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Pioneering journalist spent twilight years in Burnaby Mario Bartel
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Burnaby RCMP members pause for a moment of silence during a memorial service on Monday at the city’s detachment for Const. David Matthew Wynn of St. Albert RCMP in Alberta who was killed in the line of duty last Wednesday as he investigated a stolen vehicle.
Companies’ land battle hits the courts White Spot wins fight with Milani Plumbing over Kingsway properties Wanda Chow
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White Spot and its parent company have come out on top after a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled they can buy the site of their Kingsway location in Burnaby and the property next door. The legal bun fight included several parties involved in the sale of 5550 Kingsway and 6679
MacPherson Ave. in Burnaby. The two adjacent properties Justice Mark McEwan ruled last were jointly owned by Tom week in favour of White Spot and Howe Holdings Ltd. and R.S.H. Shato Ventures Investments Ltd. Ltd., a subsidiary Through its lease, of the restaurant White Spot had Justice Mark McEwan chain’s parent right of first refusal It seems rather illogical to company, Shato to buy its Kingsway suggest that White Spot’s Holdings, which was only recourse is to resist the site, while CIRP offer and fight a potentially Management seeking to have its purchase of the two protracted battle... Ltd. had one on properties go through. At issue was the second property to the east, whether the company was eligible to at the corner of Kingsway and purchase both sites or only the one MacPherson. on which its restaurant sits. When the vendors decided they
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wanted to sell, they hired Colliers, Macaulay, Nicolls Ltd. to market the land. They received an offer from Alim Holdings Ltd., owned by Vern Milani of Milani Plumbing, which has an office located next door to the west of White Spot. “Alim’s interest in Lots F and 98 related to its ownership of nearby properties and a desire to assemble a package of land that would be suitable for a large scale development,” said McEwan in his reasons for judgment. Please see ALIM DID NOT EXPECT, A3
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A pioneer of journalism who spent her twilight years living at Seton Villa in Burnaby has passed away. Simma Holt was 92 when she died on Friday. Holt was the first female managing editor of The Manitoban, the student newspaper at the University of Manitoba. And throughout her career, she continued to forge new paths for women. When she was hired as an assistant to the city desk editors at the Vancouver Sun in 1944, she didn’t tackle the kinds of stories traditional doled out to women, the social beat or home economics column. Instead she did ride-alongs with the fire department, and cultivated sources in the police department. Her ability to disarm people often got her stories. When a family suffered a tragedy, it was often Holt who went to their home to collect a recent photo. She also covered the waterfront beat, mixing as easily with rugged longshoremen as shipping-industry executives. Please see HOLT, A3