Park &
Tilford
set for
season

By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter

THE gardens at Park
and Tilford are aglow
with Christmas lights
and the sounds of the
season.

Park and Tilford tripped
the switch for its 30,000-
bulb light display last
Saturday.

The festive display has
been a North Shore tradition
since °69 when the gardens
were a part of Park & Tilford
Distillery. When the distillery
was sold in 81 to make way
for North Shore Studios and
Park & Tilforn Shopping
Centre, they sat vacant until
87) ~—when ss they ~—s were
redesigned. In *89,
Morgward Investments
resumed the tradition.

The gardens, which are
fully privately funded by the
merchants of the shop ing
centre, are open daily
9:30 a.m until 9:30 p.m.
Admission is free.

Garden director Todd
Major likes to improvise with
the festive decorations each
year,
One recent addition to

the season lights display is the

“star” that tops the garden’s

centrepiece, a 60-foot Dawn
redwood. Major calls the
gaudy tree- topper a “super
bright rotating airport light”
and it has become a running
joke with the workers who
install the lights and regular
visitors to the garden.
“Up until. that we were
subtle ~ — very refined and not
oo Las Vegas-y,” said Major,

who plans to retire the bright
orange beacon in January

~and replace it with something
different next season.

-. Park & Tilford’s
Christmas lights are displayed
every day at dusk till 9. :30
p.m. through New Years Day.
The gardens will be closed
Christmas Day.

Heritage award

MIKE Brody of Brody Development Corp

. has been recognized with another

award for his work on McNair House at 2 256 E. 6th St. The Heritage Society of

B.C/s Outstanding Acheivament Avard wes

last week. Left to right:

Kate Rourke ef Forma Design, Brody, Robert Mearns and Bob Spencer of the
City of North Vancouver and Caroianne Reynolds of the heritage society.

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