INQUIRING REPORTE

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LAST WEEKENDE!S Plaik Floyd show was Just one of a namber of big
acts that will make stops in Vancouver over the summer months,
While Pink Floyd's show was arguably worth eveey one of the 42 ctol-
lars if cost to see the concert, cising Geket prices ace forcing con-
summers ta curefully mensure which shows vill give them more bung
for their buck. Avid cencert-goers are Sinding it harder to make ends
nicet after purchasing tel Following Michael Jackson and Barbra

Strelsand'’s lead, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, the Eagles, the Rotting
Stones und Woodstock (94 are all exaraples of shows that will charge

Do you think concert tickets are becoming

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mare than the standard $20-30 ticket. The Eagles, easily (he suiaier’s
most expensive ticket, are reportedly charglag $185 per Ucket. The
flourishing scalping industry is a testament to the pap between a tick.
ees market value and its retail price. Some groups chain they ure
increasing the ticket prices to take the money out of sealpers’ hands.
Seuttle’s Peart Jane is fighiing the trend by charging $20 for a ticket to
their concerts plus Chey’re suing Ticketmaster over (he amount the
company charges to handle ticked sales. Country singer Garth Brooks
has gone on record as saying he supperts the group's corts.

too expensive?

Mario Pineda
Vancouver

Definitely. | would say
iUs getting outrageous.
Id like to see more con-
certs but they're too

Mike Kulik

North Vancouver
Tdon't think it's an issue
because | don't go to
any concerts,

Mike Cleary

North Vancouver

‘Ten years ago it cost $10
to see the same bands,
The Eagles’ cheap seats
are $80 -- where's the
justification? We bought

Darren Gagnon

North Vancouver
Definitely, | was going
to go tothe Pink Floyd
concert but it was too
expensive.

expensive.

pure FE CO EERRAT CE ES

A LOCAL mother and son have been elected to the
national executive of the Liberal Party.

Mobina Jaffer was elected vice-president (English)
for the party. Jaffer’s son Azool Jaffer-Jeraj was
named vice-president of the Young Liberals of
Canada.

Jatfer ran for the Liberals in North Vancouver dur-

family af air for duo

the albums,

ing the federal clection. She says that her son was a
key member of her campaign.

“With only six Liberal Members of Parliament
elected in B.C., | saw the office of vice-president as
an excellent opportunity to take the grassroot con-
cerns of ail British Columbians right to the source
where policy decisions will be made.” '

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North Vancouver
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Bicycles claim Lions Gate Bridge

VANCOUVER CYCLISTS are in
a huff over clean air.

A “clean transportation advoca-
cy group” called the Bicycle People
plans to protest air pollution in the
region on Saturday. July 2, by tying
up traffic on the Lions Gate Bridge.

The cyclists will meet at
Denman and Georgia Streets down-

town at 10:30 a.m. and will cross
the bridge en masse at 11:30 a.m.

They will regroup at Park Royal
and then tangle traffic up again on
their trek back. The group wants
cleaner air in the Lower Mainland.

For more information, contact
Gavin Davidson or Tim Howard at
873-3744.

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