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NV man beaten in road rage
Two men charged after alleged Hwy. 1 assault with baseball bat
Jane Seyd
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A North Vancouver father is recovering from his injuries but has been left unable to work after being savagely beaten in a case of road rage gone horribly wrong on Highway 1. Ryan McCaffery’s vehicle was forced to a stop halfway up The Cut and the driver of a minivan got out and attacked him with a baseball bat after an altercation on the road turned ugly on the afternoon of Jan. 1. McCaffery said he knew the situation wasn’t going to go well when he got out of his vehicle to check for damage and a man who was a passenger in the other vehicle ran up and began to attack him. Shortly after, the driver joined in. “I felt a bat hit my head,” said McCaffery. While the driver continued to hit him with the bat, the passenger punched him in the stomach. “I remember them saying that I was in big trouble, that I’d made a big mistake,” he said. McCaffery said trouble first started as he was merging on to the on-ramp for the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing and accelerated to cut in ahead of two other vehicles. That made one See Freeway page 5
Lower BP assessments way above WV average Jane Seyd jseyd@nsnews.com
A number of property owners in West Vancouver are crying foul after their property assessments increased a whopping 40 to 60 per cent this year.
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REFEREE Lyle Reginald holds wrestlers Gorgeous Michelle Star (left) and Disco Fury apart at a photo shoot promoting the return of wrestling to the Joe Mathias Centre, 100 Capilano Road, North Vancouver on Friday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. The action features a full card including tag team and mixed tag team matches. Money raised will support Squamish First Nation recreation programs. Tickets, $12/$15, at Comic Scene, 338 Lonsdale Ave.
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Now they’re worried about what that kind of increase — roughly four times the average — will mean for their tax bill. Allan Newbury, who lives on a section of Mathers Avenue directly above Highway 1, said he was shocked when he opened See Freeway page 5