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WorkSafe BC probes fatal fall in N. Van Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com
WORKSAFEBC is investigating the death of a worker who fell from the roof of a North Vancouver construction site in June.
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King of the stage
MADELINE King takes to the stage in John Lawson Park Saturday as local youth bands got a chance to showcase themselves as part of West Vancouver’s Harmony Arts Festival. The arts festival runs to Aug. 11. Go to harmonyarts.ca for details. Scan the photo with Layar for more pics from the weekend.
Emergency responders and WorkSafeBCinvestigatorswere dispatched to a home under construction at 319 West 20th St. on June 14, after a roofing contractor tumbled six-anda-half metres from the roof, sustaining “serious injury,” according to WorkSafeBC inspection reports. Burnaby-based BJ Roofing & Insulation Ltd. employees were bringing a load of construction materials to the roof when the incident happened. The man had just finished bringing a coworker some lumber to be used as a pad for a load of shingles being lifted to the roof with a crane. As WorkSafeBC’s investigation is ongoing, large parts of the initial report into the See Roof page 5
Conned turns con man in WV sting
Jane Seyd jseyd@nsnews.com
A man being painted as a serial con man by those who say he duped them was arrested in West Vancouver recently after one of his most recent targets orchestrated a sting with the help of police. Wesley Devries, 43, is in custody, charged with theft over $5,000 and fraud. Those charges stem from deceptions allegedly foisted on both a North Vancouver bike shop and the North Shore Credit Union.
Bike store employee and duped woman join forces with police
But others around the Lower Mainland say they’re also keen to see Devries answer to the long arm of the law. In fact, it was two of those other people who tracked Devries online through a Craigslist ad and arranged to meet him in a parking lot at Park Royal July 31 — with plainclothes West Vancouver police in attendance. The man who arranged to meet Devries in West Vancouver
last week was an employee of Dunbar Cycles in Vancouver — a shop staff said Devries had recently visited. According to store employees, Devries left his passport at the shop before taking a $7,000 carbon fibre bike out for a test ride. He didn’t return. When store employees at the Vancouver store posted their experience in online biking forums, it was all very familiar to Sasha Tomchenko, general manager of Cove Bikes in Deep Cove. “I know that guy,” he thought. Tomchenko said a man with the same name and description had pulled an identical stunt in his store, looking at several bikes
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