Special feature Port Day: 43 Metal art: 49 64 pages Office, Editorial 985-213: Display Advertising 980-0511 NEWS photo Paul McGrath Spring Triathlon TOP TRIATHLETES competed in Monday's Sussex North Shore Spring Triathlon. Vancouver's Katrin Duerhoit cycles out of the transition area after a swim at RecCentre Ron Andrews’ pooi. Duerholt finished third in the elite women's category. A total of 325 participants com- pleted the day with a street and trail run. Complete triathton results will be listed in next week's sports. Classifieds 986-6222 tribution 986-1337 Area businesses debating proposed Maplewood site ALCOHOL IN the workplace was one of sev- eral repeated objections raised during the May 12 public hearing for the pro- posed Maplewood Neighborhood Pub. By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer Plans for the small two-storey pub on Spicer Road in the Maplewood industrial estate south of the Dollarton Highway near the Second Narrows Bridge were hotly contested at the hearing, with sev- eral businesses vehemently onpos- ed to the pub's location. The proposed facility would be licensed for 65 people with seating for an additional 20 on an upper patio. The pub would have 49 off-street parking spaces. Ken Kerr, representing pub owner and operator, Wayne Hussey, said the pub would be open for a 14-hour period some- time between 9 a.m. and mid- night, Monday to Saturday and from 1} a.m. to midnight on Sunday. Emphasizing the pub’s plans for a full kitchen, Kerr said, ‘‘The object is to provide a quality Junch and light meal experience.”’ But Richard Bergan, vice-presi- dent of International Paper 1n- dustries, said, ‘I’ve heard the familiar words ‘light meal, light snack, light treat.’ But really, what is this? It’s a pub to sell li- quor.”’ Malcolm McLaren, a manager at Allied Shipbuilders Lid., agreed. McLaren described the typical industria] lunchbreak as being half an hour long, brought from home or a mobile lunch wagon and often eaten on the run. “We don’t ‘do funch.’ We've been here for 25 years and no one has died from starvation,’’ he said. McLaren took issue with a district. staff report that charac- BB Budget Beaters ......... 52 83 Business .. @ Classified Comic: NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL terized Allied’s concerns to be the potential for workers to drink to excess during the lunch hour. **We do not have concerns with excess drinking; we have concerns with drinking,’* he said. “What clear-thinking employer would be in favor of the location of a liquor establishment close to their workplace, and what social need is the planning department seeking to fill by promoting this application?’’ asked McLaren. But Harvey Malcolm, another speaker at the hearing, angrily disagreed. “I think that’s an insult to say employees cannot be trusted to conduct themselves in an ap- propriate manner,” said Malcolm. Aris Morfopoulos, another neighboring business owner, told council that he was strongly op- posed to having a pub in the area. Morfopoulos described the in- creased availability of alcoho! and traffic in an already congested neighborhood plus a_ railway transporting dangerous goods as an accident waiting to happen. George Gilbert, president of E-Z-Rect Manufacturing, also noted area traffic and parking problems, and he said he was concerned that more traffic would bring more crime and_ security problems to a fairly isolated area. However, Seymour Lumber owner Ron Inman said his business had been broken into three times this year already and that a pub with increased traffic, lighting, and RCMP patrols might be a safe improvement for the area. Inman said he was surprised that the Lynnwood Inn had spoken against the suitability of a pub in an industrial area when the Lyn- nwood serves the same type of neighborhood itself. However, in response to a ques- tion from Ald. Janice Harris, In- See Setting page 3 Lifestyles. ... @ North Shore Now EB Sports . B What's Going On Weather Thursday & Friday, mainly suiny. Highs 17°C. Secand Class Ragistrat n Number 3885