3. Briday. PETITIONS GIVE CONTRADICTORY VIEWS A PAPER battle of contradictory polls and petitions is cur- rently being waged in Deep Cove. At the centre of the storm is an application for a marine public house licence by a North Van- couver man planning to purchase Seycove Marina on Panorama Drive. Local residents are riled. James Egerton would like to build a 65-seat California-style marine pub-bistro at the marina, bi: residents are worried the addi- tion would just add further con- gestion and trouble to an area already taxed to the limit) with traffic. Egerton has an option to buy the marina subject to the approval of the building of a marine pub or restaurant. But Panorama Drive resident By MICHAEL BE Mews Reporter James Harman was among 30 res- idents who went door-to-door within a two-mile radius of the marina petitioning against the lieence application. “The people we petitioned were 8S per cent against the idea,"’ said Harman, a two-year resident on Panozama. ‘I'd love to walk down the corner to a pub, but it’s not safe for this area.” Harman said that although the marina has parking spaces for over 200 cars, boaters using the marina are parking on the street’ on weekends, “Panorama Drive can’t handle the traffic using it already. Three weeks ago a fireman had to get out and guide a fire truck through cars parked on either side of the street. You're lucky to vet a 10-speed safely down the street on weekends,’ he said, But Egerton, who has lived on Panorama for 10 veurs, said the pub-bistro wouldn't add to traffic congestion already on Panorama. “Sixty per cent of the traffic for the facility will be from boaters. | live here, too. — don’t want drunken brawls up and down the street cither,’* he said. Egerton said he, his wife Marlene and sons Rick and Rod also went knocking on doors a few months ago along Panorama Drive NEWS photo Nell Lucente SEAN LENER, left, and Kirsten Clarke are out hundreds of dollars and want someone to make good on wages owing them after their former manager left town leaving Capilano Mac's employees and Mac’s head office in the lurch, Clarke was working to save money for an extended trip abroad while Lener was working to save for his post-secondary education at Capilano College. and found 70 per cent of the peo- ple in faver of the concept. He suid the Liquor Control Board gave him pre-site clearance in June. “The liquor inspector told us we could put a marine pub in there subject to a plebiscite of people living within a half-mile ra- dius of the site,’’ Egerton said. After hearing about the resident petitions against: the application circulating in the neighborhood, Egerton called a neighborhood meeting July 10. Approximately 60 people attended the meeting. “My feeling is that there were people for it and against it, but they didn’t hate the idea as much after the meeting,”’ he said. Egerton said another meeting held a week before the July 10 meeting, by the current Seycove August 7, 1987 - North Shore News Marina owner, drew approximate- ly ISO marina users and Indian Arm residents. Said Egerton: “I told then: what was going on. The opinion was 50/50 when | walked in. After answering questions, 100 per cent were all for it.’ An independent survey of resi- dents, a5 stipuleted by licence ap- plication guidelines, will be con- ducted by Pannell! Kerr Forster as early as next week, “I’m not building a beer parlor,’’ Egerton said. ‘‘We’re not having bunds and jukeboxes. There won't be a beer or wine Store. We're going to spend a con- siderable amount of money on a class, family-oriented — establish- ment,”* CASH COMES THROUGH NV man caught in UIC catch-22 A NORTH Vancouver man who was caught in a catch-22 situation over unemployment insurance wants the system changed to better help workers who find out-of-town jobs, but who have no money until their claim’s paperwork has been completed. Dennis Anderson started a new job in Gold River, B.C., Aug. 4 after unsuccessfully battling the system that would not give him his unemployment insurance money so he could move to the Vancouver Island community to take the post. “It was sure a panic on my part, desperation almost,’’ Anderson, 26, said Thursday in an interview from Gold River, where after bor- rowing $100 travel money from the Ministry of Social Services and Housing he is now employed as an apartment maintenance worker, After applying for unemploy- ment insurance July 8, Anderson was offered a job. Having little money until his claim was process- ed, he asted that officials speed up his applic..ion, But unemploymen’ officials told Anderson he did not qualify for a moving allowance and said that they were unable to speed up his insurance claim — which would have provided him with money to move. “fm quite disappointed,’ said Anderson, who was laid off June 19 from his janitorial job at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. ‘‘They never did anything for me. It’s almost a shock that they wouldn’t help me Weather: Friday and Saturday, mainly sunny. Highs near 25°C. News Reporter move to get work." Vancouver Employment and Immigration information officer Jack Kent said that occupations such as Anderson's do not usually qualify for a moving allowance. “We would move people who are in job shortage occupations,”’ he said. ‘‘We don’t usually traipse janitors around the countryside — there are enough (janitors) unem- ployed in the local area."* Kent conceded the Unemploy- ment Insurance Act — the act under which unemployment in- surance claims are handled —- has no provision for speeding up claims or helping workers who have been offered an out-of-town job. “The act is designed to help people who don’t have a job,"’ he said. ‘tf they have a job offer, it’s up to them (to take care of the details)."’ Until Anderson can get some money, most of the focal man’s possessions will remain sitting in storage in North Vancouver. ‘‘I just came with the clothes on my back and the tools to do the job.” INDEX Classified Ads.... Doug Collins..... Editorial Page..... Entertainment..... 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