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Cypress Mountain had it’s season opening day on Wednesday under clear skies as snow guns blasted the slopes with man-made powder.. Scan with Layar to see more photos. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH
Winter isn’t coming to the North Shore Mountains. It’s here. Grouse Mountain and Cypress Mountain both fired up their ski lifts Wednesday and Mt. Seymour operators are hoping to have the hill open in a week. “The last couple of days had been just fantastic for snowmaking, in particular (Tuesday) night because it was so cold. It was -6 C up here and the production was really great,” said Joffrey Koeman, Cypress’s spokesman. “It allowed us top-to-bottom skiing down Upper Maelle Ricker Run to Lower Panorama.” But that is just the beginning of operations and the resort hopes to have even more of the mountain open in time for See Stay page 3
W. Van man jailed for beating wife
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including assault with a weapon, aggravated assault, threatening death and careless storage of a firearm. Under a publication ban protecting the identities of his former wife and daughter, the man cannot be named.The couple has since divorced. According to information presented in court, the attack — described by a judge earlier this year as
“horrifying and sadistic” — started after the family attended a Chinese New Year’s party in West Vancouver. By about 10:30 p.m. that night, the man was drunk and told his wife he wanted to leave the party. Once parked inside the garage at their home, the man ordered his daughter See Man page 5
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A West Vancouver businessman who held a gun to his wife’s head while telling her “Let’s die together,” will serve an additional seven months
in jail, a North Vancouver judge has decided. The 42 year-old man has already served nine months in jail since police arrested him Feb. 23 following the violent assault at the couple’s British Properties home.
After threatening to kill her, the man used the butt end of a rifle to hit his wife in the back of the head, knocking her to the floor semi-conscious and bleeding. Authorities were eventually summoned after the couple’s 10 year-old daughter called 9-1-1. The man was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to four charges,
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During the assault, the man dragged his wife into a basement room described by Crown prosecutor Lori Ashton as “the gun room” where he kept a “significant number of guns and ammunition.” According to information in a judge’s decision to deny the man bail earlier this year, he legally possessed 16 long guns and 12 pistols at the time of the assault.
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