Sunday, July 28, 1995 - North Shore News - Special Supplement - 41
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By Layne Christensen

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Community Reporter : : "R34 5 WEST vant OuverR.

YOU'D think a i : : .
with 20/ 20 vision, 7 ; ee : ; Noth VAU.OUWER.
wouldn’t be the best
walking advertisement
for an optical compa-
ny, but Grant Spray
doesn’t let his visual ‘

“handicap” get in the Se ea , Paeiarines
way of business. ‘fees : te.
Hi The owner and operator of 2 ; R f MU RDO
ighlan tical has enjoye! 7 d
a steady stream of custOnters ; ef FRAZE R
since he decided to “join arms ie i ae
with dad,” Edward, who " i oe : : . Par 3
started the small company in , ¢ : ; ‘ ar
the mid-60s and retired to the Soo Si Golf Course
ariboo six years ago. :
“We've got deep roots,” : ~ ‘ 2699 Pemberton
says the 39-ycar-old optician ; : Le ! Ea North Vancouver

of his.business’ connections ; a nll
with the community. (Spray ; Oe ‘ Gage : @ “ai 5 ; ;
as worked in the shop for 13 OI page : aT aa pepe |
_. years, assisted by ‘Sharyn oe RK { nf R Beans Summer Hours ;
. Webber for the past cight.) " : ecg ; 5 io
i) “We've got families right : a, ( oe 9 ow D
through from kids to great- ; iy pe a gore Bees Z ; am US .
‘ grandparents,” he says of the . : Bago a ? . ‘
. customers: he considers his j Se ENR TE 8 : : p 7 ‘ : 2 :
customers he consice Dots pee reer Rn oe irs | proshop 980-8410
"In fact, Spray has spent his : ve f : : a! - 2. " ;
’ entire life on the Morth Shore
— with the exception of five
” | years spent managing an auto
parts store in the Okanagan.
“Spray grew up in North
_ Vancouver and’ attended -
~~ Canyon Heights Elementary -

School. before. his~ family. Soe —
‘moved: to. .Cypress Park 2699 PEMBERTON AVE. -

Estates in West Vancouver.” GBR: £ i cae ; aa NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT PARKS DEPT.
Back. then, in ’67, the area

was “wild dirt. -

roads, bears.in our =

backyard and deer

wandering around.” Name: Grant Spray Favorite place on the North Shore: eee ae
A-lot has.changed -] Born: 1957 in Vancouver ’ Edgemont Village . The Good Times .

_ singe chen Claim ‘0 fame: Owner and operator Favorite North Shore memory: .
_ _» The Village, too, of Highland Optical ; “Growing up with my friends in the J GS ; B tt : At
' has seen its share of | How I came to live on the North — wilds of Cypress Park Estates, when it ust e e er i.
development. But Shore: “My parents lived here.” was the wilds.” —_ e
Spray can’t think of ; ‘
”. "a better place to be.
oc*Et’s one of the
“fast. places ‘where .
people get to know people,”
“says Spray, wie feels at home * i nomen at
.-in: The, Village probably or : : : . ave, . : .
because he isatheme. 1 Oe ; oe | | Summertime adventures
When not seeing to his “ f z 7 at Grouse Mountain
clients, he retreats to a two- : . ; . ‘
bedroom apartment above Ss Eee aa : apatite! just keep getting better...

the shop. There’s room

enough for his teenage Sg : ——
daughter and son to share and Mediation Services a The new Theatre In The Sky, Canada's

ies nice and close to work,” The experien ced mediators | Commercial and o, first High Definition electronic cinema, _
aS for Business Disputes 2 offers an Eagle eye view on some of

As for the character of the
neighborhood, | Spray. Says * Divorce Settlements ©.” southwestern British Columbia's

en Sewn ‘ at Chalke o Company can . Separation Agreaments ; mosi spectacular scenery.
Cotary almost like a chang- . : "Born io Fly" shows daily,
9:00am to 10:00pm

ing of the guard,” he says. + Family Business Disputes:

Families. who moved to the | help resolve yo “ur disp ute «Disputed Estates
Capilano Highlands in the ; . .
“50s and” 60s have grown and : * Marriage Agreements —. Oy
gone, Young families are | gan.
moving in and “starting the
cycle all over again.”

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