INDEX Celebrations... Healt. Seniors Travel... 225 MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY, NORTH VANCOUVER A close shave fe Bob Mackin News Reporter bmackin@nsnews.com FRED Kirby is the sports fan’s barber. The proprietor of Kirby’s Hair Styling has been in business on the North Shore for 30 vears. All but the last five were at the Coach House Inn. Now he says business. is booming at Mountain View Village at 223 Mountain Hwy and Main Street in North Vancouver. Kirby is a sponsor of the senior B North Shore Indians’ lacrosse team and is a motorcycle and hot rod racing buff. Athletes, movie types, media people and politicians come calling for a shave and a hair cut. Photos of customers, from ex-North Vancouver City mayer Jack Loucks to Major League Baseball’s all- time hit king Pete Rose linc a_ wall. Kirby cut Rose’s. hair. back in. 1975 when “Charlie § Hustle” was in Vancouver for . - a sports banquet. The auto-° graphed photo would’ sky- rocket in-.sentimental and monetary value if Rose is: ever elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. Rose was banned from Major League baseball for gambling. “I think what happened ‘has nothing to do with his game,” Kirby says. “I think he'll get in one day as long as that committee changes.” Why do people cross Mountain Highway or Main Street? To buy chicken at 3P Poultry. But chicken isn’t all 3P sells. There are exotic meats like ostrich and alliga- tor. Yes, alligator. Imported from the bayous of Louisiana. “You can make alligator gumbo,” laughs 3P owner Debbie Benson. The three Ps stand for Preferred Poultry Products. The store celebrated its fourth anniver- sary June 29. Benson’s butcher shop provides natural, non- wedicated, free range meat and accessories. It even caters to those who feed their pets natural foods. ; “We try to make it comfortable and different, not your average butcher shop that you walk into that’s white and stinks.” -No matter what the weather's like, SunScape Tanning Studios is always on the sunny side of the street. . ccThe tanning salon is a popular hangout for MEGAN Bennett of SunScape Tanning Studios’ shows off the tan- ning salon’s beachwear. NORTH SHORE NEWS COMMUNITY LIFE f SP ae We, those who appreciate a darker hue of skin and those who would norma!- ly be at the beach. SunScape opened in mid- December and has five tanning rooms with a vari- ery of tanning beds, some of which are the most powerful on the North Shore. The proprietor of SunScape is Kelly Kerr, the globetrotting national team racquetballer. “You’re actually still being exposed to. the same rays, but it’s a con- trolled environment,” explains manager Megan Bennett. “You can go tan- ning for 10 minutes and you know how much ultraviolet light you’re getting. You can standup at the beach for 10 min- ly know.” Real coffee. Real food. Even real plants. McBeans Coffee House has a real cool atmosphere. The three-year-old cafe is owned by Ken Tan, who is really proud of the menu. “We serve fresh sandwiches and freshly baked muffins, pastries, soup, specialty coffees and teas,” Tan says. McBeans even has customers who venture from Vancouver. “We get a lot of business from across the Second Narrows. Sometimes they complain there’s no space to park.” Also at Mountain View Village: Bank of Montreal, Wendy’s, St. John Ambulance, Toyomi Sushi, Second Narrows Chiropractic, Quality Food and Edward Jones Investments. Commercial Avenues is a month- ly feature of the North Shore News’ House. utes and you'll never real- are brewin “NEWS photos Mike Wakelield MELINDA Tarves (rear), Cabrina Moxey, John Schleimer and Fred Kirby are veterans in the barber business at Kirby’s Hair Designs. Schleimer was responsible for ex-mayor Jeck Loucks’ trademark buzz cut. business section. While it is by no means a compre- hensive guide to any of the areas it foctses on, it seeks to capture a snapshot of the day-to-day life of busi- nesses selected at random that call the street home. If you have a business that is part of a nique or oth- erwise worthwhile block, or know of any, please share it with us. Write to Commercial Avenues, c/o Bob Maskin, North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver V7M 2H4. — E-mail bmackin@usnews.com DEBBIE Benson is not your average buich- er. She offers a variety of healthy and exot- ic meats at 3P Poultry. : aes DEANO Pesstone {left), Ken Tan and Murray Ankrom g a friendly atmosphere at McBeans Coffee - canine connection T had a-rare afternoon off last week, and decided to do a bit of house cleaning. Halfway into it, 1 got severely sidetracked when I unearthed my phoro albums: tucked away in a corner. I sat crossed-legged on the living room floor and whipped the dust off my puppy albums. These pages, filled with images of every, stage of development of my dog’s life, used to sit on the cotfee table and were thrust upon each guest who entered the house. I breezed . through the album with tears welling up in my eyes as I smiled at the wrinkly, furry bodies in the pictures. At that moment I decid- ed I was going to enlarge some of my favourites so I could place them alongside my Robert Bateman print, (heck, I think my dogs cre worthy of this). But upon closer inspection, J realised that my photographic abili- ty, or lack of it, did not give my dogs (or Bob, for that matter) justice. With photos taken so close that feer, tails and even ears were missing, or distance shots best viewed through a magnify- ing glass, these ictiencar not classify as art. In fact, some of them were so blurry I could hardly make out ~ who was who. , . Nope, these photos just would not do, I decided, I wanted dog art! I wanted photos that would be a tasteful keepsake, maybe even done in black and white. Photos that I could hang on the wall with pride and would last for many years. But I was not gifted enough to take these types of photos, I needed a pro. When most of us think about dogs in art, the image of a group of cartoonish |. looking dogs sitting around a table smoking cigars and ‘playing poker comes to ™ mind. And although this is a. grand picce of art, most dog lovers enjoy seeing real life’. ~ photos of dogs, especially "See Dogs page 25