3 - Sunday, August 25, 1985 - North Shore News Business ...........39 Entertainment.......37 Fashion ............17 Lifestyles...........33 Mailbox............27 Sports.............25 Sunshine Girl.........9 What's Going On... ..38 LIFES TYLES: 33 More to it than what meets tha eaz...the latest CULTURES: 23 Cap College hosts Japanasa exchange ART: 35 Klee Wyck exhibits unusual photo cellections. “Sunday through Tuesday, mainly | sunny. Highs: Sin a ae ae Ree reine ta wae ete enn eR ete 22. 26°C. . 1 students. in ear-reading. ror CTION TO STORY ews banned from buil North Varicouver’ s. Century apartments has ejected the North Shore News from its premises. Recently. fired ‘assistant ‘manager Kevyn Harvey says a new. management team, in- stalled in the wake of his and his manager’s . dismissal. ‘- August 14,:has disposed: of the apartment’s delivery ‘of the August. 21 edition. of the News. ‘Harvey claims “the: 102 papers, which . management problems allegedly: plaguing. the apartment, ‘‘were all in the ‘lobby. Wednesday morning, but had’ mysteriously disap- peared .by later that after- : noon.” “INSPECT IGN. ¢ A proinised suite-to-suite inspection of. the. apartment carried. out by the new management has. been. com- pleted, according to the building’s owners, ..Nacel - Properties’ Ltd. : -Results sare -being- assessed, and. ‘‘are none of ‘your ousiness,” a Nacel -spokesman, preferred not. to be: iden- tified, told the News. The spokesman described the complaints of residents entire included a. ‘story ‘of his. firing. and the various: maintenance and. who: By TIMOTHY RENSHAW ‘as “penny-ante problems from a bunch of troublemakers’’, and denied that any newspapers had been removed, ‘‘that’s total- ly ridiculous.’’ Resident Steve Grey says his suite was inspected while he was out of the building, “they came in while I wasn’t home and left a nasty note asking for rent, but: they didn’t do anything about the roof.”” HOLE IN ROOF | A resident of Century for the last five months, Grey says his roof has a hole in it which has thus far has been left. unrepaired, ‘‘they put a piece of waterbed over it held down with a couple of two by fours. I refuse to pay my rent until the roof is fix- ed.”’ He adds that the North Shore News newspapers were “definitely. removed. They want to make sure the peo- ple living here don’t know what is going on in this building.”’ Norm Cressey, owner of Nacel Properties, which owns four North Shore buildings and a total ci 50 in from worn out plumbing and leaky sinks to wobbly balcony railings, and holes and dents in hallway floors. “from. the residents in previous have ranged Complaints building’s documented News stories cai the Lower Mainland, has said he believes there is no maintenance problem: . at Century. Any that might ex- ist, he says, will be dealt with, ‘“The owners .. have stepped in. We are out to clean up any problems in the apartment as soon as possi- ble.”’ David Lane, coordinator for Vancouver’s Tenants Rights’ Action Centre,’ says the organizatior regularly gets ‘hundreds of com- plaints from residents: in . ouildings owned: by. Nacel , Properties. .Nacel seems. to -be ‘one of the worst offend-' Century batte - claims 2 victims NEWS shale Stuart Davis EX-CENTURY Apartments assistant manager Kevyn Harvey holds up a copy of the North ; Shore News edition he believes was removed from the apartment. Harvey, recently fired by the: building’s owners, Says all 102 newspapers went missing from the apartment’ 's- lobby Wednesday morning. ers for tenant complaints.” TURNOVER - Lane says not. all of those complaints. deal with ‘suite maintenance. An .over-_ whelming percentage, . he says, concern residents’. dif-. ficulties in having damage deposits . returned by~ the company, - -“and they also stem to. have .a. high nianagement turnover. in a Jot of their buildings.”’ Cressey -has invited reporters from the News to tour the Century building in a month’s time to document improved conditions. BRIDGE TO STAR STUNTMEN Melvin Jones and Kenny Lesce - gren’t getting. ready to jump off the Capilano Suspension Bridge. But the two stuntmen,. in North Vancouver with: the rest of the cast and crew of a new television series Stir Crazy, are about to get lifted off the bridge by the helicopter. The stunt- men Sater just. grebhed roped ladders dangling from the helicopter.. ' The miracles’ of televi- NEWS photo Terry Poters rr NP sion magic ‘will make it appear they were lifted off the North Van- couver tourist favorite.