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Burnaby RCMP are investigating a home invasion incident Friday night which left oneCherokee victim * Jeep is Grand leasewith a Ramsuspected - includes Loyaltybroken Rebate arm. Police were called at about 10:30 p.m. May 16 to a home in the 4300-block of SAV E $$$$$ Oxford Street, near $ Madison Avenue, in North Burnaby. Three ALL NEW 2013 male suspects had knocked on the door and forced their way BRAND NEW inside when a resident No Milage opened it,BiWeekly said + taxStaff Sgt. Major John Buis. A family of MaRIO BaRTEL/NEWSLEaDER six, including two The film reels at Rahim Manji’s Dolphin Theatre in North Burnaby will stop turning next week when it closes to make way for a new development. The last independent theatre children, were home at in the city is also one of the few in Metro Vancouver that still uses film. the time. During the initial ULTIMATE confrontation, one of FAMI LY VAN! the suspects struck a Stk# 42E8550 male victim with an Backup To be demolished to make independent movie theatre will Burnaby. HopefullyDVD, we can find Camera, object, possibly a stick second-run, he said. Most of the ,590 $38 Mid Pwr Windowscost of the operation went towards join similar closures in recent years something.” or a crowbar, and way for redevelopment MADNESS Alloy Wheels, of the Hollywood, Denman and Manji, who also owns the injured his arm. the higher distributor fees charged Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com Ridge theatres Hollywood 3 The victim was Rear Heat - A/C for first-run shows. Stk# BS6965 in Vancouver, theatres SurreyN Go later taken to hospital He has owned the theatre business FullinStow The last show at North Burnaby’s and the Station and Pitt Meadows, for treatment of a since 2010 and credits the property Dolphin Theatre will be on Square Cinemas at is disappointed he suspected broken arm, owners with giving him a break on Rahim Manji, owner Tuesday, May 27, to make way for Metrotown. Buis said. No one else rent for making it economically It’s just so expensive there in couldn’t make a go redevelopment of the property. Manji said in an of it in Burnaby. was injured. feasible. Burnaby. Hopefully we can find something. Rahim Manji, owner and interview that he Unlike his other The suspects, who Manji still believes the theatre manager of the Dolphin, shared was unable to find two theatres, the were disguised, were could have stayed open if more the news to moviegoers on Tuesday, another affordable Dolphin had not armed with a firearm people had supported it by typically their busiest night due to location in Burnaby but is still on been converted to digital projection, attending shows. and other weapons. its Toonie Tuesday prices. the lookout. an expensive investment, and it They went through Please see ‘OuR CuSTOMERS’, a3 The loss of Burnaby’s last “It’s just so expensive there in showed first-run films instead of the home and “as far as we know, nothing was taken.” He added that a wallet CHRYSLER • DODGE • JEEP • RAM described as stolen in one media report may actually just have been misplaced.
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