6 - Sunday, Januxry 24, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS Tourism seen as key to iorth Shore prosperity IF FREE-SPENDING TOURISTS don’t flock to the North Shore this year, it won’t be the fault of Judi Ainsworth and her coileagues in the North and West Van Chambers of Commerce. A director of the North Van Chamber, Judi chairs the combin- ed North Shore Tourisin Commit- tee, which has been working its collective butt off for months to make North and West Vana *tmust-see’’ on the Lower Mainiand tourist map. Her fellow toilers are the Park Roya! promo- tion manager Per Danielsen, West Van tourism chairman Don Grif- fiths, Transit manager Brian Kelly, Park Royal Eaton's manager Mike Nicell, BC Rail’s Paul Perkins and Capilano Suspension Bridge presi- dent Nancy Stibbard. The committee’s slogan, ‘‘So much more ... Vancouver's North Shore’, encompasses the parks, the beaches, the forest trails and the wealth of other recreational facilities from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay — but its specific thrust, of course, is to get visitors into the stores, shopping malls, restaurants, motels and hotels as well, The North Shore Economic Development Advisory Committee has targeted tourism as a key to local prosperity for the future. There’s more spending on the loose during the summer vacation months than at any other time ex- cept Christmas, but hitherto it has tended to stay mostly in downtown Vancouver. North Shore Tourism, the short title of Judi’s group, is now going all out for our proper share of the annual bonanza. Sponsored by the three North Shore mayors, NST launches its 1988 campaign Tuesday, Jan.26, with “Destination North Shore" — a gala breakfast-'n-ideas meeting from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in ZUDL AINSWORTH.,..share the bonanza. Capilano Mall. Tickets ($5) at the door, but call 987-4488 Monday to tell them you're coming. You could be part of one of the biggest things to happen to the North Shore in decades. eee FLAME-SHARING DEPT: Seems we were wrong after all last Wed- nesday in suggesting that Tor- chbearers Rob and son Mike Pellatt of West Van were probably the only local father-and-son team in the trans-Canada Olympic relay. On Thursday up pops a second one, also from West Van, in the persons of John and son Glen Weston. And there's a happy tie- in, too, with their two West Van neighbors. Young Mike Pellatt, you may recall, does his one- kilometre lap Monday, J2n.35, on the highway shortly before Hope. Glen Weston, 26, takes over the torch from Mike for the next lap and then hands it on to his dad, John Weston — a 55-year-old former marathon runner, ote 7 YORTH VANCOUVER District is being im- ‘pulsive and short-sighted in considering a move to rezone a prime piece of industrial fand. Seiz- POSTSCRIPTS: Winding up a thriving seasonal business this month are two enterprising North Shore university students who'v. found there’s money in muscle- power. Since the fall Jordan Bright and Hugh Shearer, aka Ist Match Firewood, have sold hundreds of cords of hand-split alder, maple and birch from their Fell Avenuc wood lot — and Jordan says they'll be back again chopping and chucking in the late summer ... Cap College English instructor Sharon Thesen, who's gained na- tional recognition as a poct, has just published a new book of poems entitled The Beginning of the Long Dash — look for it in local bookstores ... Congrats to Diana Mikkelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Cox of West Van, at making the Dean's List at Nor- thwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota ... Proud Legion mom is Mabel George, past-president of Branch 118 Ladies Auxiliary — her youngest son, educated in North Van and a navy man for 24 years, is now Rear Admiral Robert George, Commander Maritime Naval Forces Pacific ... And Rete McKay, parks events coordinator for North Van City, reports that the first annual Carol Ships party last month in the City’s Water- front Park was a big fundraising success. On that cold, frosty Dee.13 night over 1,400 people turned out; City staffers made more than $750 selling hot choco- late and over $1,000 worth of tin- ned and packaged food was donated for the Food Bank. WRIGHT OR WRONG: A good executive never puts off until tomorrow what he can get some- one else to do today. @ NEWS photo T EARNING MUSCLE-MONEY..,.students Jordun Bright (left) aud Hugh Shearer chucking and chopping at their Fell Avenue wood lot. / ing the moment to plant the seed of residential development on the potentially fallow site of Mat- sumoto Shipyards — wallowing in the mire of a depressed shipbuilding industry — district council may . end up reaping a bitter harvest. Industrial iand in both North Vancouver City and District is rapidly diminishing as their councils fall under the spell of slick commercial or residential packages and rezone their way into a corner from which there is no escape. Once the land is gone, it is gone forever. Without industrial land there will be no industry; without industry there will be fewer long-term jobs for local residents. To ‘be: sure,’ residential . developments create construction. jobs. But industrial developments create largely the same construction jobs, as well as the added bonus of jobs for the industry’s:-workers. North Yancouver needs to expand and diversify its “ industrial base ‘to foster economic stability. Jumping into the residential development fray, district council has in this.case opted for short-term gratification over jong-term planning. With such a prime piece of: in- dustrial land, the possibility of so-called clean in- dustries — such as high-tech research and development firms — locating here is good. The district should be working to attract such in- dustry — a continuiag economic benefit to the com- munity — before it embarks on the road of no return that is rezoning the site to residential use. 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 Dispiay Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions “Peter Speck Managing Editor... . 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