3 - Wednesday, July 17, 1985 - North Shore News

Business ........... 38
Entertainment ....... 38
lifestyles...........41
Mailbox.............7
Sailing Race........17
Sports.........00..20

Race Day: 17 Profile: 4 What's Going On.....36

Results of the News’ North Van racing car
eighth annual sailing driver takes it to the
race. limit.

Lifestyles: 41
Nosth Shore athletes go
for the gold,

WEATHER:

Wednesday and
Thursday, sunny with
patchy morning cloud.

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Rotten boards make
kyard a hazard

So j 7 ephsothote Aye: 5 eeeeaa MOWING YOUR lawn
: ean be dangerous, a :

Deep Cove man has '
recently learned. :

By BARRETT FISHER ‘

Bill Brown was cutting his
grass Sunday when to his
surprise the ground gave way 4
and his lawn mower took a
nose-dive.

Upon further investiga-
tion, Brown discovered a
five foot by 10 foot hole
below the ground, about six
feet deep.

‘Someone could have
seriously hurt themself,’
Brown said. ‘If my little girl
fell in and no one was
around, I’d hate to think
what could have happened.
It’s one of those big
drainage pits that must have
been put in about 20 to 25
years ago. But the hole was
just covered up with boards,
dirt and grass. Since then the
boards have rotted.”

Brown said his neighbors
on either side of him have
discovered similar pits, and
they have filled in the holes
themselves with dirt and
rock. But he was unaware of
the one in his yard until
Sunday.

“The District says they
won't do anything about it,”
Brown said. ‘*! feel the min-
Sots imum they should do is
NEWS photo Mike Wokelleld make people aware, and I’d

WHEN BILL Brown talked about the holes in his back yard, he didn’t mean for on unpianned trip. Brown’s daughter Alison demonstrates the depth of like them to pay for any :
ruts you could trip on. He meant a hole you could fall into. Brown was the hole, above. Brown’s neighbors have alse complained about similar — costs.”” ;

mowing the lawn when the earth seemed to open up, taking his lawn ‘mower holes on their properties. See District
: Page 10°

New referendum on Sunday shopping

RESIDENTS of West commercial, social, and fi- maintain they are watching in West Vancouver, which favor of Sunday shopping, until after the New Year.”

Vancouver will be given nancial implications of Sunday retail business pour pays an estimated $2 million and. if council endorsed In a July 10 letter to West
y . holding a September refer- out of the municipality into annually in municipal taxes, Sunday shopping, commer- Vancouver council, Park

another kick at the endum on the Sunday shop- the cash registers of were afforded the considera- cial businesses would have Royal Shopping Centre

Sunday shopping can. ping issue and the attitude of neighboring communities tionofanearly referendum. an extra two months, in- vice-president Hugh Addison

; —— - West Vancouver’s commer- who now have Sunday He added that no legal cluding the Christmas estimated the total loss of

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW cial and private sectors shopping influenced the hurdles stood in the way of period, to have Sunday 1985 sales from all West

: " toward holding aneagly.ref- decision. holding the referendum be- shopping in place,’ Hum- Vancouver retail establish-

West Vancouver District erendum. In putting the motion be- fore the November elections. — phreys said. ‘If we wait un- ments due to Sunday closure

Council passed a motion An_ ever-increasing fiood fore council, Mayor Derrick min a referendum were til November to hold the ‘‘will approximate $25 mil-
Monday night directing staff . of letters and petitions from Humphreys said it was time held in September, and if referendum, Sunday shopp- See Second

to draft a report on the West Van merchants who the commercial community West Vancouver voted in ing would not be in place page 8