SUNDAY APRIL 17 2016
$1.25
NEWSSTAND PRICE
FOCUS 4
Clean machines
North Shore’s three laundromats throwbacks to another era LIVING11
Mountain biking Bell Joy Ride program unites women on dirt SPORTS 20
Rio bound
Two Otters swim their way to Brazil NORTHSHORENEWS
LOCAL NEWS . LOCAL MATTERS . SINCE 1969
INTERACT WITH THE NEWS AT
nsnews.com
Jail time urged for ‘goal kick’ to head in parking lot attack JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
A Crown prosecutor is urging that a man who kicked a stranger in the head during a bizarre incident of parking lot rage be sent to jail for 14 to 18 months.
Crown counsel Jason Krupa asked Judge Joanne Challenger to consider jail time at a sentencing hearing in North Vancouver provincial court April 14. Krupa said Force McLellan Forsythe’s anger-fueled attack, which included a “goal kick” to the head of his victim, Philip Unger, could easily have killed him. Krupa described Forsythe as a stocky young man with a history of aggressive behavior
See Violent page 7
BLOOM TIME Tom Nosella and Kirsten Martin, of the Vancouver Rhododendron Society, join the garden club’s founding members and longtime North Vancouver residents Alleyne and Barbara Cook in inviting the public to the society’s annual rhododendron show and sale, Saturday, April 30, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Park & Tilford Gardens, 333 Brooksbank Ave. in North Vancouver. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
Earls to open at Grosvenor Ambleside JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
The police are out and Earls is in.
The trendy chain restaurant is set to open in late 2017 as the flagship eatery of Grosvenor’s 1.9-acre development on the police station site at Ambleside. Dubbed “the future of Earls,” the new restaurant will likely look and taste a bit different from the chain’s other outlets, according to spokeswoman Cate Simpson. The menu will be, “at minimum 30 per cent different,” she said.
Chain to open upscale eatery at new development in late 2017
Despite the upscale neighbourhood, customers can expect slightly lower prices on what may be a more seafoodrich menu, according to Simpson. The company shifted strategy recently after successfully tailoring free-standing restaurants to taste buds in Chicago, Boston and Miami. “We went into those markets as a restaurant no one had ever heard of,” Simpson said, explaining that they were able
to customize restaurants to their surroundings. Earls should boost business in the neighbourhood, according to Michael Ward, general manager of Grosvenor’s Vancouver office. In 2013, representatives from Grosvenor predicted the project would generate a 10 to 16 per cent bump in trade for Ambleside retailers. “I think all of those local merchants there are pretty keen to see this addition to the Ambleside neighbourhood,” Ward said.
See West page 6