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Playoff tickets start selling Saturday NHL Roughly
1,000 single game tickets for the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs will go on sale Saturday, the Vancouver Canucks announced yesterday. The tickets will only be available through Ticketmaster, over the phone or online. They will not be available at Ticketmaster Ticket Centres or the box office at GM Place. The two first-round games start at $105. Each household will be limited to four tickets per round. Tickets for any subsequent games will be announced as they are secured. METRO VANCOUVER
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RCMP Cpl. Peter Thiessen speaks to media at Pacific Spirit Park near the University of B.C. yesterday. He announced the search for clues in Friday’s murder of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry had expanded to the south side of Southwest Marine Drive.
Investigation grows RCMP deny prominence of murder victim’s family a factor JEFF HODSON jeff.hodson@metronews.ca
The scale of the RCMP’s expanding investigation into the homicide of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry in Pacific Spirit Park has nothing to do with the prominence of the victim’s family, an RCMP spokesman said yesterday. The 53-year-old mother of two was found murdered along a park trail on Friday. Ladner-Beaudry is a member of the Ladner family,
which Ladner in South Delta is named after. She was co-chair of the B.C. Games Society, chair of Ladner-Beaudry the KidSport fund and a former Sport B.C. board member. Her antecedent was a founding member of Canada’s largest law firm, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, and her brother Peter Ladner is a former two-term council-
lor and mayoral candidate. “It would be irrelevant whether this victim was prominent, a street worker, homeless or otherwise,” said Cpl. Peter Thiessen yesterday, the fourth day since her murder. “A significant homicide took place here and we’re responding to it.” An autopsy has been completed, but investigators are not saying how LadnerBeaudry died. RCMP officers expanded their search yesterday south of Marine Drive.
Around 75 officers will remain on the scene, near the junction of Southwest Marine Drive and 41st Avenue, until the end of the day today. Investigators have received 50 tips and provided a description of what LadnerBeaudry was wearing to help refresh people’s memories. She wore silver, white and baby blue New Balance running shoes as well as black tights, a white long-sleeved shirt with grey stripes and a black windbreaker with white pin striping.
will take place in Whistler at the Olympic and Paralympic Celebration Plaza, VANOC confirmed yesterday. In December, a plan was proposed to have medals presented at the sport venues to save money. After changes to the design of the Whistler Celebration Plaza, VANOC said that it will not only host daily medal ceremonies, but also nightly concerts. The return of the medal presentations to the Whistler Celebration Plaza also ensures that Olympic broadcasters will televise the nightly medals ceremonies. “We are very pleased,” said Whistler Mayor Ken Melamed. “I expect the response in Whistler will be very positive. We are looking forward to welcoming the world.” The Whistler Celebration Plaza will also host the closing ceremony for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. METRO VANCOUVER
Design changes • The revised cost for the $12.8-million site now includes: $6.8 million from VANOC; $5 million from the Government of Canada, and $1 million from the Resort Municipality of Whistler.
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