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A former North Vancouver man with possible gang connections was killed Thursday night in a targeted hit in a busy downtown area. Milad Nournia, 26, died in hospital after collapsing in a Subway restaurant near the 1000-block of Hornby Street. He had been shot multiple times. Paramedics who rushed to the scene to try to save his life found he was carrying a loaded handgun. Two years ago, Nournia was banned from owning guns for life and handed a 28month jail sentence after being found with a loaded handgun, counterfeit money and nearly 180 grams of crack cocaine in his North Vancouver apartment. Nournia first came on the police radar in October 2006, after officers received multiple tips that he likely had a gun in his apartment — located in a walk-up building in the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. Police searched Nournia’s apartment and found almost 180 grams of crack. They also found a handgun hidden in a laundry hamper, with a bullet in the chamber. Police were called to the scene of the See Police page 5
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BRENDA Leadlay and Neil Scott of Presentation House Theatre kick off a fundraising campaign dubbed The Drive for 25. The theatre’s plans for a full professional 2011/12 season — despite lottery funding cutbacks — depend on increased fundraising at the local level. The first step is persuading 1,000 people to donate $25 each by the end of June.
Tsleil-Waututh seek riches in wind James Weldon
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NORTH Vancouver’s Tsleil-Waututh Nation is getting into the wind business.
The nation announced Thursday it had made a $2-million equity investment in Surrey-based turbine manufacturer Endurance Wind Power, with the intention of becoming a marketing and distribution arm for the company. The nation has founded its own commercial entity, TWN Wind Power Inc., to perform that role. “We’ve had success in residential development and cultural tourism and other land and resource-management business ventures,” said Chief Justin George, in an interview. “We saw this as
Investment in wind turbine co. aimed at First Nations market
an opportunity to be in the renewable-energy sector.” George and Endurance CEO Glenn Johnson made the announcement at the Alternative Energy for B.C. First Nations conference in Vancouver. Endurance, founded in 2007, designs, builds and sells compact five- and 50-kilowatt wind turbines intended for use in facilities ranging from individual residences to farms and hospitals. The Tsleil-Waututh plan to market the generators primarily to other First
Nations and aboriginal communities in British Columbia and the United States, said George. “There’s a First Nation market out there, and we want to pursue that and build relationships with (them),” he said. “We feel strongly that it’s a definite growth sector.” Many rural First Nations communities rely primarily on diesel, said George. That can be expensive, with costs running as high as 10 times those associated with hydroelectricity. For those groups, switching to wind power would make sense, he said. George anticipates the enterprise could bring in as much as $10 million a year for the 500-member North Vancouver band, while also creating jobs. “There are many facets to it,” he said. “There’s
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