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Brendan McAleer looks back at 2016 NORTHSHORENEWS
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Long-term apts., shortterm office approved JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
The praise may have been faint, but it was praise enough for a fivestorey development due to be built on the vacant lot on 177 West Third St. in 2017.
In their last meeting of 2016, City of North Vancouver council approved a 57-unit development at the site of a former car wash and gas station on West Third Street at Chesterfield Avenue as well as a temporary real estate office at 802 East Third St., at Queensbury Avenue. While he judged the apartment’s lack of gathering space “a shame,” Coun. Don Bell still concluded the concrete building was appropriate for the site. “I find the project acceptable,” he said. While not offering a courtyard or plaza, Anthem
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THE SKATEFUL FETE Kathleen Dihn, 10, and Sara Anaou, 9, step away from the bar and carve up the 8,000-square-foot frozen pond atop Grouse Mountain. The high-altitude holiday festivities, which include reindeer, a gingerbread village and elves, are slated to wrap up Jan. 2. Family-friendly activities that include live music from 5 p.m. onwards and fireworks at 9 p.m. are planned for New Year’s Eve. PHOTO LISA KING
Search for snowshoers suspended BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Bad weather and dangerous conditions have forced North Shore Rescue members to pull back from their search for two snowshoers missing for five days in the backcountry.
Dozens of members have been scouring the gullies for Roy Tin Hou Lee, 43, and 64-year-old Chun Sek Lam since they were last seen north of Cypress Mountain on Christmas Day. “(Search managers) started pulling them out about noon yesterday because it was getting quite ugly and they knew it was going to take a while to get them out,” said Const. Jeff Palmer, West Vancouver police spokesman. “They still believe
Avalanche risk hampers search for pair missing north of Cypress
there are some areas where, if there’s any kind of break in the weather, that they would like to go back into.” The search effort has focused on Strachan Meadow, which has many steep gullies and drainages nearby. Search managers are monitoring the weather forecasts closely, Palmer said. Since Wednesday, there have been blizzard-like conditions with about 50 centimetres of fresh snow. Avalanche Canada has issued a high-risk warning for anything above the treeline and alpine areas of the South Coast, including the North $
Shore Mountains. “Some of the gullies that we’re looking at have had large avalanches that have gone down. We’re talking ones that would completely bury a truck and send it hurtling down the mountain,” said Mike Danks, North Shore Rescue team leader. There was a brief hope on Tuesday afternoon when rescuers made fleeting voice contact with someone in the bush, but Danks said they believe that may have been some out-ofbounds skiers who made it out on their own. Much to his dismay, a helicopter-mounted infrared camera picked up four more out-of-bounds snowboarders during the search on Wednesday morning, Danks said.
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