Vavaris vow

NV City nixes
neighborhood
pub again

Jolanda Waskito and
Hobe: Galster

NICK “the Greek”
Vavaris is determined
to get a liquor license,
even though North
Vancouver City council
again voted not to sup-
port his bid for the
permit March 23.

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“It’s: frustrating,”
Vavaris said.

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“Eve been very

unfairly treated by council.”
Vavans, who owns a
resraurane oar 107  Wese
Esplanade, has been trying t.
turn the establishment into a
pub for the past cight vears.
In order to obtain a pub
heense from othe Liquor
Board, Vavaris’  Jawyer
Jonathan Baker asked council
if it could paw Ga following
motion: "Council considers
thar the residents are in favor
of granting the heense.”
‘Anstead, city council verted
3-2 to shelve Vavaris’ requis
Coun. Barbara Perranh
said that there are enough
parbs and licensed restaurants
serving the area already.
“We hae two pubs less
than cwo blocks of each other
— the Rusty Gull and Sater

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Chateau Whistler in January.

The jail sentence was to
run at the same time as a sen-
tence McDonald was already
servicing.

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Daniel James Nendick, 22,
of Vancouver, was jailed 60
days after he pleaded guilty to
breaching probation by failing
to complete 100 hours of
community work service by
Feb. 1, 1997.

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NICK Vavaris’s pub pro-
posal has been shelved.

Hagars.” Perrault said, and
the pubs are also within a six-
Dock radius of Vavaris” restau-

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“Enough is enough,” she
said. “Adding one more is too
much.”

Vavaris first, got the ball
rolinp 3a pub prenosal for
his restaurant ¢ight years ago.

Tn $994 the city conducted
a survey of the area's residents
at Vavaris’ expense. A city ras:
take led to the survey being
deemed flawed which in cura
fed to councillors deciding to
forego conducting another
survey. Instead, councillors
decided to proceed with a
public hearing to gage the
opinion of the area’s residents.

The hearings held) at city
hall, received a massive
turnout with both supporters

and cpponents airing their
views with impassioned

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s to fight on for his pub

speeches.

In May, 1996 council
approved the pub application
and sent a resolurian to the
Hquor licensing branch in
Victoria. However, the resolu-
von stops short of stating that
councd considers the majority
ef the area's residents are in
faver of the pub --~ merely
that approval in the form of a
rezoning was wranted.

Coun, Stella Jo Dean sad
veancil has always prided
themselves in’ being “just,”
and told counall during the
debate Monday thar they
should use their wisdom in
supporting, Vavaris since he
has supported the city in the
yeast,

“He restored Hamersley
House ar his own expense,”

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Dean said. The future influx
of residents settling in the
recently developed Lower
Lonsdale area should be
enough reason to add another
pub to the area, she added.

In the early °70s Vavaris
sank all his monev into refit-
ting city-owned Hamersicy
House into a restaurant. The
project nearly bankrupt him.

He claims that he doesn’s
have a pub up and’ running
because of a conspired effort
on behalf of the area’s existing
pub owners to stop him. He
said it’s those pub owners that
have backed — councilfors
through political, contribu-
fons,

Vavaris said he
know what to do,
keep on fighting.

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