The final i issue 2 of Georgia
. Salen, Vancouver’ S one-
time’ ‘‘‘underground”

_newspaper-and: voice of the

counter-culture during. the

later: sixties, ‘appeared onthe - ;

newsstands | ‘last- week., But: ' .

the paper is: not. going: ‘out of °
— ~ busines ae

‘Instead, it . will reappear
* Vunder a new name - The
Vancouver Free © Press.’ --
dedicated, in the words of
‘publisher Dan McLeod, to
achieving “the original goal
"of ‘the Georgia Straight:on a

. —much grander scale,.and (to

reaching) a ~much © larger

audience. That. original: goal |

was, and still is, to bring a

. truly free. press to the ° city of

Vancouver.”

First | published in. May
1967, Georgia Straight has
had- a colorful |
sometimes “tumultuous:
history. After the original
issue (5,000 copies) sold out,
the printer refused to print.

| “the next one -- saying ‘he

and.

“wouldn't t have. printed ‘the .
_ first if he’ 'd known what was
‘ _ “in it.

. © .

A tew: printer was

- eventually found in Victoria.

By the fifth issue the: paper
had 700 street vendors and

sold out a press run of 65. 000
copies. .

Georgia Straight achieved
its peak of notoriety as the
tormentor of the
establishment when Van-

- couver. “City Mayor Tom .
Campbell
publication and ordered .

banned

police to seize all copies
from street vendors. _ The

paper sued the mayor,-won

its case after three months
“underground” and the ban
“was Titted.

First annual, finals of x the

North. Shore-Howe’ Sound
Police Bicycle Safety'Rodeo.
take place. Saturday at Park
Royal. following the Com-
munity Day parade in West:
Vancouver. .

_ Top winners in the North
& West Vancouver police
bicycle rodeo held May 19th
at Park Royal will compete
at 2 p.m. against finalists
from Squamish, Whistler
and Lions Bay. Site of the
finals is the 2nd level parking
south of the Bay and Eaton’s.

Winners in the May 19th
event at Park Royal were:

aluminum

turer.

30, 1979.

Now 12’’ Air Space for wood, or
sliding
another FIRST by Haida Glass

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Group A- Grades four to

seven: Ist, Michael Vorpahl,.
13, 131 points; 2nd, Lynda ~
Cook, 12,123. points; and
Scott Mawdsley, ‘nine, 119
points, all of West Van-
couver. Group B - pre-
schoolers to Grade three:
1st, Roger Davis, seven, of
West Vancouver, 134 points;
2nd, Peter Goldberg, eight,
of North ‘Vancouver, 12
poiits; and, 3rd, Sara
Humphries, “nine, of West
Vancouver, 126 points.

Park Royal Merchants
Association will present

bicycles to the first winner in

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- promised new look publisher

both groups - and “gift ‘cer Et
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Page 12, May 30, 1979 North Shore News

ving

: Ce ” SDAYSONLY.. :
A string of other. criniinal 2 fe! “LaMrTeD QUANTITIES” :
‘charges. over the next few § os ee
years. on counts of’ libel. and: @
obscenity: brought . Georgia «
Straight close to bankruptcy,
from which it was saved bya
series of benefits organized —
by supporters -- including a
week-long benefit by poet
Allen Ginsberg from New
York.

_ ALKYD GLOSS. HOUSE PAINT.
“Reg. $15.95 SALE. Pa 2.62 2 gal.
LATEX FLATor GLOSS HOUSE PAINT. /
“Reg. $14.95 SALE $11.62. set

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ALKYD PORCH & FLOOR |
Through it all, undaunted , ENAMEL ~ .
and unabashed; the §- ’ Reg. $13. 95 SALE si0.e2 get:
irreverent and provocative § - PRIMER LATEX woop 7
tabloid has’ ‘continued - to | \ alt i
appear —-600.issued.in all § | ~ * - Reg. $14, 95 SALE $11.62 gal.
over the past 12 years. As it 9 sP ECIAL - SOLID COLOR STAIN.

McLeod claims that Georgia.
Straight/The’ ‘Vancouver.
Free Press is now at. its '

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| Saturday will receive . ;
shields, trophies and gift —

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three head lamps as prizes.

Both bicycle safety events:
‘were organized by members
of the R.C.M.P. detach-
ments in North Vancouver &

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