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Lonsdale Quay: 30 years Long-table dinner dazzles with prime rib and grilled prawns SPORTS 25
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Delta man dies in fall deep in Lynn Headwaters BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
A 28-year-old Delta man has died after a fall in the North Shore mountains.
It’s the first fatality of the year in the backcountry. North Shore Rescue members were in the midst of responding to a call for two lost hikers on Crown Mountain around 6:15 p.m. Sunday when a more urgent call reporting an “unconscious collapse” came in from the BC Emergency Coordination Centre. The man had slipped and hit his head while crossing a shallow section of Norvan Creek, deep in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park. “He was unconscious and they weren’t able to wake him. Because they were in Lynn Headwaters, there’s no cell signal there. One guy had to run out seven kilometres before he got a signal to call
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DOWNHILL SLIDE A longboarder takes a tight corner at the top of Grand Boulevard during Sunday’s CityFest event. The City of North Vancouver’s annual youth week celebration also featured a skateboard competition, dance and drama performances, live bands, art displays, a barbecue and food booths in the Centennial Theatre parking lot. Visit nsnews.com to see video of the longboarding race. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH
DEVELOPMENT
Moodyville plan gets green light
JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
After 60 years spent serving as a reminder of the bungalow boom that followed the Second World War, the “future” has come to Moodyville.
Council voted in favour of a massive rezoning Monday that will quadruple Moodyville’s population from 1,000 residents to 4,000 and replace detached homes on 256 lots with approximately 1,890 ground-oriented wood-frame units.
Massive land assembly touted by mayor as vision for future There are still concerns over traffic, transit and what rents will be once the construction dust has settled, but for Mayor Darrell Mussatto the new Moodyville is “a vision for the way the world has to go.” “This is the future. The days of everybody having a
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single-family home, unfortunately, are not here anymore,” Mussatto said. “We can’t cut down trees anymore and put in houses. We can’t use the farmland, we can’t fill in the inlet, so our only choice is to do better with what we have.” Council needs to give the project one more affirmative vote before shovels hit the ground. The townhouses will hit maximum heights of just under 40 feet and the apartments will be just under 50 feet – with both
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