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Messages
peppered
with humour

. Marcie Good
News Reporter
mgood@nsnews.com
DON’T park here,
clean up after your
dog, and whatever you:
do, keep your kids out
of the flower beds.

There are different ways of

telling people what not to do,

Cameron Stewart spends a lot
of: time thinking abou the
best way.

He’s the parks sign maker’

for North Vancouver District.
His signs have sparked a lot of
alk among neighbourhood
dog waikers, because they are
what you don’t expect

from wunicipal signs.
They're funny.
of his
favourites .. stands :at
enfrance to Harbourview and
Mosquito.) Creek parks:
Attention Dog Guardians \
ck up Vafter your. dogs:

“personal

Thank vou. \ Auention Dogs -

G rire, bark, ‘Woof, , Good

“1 like that one,” said

Stewart, reflecting on his best -

reative and ‘public relations
xercises. “Because © I'm

vallowed to, because it. works,-;

: People: accept: ic and that’s
ery satisfying not to be told,
you can’t do that”.

That sign inspired” lots of
mail. The most recent was
widely “forwarded ‘e-mail
ith a picture oft the sign and
the. message: “proof. thar

‘municipalities do have a sense

cof humour.” It: eventually
nded up.’ with Richard

: Boulton,’ acting parks manag- -

ry with the question, “Do

uu have.a- Dr. Doolitde on.

Perhaps he doesn’t talk to +
-animats, like the literary vet,

ut the fact that he eddresses
hem seems. to be. appreciat-

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NEWS photo Julle Wverson

. CAMERON Stewart adds a twist to the task of making

municipal signs for North Vancouver District.

Another sign in Mosquito,

, Creek park came in response

toa number of complaints

"from people: who ‘live near a
“wide pool in the creek, where’.

dogs like to splash | around,
“Residents: in nearby
homes are greatly affected by.
excessive barking: in this”.
area,” reads one sign:
Down at the dog’s level,

“another has.a “b”. with a.

‘familiar: red circle and strike
mark..“No barking,” it says,
indicating: with arrows ithe .
quiet zone...

When : Stewart came. to
North. Vancouver District °
from the: same job at West
Vancouver, he decided to try

a

‘his best to deal with a typical

bone of contention among
park users: dogs and what
they leave behind.

In Mosquite Creek park,
he put up “Due to excessive
dog” droppings, NO cart-
wheeling.”

After a deluge of com-
plaints, it was quickly taken
down. “Tax dollars, wrote one
enraged park visitor, could be
better. spent. on doggy. bags
than on “frivolous signs.”

, The Great Canadian

really hurt,” said
Stewart. But ito wasn’t he
insists, in vain. “Cart-wheel-
ing was an cvample of going
too far. But veu have te pusi:
the emelope, or else vou
don’t know.”

He has alse ventured
bevond dogs, with a sign in
the flower bed at Edgemont
and Highland boulevards.
“This bed is tor plats caly,
Go jump on your own bed,
and fet steeping dogs lic cfse-
where.”

But raavbe his best sign,
the one that he will only wit
you about over tea, is one he
received himself.

After high school, he spent
some time working for a
chainsaw’ company, But he
kepi returning to his interest
in drawing, taking courses
like commercial art and. air-
brushing,

An offer fora great job as
a mechanic came up, and he
remembers sitting in his
Valiant at the intersection of
26th
Vancouver, wondering if he
should take it or follow his
heart.

“That

Through the rain-sptar-

tered windshield, bers zen the
movements of the wipers, he
gazed at the licence plate of
the Volkswagen van in front
of him.
three numbers he doesn’r
remember,

“It was like, ‘Yes!’ I was
asking the question, and there

. was the answer in front of me.”

People: get signs, he

reflects, but don’t always pay
attention, :

The ones he makes himself
seem to be different. He's not

sure if they actually: make:

people pick up after their
dogs.

“But when people notice
them» and are talking about

them and laughing about’

them and ¢-mailing their
friends, they j just might.”

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Sunday, December 10, 2000 — North Shore News ~ 5

God, ‘traditional’ family
supported by new party

From pane &

Conservatives, and) treasurer
David Cobo,

All tour will be speaking at
Cheers Restaurant: in’ North
Vancouver neat. Tuesday at 7
pm.

Buckley and) Mercier will
both be standing as ieadership
candidates at the party's nest
AGAL in the spring.

Buckley says the new party
is “a vehicle tir the unification
of pon-Likeral and non-NDP
voters.

“People were amazed the
NDP got in again (after the
Jast election} — 970,000 peo-
ple didn’t vote in the fast
provincial election. What we're
trying to do now is offer a
credibie alternative.”

The party’s foundation
statement says that members

“recognize the supremacy of
God and the cute of law.”

Its principles ineitde the
belief that “the traditional fam-
ily is the cornerstane of soci-
ety” and that “the private see-
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