now houses the Gordon Smith teaching collection of Canadian art and is part of the Leo Marshall Curriculum Centre in North Vancouver.
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NV classroom rental decision deferred
NORTH Vancouver School Board voted Tuesday night to delay action on a controversial plan to lease unused public school classrooms to a private school in the district.
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Lawyer stabbed in unprovoked attack
NORTH Vancouver lawyer Ted Jackson is recovering from multiple stab wounds to the chest and neck received during an unprovoked attack near his home at Chesterfield Avenue and West 8th Street late Thursday evening.
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Contract killer gets life
West Vancouver hit man Mickie Phillip Smith was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years for carrying out five contract killings in his underworld career.
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