3 - Wednesday, April 24, 1985 - North Share News Auto.............13 Budget Beafers.....54 Fashion.......... 60 litestyles.........51 Mailbox...........7 Miss Manners... ...52 | | ne ISIN as yo ety Be ee ay - NN IN FOCUS: 21 TV camerainan Pat Bell ESCAPE: 49 Artists are escaping this weekend fo an outdoor art ‘COLTISH: 16 A look at North Shore Colts and their leaders. : WEATHER: Mostly cloudy Wednesday, eMonyentts LEAT Se EP TE SRE ate ee Tee oe pa ee RTT te doudy with sunny periods Thursday. school. tinue to give the station his business. But he’s not willing to get wet doing it... A NORTH Vancouver. ident is upset because he doesn’t have a roof over his head. Road and Third Street. ‘Kevin Davis, who buys premium. unleaded gas. for : 1967 Chrysler convert- ible, Says the gas station is : ne & ‘the ms premiom le that people self-service. their * ~vehicles,"’ Davis ‘said, .‘‘they. .. should have a covered’ area. The cash: booth is about 30 feet away from: the- pump station. I got soaking wet “If they’re going to.make © just to go and pay my bill.” Davis said a gas station . was built on Hastings Street at Clark Drive, with approx- imately the same lay out and * property: size, but it was - built: with, a shelter between the pumps'and cash booth. _. “If-they can do it for one, why ‘can’t 'they do it for another?’’ Davis asked. Davis wasn’t willing to - drop the issue,:so he phoned Chevron’s public relations, but says, “the P.R. guy said it’ 's Not my job.’” ’ Davis then wrote a letter to the president of the com- pany, G.. Franciscovich, praising ‘Chevron for doing # . most things right, but asking why a covering wasn’t a . erected” on the. North Shore ‘NEWS phota Terry Petors KEITH DAVIS walks to the cash booth of the self-serve Chevron gasoline station at Keith and 3rd Street. He is unhappy that there is no roof covering between the gas pumps and the cash booth, because when it rains, he gets wet. Chevron representatives say they plan to cor- rect the problem. :Station, saying ‘‘it ‘more’ over here than _ anywhere else in the Lower Mainland.” Franciscovich wrote back to’ Davis apologizing for the inconvenience, and saying the matter would be a “challenge to our Marketing - Engineering Division. . Hopefully we can rectify the _ Situation in the near term.’ Franciscovich enclosed a ‘$25 gift certificate for pet- rains ° wins Blair Griffiths award, roleum products as a “gesture of appreciation and goodwill.”’ But Davis wasn’t satisfied. .. : He returned the gift certifi- cate and requested more af- firmative action. Davis then received a let- ter from Chevron’s manager of retail sales, R. Farbridge, recognizing Davis’ complaint as valid, but saying, ‘‘due to the triangular shape of the property, the narrow width and the allowed locations of the street crossing, this was’: to accomplish: difficult within the constraints of allocated capital funds. ‘A lesser designed facility would not be consistent with the quality standards we are at- tempting to establish.’ Far- bridge added that a practical solution was being looked into. Angrier than ever, Davis made his complaint public, reporting the series of events to the News. Speaking for Chevron, Farbridge told the News Davis was a concerned cus- tomer who had a valid com- . plaint. . “T sympathize with him,’’ Farbridge said. ‘‘We try to satisfy our customers, and this was a goof, a dumb oversight.”” Farbridge said there were some original difficulties withthe’ property, ‘such: as the sloping of the land which means the canopy has to be built at a different level from the. building, along. with other” difficulties, . but. ‘he says, ‘it’s not~'an ‘insur- mountable problem.’” “Weill fix it when -I get capital © money. I have’ the ‘cost estimate here on- my desk now. People assume oil companies have money that never ends, but we have budgets, like’ any. other .com- Pany.”’ Farbridge “says the” new. canopy will: ‘cost about. $50,000,. but he'adds ‘the’ lack . of a roof is a. ‘‘dumb -over- sight rather than’ a cutting of - ‘corners. It’s not out of sight, but -it’s not nickels. and dimes either. We could have put in steel and canvas, but that’s not our style. Chevron builds quality stations.’’ Although he could. not give .an exact deadline: for when a ‘canopy will be built, Farbridge said the. project will be done in the next year. Car vandalized, set ablaze EE A STOLEN car was destroyed on the weekend after it was severely vandalized and set cn fire, police believe. A CN crew spotted the blazing automobile at 3:23 a.m. Saturday morning and called police and fire of- ficials. North Vancouver City Fire Department and North Vancouver RCMP attended the blaze in the sandflats at the fuot of Fell Street, south ._ of the railway tracks. Insp. Gavin Sounes of North Van City Fire Department said the car was destroyed before fire crews arrived and no extinguishing was necessary. Cst. Alison trons of RCMP said the vehicle was gutted and no driver was on site. Several hours later a 1976 Renault was reported by its owner to have been stolen overnight. : Police believe a party had taken place on the sandflats and the vehicle was severely vandalized prior to being set on fire. ; Anyone with any informa- tion concerning the car fire is requested to contact Cst. Geoff Shaw or Community Crime Prevention at North Vancouver RCMP, 985- I3hl.