16 - North Shore News — Wednesday, December 8. 1999

——— BUSINESS

The bone phone and other back ta

From previons pane

the locai movie industry, like

gcneric sugar packets, mock
ID badges, driver's licences
and doctor's prescriptions.

Luckily, Naomi has some
help from her family. 1 ask
her what it’s like working
alongside her mother, Joan.

“It’s good,” Naomi says.
“She makes me eat.”

“Well, that was my last
victim,” say> Dr. Paul
Verlaan as he emerges from
a treatment room at Lions
Gate Chiropractic Clinic.

Is this chiropractor
humour, J wonder?

After all, Verlaan does
have a vertebrae-shaped
“bone phone,” on his desk,
next to the sign saying “The
Doctor is In.”

“My | mother bought ic
for mc,” he says, a little
sheepishly. “She “ordered ir
from a chiropractic journal.”

Verlaan has been practis-
ing in this location for eight

NAOMI Yamamoto of
Lasercolor, with cugar.

years, and he does a Jot
more than just crack peo-
ple’s spines -— some of them
et to hang upside down
from 2 metal frame, or roil
backwards on a giant blue

plastic ball to stretch out he’s barred,” she grins.
their back.

Once patients get over
their fear of being ‘cracked,
Verlaan savs, they take readi-
ly to trearment.

For those who need 3
brief respite after all that
shopping, organizing, and
structural realignment, Jack
Lonsdaie’s Pub provides
the perfect chill-out zane,

A favourite watering: hole
and luncheon spor amongst
Lonsdale locals since it first
opened I] years ago, Jack’s
also has a sideline beer and
wine store, which owner
Michael Rakis says is set to
expand ro chreé times its
current size in the new year.

The best part of owning
a bar, says Rakis -—- who

Commercial Avenues is a
monthly feature of the North
Shore News’ business sectiai.
While it is by no means a com
prehensive guide to any of the

’ prior to launching Jack’s ran

Picasso's Pizza Place — is
getting to talk to people.
Longtime staff member
Lesley Reed also enjoys the
pub’s social ambience.
She’s raised a family
while working at Jack's —
although she insists the

areas tt focuses on, it secks to
capture a snapshot of the dav-
to-day life of businesses selecied
at random that call the streez
home. If vew have a business
that is part of a snigue or oth-
rrwise worthwhile block, or

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know of any, please share it
with us. Write to Commercial
Avenues, c/o Katharine
Hamer, North Shore News,
1139 Lonsdale Aye., North
Vancouver V7M 2H4. E-mail
khamer@nsnews.com

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