= SS SS SSSASEESSIAAA SASS SSS SN SS SS SS SS SN A SS SSS SS SARE ‘A GOOD CORPORATE CITIZEN’ or a place that attracts ‘singles on the make’? the Queens Cross pub was the subject of various line of attack and defence on Monday's council meeting. Lurid activities detailed to council A crowd of angry Upper Lonsdale residents attacked a proposal before North Vancouver District Council Monday to extend:a nearby neighborhood pubs hours. Council heard complaints of patrons of the Queens Cross pub at the corner of Queens Avenue and Lon- sdale using obscene language, fighting and urinating in the streets. Owners of the pub, asked District council to increase its opening hours to 1 a.m. Neighborhood pubs are currently required by law to close at 1! p.m. About 800 signatures had been gathered on a petition in favor of the extra hours. Dave Rant from West Vancouver and one of the pub owners, told council he wanted to extend the hours to keep drinking drivers off the street. Rant said people now will now go elsewhere to drinking after his pub closes. GOOD CITIZEN Queens Cross has been a good corporate citizen in North Vancouver and supports a darts team, two baseball teams and a flag football team, he said. And any parking problems could be alleviated with the use of a nearby Super-Valu grocery store parking lot after 6 p.m. most weeknights and 9 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, he said. Angry residents, headed by Ray Gainer, 150 West Queens, protested the request by way of testimonies about obscene language, noise, fights, vandalism, litter and urinating on lawns at night after the pub closes. Gainer earlier presented a petition to council con- taining more than 300 names of residents opposing the extended hours. Del Bortolin, 3022 Markam Place, accused Queens. Cross of being a roadhouse instead of a neighborhood pub. He said the pub attracts drinkers and “a_ large number of singles on the make”. 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