6 - Sunday, July 10, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS bal Pas ao W. Van's nice girl next door his true Playmate? in with a golden Lab, a Doberman and a Burmese kitten to add to Hef's two dogs, a cat and a pair of THE REIGNING QUEEN OF PLAYBOY-LAND Jooks the part — every spectacular centimetre of her. But the sound- track doesn’t quite fit the glossy image. The warm, animated voice, bubbling with’ enthusiasm, is that of everyone’s ‘“‘nice girl next door."’ Kimberley Conrad, 24, was in town briefly last week, staying overnight with mom and dad in West Van before a hectic day of media promotion for Playboy Magazine’s 35th anniversary. Since January — when she made the West Van Secondary grad and former Vancouver modet has been the Playmate-in-residence of 61- year-old Hugh Hefner at his fabled Los Angeles Mansion. For the moment she has a lot to enthuse about. She sums up life there in a. single word: *‘paradise”’. “We have so much in com- mon,” she says. They apparently love playing card games and wat- ching old movies together. Both parakeets — a menagerie which shares the master bedroom with them. The pool has a waterfall, under which they swim into a room with sofas and hot tubs. She plays tennis with girl friends (docs Hef play? ‘‘He will if 1 ask him!'’). Housework is NOT part of the daily routine. Nor is any other toil. What's the next step in her career? ‘{’ve nothing planned. Hef doesn’t want me to work.'* What about the age difference? **We don’t even think adore animals, Kimberley moved about it. | adore him."’ Hef rah Playboy centrefold — the 1981 7 GLOSSY IMAGE, GENTLE SOUND... West Van's Kimberley Conrad (1) as cover girl; (r) refaxing at home in the Mansion gardens with Hef. / Tower windfall is ITS zeal for a financial windfali, West Van- g@ couver Council has betrayed its citizens by going ahead with a plan to build two 21-storey towers at Jaylor Way and Marine Drive without adequate public consultation. At an ad hoc Thursday meeting, council pushed the developer’s 99-year lease. through to third reading, giv- ing it final approval at the following regular Monday meeting with little community discussion — giving the project in effect an irrevocable green light and putting it firmly beyond the reach of pubiic influence. Clouded by visions of monetary largess — as the district stands to receive millions of dollars — the decision-makers neglected their duty to explore all op- tions and consult the voters before taking on a massive proposal of such far-reaching implications. Questionable democratic process aside, the tower proposal makes little sense for the location, as the already-nightmarish traffic in the Park Royal area will look like a'dream compared to what drivers can expect when the project is complete. No doubt council is in a quandary, as the site is real- istically ill-suited to high-rise or parkland development - given its proximity to one of the Lower Mainland’s Publisher busiest traffic arteries. A much-needed West Van- eouver arts centre — earlier suggested for the site might be a better solution for the property, but that would cost money, not generate it as the tower pro- posal will. Opting for the biggest bucks for the bang may make financial sense in the eyes of council, but in doing so unilaterally and without sufficient public consultation makes a mockery of democracy. Associate Editor welcome envelope. Peter Speck Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher Noel Wright Advertising Director . Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualilied undet Schedule 111, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Weunesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed lo every door on the North Shore, Second Class Mail Registralion Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are bul we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material inciuding manuscripts and pictures a which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed himself says ‘*I think, this time, I've picked the right lady.”’ She even touches on the idea of marriage, hitherto a forbidden word in the Mansion. And, always, it’s just that nice girl next door talking — excited about a grad night romance, tn her glitzy new world, Kim Conrad’s voice may take her even farther than her vital statistics. oe 6 WRAP-UP: That big anonymous ad in last Wednesday’s News, call- ing on West Van citizens to take up their pitchforks and invade the council chamber in force tomor- row, July 11, to fight the planned 2)-storey twin highrises at Marine and Taylor Way, was paid for by the recently formed ‘Save Capilano Public Lands Commit- tee’?. Members are reported to in- clude former alderman Don Grif- fiths, labor leader Jack Munro, Elaine Fonesca, Jeanette Helmer, Phil Hornby and UBC professor Marion Crowhurst ... Congrats to West Van management consultant Chuck Connaghan, newly elected president of the B.C.-Yukon Council of the Duke of Edin- burgh’s Award in Canada in suc- cession to Lawrie Wallace of Vic- toria. Curreutly, some 3,000 young people in B.C. are working towards the annual award — which calls for outstanding achievement in community service, physical fitness, oudoor expedi- tions and a chosen skill... And our a SMOKING? OR NON SMOKING? 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 §9,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) SBA DIVISION Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions Fax News Tips CHUCK CO «Duke's man. NNAGHAN new ‘“‘top cop’’, North Van- Capilano MLA Angus Ree, has a Jot more on his plate than looking after police and prisons. As Solici- tor General in Bill Vander Zatm’s reshuffled cabinet, he heads a new ministry which hasn’t hitherto ex- isted. He's also in charge of rac- ing, gambling, parole, censorship, criminal injuries compensation and the Motor Vehicle Commission, as well as being empowered to in- vestigate anyone and everyone — even (however unlikely) you- know-who himself! eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: Then there was the customer who was asked by the waitress whether he wanted his pizza cut into six or eight pieces. ‘‘Better make it six,”’ he said. ‘I can’t eat eight.”’@ 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 988-NEWS MEMBER North Shore owned and managed Entire contents © 1988 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved.