6 — Friday, October 17, 1997 — North Shore News by millennium. A representative for Greystone Properties, which has a majority interest in a 64.5-acre piece of Fullerton, told the News that if the auto mali is approved Greystone would withdraw its application for big box retail on the site. Big box or big auto. What’s your choice citizens? If neither are to your liking, you best be set to raise your voice soon. North Vancouver City will be scheduling a public hearing on the issue in early 1998. Without resident input on what they ould like to see on an indus- trial waterfront that has been all but off-limits to citizens for the past cen- tury, not much is going to change. Get involved and get back a piece of your waterfront. i Autos ah UTOS on the waterfront, anyone? No problem, say you. J K, how about 24 acres of of them on the waterfront? That is the reality as outlined in an Oct. 12 News story describing plans for the 68-acre Fullerton fill Site. Fullerton, of course, is one of two remaining waterfront properties in North Vancouver that it would be a vast understatement to cali prime. Along with the old Versatile ~ % aie Pacific Shipyards site immediately Wee: = =f east of the Lonsdale Quay, Fullerton i represents a unique window to a new North Vancouver waterfront. The two properties make up just over 30 acres of North Vancouver waterfront that could add up to a real difference in how the area’s har- bor riches are exploited in the new _ I see three big boxes. Patricia Boname is in a political box. Kespect for the West Vancouver mayor has plummeted over her handling of Larco Investment's planned expansion of + Eee: wat ord ‘THE North Shore News Free S Bund is neazing the $140,000 mark. Defence ~ "To'press time Thursday, donations from over 1,960 Park Royal shopping cen- - News readers and free speech supporters to the fund stood tre. “at $139,917. Legal fees expended thus far by the News it may be difficult for - “shave already exceeded $200,000. The final bill will be much -, higher. All this very nice woman to survive politicaliv. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility, in my view, that Mrs. Boname, nearing her mid-sixties, _ won't serve her full term if : | funds received will help defray the legal costs : faced by the News in its battle with the Human wey: Rights Tribunal over a complaint laid against the a newspaper and its columnist Doug Collins by the . Canadian Jewish Congress. The hearing into the matter, which began on May 12, concluded on June 27 with final arguments at the Century Plaza —_ she deesn’t regain public “Hotel, 1015 Bu St. The decision from Nitya and council confidence. Iyer, the tribunal of one hearing the complaint, is A decline in one’s heaith often shows up at about that age. It sometimes follows a politician's decline in popularity. _ Such a decline would seriously hurt her feelings and cloud her long commu- nity service. She is very much a “traditional” woman, warm and outgoing — not the hard-edged New Woman who could sur- vive the Marines boot camp. Bonatne bungled the overflowing and near-rebellious Sept. 29 meeting at West Van secondary school from the start. expected some time Jater this year. Extra copies of ‘the News’ Free Speech Supplement, which was ‘originally published in the Aug. 206 News, are now available at the News offices. More excerpts from the hundreds of respondents te the cause: 900 . “There are many demands on our funds, not the least of which is the payment of obscene taxes to finance the obscene conduct of our Maoist polits- ‘cians and bureaucrats. Forcing us to use whatever we have left to defend ourselves against these mind- bess myopic pathologically ignorant, casually amoral A ik, F 1 T 4 people iz the ultimate obscenity and supplies a good working She declared it was an off-the-record . defsnition of institutionalized insanity.” town hall meeting, noc 2 public meeting uo — Ernest Mainwood of Abbotsford = — which has distinct legal status. : oo g00Q The crowd saw that as meaning it was ae _ *Den’s let the bastards grind you down.” just a blow-oif-steam gathering that ae ~— Myron Balagno — wouldn’t count for anything. ~ Donations to the fund can be sent to: 1139 Lonsdale Ave., Nozth Vancouver, V7M 2H4. Cheques should be : smmade out to the North Shore News Free Speech Defence und. Councillor Bill Soprovich, a man of modest gifts but dogged industry and integrity, won the strongest applause of the evening when he scorched her for — trenshaw@direct.ca chat, and went on to roast the expansion north:s 3 " hore North Shore News, founded zn 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph 141 of the ‘Excise Tax Act. ts pubkshed earn Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press, Ud. and distributed to every dour on the fort fads Stew PETER SPESK Human Resouroes Manager Seles & Marketing Director Publisher 985-2931 (177) 980-0511 (339) += 985-2937 (101) Rec Creat gen Sal Proto ibution Manager ceatve ogre anager 986-1337 (124) 985-2131 (127) 985-2131 (160} 61.582 (average oxculation, Wednesday, Fracay & Sunday) Classified 996-6222 (202) Entire contents © 1997 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All sights reserved. north shore news Ll VIEWPOINT IcRe AN plan — joined by every other councillor. The meeting itself was unique. Exactly one voice was raised in sup- port of Larco’s plan to add Home Depot, PetsMart and Toys ‘*R’ Us big-box stores (actually smaller than existing stores, Larco points out) to Park Royal. And that was the voice of Larco senior vice-presi- dent Wink Andres. It’s doubtful if Andres won any converts. His talk was seen as cold and insensitive. Boname’s stumbling continued. She belatedly discovered that her hus- band Phil had done work for Larco. So she stepped down from the chair when council debated the issue. More rumblings: Recollection that Larco contributed $1,000 to her mayoral campaign last year. (Also to her oppo- nent, Jim Hogan; and $500 each to council candidates Russ Fraser, Liz Byrd and Derrick Humphreys. J don’t see any- thing unseemly about that. Happens ail the ime at every political level. Only cul- able if influence can be demonstrated to ave been exercised.) I see Larco in a box too. Can it afford to sit smugly on land leased from the Squamish Indian band and ignore council? Ignore council’s clear signal that it’s prepared to use its power io bottle up road access? Ignore wide- spread hostility in the community? Ignore a petition signed by, astonishingly, more than 10,000 people totally opposed to the expansion? Comptrolier Managing Editor 985-2°31 (133) 285-2191 (118) Promotions & acing Display Manager 985-2031 {218} a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ig Letters must include your name, full address & telephone number. VIA e-tnail: trenshaw @ direct.ca Gail Snelgrove ‘General Office Manager 565-2131 (195) Andrew MeCradia - Sports/Community Editor intemet- httpy/jwww.nsnows.com Boxing match at Park Royal mall § This is not a ragtag rabble of nutbars and career whiners. This is the defiant, angry mainstream community, solid citi- - zens — and Park Royal customers. And madder than over any issue I’ve observed in 13 years here. Members of the Lafji family, Larco’s owners, have contributed considerably to North Shore charitable causes, especially Lions Gate Hospital. Do the Laljis want to risk squandering that good will? . ce I don’t like it. when I hear a grumble that the Ugandan Asians (ethnically East Indians) were turned out of their country — cruelly, and by the ‘wicked dictator Idi Amin — because as a group they were seen by black Ugandans as affluently arrogant, a feeling Amin ruthlessly exploited. But I’ve heard it. Finally, the West Vancouver (and all North Shore) public is in a box. Does it want a grudge war with Park Royal, over whose nerth mail it does have jurisdiction? Does it want read access to the south mall, West Van's one retaliatory lever, tied up, gridiocking everyone, cut- ting off its nose to spite its face? Or does it have the collective will to mount a sus- tained, effective boycott of Park Royal hurting its merchants caught in the,crass- fire — the one weapon that every bot- tom-liner understands? . Larco should be doing some hard thinking. ie North Shore News believes strongly in freedom of speech and tie right of all stdes £ a Meats be heard. The columnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those views are not necessarily those of the newspaper itself. iZUS? ae & Main Office Fax Michael Becker - News Editor 985-2131 (114) 985-2131 (147)