BUSINESS

27 ~ Wednesday, May 18, 1988 -

North Shore News

NAME THE LYNN. VALLEY CHIPMUNK
Viascot solves mall mystery

AN IMAG INATIVE

publicity campaign launched’

April 11 by the people. at
Lynn Vatiey Centre culmi-
nated Saturday in the arrival
of the mall’s first mascot.

A six-foot chipmunk popped out
of a large tree which had grown
over the past few weeks in the cen-
ise of the mall cosnmon area. The
tree began as a mysterious mound
of dirt and bruken flocr tiles.

-As_ the ‘tree began to grow,
passers-by were treated to strange
scratching sounds emanating from

inside the tree. By Jast week the

scratching had grown to a muffled
plea for help:

|, During the course of the cam-

. paign various community members
were. called in to investigate the
mystery
couver, RCMP, North Vancouver
District Fire Deparimenrt repre-
sentatives, North . Vancouver
Distsiet_ municipal engineers, coa-
sulting engineers from .the firm

. Robinson, Dames & Moore, com- *-

munity pionzern Molly Nye and
. Harold Fromme, Lynn. Valley

‘| “general practitioner Dr. David W. °
Gray, Lynn Valley Ecology Centre

representative K Kevin Bell, Capilano

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briefcase
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The’ community members were’
- featured in’a consecutive series of

media releases and photographs.
The: new. ‘mascot remains
nameless, but to rectify, the. situa-

“tion, the mall is hoiding a Name.

Tke Mascot Coatest. The contest
closes June 2 ar9p.m. »

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first prize shopping spree and a
$50 second prize shopping spree.
Entry ballots are available at the
draw barrel in the mall and at the
Lynn Valley Days Parade, May 28.
Lynn Valley Centre manager
Leyda Molnar and Jobn Gordon,
marketing. manager for Marathon
Realty, Western Canada, put the
canipaign together. '‘The reaction
from people has been just 'great,””
said Molnar. °
Built in 1974, Lynn Valley Cen-
tre. underwent expansion and
remodelling in 1984. The mall is
owned and operated by’ Marathon
Realty: Company Limited.. Mara-
thon ‘operates over 30 mails in’.
Canada and the United © States.

- Marathon is a wholly owned sub-

sidiary of Cansdian Pacific: Enter-
prises Lid.

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