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Movies return to W. Van

THE MOVIES are making
a second run in West Van-
couver,

By Chris Wong
Contributing Writer

Park Royal Shopping Centre
management and an independent
cinema operator have reached an
agreement to reopen the imail's
triple-screen theatre.

Mall director Rick Amantea
said the cinema complex should be
open for business by the end of
the summer.

“We're ecstatic, and we will do
significant renovations to the
building so it will look a lot more
current,’ he said.

Tom Lightburn, the new opera-
tor of Park Royal Cinemas, said
renovation work on the theatre
has already started. The renova-
tions will include construction of a
new lobby.

The 1,000-seat, second-run

cinema complex will operate with
a discount pricing policy,
Lightburn added.

Two of the three sereens_ will
feature general movie fare,
Lightburn said.

The third screen will feature
what the cinema operator called
“specialty product’ — art films.

Said Lightburn, ‘The shopping
centre has been very supportive of
the idea of bringing back movies
and family entertainment to the
community.”*

Sentinel secondary school oc-
cupied one of Park Royal's
theatres for its annual spring play.

“The theatres will continue to
be available for community shows
like that,’’ he added.

West Vancouver has
without a cinema since mid-
January, when Famous Players
pulled out of the Park Royal loca-
tion,

North Vancouver currently has
two multi-screen theatres with a
total of 12 screens.

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Reliable figures for the number
of tranians in North and West
Vancouver are hard to come by.
Guesses range from 6,000 to
20,000, with most estimates in the
10,000 range.

The numbers are uncertain
because most of the Jranian
community his come to the Van-
couver area very recently.

What is clear is that they are
drawn to the North Shore, which
many say fooks like the moun-
tainous northern) suburbs of
Teheran.

Ministry of Education figures
show that Farsi (Persian) speakers
are the second largest ethnic group
(behind English-speakers) in
North Vancouver schools.

Kaywan Dashti, who founded
The franian Newspaper earlier this
year, says there is a ‘‘new store
every month’? opened by dranians
on the North Shore,

His newspaper is published in
Farsi, and Persian-language signs
can be found in an increasing
number of businesses along Lons-
dale,

Dashti estimates that there are
now 30 franian shops on Lons-
dale, including restaurants such as
Cazba at 4th and Lonsdale, and
Tu Casa at 13th and Lonsdale, as
well as Kababsara.

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Lonsdale focal point for Iranians

Shops, a money exchange (useful
for sending money back to rela-
tives in Iran), bakeries and food
stores.

One of oldest franian
businesses, after more than 10
years of franian ownership, is
Pars Deli, at [8th and Lonsdale.

When Gholam Reza Sefiddashti
bought the shop in 1982, it was an
Htalian deli, Over the years it has
developed an increasingly franian
flavor, selling foods from all over
the Middle § Sk.

The shelves are full of
evervihing from ‘ime juice and 15
different varieties of halva to
Fard’s. Persian Pistachio Nougat
and hand-made cotton candy
from Ram Bakksh Co, (Produce
of The Ielamic Republic of Iran).

Other products come from
Lebanon and Syria. In one part of
the store, two shelves reach up to
the ceiling, filled with books in
Farsi.

Sefiddashti says the number of
Jranian businesses up and down
Lonsdale really started growing
two or three years ago,

Farhad Farazady’s rug shop,
located near 14th and Lonsdale,
sells a range of Persian rugs in
different sizes and patterns,

the

Farzady was a carpet dealer in
Germany. He came here for per-
sonal reasons. He says he gets a
mixture of Iranian customers and
people from other communities.

Many of the people running
businesses have other skills.

Dashti, for example, worked as
an electronics technician in Iran.
He would have to study for three
or four more years to do the same
work here,

Sefiddashti of Pars Deli was a
lawyer.in Teheran.

Another [ranian, who was a
minister in the Shah’s regime, is
now a travel agent. And many of
the tranians working as taxi
drivers on the North Shore have
professional qualifications from
fran.

But some Iranians have manag-
ed to apply their professions in
Canada. Farzady said there are 10
Iranian dentists on the North
Shore.

Others work as engineers and
architects.

For the future, increasing
numbers of Iranian businesses are
likely to open on the North Shore,
Central Lonsdale will live up to its
new name — lranshahr,

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