weep AT wer nvaee a prem aie mete eM ae et een en Nant ee Mn pee trans Weare oe SP ee teat eas Hepsi! emete: wr eA cates nee St EEE Rae Pave roan WOE AP a, partes gage: At a aang WINE SHOP OPENS North Shore residents can now taste the B.C. spirits NORTH Vancouver’s Canyon House has been selected as B.C.’s fifth estate wine shop. “Like four other such shops, the Canyon House location will feature approx- ' imately 60 B.C. wines. Two-thirds of the wines, according to the secretary treasurer of the Okanagan Valley Estate Wine Associa- tion (QVEWA), are current- ly not available in any Li- quor Distribution Branch (LDB) outlet. By TIMOTHY RENSHA\ Harry McWatters, who is - also a co-owner of the Okanagan’s Sumac Ridge Estate Winery, said the OVEWA opened its first estate wine shop July 1, 1984 in Victoria. The Canyon House loca- tion, he said, is the third in the Vancouver arca. ' ' THE CANYON House Galleria now sells B.C, estate wine i. Licences are contracted to the OVEWA by the LDB. Wine shop locations are subsequently selected by the Okanagan association, which retains the respon- sibilty for both maintaining the overall licence and quali- ty of location. The main reason, for establishing B.C. estate wine stores, McWatters explained, was to give exposure to those wines produced by the smaller Okanagan estates that were either vinted in NEWS photo Stuart Davis Mardi Foster, buyer for the ! Canyon House, displays the wines of five wineries now availabie for tasting and sate, WEST Vancouver’s Joanne Leslie has been re- elected to the B.C. Press Council (BCPC) for her second term. Leslie, communications officer for the Anglican Church of Canada’s New Westminster diocese, is one of four public directors on the eight-member council. Four directors are also taken from member B.C. newspapers. Each BCPC director is permitted to serve 2 max- imum of two two-year terms. While public directors are elected by existing council members, the four profes- sional members are elected by the council’s member ™ newspapers. IMPORTANT FORUM Although it meets only ‘four times per year and in- velves a relatively small in- vestment of her time, Leslie said the BCPC has established itself as an im- ‘portant forum for members of the public and journalists alike. “One of its greatest values, beyond any ad- judication, is that it provides people with’ a place to ex- press their complaints where they know it won’t get lost as a letter to the editor,” Leslie said. In addition to hearing complaints against newspa- pers and journalists, Leslie said the BCPC also’ in- - vestigates complaints of.” “fimited information access brought forward by news- papers ,and journalists against various agencies and government bodies. 90 COMPLAINIS Since its establishment in a 1983, the BCPC has received 90 written complaints against various member and non-member newspapers, [4 of which have been brought before the council for ad- judication. Thus far, all decisions handed down by the BCPC have all been unanimous. JOANNE LESLIE BCPC executive secretary Gordon Purver says membership in the council includes all 17. B.C. daily newspapers and 20 of the 74 community newspapers in the B.C. and Yukon Com- such limited volumes or in such ectectic fashion as to be deemed impractical or of in- sufficient public interest for regular LDB stock. GIVE EXPOSURE The OVEWA therefore approached the liquor branch with various pro- posals aimed at giving better exposure to quality B.C. wine. “The main problem of course is that the Okanagan alone does not have the population to support all its small wineries,"” McWatters said. In addition to stocking the various limited vintages and varietal wines produced by Sumac Ridge, Gray Monk Cellars, Uniacke Estate, Claremont Estate and: Divino Estate wineries, the new estate wine shops offer the convenience features of ' chilled wine, tasting samples and Sunday openings. The stores are more shops | than liquor outlets, McWat- ters added. FAR-SIGHTED “The liquor board people have been very supportive of our proposals,’’ McWatters said, ‘‘and I think they should be commended. So often they are criticized and the whole liquor law business in ihis province is criticized for being too ar- chaic, but in this case they have been very liberal and far-sighted.”’ Mardi. Foster,” buyer for the North Vancouver shop located across from the Capilano Suspension Bridge, said the OVEWA approach- ed the Canyon House ap- proximately one year ago. The opportunity, she said, was an exciting one that management viewed as a unique way, to enhance the store’s appiak while pro- viding the Worth Shore with increased awareness of B.C. wines. The new second-floor wine shop officially opened Dee. 21, ‘Leslie returned to Press Council munity Newspaper Associa- tion. Though they represent less than one third of the pro- vince’s total, Purver points out that the 20 BCPC com- munity newspapers account for nearly two thirds of B.C.’5 community newspa- per circulation. PRINT DECISION BCPC members are oblig- ed to print any decision af- fecting their paper brought down by the council. | “So our clout is more ethical than ‘anything else,”’ Purver said. In addition to ad- judicating complaints, the BCPC also organizes public forums on a variety of print media-related subjects. Over the next two years, Leslie said she would like to see the council do more work to educate the public in matters of the media and lobby government for easier aceess to information for journalists. 3 - Sunday, January 5, 1986 - North Shore News Police help investigate fire POLICE have joined firefighters in an in- vestigation into a suspicious house fire. A house at 530 West 28th Street suffered ma- jor damage to the interior during a fire that officials ' are calling ‘suspicious’. City of North Van- couver fire department attended the fire just after 5 a.m. Monday. Fire caused damage to the upper floor, further damage to the ground floor and left the interior staircase burned out. Occupants of the house were not home at the time. Fire officials are joined . by North Vancouver, RCMP in_ investigating the cause of the blaze. Woman dies in car crash A NORTH Vancouver woman died in a Van- couver Island car crash ‘| New Year’s Eve. Patricia Campbell, 25, and her fiance's best friend, Graeme Ingram, also 25, were both killed when their car plunged over a 12-foot bank into the Qualicum River on Crash Vancouver Island. ; The pair were found the next. morning strap- ped into the car, which landed on its roof in the river. Campbell was engaged to Canadian Forces Cpl. Edward Walker, 25, and was on her way to a New Years’s Eve celebration. with him when she died. ye woh under investigation. | NORTH. Vancouver RCMP are investigating a two-car collision’. that landed five people in hospital Boxing Day. . A black Camaro and a blue Cougar collided at the intersection of Moun- tain Highway and Kirkstone Road. After the collision, the Cougar, which was travelling westbound on Cigarette theft case te court TOBACCO smoke has turned to trial fire in a recent alleged theft of Cigarettes. . Appearing. in North Vancouver provincial court Monday, Van- couver residents Mark Mathew Geddes, 29, and Sandra Barbara Wagner, Kirkstone,. ran into a house. Both drivers were North. Vancouver men. _, A total of five occu- “pants were taken to Lions: Gate Hospital, trvated /and released. RCMP have 'n ot determined the a¢cident’s cause and are requesting anyone who witnessed the accident to call Cst. Steve Martin at 985-1311. | 23, were put over for trial - “Jan. 14 on’ charges: _ theft over $200. - i. The two were jointly _ charged following. the: Nov. 10 disappearance of Retail value of the haul would be close to $1,200. Cabby mounts counter. attack A LOCAL cab driver mounted his own drink- ing and driving counter attack recently. At 11! p.m. the cab driver saw. a car hit another ‘car and then ’ drive.off. The alert cabby ‘tailed the delinquent dri iver. After cornering. the vehicle, the cabby held of - - 60 cartons of cigarettes © from Overwaitea Foods. the driver until the - RCMP arrived. =) . The driver, a 27-year- old North Vancouver man, was subsequently arrested and. an impaired driving charge is pending.