Sign-like owner- doesn’t work

All - Wednesday, November 23, 1983 - North Shore News

‘Really serious’ about
finding permanent work

YOU MIGHT call it a sign of the times.
‘*T need a job,”’ proclaims a red-lettered, huge
white sign at 2665 Marine Drive, West Vancouver.

By

ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN

**I stole the sign idea,’” ad-
mits 33-year-old Dan Riley,
the man who created the sign
and who needs the work.
‘‘My mother told me about
three weeks ago someone put
a (similar) huge sign on
Hastings St. that said ‘I need
a job’, with the guy’s name
on.”’

Riley says he’s ‘really
senous’’ about finding work.
He said his last real job was
in 1971, when he worked
part-time as a_ recreation
Organizer at a community
centre. Riley now lives with
and is supported by his
mother, who's 68.

**I'd do anything. I'll take

Situation’s so utterly
hopeless.”

But after two weeks, Riley
says his sign has netted him
no jobs.

“A few people mentioned
seeing it. And the guy next
door said he might try (pur-
ung up a simular sign).’’

Riley said he completed his
grade 12 last June to increase
his chances of finding work
He also took art classes for
two years at the Vancouver
School of Art.

“*['d like to be a fine artist
-.. @ painter if I had my
druthers,’” he said.

Riley said while his sign is
‘**functional’’, it isn’t one of
his better works.

““When I'd finished the
sign, 1 thought it was the
most horrible things I'd
seen.””

DAN RILEY has little to smile about — an adult student grad from Hillside Secondary last spring, he’s still without work

despite the large sign on his West Vancouver lawn.

WV backs planning

WEST VANCOUVER has
voted to participate in the
non-regulatory planning
functions of the GVRD at a
cost of $33,000.

The figure represents 3.5
per cent of the total budget
for the regional development
coordination and informa-
tion services, with contribu-
tions by participating munici-
palities based on 1983 assess-

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ed values.

The planning group was
established following the
announcement by the provin-
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planning would no longer be
a function of regional
districts under the Municipal
Act. However, the Minister
of Municipal Affairs has
okayed the formation of the
GVRD's group, despite the

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“1 don’t think [ll get a job
put (the sign) out there — the

as a sign painter,’” he said.

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