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MARTE Heyes Hair Studio features the tearn of Paula Hultman and
Linda Guttmann, both of whom have e wealth of experience to draw on.

NORTH Shore Taekwondo owner Hallie Fraser was welcomed in

Queensbury when she moved her business there from Lower Lonsdale.

STEVE Coulter has worked for the owner of the British Butcher for a decade, but only the last
three years have been at the Queensbury location with the first seven spent in Kerrisdate.

Laid back Queensbury
residents love bangers

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selected at randons that call the street home. If you have a business that is
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Robert Gaister

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com
THE British Butcher
opened its doors
in the heart of
North

The biggest difference berween
the two locations to strike Coulter
is in the customers.

“The peuple are totally differ-
ent. The people here are very
friendly, laid-back and I've gotten
to know a lot of them,” said
Coulter. “I’m even going camping

> . with a customer next year.”
Vancouver’s My . Good relations" with
Queensbury Cu AVES customers are one

neighborhood thing, but it’s the prod-
ee

three years ago a NE sR uct that will win people

y over.
and his val i In the case of the British

a Butcher, it’s their made-
loyal clientele. on-the-premises breakfast
Steve Coulter has been with

sausages. Of the 47 varieties of
the butcher shop’s owner for 10 sausages available, the best sellers
years and followed him to

are English breakfast, pork and
North Vancouver when its former

apple, pork and maple, and pork
Kerrisdale location closed down. and Icck.

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Is the hemline up, down or gone entirety... Is the pawer color for fall a shade
of ochre or a tint of puce? Is there a trend happening? And what about my hair?
Do I colour it, streak it, straighten it, bleach it, curl it or shave it to the scalp?

How shoutd I accessorize?

Checking out
The Czechoslovakian restaurant
that called Queensbury home for
as Jong as many residents remem-
ber has gone the way of the coun-
try its name recalicd. In its place is
Gambrinus Restaurant which
serves up continental fare hercto
unknown to the locals. Claude
Croteau came = over_—s from
Anderson's Restaurant to head up
the new venture’s kitchen, and to
date is pleased with how the
restaurant has been received.
“We're all new with the area so
we're still realizing what the needs
are — build a certain clientele. We
don’t know what people would
like,” said Croteau. “I wied to go
pretty traditional from the start but
the specials I’m putting more of 3
twist on and people are reacting
pretty well.” ;
As his name suggests Croteau
hails from a French background
that serves him well in the culinary
field though his move predates his
involvement with the culinary arts.
“T was just a kid — it was just an

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