6 ~ Wednesday, February 3, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS How to ensure they’ come back to the store CUSTOMER LOYALTY — Merchants intent on building it might have picked up a few useful tips last Wednesday evening at the Marco Polo Restaurant. When they bought the store in 1946, it was a small building with a barbershop and a TV repair business at the side, surrounded by bush. Streetcars ran past the front door and a creck ran at (he back. Under the two brothers the market soon became a tradition among Rex enagT?, ; 4 Qs Guests of honor were North Van’s Gar and Gordy Lee. Their hosts were 150 longtime customers of the Queensbury Market at the corner of Queensbury and Keith which Gar and Gordy, now retir- ing, owned and operated for 41 years, CALLING IT A DAY...well-loved food market brothers Gordy (left) and Gar Lee toast their retirement. Behind them, their proud mom May f4 EALTH MINISTER Peter Dueck’s reaction , to the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion is / i oo. nothing short of arrogant. / In its 5-2 vote Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the country’s 19-year-old abortion law representéd a “profound interference with a womamn’s body” and threatened the healih and security of Canadian women by forcing them to undergo painful and arbitrary delays to obtain abortions. The law was declared unconstitutional. Abortions on demand are now legal in Canada, and medical, legislative and judicial authorities can finally move on- to other important issues. ., However, Health Minister Dueck — supposedly with the backing of Premier Vander Zaim — denounced the _court’s decision. Hours after the court's ruling, Dueck announced that the provincial government weuld not pay for abortion on demand in British Columbia. The Medical Services Pian, Dueck says, will only pay for abortions in B.C. if.a hospital therapeutic abortion committee agrees to: it. Abortion clinics will not be funded by Victoria. ~. Dueck’s policy flies in the face of the Supreme Court decision by interfering with a woman’s constitutional right and by making abortion on demand in B.C. available only to the rich. The minister and his sup- porters have no right to push their religious beliefs en the province. The Supreme Court’s ruling has settled the affair. It is up to the federal and provincial gov- emments — including B.C.’s — to accept the ruling and provide a fair and equal abortion policy for Ca- nadian women. neighboring residents, as well as drawing appreciative customers from as far afield as Deep Cove and West Van. Gar’s son Gary would help dad at the meat counter. At busy times the Lee ladies pitched in, too. Customers were known by their first names and greeted first and foremost as friends. In 1976 the Lees built a row of modein stores to replace the origi- nal building, but the old-fashioned family service remained unchang- ed. At last week's “'Gar and Gordy Lee Appreciation Night"’ it was the customers’ turn to say: ‘'Thanks for s-rving us so well, You've been part of our lives for so long. We'll miss you.” Customer loyalty lesson over! PREMIUM SUDS, locally brewed, will soon be back again in Horse- shoe Bay. David Bruce-Thomas says his new ‘‘imicro-brewery”’ there will come on stream by the third week in February, with the sale of its quality ale to the public scheduled to begin April 1 — ini- tially at two Horseshoe Bay outlets, Troil’s Restaurant and Ya Ya's Oyster Ber. [t's a gutsy undertaking by the young West Van resident. No stranger to the business, 25- year-old David, a West Van Sec- ondary grad, was brewmaster of the Troller Pub’s Horseshoe Bay micro-brewery — first of its kind in North America — which shut down last fall. Disagreeing with the business reasons given for the closure, he bough? the equipment and has since been hard at work restoring the plant with the assistance of its original 1982 builder, Joha Mitchell. Finan- cially, he’s helped in his $50,000 project by income from driving a tow truck and training police dogs. Publisher Associate Editor suburban n Peter Speck Managing Editor. .. . Barrett Fisher Noel Wright Advertising Director . Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ii! of the Eacise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registraticn Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome bul we cannol accept responsibility for For the moment David's municipal permit allows a max- imum of two brewings (about 400 gallons) per week, which is around the level attained by the earlier brewery. But he’s confident that the market is there among beer connoisseurs because ‘‘our first priority is to have the highest qual- ity micro-brewery anywhere and make the highest quality ale." If demand builds, the present equip- ment can produce up to 1,000 gallons per week and he would ap- ply fora permit increase. Whether or not Bill Vander Zaim ever gets to sample the brew, the premier should at feast find the free enterprise story behind it very definitely to his taste! coe WRAP-UP; Surviving a minus-15 night temperature that froze com- bat boots solid, young Mike Seymour of Lynn Valicy was among members of 2290 Army Cadet Corps who successfully completed the recent “Snow Angel" winter survival exercise amid the snows high atop Grouse Mountain ~ who said today’s kids are soft? ... Among Gizeh Temple Shriners elected to office for 1988 was Recorder Cecil Rees of North Van ... And congrats to Cap Col- lege students Leona Pedosuk, Alice Stavr, Gourmeek Kubicek and Georgine Fraser on being ac- cepted for the School of Social Work at UBC — the item about the four being that the School receives some 300 applications a year and has only 30 vacancies. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: Nature produces nothing more beautiful than a single snowflake. 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