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6 - Sanday, June 18, 1989 - North Shore News

More to the ‘boot’ trade

than you first imagine!

FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY a clamp locked on the wheel
of their illegally parked car, but find it a bit expensive, I
have good news. There are bargains around.

When I wrote earlier (Wednes-
day World, June 7) about this new
North Shore amenity — then just
introduced in West Van’s
Hollyburn Plaza. parking Ict at an
un-clamp price of $45 — it turned
out I still had a lot to learn.

Hardly. was our new smudge-free
‘ink dry on Page 6 before Fred

Mitchell came on the phone and
brought me up-to-date about the
local Denver Boot market. -

Mr. Mitchell is president of Ex-
ecu-Park, a Vancouver competitor
of Canadian Parking Enforce-
ment, operator of the Hollyburn
Plaza bootery. And the latter, it
seems, was NOT the first on the
North Shore scene after all. Mr.

Mitchell told me that Execu-Park
had been supplying boots for some
time past to a growing number of
parking customers with reading
disabilities at the Bank of Mon-
treal lot on Lonsdale and the
Crossings Restaurant lot by the

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“THANKS FOR HELPING!” ... Managing editor Barrett Fisher (cen-
tre) accepts North Shore Famity Services award (o the North Shore News

SeaBus.

Mobility, he explained, is the
key to the business. Once the word
gets around that a parking ‘ot is
being clamped, the cash flow rap-
idly dries up and it’s time to move
on to another lot where clamping
is not yet taken seriously.

Mr. Mitchell is proud of Execu-
Park’s ethical standards and cus-
tomer service. Parkers who
shouldn’t are normally given five
minutes grace before getting the
boot. Execu-Park snoopers work a
full eight-nour shift on the lot,
which — provided you have cash
or a credit card on you — means
fast unclamping. And best of all,
the charge is only $35 compared to
CPE’s $25 tab at Hollyburn Plaza.

“Its prices like that,’? he

declared with disgust in his voice,

““that give the industry a bad

name.’’

So if you want value for money
in wheel clamps, folks, shop
around to find a parking lot served

NEWS photo Cindy ‘Goodman

from Richard Rees (left) and NSFS president Roy Nelson.

tougher.

Nursing wounds

RSING is a tough racket, but being sick is
The current labor dispute pitting the B.C.

RICK WEINMAN ... heads lung
protectors.

by Execu-Park — the Save-on-
Foods of the ‘‘boot”’ trade!
gwen

MADE-IN-CANADA learning
material to replace U.S. textbooks
is now a growing phenomenon —
thanks in part to two Cap College
instructors. Penny Le Couteur and
Vicky Troup of the biology
department are members of. a
high-powered Canadian team who
played a major role in producing
its latest ajl-Canadian work,
Chemistry, A Second Course, for
senior high school students.
Author Penny wrote three of the
15 chapters and did all the prob-
Jems. Editor Vicky created tone
continuity and a consistent treat-
ment of formulae and examples.
“It’s practically revolutionary,”
says Penny, ‘‘in a country ac-
customed to relying on American
productions’’. And who knows —
under free trade, they might even
sell it eventually to the Yanks!
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POSTSCRIPTS: For North Shore
Chamber of Commerce members,
it’s welcome to the Year of the

Woman! Last Tuesday saw
Patricia. Treadwell inducted as
president of the West Van

Chamber. On Thursday Mayor
Jack Loucks administered the oath
to Debbie Trinacty, incoming
president of the North Van
Chamber — and the a.g.m. lunch
also brought glowing farewell
tributes to retiring manager Peg
Pitt-Brooke who, as Debbie put it,
“thas BEEN the Chamber”’ for 22
years... Interested in helping with
sports and recreation for the inen-
tally handicapped? Then Neigh-
bourhood House, 225 East 2nd in
North Van, is the place to be this
Wednesday, June 23, at 7:15 p.m.
for the a.g.m. of B.C. Special
Olympics (North Shore branch)
whose 1989 executive slate is still
short of a fundraising and a PR
member. Call Ann MeCabe, 980-
1035, if you'd like to tackle either
job... Elected 1989-90 president of
the B.C. Lung Association is

North Van’s Rick Weinman who.
previously served as its treasurer
and veepee... Congrats to Arthur
Pope — former North Shore News
carrier, 1977 Sentinel grad and
1982 UBC grad in computer
science — who just received his
Master's in comp-science from
Harvard University. Proud dad
and mom are West Van’s Beb and
Helen Pope... Happy anniversary
wishes Tuesday, June 20, to B.C.’s
“top cop’, Solicitor General
Angus Ree and wife Cheri of West
Van... And more of ‘the same to
West Van’s Frank and Noreen
Wilson who celebrate their 46th on
that day.
hae .

WRIGHT OR WRONG — Fa-
ther’s Day advice for all stressed-
up Dads: Unwind, but don’t over-
do it. You might unravel.

FIRST-HAND LOOK ... senior Sutherland students Susie Clee, Shawna
Pilgrim and Lisa Tan explore biology lab techniques with Dr. Nancy

Ricker at Cap College's recent annual Science Enrichment Day.

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Nurses’ Union against the Health Labour Relations
Association had, as of Friday, put 30 B.C. hospitals
behind union picket lines.

Lions Gate Hospital was cone of the first 12 hospitals
picketed, and its current situation is perhaps reflective
of that at other health facilities now under siege: out-
side, nurses appear upbeat and positive that they are
fighting the good fight; inside, management is becom-
ing increasingly desperate as they battle alongside
reduced nursing staff to provide minimum care to pa-
tients who need much more.

The issue here is not whether nurses are underpaid
for the work they do. They are; even HLRA president
Gordon Austin has been quoted as saying B.C. nurses
are ‘‘undercompensated.”’

The issue is how quickly that inequity can be over-
come. BCNU negotiators, who opened with a demand
of a 33 per cent wage increase over one year, have
since backed off, countering the HLRA’s 5.5, 6.0 and
6.5 per cent wage offer over three years with a demand
for 20 per cent in the first year and seven per cent in
each of the two subsequent years.

Both sides have since dug in positions on either side
of the province’s sick beds, leaving those who have
been left to occupy those beds in increasingly dire
straits. . . :

People get sick and tired of strikes very quickly, but
in this case it is the sick and the tired who are being
held to ransom. ‘ ,

Publisher Peter Speck
Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher
Associate Editor ..... Noel Wright
Advertising Director . Linda Stewart

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