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AG - Sunday News, July 12, 1981,

~ Bline ‘investors —

The way some developers tell it, you'd.
think ownership of land was an irrevocable
licence to print money.

“Discriminatory” and “expropriation
without compensation” were among the
outraged adjectives used by development
supporters at North Shore council meetings
last week when North Van District and West
Van moved to impose certain zoning
restrictions in Deep Cove and Ambleside.

What they were really saying was that
investment in land — unlike virtually every
other form of investment — should be totally
free of risk. That land zoned multiple
residence, highrise or commercial at the date
of purchase should be guaranteed that
zoning for the rest of time (unless, of course,
the buyer himself later wishes to change it).

Investors in land often appear blithely to
ignore the powers given to councils by the
Municipal Act, and upheld by the courts, to
change a zoning at any time — and without
compensation — if the public interest clearly
demands it.

By and large, councils do not take such
action lightly. Developers make valuable
contributions to every community, provided
their projects enhance that community
without adversely affecting established
residents. But the latters’ elected
representatives have to be the final judge.

That’s the measure of the risk always
inherent in property investment — the kind
of risk accepted without question, for
example, on the stock market. It’s curious
that so many developers who later cry “foul”
seem deliberately blind to it.

Instant ‘contract’

Last week B.C.’s MLAs gave themselves a
16-20 per cent pay hike. In Ottawa, MPs
voted themselves a 23 per cent raise. Just

‘think of all the money and time they saved as
by avoiding any dragged-out bargaining,
mediation, strike action and lost production.

Maybe THAT's the way to end costly labor
turmoil and work stoppages. Simply et
employees write their own wage tickets. And

keep the printing presses running.

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THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE

By RUTH SCOTT PHILP |

Our tour had just left Nice
where we had enjoyed an
afternoon in the warm sun of
this Mediterranean Paradise.

Some of us had _ strolled

along the Promenade des
Anglais, others had dabbled
in the blue waters or had lain
on the warm sand. Our one
teenager, an engaging boy
‘who livened up the tour, was
full of the excitement of
having seen a young lovely
changing into her bikini
“right on the beach!”

We ‘drove along winding
mountain roads, then
through gentle green valleys.
We stopped to watch
lavender being distilled; you
could smell the perfume for
miles.

Following the historic
“Route Napoléon”, we came
to the city of Grenoble in the
midst Of lofty Alpine peaks.
The Hotel de Trois Dauphins
to which we were taken was
a pleasant enough little
hotel; there was nothing to
indicate its importance im
history.

Looking around my room
before starting to unpack, |
thought: “Hm, very nice!

perhaps a little ornate for my
simple tastes.”

The furniture

FAMILY AFFAIR: Once
upon a time there was an ad
agency man and has pretty
wife who lived in a small
Caulfeild cottage and had a
dream about beautiful
furniture — which wasn't too
abundant in the Wild West
of 1956. Taking their
courage in their hands, they
invested $1,500 in a few
quality pieces by caster
craftsmen. He bade farewell
to Jbnmy Lovick and they sect
up shop in a modest Am-
bleside store window.

After a few months they
had the chance to move inlo
a corner of Dundarave's old
community hall (later a
Presbyterian church) that
had previously been used as
a teahouse. Promising
customers to “make a house
a home” with the warm cozy
Early American look, their
business steadily prospered
By 1967 they were able to
buy the remaining church
portion of the building. Then
it was onward and upward
all the way as pine, birch,
oak and antique furniture
was progressively addcd (o
the original maple line They
opened a store in Calgary.
run by his brother Mel They
started one in Victoria,
managed by their son Greg

Last year their other son
Mark, took over control of
the firm and launched tts
fourth clegant outlet in
Langicy

For a quarter of a ccatury
dhe cnterprisc Hank and

Shirley Sager dreamed up
over ther kitchen table in
Caulfeild’s old Pilothouse
collage has remaincd a
strictly family affair, with the

was massive, elegant, the
chairs upholstered in red
velvet, the bed canopied and
covered in red.

One wall featured a
picture of Napoleon, and a
plaque underneath drew my
eycs. &

It read: “Napoleon oc-

cupied this: room on his .

return from Elba on March
7, 1815."

Naturally at dinner I
relayed this information to
my companions on the tour,
and everyone wanted to see
my room. They all crowded
in, and everyone took turns
sitting or lying on the bed. It

was big enough to hold.
I was -

several at once. .
peppered with questions:
“How would you like to

change rooms?” I ignored —

that one.
“How does it feel to be in

the room Napoleon slept —

in?” I had no answer.

“Don’t you wish Napoleon
were here?”

I could answer that.

“No, after all this time
he'd be much tooold.” .

I could have had a great
deal of company that night.
Everyone wanted to be able
to say that they had slept in
this famous room, but finally

iggy errant ENTE EH

-I shooed- them. all out. They.
could sit on it, even lie on it
for a few minutes. But, for
that night at least, I was the
enly one who slept in

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

additional reward of many
customers who've become
close personal fnends. The
Sager success story is as
much part and parcel of
West Van as Dundarave Pier
— a local cottage industry
envied today by giants of the
trade. On the Silver An-
niversary of their dream
Hank, Shirley and their clan
have cared an extra plug...

oee

When former ad agency
an director Gordon Munro
of North Van retired a few
years ago, he began to be
busier than ever doing what
he best likes to do and does
best: sensitive watercolors of
the west coast’s§ sca,

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beaches, fishboats and old
houses. This Wednesday
(July 15) at 7:30 p.m. he
opens his first major public
show at North Van City Hall
gallery, continuing until
September 7. An Associate
of the Federation of
Canadian Artists, Gordon
already has work in private
collections across Canada,
the U.S. and Britain. If the
kind of scenes he loves to
paint appeal to you, it might
be an idea to have your
cheque book with you...

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SCRATCHPAD:

For the

‘record (with a sharp slap

over the whist for our least
favorite spy), Stan Stronge,
the paraplegic Sports Hall of

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COTTAGE INDUSTRIALISTS ... Hank and Shirtcy
with Mark (Helcermanas-Benge photo).

Napoleon's bed.

(Ruth Scott Philp is a
freelance writer living in
North Vancauver)

Famer and Order of Canada
recipient, spells his name
like that — our item last
Sunday omitted the ‘e’. Also,
Stan tells us he’s 70 not 72,
and the car accident that
incapacitated him happened
in 1940 not 1942. Otherwise.
he says, we were right on
Incidentally, Vancouver's
Stan Stronge Pool was
named for him last year and
he’s also Rules Chairman of

the Canadian Wheelchair
Sports Association. Where
there's a will ... News food

columnist Eleanor Godley
was delighted to find two
men among the 26 sechiors at
her opening cookery class
for live-alone over-sixties
(Wednesdays, 11 to 1 at
North Van's Neighborhood
House). But shake a leg, all
you other fellows, and get
down there acat time — if
Eleanor can't lure you away
from peanut butter sand.
wiches and improve your
dict’ several hundred per
cent, ws tme to © start
worrying. Go, sec, laste

Congrats to Staff Sgt. Ed
Proner, promoted [rom Sgt
and now officer i/c West
Van Police Department's
patrol division — watch your
step on the gas pedal All
the best to Wilf Ray, former

editor of the Propertics
“Tally Ho” newslctter and
for 24 years the Golden

Voice of conglomerateur
Jieamy Paubon. who's just
hung up bis shingle as an
independent
ad/marketing/PR- whiz at
Maple Ridge = liching to
communicate? Give Wilf a
ding at 463-6301

aoe

WRIGHT OR WRONG:
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others You won't live long
cnough to makc them all
yourself