3 - Friday, October 4, 1985 - North Shore News

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Classifieds ..........63
Food ............5. 93
Lifestyles...........57
Mailbox.............7
Real Estate.........17
Sunshine Gir).,......71
What's Going On.....62

Friday 4
Saturday 5

WEATHER: People: 59

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Mostly sunny Friday
and Saturday with
patchy fog Friday
morning.

A NEW elector’s organization will grace the po-
titical battlegrounds of North Vancouver in the
coming November municipal elections.

The Community Electors’ Tuesday night. A turnout of

Association (CEA) held its approximately 30 people en-
inaugural public meeting dorsed a five-meinber slate

Lifestyles: 57
Deap Cove Chamber
Soloists to perform an
interesting concert at
Presentation House.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW |

of candidates to run in
North Vancouver city and
made a motion of support
for incumbent Ald. John

New columnist Joy
Metcalfe informs on
celebrities in town.

Braithwaite.

Founding CEA member
Bill Bell says the organiza-
tion is not a poflitical party,
but rather an amalgamation
of ‘‘basically progressive
people who want to see a

a

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

Sunday 6

: -community.’*

- other
‘could break into the Love

1305 13.5
1845 11.7
2055 11.8

more progressive and open
North Vancouver city coun-
cil.” .

Bell, along with fellow
CEA-endorsed candidates,
Barbara Sharp, Trudy
Galpin, Bob. Davis and
Donna Stewart, will be seek-
ing an aldermanic seat on ci-
ty council November 16.

A North Vancouver resi-
dent for 26 years, Bell, 31, is
currently an administrator at
Douglas College anda

freelance journalist. He is an

NDP activist who has helped
map out NDP strategies in
the most’ recent pzvincial
and federal elections’ ‘as
North Vancouver NDP can-
didate David: Shreck’s.. came
paign manager. ;

Of the. present North
Vancouver ‘city council; Bell

says, ‘I feel it Jacks, the far--

sighted vision . needed to

_ recognize what North ‘Van-

‘couver can be’ ‘as a

‘Though, in, h
council kas done seme good

_ things, Bell says that overall’ '
~ North Vancouver. city’ hall is |

“shot. through with ‘a com-
., placency borne of blinkered

‘Nisions and the same People

; opinion” i

New party seeks city seats

mounting _ the same soap-
boxes over the same issues.

“Sure, Lonsdale Quay is a
very positive development,
but there is so much more.
We have, for instance, a
very large senior citizens
community that could be
better provided for, with
more services from . the: ci-
ty. a9 ‘

Barbara Sharp, | 32, a
business representative for
the Office ‘and Technical
Employees Union, says’ the:
basic ingredient missing in
the present. council’
“energy.”

“1 have also noticed a
marked lack of communica-

tion between council and ‘the

cominunity coinpared to
other municipalities i in which
I have lived. me

GRUDGING APPROVAL,

Bell, who has. “covered all
three North ‘Shore councils
in the course of his journal-

-istic endeavors, says North
‘Vancouver city is,: in’ com-

parison ‘to its neighboring -
councils, less. supportive of
its. constituents and its arts
cominunity, :

for love.
THIEVES ‘WERE
looking for love in all’

the wrong places last
Friday night.

They broke into an empty
furniture store on East First
Street and attempted to
make their way through two
businesses so they

Nest.
* Gaining entrance through
a. unsecured window, the

thieves smashed walls and.

broke mirrors through two
other businesses before being
stopped by a Nils alarm sign
at Love Nest’s rear landing,
says a Love Nest spokesman.

But the thieves weren't to. .
be denied. Gaining access
through the front mail slot
they stole a beige em-
broidered. peignoir and a
pink merry widow with mat-
ching. G-string. Cost of the
items is estimated at $200.

Love Nest employees
think the thieves probably
used a coat hanger to steal
the garments out of the win-
dow display.

The Love Nest has .had
five break-ins in the last five
years,

North Vancouver RCMP
confirmed the break-in, but
say they were not aware
goods: were stolen through
the mail slot.

STUDENTS at Highland Elementary play on the new
playground equipment: that was officially opened last
week. Parents and children gathered to check out the

new equipment,