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Football players, parents undo vandal’s damage BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
North Vancouver RCMP are looking for the vandal or vandals who celebrated the start of the school year by tearing up the sports field at Handsworth secondary.
Someone drove onto the field in the early morning Sunday and spun their tires and did doughnuts, dealing damage to the grass field where the Handsworth junior and senior Royals play. The Handsworth junior and senior Royals are both to due to host their home openers at the field this weekend. Disappointing as damage was, the school’s tight-knit football community formed a huddle and devised a game plan within hours. “A group of parents and students, along with staff, came
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Black bear destroyed due to habituation JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Conservation officers are investigating reports that a black bear hanging around a West Vancouver neighbourhood was being regularly fed by people.
Officers were recently forced to destroy the bear over safety concerns, after the bear aggressively pursued hikers on two different occasions last month. Conservation officers say the mature male black bear is the same bear that played a cat-and-mouse game with runner Chris Lubbell during a frightening standoff on the Lower Shinglebolt trail in mid-August. In that encounter, the bear pursued Lubell, sniffed at him and stood over top of him when Lubell fell trying to run away. Conservation officers set a trap for the bear at that time but “we believe people tampered with our trap multiple times,” said Conservation Officer Simon Gravel, acting inspector for the Lower Mainland region. The bear is believed to be the same animal captured on video at the beginning of August when it sniffed around a tent that had been pitched illegally by a camper near the Capilano River. On Aug. 24, another hiker on the trail had a scary encounter
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FINISHING TOUCHES Allison Laface offers words of encouragement to her eight-year-old daughter Sienna on the first day of school. Sienna is entering Grade 3 at North Vancouver’s Ridgeway elementary. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
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