6 Editorial Page What they want _ Road as a condition of reopening the - ideas for the * permanent. . »ouble-lock your doors and windows D after Monday, when the new Young * age from 17 to 18. Police say young offenders -giready commit some 60% of all- burglaries. Now: they have.an extra. year in. which, if - caught, they may get away with jittle more than . - Sunday, Maret 34, 1985 - North Shore News News Viewpoint espite the sluggish economy, retail- space development in North Van is forging ahead at a cracking pace. The contrast with the commercial scene in West Van Suggests some teugh conclusions. Along North Van's Marine Drive, Capilano Mall is poised for a $20 milion expansion and facelift. A couple of blocks east, construction has begun on Capilano Village Market, a complex of more than 60 gourmet food shops. To the west, the recent- ly opened Pemberton Plaza, dominated by Save-On-Foods, is pulling in the crowds. And the old Wosk furniture emporium in the 1000 block is now being converted into a 14-tenant shopping centre. Down on Lonsdale Quay, the 80-tenant public market near the SeaBus terminal will be in business by next February. Another small shopping centre has been proposed for the former Park & Tiiford site on Cotton gardens. Still on the drawing board so far, © but, with plenty of enthusiastic boosters, are retail, rebirth of Lower Lonsdaie. Meanwhile, VYest Van merchants other than those in Park Royal--the municipality’s sole shopping centre--are complaining to council about the 70% of local businesses that have changed hands in the recent past . due to “adverse business circumstances”. - ” The real reason, however, may be more . Street-front shopping appears to be on the . wane. What the public clearly wants is one- « stop shopping with easy. parking, ample : variety and minimal walking. And. what the - -- public wants, North Van is now busy pro- - fe viding. ©: ot Crime progress ”. Offenders Act raises the ‘‘juvenile’’ a gentle slap on the wrist, the figure could rise to 70% or. more: That’s “‘progress’’ as the Trudeau Grits (who passed the act) saw it! Display Advertising 980-0511 . Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 - Circulation 986-1337 - a :. + 1 Subscriptions 985-2131 2° 1199 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 ls. . Publisher Peter Speck ‘ Marketing Director © ; Operations Manager Robert Graham Berni Hilliard Advertising Director - Sales Circulation Director Dave Jenneson Bill McGown Editor-in-Chief Noel Wright Production Director Advertising Director Chris Johnson - Administration Mike Goodseil Classitied Manager Val Stephenson Photography Manager Tery Peters North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent subuiban newspaper and qualified under Schedule ill, Part il, Paragraph Hi of the Excise Ta Acl, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by Narth Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed 16 every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Entire contents ‘© 1985 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Subserptions, Norin and West Vancouver, $25. pet year Mating rates available on request. No responsibitity accepted for unsolicited maternal inciuding manuscnpts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped. addressed envelope Member of the B.C. Press Council 3%] 55,770 (average, Wednesday SDA DIVISION Friday & Sunday} Gus SN Su, A os ( THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE 2 a. 3 eae MAKING WAVES, naval and political ... Mort Graham displays (I to r) the former HMS Hocd (sunk by the Bismarck in World War 11), HMCS Sackville and HMCS Assiniboine. HIPYARDS are a ma- § jor North Van industry. One of the busiest is located on Highland Boule- vard, just above Edgemont Village. It turns out a_ warship every six to eight weeks. Ownez. and sole shipbuilder is a creative adman with po- litical aspirations who once managed to have a bottle of Canadian vodka photographed in Moscow's Red Square. The name is Mort Graham and some of his battle cruisers are all of four feet long. A former Vancouver ad agency executive, Mort's hobby for many years has been making model ships from balsa wood. About 18 months ago he started on a series of naval vessels, using construction drawings of the originals. They're fashioned in exquisitely accurate detail tight down to the last tiny hatch and bollard, and they even float. A number of them grace the wardroom of HMCS Discovery in Stanley Park where Mort, a former navy reservist, is a member. At its recent annual dinner the model of HMCS Sackville, the world’s last remaining corvette, was raffled and now has a unique owner. Some wag entered the name of the wardroom cat, Clyde, on his ticket. Clyde won the draw. . Mort’s picture of a bottle of Alberta Vodka against the backdrop of the Kremtin (shot by the late. Toby Rankin who accompanied him) still rates as an adver- tising classic. But at $3, and now an independent ad/PR consultant, Mort has yet another consuming interest. A veteran Liberal campaign worker, he finally ran as West Van-Howe Sound Liberal candidate in the 1983 provincial election and, predictably, was clobbered. Nevertheless, he came third after the Socred and NDP candidates with 7% of the | popular -vote--compared to less than 3% for the Liberals province-wide. Like General MacArthur he plans to be back when the next call to the hustings comes. For a man who’s smuggl- ed foreign booze into Russia and today, together with a eat, commands a war fleet bigger than Canada’s navy, nothing is impossible... x t t MERRY-GO-ROUND: A quarter of a century devoted to beautiful indoor space has brought North Van’s Jack Watts one of the top honors in his profession. Cultural ' committee-man-at-large, Community Arts and | the “Mr. just former Council president North Shore’s own Heritage’, Jack has been named a Fellow of the B.C. Interior Designers In- stitute--of which he was also 1967-69 president . Newly 3 THE QUEST FOR BETTER CURES ... 1985 directors of the Lions Gate Research Foundation with (fourth from left, seated) president John Grego Randy Research’’. . ry and Foundation mascot ‘Dr. elected directors of the Lions Gate Research “otzadation are Melanie Elliott, Don McCandlish, Dr.Phil Cohen and Dana Humphries. Teamed with president John Gregory on the executive are veepee Valerie: Young, treasurer. Gerry Martins, secretary: Pat” Mulhall: and past-president Bill Crompton .«- Scheduled for publication this summer is a bilingual handbook-directory to help local Latin-American im- migrants and students. Call Dale Juarez or Rob-Patrick Taylor at the Latin- American Cultural Society (253-6444) to order, or for further info ... Nancy Huot, North Van chairman of the B.C. Heart Foundation, wants to say a big public thank-you to February Heart Month canvassers “folly Edgar, Hilary Penna, Judy Vaughan, Gun Holmes, vont j Hui HAPPY REFUGEE ... ’ fakes, President, ‘. Homecoming .‘85,° Gariand, transplanted Torontonian Deborah Slaney, Joan Gemmell, Kathryn Cassity, Lesisy Boyd and Grave Green--pius tne students af Handsworth Schoo) ... Time once more for daughters, granddaughters and nieces of the regiment to start prac- tising their curtseying and waltzing. The glittering Mili- tary Ball in the Hotel Van- couver, at which they’re presented to the Lieutenant-Governor, takes place this year April 27--call Capt.G.L.Croucher (584- 32250 or Capt.P.N.Moogk (228-9445) for details Brand new number this year for West Van's Community Day celebrations will be “Showcase of Spring Stars’ May 31 and June i at West Van Secondary School, reports Virginia Stephen, exec. director of the Com- munity Arts Council spon- soring the event. Individual students wishing to enter either a visual work of art. or a performing arts act should contact chairman . Marion Keen (922-2704) pronto ... Memories of Garland, Manitoba's ‘‘gateway to the beautiful Duck Mountain 50 miles. north of Dauphin along Highway Rosemary . 10°*--former residents are urged to write N.Slonowsky, Gartand Man. ROL’0W0 to learn all about the village’s big three-day anniversary bash - July 5-7... And rounding off, library PR lady Wendy Metcalf Roy announces there’s ‘‘trouble for the Easter Bunny” in an hilari- ous ‘half-hour puppet play for three-year-olds and ‘up | this “Tuesday © (Apr.2) ‘at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. in. Lynn Valley Library, Wed- nesday at 4 p.m. in Capilano Library (North ‘Star School) and Thursday at 10 a.m: in Seycove Library. Admission free anda happy ending, too! . * * * WRIGHT OR. WRONG: Having an argument is: like driving a car. Stop when you see red. Bel t oi: Root of West Van, sales manager of the new $100 million Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel now under construction at Canada Place, greets spring on the west coast.