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Once-and-for-all survey follows public outcry

March 23, 1983

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

TO DRINK or not to drink? The controversy over
the neighbourhood pub for Dundarave rages on.

Now, Dundarave residents
are to have the chance to
vote “once and for all” on
whether they ever want a
pub in their neighborhood. _

And if the answer is yes,
Hank Sager says he will re-
apply to West Vancouver
council for permission to
turn his Sager’s Maple Shop
at 2324 Marine Drive into a
neighborhood pub.

Although council recently
reyected the Sagers’ original

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MOUNTAINSIDE BACKUP occurred courtesy of the booze patrol both
days last weekend as Weat Vancouver police set up road blocks on
Cypress Bow! Road to check for people trying to sneak liquor onto the

Families may have been frustrated by the lengthy delays In get-
ting into the park but were no doubt glad to avoid a repetition of the same

slopes.

wince

application, it voted Monday
to hold a general Dundarave
survey costing upwards of
$8,000 to find out if Dun-
darave want a pub or not.
“We want to know if
Dundarave people want a
pub ever. This is a forever
policy decision and we need
to know the opimon of

everyone who hives in
Dundarave and uses the
shopping area,” explained

Mayor Derrick Humphreys.

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Tel. 985-2131

Alderman Gordon
Rowntree, who voted
against the survey, pointed
out that people were to be
asked to vote on the general
policy question and not
whether they were in favor
of the Sagers’ application.

A frustrated Sager, who is
$8,000 out of pocket after
holding the original survey in
a half-mile radius of his
proposed pub, demanded:
“Why didn’t they ask me to

vehicles

liquor.

on

increase the survey? | would
have been happy to do so. |
don't see why the public
should have to pay out for
this now.”

* However, he says .he has
been inundated with phone-
calls and visits from people
offenng their support and
encouragement for his pub
plan, and these have con-
vinced him not to give up
hope entirely.

“After all, those buildings
are theirs,” he said. “I may
be the custodian of them at
the moment but those are

time last year when drunken louts sunbathin
with beer bottles.

Police tally

hentage buildings and they
belong to this community. It
is up to everybody to decide

what should become of
them.”

Following the recent
rejection Sager put the

buildings up for sale. Asked
what would happen if a
buyer turned up before the
survey was done, he replied:
“Thats the 64 thousand
dollar question. Maybe
council has left it too late
this trme. I don't know.”
Eight months ago, Sager
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NEWS photo Eric Eggertson

in the snow pelted passing
rom the weckend
amounted to seizure of about 500 bottles of beer and assorted wines and

check

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SIEGE FEA

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CHRIS LLOYD

A PIZZA delivery

holdup in the early
hours of last Friday
generated the same

kind of undercover
response police might
use in swooping on a
terrorist cell.

Half a dozen members of
the local force’s emergency
response team, armed with
shotguns and = automatic
rifles, surrounded a home
beheved to be the location of
one of the pizza holdup
suspects

Meanwhile. a police
negotiator called in specially
for the purpose talked on the
phone to a suspect inside the
surrounded home. managing
lo persuade the occupants to
give Chemselves up without a
shot being red.

And though holdups of
piva drivers are not par
ticularly care in North Van
couver and dont usually rate

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WEDNESDAY:
Sunny with
cloudy periods

THURSDAY,

Cloudy possible
Showers