10 - Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1992 - North Shore News A.P. McCredie RECENT stories in the North Shore News about the possibility that North Vancouver City’s Presentation House arts centre could be torn down so that the city would not have to spend municipal money on the 90- year-old structure has renewed discussion about the value of saving historical buildings. North Vancouver Is it important to save the North Shore’s historical buildings? city hall was based in the 333 Chesterfield Ave. building now occupied by Presentation House from 1915 to 1975. A few years ago the city put together a catalogue of “existing heritage resources to provide a starting point for the olanning and implementation of future heritage policies.’’ INQUIRING REPORTER Grethe Sankey North Vancouver 1 think it is very impor- tant to keep and restore our old buildings, because they are part of Gene Soderbery West Vancouver Iam in favor of saving any historical land site or building. I’m very inter- sted in architecture — both new and old — and Hossein Dehghari North Vancouver 1 think old buildings should be torn down (to make room for new ones with new shapes and new styles. Bud Rodgers North Vancouver i think they should be saved. The heritage for one thing is worth sav- ing, and the Jook of them is another reason. Jack Hoiland North Vancouver Keep them, without a doubt. Old buildings give people today ideas to design new architecture.. Without these historical AIDS claims CBC diarist Dr. Peter _ DR.. ‘PETER, the.man_who put a human face on AIDS for ' B.C. viewers: of -CBC TV. news, ‘died Sunday. in his Vancouver apartment. He was 35. | -- Peter © ‘Jepson-Young graduated from Delbrook senior secondary schoo! in- North Vancouver. He went on to study medicine at UBC, © : He discovered he‘ had AIDS in -1986, two months after he began is medical career, : Dr. Peter ‘Jepson-Young vera. “two-yeat-period on 2C’s AIDS Diary, Dr. Jep- son-Young frankly chronicled the progression of the disease. | Last year ‘the former: North Vancouver. resident was the kéynote speaker at a conference held at Saint. Martin’s Anglican Church. in North Vancouver. He spcke openly .to a North Shore audience about AIDS, homosex- uality, death and dying. He urged people to focus on the fact that AIDS is preventable. In a News interview he said, “In order to discuss AIDS and in order to educate and prevent it, we've got to talk about sex to those people who are not yet sex- ually active or who are just becoming sexually active, and that means kids and teenagers, and there’s a lot cf people who are uncomfortable with doing that.’’ Last week the creation of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation was announced. Dr. +