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Animal militants vandalize car in N. Van James Weldon
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A North Vancouver small business owner received an unwelcome Thanksgiving surprise when someone apparently connected to militant animal activism vandalized his house.
Flippin’ out
NEWS photo Paul McGrath
ONE of 14 young harbour seals heads for the waters of Howe Sound at Porteau Cove Saturday after its release. Approximately 200 onlookers including 50 Vancouver Aquarium volunteers watched the orphaned seal pups return to the wild. The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre rehabilitates marine mammals needing care. Go to www.nsnews.com to see more photos.
Eugen Klein, owner of homebased Capilano Furs, woke Sunday morning to find the car outside his Delbrook Avenue residence covered in black paint and its tires slashed. The perpetrators had also painted the front step of his home. Later the same day, a posting appeared on an activist website attributing the act and two other incidents at Lower Mainland businesses to Animal Liberation Front Canada, a loose-knit group of activists who claim to commit illegal acts in an effort to stop the mistreatment of animals. “On . . . October 10, 2010, we visited the locations of three companies who directly profit off of animal abuse,” wrote the anonymous author. The posting went on to detail vandalism at Capilano Furs as well as See Vandalized page 3
Harry Jerome options go to $69M Tessa Holloway
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A completely new Harry Jerome Recreation Centre would cost $56.5 million, but a decision on a preferred option for the new building is likely still a year away.
The $56 million is for the bare-bones project covering the program City of North Vancouver council previously mandated. It includes a new 25-metre leisure pool, skating rink, twin-gym facility, arts and multi-purpose rooms and space for Silver Harbour Seniors Centre. An additional $12.5 million would add an underground parking lot, a new park and relocate the lawn-bowling greens.
But some workshop attendees want more – a 50-metre pool
That would bring the total price tag to $69 million, just shy of the higher end of the $40 million to $70 million estimate of last year. But many of the approximately 50 people who showed up to an Oct. 13 public meeting were there hoping to see more added to the project. While part of the existing structure may be kept, Richard Bolus, partner in CEI Architecture, the consultant hired by the city to investigate the options for the project, said a renovation would still
cost $42 million, last 20 years instead of 50 for a new building, and be less energy efficient. “A renovation-only option couldn’t meet all the program,” he said bluntly. The consultants proposed three designs: The first option would build a new rec centre on the Norseman field site, which would be decommissioned, while a second would either build the new facility entirely on the parking lot or possibly over top of the skate park. In both those options, the existing Harry Jerome facility would continue to operate. The third option involves tearing down the rec centre and building See 3 page 5