North Shore News June 16 2010

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North Van man wins $1M lottery

27-year-old to give bulk to mother Kerry Blackadar

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THEY say money can’t buy you happiness, but the beaming smile and energetic voice of the lucky North Vancouver resident who won $1 million in last Friday’s Lotto Max draw seems to indicate otherwise. “This is fantastic. I started screaming after checking the ticket,” 27year-old Sammy Amiralaei told the B.C. Lottery Corporation Monday, when he arrived at their Richmond office to accept his oversized cheque. “I’m not a gambler, and I normally don’t buy lottery tickets, but this time I honestly had a feeling,” said Amiralaei, who works as a service advisor at a Honda dealership North Vancouver. Now, friends and colleagues who doubted his intuition are eating their words. “I have never seen so many zeroes before,” Amiralaei said in an interview with the North Shore News Tuesday. “I didn’t think it was See Winner page 5

Grow-op gardener gets 12 months in jail Jane Seyd

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A man who said he was just the gardener looking after a large-scale marijuana growing operation in Lions Bay was sent to jail for 12 months Friday by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

Royal treatment

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

THE Royal Hudson steam locomotive stops for a drink in North Vancouver June 10. The District of North Vancouver’s fire department gave the historic train a few thousand gallons of water during its trip from New Westminster to Squamish. The 70-year-old locomotive has survived several retirements and is the last operating example of the Royal Hudson class.

Justice Randall Wong handed the sentence to James Gregory Billyard, 39, for his role in tending the sophisticated grow-op. West Vancouver police busted the operation in July 2007, seizing 748 pot plants from the home at 265 Bayview Road. Crown counsel Sharon Steele said police experts estimated the street value of one harvest at $336,000 to $400,000. With additional harvests, “potentially the yield could be substantially greater,” she said. She described it as “a crime of greed.”

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