WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8 2017
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Long, Long Night of Hope
St. John’s Anglican Church hosts fundraiser for Lookout Society
TASTE 21
Jerry’s Café
West First eatery delivers great food at low prices
SPORTS 25
National treasures
Local soccer players spend weekend with Team Canada
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RESCUE: HOLLYBURN MOUNTAIN
NSR volunteers save man stuck chest-deep Backcountry skier, 39, airlifted from steep creek gully
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsews.com
A backcountry skier found himself in deep, deep trouble Sunday. Chest-deep, specifically. North Shore Rescue volunteers airlifted him from the wilderness with just minutes of daylight left.
The man first called for help before 2 p.m. after getting himself lost in avalanche terrain. “We called him and we determined quite quickly he was having a very bad day,” said Doug Pope, North Shore Rescue search manager. “He was in a steep creek gully on a cliff face. He had lost both his skis and one of his poles. He didn’t really have an idea of where we was. He wasn’t able to go up or down in the terrain he was in without his skis and he was in chest-deep snow. He was cold. He wasn’t prepared. He had no (avalanche) gear.” Making matters worse, the 39-year-old Vancouverite’s phone
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Ambleside Farmers’ Market to stay put BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The Ambleside Artisan Farmers’ Market is staying planted in Ambleside – at least for now.
A divided District of West Vancouver council quashed a proposal Monday night that would have seen the May-to-October market moved, temporarily, to the north plaza at the West Vancouver Community Centre. The current location on the 1500 block of Bellevue was creating conflicts with the nearby business community, residents of a condo building overlooking the site as well as road cyclists whose Sunday rides run through Ambleside. District staff and the market’s managers looked at a number of other locations that might work until, eventually, the market can have a more permanent home in Ambleside as the
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A SHINING EXAMPLE of
FRONT ROW FUN Lauren Campbell (cast member in the upcoming production of Marion Bridge) encourages the public to attend a Beers & Bites fundraiser this Saturday to help purchase new theatre seats for the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre. See our story page 11. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
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