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Police warn of wave of North Delta break-ins Search is on for 200-year-old scroll by Kevin Diakiw A FLURRY of residential break-and-
enters in North Delta over the last couple of months have police on the hunt for the perpetrators believed responsible for all of them. And now investigators have an extremely unique item to help zero in on them. The thieves – police believe there is more than one – took a 200-year-old scroll in the middle of the day from a home in the 6500 block of Ciaran Feenan Sunwood Drive on Aug. 12. It’s only one of three break-andenters believed to be committed by the same perpetrators over the past two months. The suspects gain entry through a rear basement window, first by popping off the screen, then by entering through the window. The thieves then go about ransacking the home. In the Aug. 12 break-in, the suspects were calm and deliberate, See POLICE / Page 5
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Leanne Husdon Hopkins (front) along with other residents in her Fleetwood neighbourhood near 78 Avenue and 156-168 Streets, are opposed to having a paved pathway created along a right-of-way near their homes. (Residents from left are: Eva Gelok, George Hampton, Mark Dorian, Hank Gelok, Kerri Irvine, Pavan Dhillon and Gurpreet Dhillon).
Taking a stand against new trail Fleetwood residents worry a greenway path will increase crime in the area by Kevin Diakiw THE QUIET greenspace beside her home is about to change into a thoroughfare of bicycles, partiers and criminals looking for property to steal, she fears. Fleetwood resident Leanne Husdon Hopkins says her neighbourhood already has its share of crime and thinks it’s only going to get worse if the city forges ahead with the Fleetwood leg of its greenway plan. For Husdon Hopkins, it will mean a multi-purpose pathway, which is planned along 78 Avenue from about 156 to 168 Streets, will brush right up against the side of her home.
What was once a quiet FortisBC right-of-way will now be a freeway of foot traffic and cyclists, she says. Husdon Hopkins was initially told it would be a bike path, but the proposal has now expanded it into a multi-purpose pathway. She’s talked with people who live further away where a greenway already exists, and they painted an ugly picture of what’s heading her way. “Their fences get kicked in, they get spray painted, they have drug use going on down there, they’re not policed,” Husdon Hopkins said Tuesday.
See COMMUNITY MEETING / Page 5
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