SUNDAY March
22 2015
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Missing teen found in Braemar Park Urgent search for distraught 16-yr-old leads to his rescue BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
It was an extremely close call for North Shore Rescue volunteers who successfully found and saved a missing teen who’d spent more than 36 hours in a backcountry creek bed. North Vancouver RCMP alerted the public to the 16-year-old’s disappearance on Wednesday after he left home, distraught, at 11 p.m. Tuesday night. NSR volunteers left their day jobs to join in the search around Princess and Greenwood parks on
Thursday, based on some GPS co-ordinates the RCMP and Rogers picked up from the last time the teen’s phone pinged local towers. When the team got more exact co-ordinates on Thursday afternoon, Danks pulled all the teams out of the field and redirected them to the location in Braemar Park, just above the Baden Powell Trail. Though the search was carried out with urgency, rescuers didn’t have much expectation their subject was still alive. “Our field teams persisted and they were super keen to find this guy. It was a super important thing for us and when our first team made contact with him, it was incredible. Right away, the (search manager) said ‘I’m with the subject. He’s alert. He’s SeeWord page 9
Park causeway to get $7M bike lanes MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com
Cyclists commuting to and from the North Shore will soon be able to roll through the Stanley Park causeway more safely, after the province committed $7 million this week to an upgrade project. Preliminary plans for
improved pedestrian and cyclist safety unveiled last winter show a reconfigured causeway with widened northbound and southbound cycling lanes separated on opposite sides of the road. The east sidewalk will be widened by 1.9 metres and be designated for See Causeway page 5
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