. pepsearre woman FEBRUARY 22, 1995 ‘ | Classifieds Crossword = Fashion | Health Trends i North Shore Aiert j Talking Personals | Travel one 36 5 Wright 6 North Shore Free Press Lia Puptesnet Peter Space 4259 Lonsdale Avenue Nath Vanenueet BC VV 24S Canackar. Pubhcatens Mas Saies Product Ageoment hy (08/238 56 Pages Flavors 3 A full course of appetizing affairs aah ENR, oP FS i The Voice of North and West Vancouver since 1969 Elvis in transi The ‘King’ alive and well on North Shore bus routes Liam Lahey Contributing Writer ELVIS sightings have become as cliché as alien abductions. Who would have thought the king of rock ’n’ roll would be driving a bus in North Vancouver? Chass “Elvis” Read has been a bus driver tor hore resident is the Most recoeniz- able BC ‘Fransit employee tor his startling resem blance to the late Elvis Aaron Prestey. His black hair is slicked back. | gold rings adorn his fingers. The required gold- rimmed glasses hide his smiling e “Poeven wear the sun glawes at night,” Read said with a chuckle. “Ets too bright. Good thing I work the night shift. Read's idolizati began in 1956, when the then 19 High School stu- dent would ercep into his family’s ving room to listen te the radio. “Miy omother dida’r dike rock nntsic,” Read faughed. “It was a real challenge to sneak down: stairs at night and try te catch Ehis on the radio, but} did it almost nightly.” Read said he didn't begin to mimic the late rack legend's look until three vears ago while vacation- ing in Hawai. “My wile and To owere in Honolua and) we stopped i in.astore that carried a lot of Elvis memo rabilia,” he said. “To tricd ond pair of Elvis shades and the salesman said “My God, vou look just like him. 2D dan’t know tf he was pulling mv leg or not, tut T bought four pairs of glasses. To guess that ss bind tdam good salesman, Cunning sales pitch or not, Read wore the glass es eversavhere and soon tound people were stop ping A te ask tora photograph. “Down in the States they take this Elis thing a lot more seriously than here,” he said. “Bat Ty , get a positive response from people everywhere. So positive in fer, Read has been featured in numerous television com mercials locally and ta the ULS. Ele never asks ta be paid tor his TV or pho tographed appearances, He says his appears in bars and raverns in near fy 33 counties. He said he does it simply because, “it makes people hap Sporting, his Ehis persona while on the job. Read has niet hundreds of people w he ask for pictures of him, and inmost cases, he becomes pen pals with the photo seekers, “Baret dottier fron all over the world 7 he said, whale samp thros pile of posteards ai (fetters “hamte back te cach and evertuine of them The beautiitd people” A North Vimeoiver resident tor nest oot be dire, Read’s person leat Seg ee” NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge CATCH Chass “Elvis” Read live and in person on the Route 229 bus from the SeaBus terminal to Lynn Valley and back. ry has the makings fora classic tt He met his wite Parnicia when he: was 14 years old, Phe two grew upain the Lyn Valley neighborhood, the sane nehborhood in which the vsull reside, and began dating in 1956, Ironically, it was while Read was on duty driving a bus thar he mer and asked his tature wite out, Raised mm vanous onddle class foster homes after his mother died when he wasa child, Rea.t speaks fondly or his native Indian ber fli complevon tosimilar to Presfes so Pim oa very ftcky min. vers Tike he sand Miracles der happen. and Pan ling preat dD hadialoter Bre peopie tke Gare of ane when Powe grossing ups 7 See Passengers pate 5 introduc! tory Membership 6 for woment only & co-ed faciites $26-9177 Expires Feb 28/98 om see oe ‘For kids only « GBs Children the focus of classified special feature Cozumel is the perfect base for exploring the Yucatan Peninsula The island life p17 $7.00 Debi nets green fee hike tan Noble News Reporter fan@nsnews.com IF Northlands golf course management has its way, North Shore golfers will need to cough up approxi- mately $47 for a round. Vhe course needs te charge such green tees to inake regular payments on 8 SEES million debt obliganon to the North Vancouver Districs Heritage Fund. The North Shore Pubhe Golf Course Society strenuousiy objected to fees of that miasnitude last vear, when they were proposed by golf course stat reeh tees cps ter look if sand counsel lors and golf course staitare scheduled to meet Feb. 24 ro discuss isaies related to the golf course. incluetnyt tees, “Aly personal approach toatus Ethink it should be ia fine wish other Gourses of sunilar quality se char ican make acon mribunon and the repayment af the debt.” “Bur we need to ensure thar when so that we're nots fet 4 be unduly restricting, access to the course tor the average person.” cl sand he doesn’t know whether IS appropriate, saving fe needs to sesame thought te the matter. Adan 25 report by Northlands ven cial manager Laurie Craddock said: low quality mamapal courses charge S28 to $32 and qgoaho publa courses: charge Sod Wednesday February 25 Ptr OF FICIAL COt IRIE Hf RORHDE OF Tet BE CTE TE Bue aaa will be delivered 10 your door on | was $31,996