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“HISAES WSTED,

_ GOOD ONE on you, West
‘Vancouver council! Bravo!
Huzzah! Well played!

Our council unanimously said
“no” Monday, to'expanded shop-
~ ping hours in.our unique communi-

. ty, and thus punctured the phoney.

“we must move with the times”
balloon. It was full of the hot air of

” big merchants who are already .as :
’ Tich'as Croesus and fighting to fat- 2

“ten, themselves further.

2 The issue was a request to“,
_ extend shopping hours year-around’

“in West Vancouver to 9 p.m. on: ;/
Wednesdays. : : fo
-Leading the drive were some *
powerful interests: Larco’s Park
» Royal Shopping Centre and two :
# Park Royal tenants, The Bay’ store
‘ owned by the Hudson’s Bay"

Z Company. whose representative also :

, Put. ina word for Zellers —'a cor-.’
‘porate cousin -—-.and Future Shop,
‘the computer: tore chain. (Which
doesn’ t entitely agree with the “>.

other two: Future Shop ‘would like

9 p.m, closings on Mondays and
‘Tuesdays as well.).-

-The only little. ‘merchant who

owed up to oppose the biggies
was Peter Black, the well-known
" Park:Royal butcher...

““LBlack was in his shirtsleeves.
His plea was emotional. and blunt.
He's lived in West Vancouver
for 30 ‘years. He questioned the

“tive,

ving i in the Dark Ages” as reflecied’

in its shopping hours.

Doug Foct |

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985-2131 (104)

4139 Lonsdale Avenue

North Vancouver B.C.
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North Shore Managed

985.2134 (1335

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GARDEN OF BIASES

How mutch business can a

_' butcher shop expect on a
: Wednesday evening? Yet, under his
‘lease, he’d be obliged to stay open
”. with the other stores, His shop is
- already open 70 hours a week and

362 days a year.”
Coun. Rod Day sympathized.

-, He wondered why a butcher should
be forced to stay open when there's s

no business.

Mayor Mark Sager speculated
that. “you'd have a real problem on
your hands” if tenants signed a
lease and subsequently found that

the landlord had changed opening

to allow round-the-clock business.
Well argued, Your Worship!
: (Indeed, what logical resistance

Chris Johnsor.
‘ . Operations Manager
985-2434 (444)

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Tuned

HE CANADIAN Broadcasting
Cerporation is the glue that binds our
country together. So says a group call-
ing itself Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
A fretful SOS letter was sent to the public
recently by the friends. It appeals for money
to staunch the budgetary bleeding the CBC
will surely continue to undergo in the face of
Finance Minister Paul Martin’s necessary
mission to wrestle our nation’s deficit demons
to the mat. Lo
Who speaks for Canada? What force
serves to unite us? What institution dares te
dream the national dream, the friends ask.
Their answer, you may guess, is not Hockey
Night In Canada, It is the carrier of the
national institution they are on about.
There is no argument that the CBC is valu-
able on certain levels. It gives Canadians a

“sense of what other Canadians are about.

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Canada fs. as all nation states are,.an~
unnatural and fundamentally arbitrary ‘con-:
ceit. It stands or falls as long as enough of its
citizens buy into the proposition. An individ-

_ ual’s sense of national identity is a mixture of.

heart and pragmatic consideration of pocket ..
book. But the nation does not stand or fall
upon the continued existence of: Newsworld,
and Cross-Country Check-Up.

. If the CBC does have a future it will not be ‘
in its present incarnation, The billion dollars. -
a year we drop on the institution is way out of
line. If we as a nation value the service, we
will acknowledge and support quality indige-
nous programming within the context of the
advertising-driven market place.

Yes, wrap yourself in the Canadian flag if -
you feel compelled to do so, but don’t do it on -
public coin. We've got a big enough bill to-

pay.

remains to 24-hour-a-day operation
if the argument of the longer-hours:
‘proponents is valid? There will
always be some customer wanting
to buy a VCR or a pair of socks at
' 3am.) :
. - Coun, Pat Boname nostalgically
reminisced that when she arrived in’
our town 20 years ago Park Royal

was closed on Mondays, which she ;

“thought was “neat” and made West ‘
Van different.» .

Coun. Diana Hutchinson
emphasized that changed hours
would affect all West Vancouver ..
shops.:

Although Black was the only .
one present, she said, other small
merchants had told her they too ..
were opposed, (Robert G.
Harrington of the Ambleside

. Merchants’ Organization said in‘a
_ letter that his members concluded

that “there would be more expenses

incurred than profits earned in
chasing market share.’’)

Coun. Allan Williams, former
provincial attorney-general, -
recalled: “I lived through the
fi restorm of the Sunday hours
issue.” Sunday shopping is now in-

effect, but “I’m not sure we're bet-

we

ter off because of it’? ;
Park Royal director R. F. (Rick)
Amantea responded that “we are
sympathetic te our small retailers”
but he hears from customers who |:
are disappointed when the mall
isn’t open. The invisible presence
at the meeting, of course, was Wal-
Mart, the ie huge American invader

Timothy Renshaw
Managing Editor
985-2131 (4116) -

Linda Stewart
Sales & Marketing Director
980-0511 (319)

famous for gobbling up smaller
business, with a store in North
Vancouver's Capilano Mall.
Personally, I'm far from impressed
with it.

Yes, i'm pro-business and pro-
capitalist, and my work in the
media should give me a strong self-
" interest in expanded retail hours,
But council was right to keep the
present hours.”

And, although I shop at Park
~ Royal like most West

Vancouverites, I can’t drum up a
lot of sympathy for the longer-
hours crowd.

The Bay and Zellers are largely
owned by Woodbridge, private
company of Ken Thomson, son of
late media baron Roy (Lord) -
Thomson. I have friendly feelings

“toward dog-lovers like Ken “

’ Thomson, indeed own Thomson
stock, but with personal wealth in
the billions he won't be broken if
his Park Royal stores can’t stay
open till 9 p.m. Wednesdays.

Nor will a tag day every likely -'
be needed for poor.old Larco, . °
_which besides Park Royal also °
‘owns Arbutus Centre, New.
Westminster Quay Public Market, a
Whistler development, and millions
in other. properties, ‘ 2

Rather, I feel for small mer-
chants like the Blacks, and for the"
_ big stores’ employees confronted |
by longer hours. They too need a
rest. If they want to work ridicu- "
lously long hours, they should be i in
journalism.

Peter Kvarnstrom
Display Manager -
980-0511 (103)

* Classified Manager
986-6222 (202)

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Some good —
news at fast.

Dear Editor:

I'm writing in regards’ to “your
paper: ] love it. I’ve been living here™..
for almost six months now, from
Winterpeg, Manitoba, and living in:
North Vancouver ‘for: about four.
months, and I find North Van Peo:
_ ple the best. :

: [came over here to Start work’ al
Lower Mainland Ceramics on, West z
2nd Street. 1 worked: for ‘my’ first’,
week and just had to move over to
the North Shore because the people ..
over here are tnily’ hard-working,
down to earth and kind ‘people. ”

..Then reading your paper made it
all seem right..I find the paper cov-
ers so much’ and ‘a ‘good: look of
who's whe and what's happening. ‘

‘1 think more write-ups on people
" like “my -boss «should .be™ ‘printed
because Vivian . Kranonburg,’ who
not only’ lives on’ the: North Shore
- and owns a-tile store for the ‘last 13
years plus her other’ store for about
20 years, has the true meaning. of
support for. where she lives.”

I'm sure there are a lot’of other
"North Shore people out there’ who
- should have their name in lights as
per say, but I-know myself I like to
read little ‘stories about people: wh
have helped’ make’ the North Sho
what it is today..

I thank you for your time} keep ;
‘up the great work, . :
Dyllon Green’

North Vancouver ..

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