TRUCKER’S TRIAL B.C. Supreme Court rules truck driver not allowed to testify under oath because he lacks capacity to under- stand its significance. PUP RETURNED Family reunited with 12- week-old yellow lab after $400 reward paid out to anonymous caller on Vancouver street. 76 pages February 3, 1995 : i Paper whites bring . spring indoors: 14 @ Weekly Real Estate ' section: 33 - 76 , @ Classifieds..........25 7) Home & Garden.........13 a Don Sigghts..... eee ceeseesseeeeee B a. Inside Stories... 13 “MN. Shore Alert..........10 MTV Listings...... wD ® Toyota unveils new six- seater Avalon: 22 @ Listings for new and ‘used cars: 23 Weather Saturday: cloudy with sunny periods High 9°C, Low 3°C. _lives one block from the Coach House, is NEWS S photo Mike Wakefie!d COACH HOUSE Inn flyers advertising upcoming strip acts have prompted locai resident and concerned parent Elise Roberts to enlist local and provincial help to rid the area of the flyers. She worries that the ads and their racy photos will be seen by children. By lan Noble News Reporter The problem, however, may soon solve itself, because the Couch House, 700 Old Lillooet Rd.. plans to turf the strippers when a beer and wine store moves in. In the meantime, an irate Elise Roberts, who sking North Vancouver District and the province to teview the business's liquor and business licences. One of the advertisements in question was picked up inside the Coach House by a News photographer. It consisted of a letter-size piece of paper with photocopied pictures of strippers wearing skimpy cloths and photos of women kissing and fondling each other's breasts. Couch House general manager Jack Zydel said the flyers are for in-house ‘distribution only to tell patrons of upcoming entertainment. Twenty-five of the flyers are placed on tables each week, he said. Zydel, who doesn’t think the flyers are porno- graphic, acknowledged some copies wander hen customers take them away, but he added that making sure the advertisements stay in the Ceach House is difficult. “The only other thing I can do is nail them down or glue them down,” said Zydel, who said he’s sorry if flyers do get out. Zydel said only Roberts, who he calls a nui- sance, has complained. However, a.busy Roberts has gathered 30 names on a petition asking for prompt action regarding the “inappropriate” advertising. She wrote a Ietter to Attorney Gencral Colin Gabelmann on the advice of North Vancouver- Lonsdale MLA David Schreck, asking the province to review the Coach House's liquor license. She will also write North Vancouver District council and urge councillors to review the inn's operating licence and investigate whether the dis- tribution of the flyers violates district bylaws. Roberts complains that flyers have been found on the ground near Lynnmour elementary school, and said she was on the Capilano College bus -- . 7 . Racy flyers advertising NV inn’s strip acts upset local parents IN-HOUSE ADVERTISEMENTS for strippers are finding their way outside North Vancouver’s Coach House Inn and upsetting neighborhood parents, who worry children may get their hands on them. when her six-year-old son discovered one of the flyers advertising nude strippers. “I'm not a devout Christian; I'm just con- cerned about the kids,” she said. Roberts calls the advertising “very poor public relations” and wants the Coach House to stop it or advertise in a more sensitive manner. “We have to meet (the Coach House) halfway,” she said. The Coach House does not advertise its strip- pers outside the inn, said Zydel. He added that strippers have been performing at the inn since 1983. But they may not be enter- taining there much longer. When the inn gets a beer and wine store, perhaps as soon as April or May. the strippers will go. Zydel said. “Until that time it pays the bills,” he added. Roberts believes strippers put children in a vulnerable position because of the “element” stripping attracts. She wants the strippers to move to a more industrial area. Roberts was also miffed by a recent Coach House strip act that included a tiger. The strip act, she said, was advertised on the side of a huge semi-trailer with a woman in a bikini on it. She said children wanted to see the tiger and were photographed with it. The association between children and a strip act is inappropriate. Roberts said.