-Ollins s NORTH SHORE News Get This Straight columnist Doug Collins has announced that he will seek the Reform Party nomination for the new federal riding of Capilano-Howe Sound. The party’s nomination meeting for the riding will be held Tuesday, Oct. 18 at West Vancouver Senior Secondary School, 1750 Mathers Ave., starting at 7:30 p.m. Collins, who returned this week from a tour of China, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong, said he had considered running before he left, but made up his mind while he was away. It will be his first run for politi- cal office. “Something has got to be done about what’s going on in Ottawa,’’ Collins said. ‘‘I don’t think the government is taking a damned bit of notice about what the people want.” The will of the people, he added, is not being followed on such ma- jor national issues as immigration, wee A? 26 1. 28 WEATHER Friday and Saturday, rain. Highs near 14°C. North Shore Now... TV Listings... What's Going On.... Lifeboat returned From page 1 against the BCLS in July in a bid to regain possession of the boat. A petition filed by Waisman also asked in part that the BCLS privi- leges be suspended pending the conclusion of proceedings before the court. - Klein charged the NSLS was “out to destroy the BCLS’? and estimated a court fight with the North Shore lifeboat organization would have cost as much as $50,000. Klein has since appealed to the office of the provincial om- budsman for a re-investigation of the matters covered in the Clark report. In a letter to Couvelier, BCLS secretary Gerd Berger main- tained the report was riddled with factual errors and appeared to at- tack Klein on a personal level. In the meantime, the controver- sial Boston Whaler will be re-laun- ched at li a.m. Oct. I5 at Race Rock Yacht Services in Fish- erman’s Cove with West Van- couver-Howe Sound MLA John Reynolds in attendance. Said Reynolds Thursday: ‘‘The fact that the boat is back speaks for itself. It’s back where it belongs and it’s being used by a group who operates a society as a business and not as a one-man show. This should never have happened in the first place.’’ TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter capital punishment and language. “What we’ve got in Ottawa now,”’ Collins said, ‘‘is a bunch of socialists in blue suits who differ hardly at all from the Liberals and NDP.” He said the right wing in Canada has little or no representation at the federal level, and that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had fired or otherwise silenced his right-of- centre members. Mary-Jane Shaw, second vice- president for the Reform Party’s Capilano-Howe Sound Consti- tuency Association, said Thursday no other nominees had yet stepped forward. The deadline for nominations is 24 hours before the association’s Oct. 18 nomination meeting. Shaw said that though Collins has yet to win the party’s Capilano-Howe Sound candidacy, she was delighted to have some- body of his stature as a party nominec in the riding. “He is well known in the com- munity,’’? she said, ‘tand people have a lot of respect for him."’ Collins’s career in Canadian journalism began in 1952 after he emigrated from Britain and joined the Calgary Herald. He has since worked in radio, television and has been a reporter for both Van- couver dailies. He began writing for the News in 1984, Once a ‘“‘parlor pinko’’, Collins credits a three-year stint working for the CBC in the Ottawa parliamentary press gallery from 1968 to 1971 with opening his eyes “to the enormous amount of money being wasted’? and rinsing 3 - Friday, October 14, 1988 - North Shore News eks the pink from his outlook forever. Collins said the North Shore’s two MPs are just part of the Ot- tawa game. *““Chuck Cook (North Van- couver-Burnaby MP) pretends to be a right-winger,”’ he said, ‘‘but isn’t when it comes to the point, and Mary Collins (Capilano MP) is even worse. She, in fact, is one of the main reasons I’m running. If she’s done anything for Capilano-Howe Sound, she must have done it when I was having a nap. She’s more interested in yell- ing ‘Yes’ when Mulroney winks. She’s a party liner through and through.”’ Capilano MP Mary Collins said Wednesday statements made by Collins were ‘‘ungentlemanly’’ and “not true’’, but declined further comment on the columnist’s polit- ical aspirations until Collins had actually been nominated to run in the riding for the Reform Party. “It’s not really appropriate to start hurling insults,”’ she said. NEWS columnist Doug Collins «Reform Party nominee hopeful. Collins said he decided to run for the Reform Party ‘‘because they are the only ones likely to respond to the feelings of the peo- ple at large.’’ He said he was impressed with the Sept. 15 speech given in West Vancouver by Reform Party leader Preston Manning, whom Collins. once called a wimp, and impressed with his overall development as a leader. The Reform Party will open its Capilano-Howe Sound campaign office Monday at 1544 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. . Call 926-9955 for information. Tenant fights to save W. Van heritage site from destruction WEST VANCOUVER’s oldest .apartment building, Hollyburn Manor, may not remain standing much past the New Year. By MAUREEN CURTIS Contributing Writer Noted for its tudor revival ar- chitecture style — not typical to its World War Two constructior ~- the old structure is to be replaced by a three-storey building with commercial space on the bottom floor, and condominiums above. Jane Russell, one of the few re- maining tenants of the manor, is circulating a petition to stop the project, for which a development permit application is going to public meeting Oct. 17, 7:45 p.m., at West Vancouver Municipal Hall. “Everything that was and is West Vancouver is changing and changing rapidly. Anything that we can do to preserve the unique character of West Vancouver should be done,’’ Russell told the News Tuesday. Built in 1940, the apartment building has 11 large suites with hardwood floors, leaded glass windows, and oak and mahogany finishings. But it also has plumbing and wiring of the same vintage, and renovating to current building codes would be an expensive pro- position, according to property owner Michael Reimann of Emjay Holdings. He estimated that renovation would cost about $450,000, which when added to the $750,000 price tag on the property would generate a low five per cent return on in- vestment. “A new building could take ad- vantage of the size of the site. There’s a lot more room on the site than is being used,’’ Reimann said. Russell disagrees about the con- dition of Hollyburn Manor. “#t’s sound and in good condi- tion. It’s not a derelict,’’ she said. The manor, due to its age and significance, is listed in the recently compiled Heritage Inventory, but not deemed of prime importance. Only one structure in West Van- couver, the old ferry terminal building, has received heritage des- NEWS photo Cindy Bellamy JANE RUSSELL, a tenant, is protesting the proposed demolition of Hollyburn Manor — West Vancouver's oldest apartment building seen here in a photograph taken early this year. Former tenant Nellie Searle, right, recently moved out of the building after living there since it was built in about 1940. ignation that protects it from demolition. Reimann agrees that it is a pity to lose the building, but plans to preserve photographs, records and memorabilia associated with it on a ‘Heritage Wall,”’ in the lobby of the new structure. Nellie Searle, an original tenant who was sad about leaving Hollyburn Manor a couple of weeks ago, has resigned herself to the change and agreed to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the new building. “Nothing lasts forever. It’s had its best days and life’s too short for bitterness,”’ says Searle, in her 80s, who used to walk from the Manor to work at the telephone FUYURE UNCERTAIN FOR W. VANCOUVER HERITAGE BUILDINGS: SEE STORY PAGE 8 office as an operator. As for stopping the develop- ment, the property is already zon- ed for commercial development, the existing building being a legal non-conforming use. That leaves design, and a request for a partial third storey as the on- ly grounds upon which council can refuse the development permit. After the original design was re- jected by West Vancouver’s Advi- sory Design Panel eartier this year, another architect was hired to come up with the current. proposal which has already won the panel’s blessing. Although the avea is zoned for two-storey development, Reimann hopes to put medical/dental of- fices on the main floor, with six condominiums on the second floor, and two penthouse apart- ments on the top. “} want to live in the building myself, so we’ve spent an above average amount of time and money to come up with a ‘meritorious’ design,’’ Reimann said. Meritorious design is the basis on which council may consider a partial third storey, and allow the construction of a more interesting layout than a plain, two-storey box. The developer must keep to the same floor area ratio as permitted for a two-storey building and work to maintain the low-level character of the area without impeding views and sunshine. : Reimann said that the two heritage trees on the site, a couple of Japanese maples planted at about the same time the manor was built, would be moved slightly and preserved. “Perhaps in 40 years or so, somebody will protest when some- body wants to demolish this building,’’ said Reimann. Reimann said that all property owners in West Vancouver would shake in their shoes if council took away his right to tear down some- thing on his property, He suggested that Russeil’s ef- forts would be better spent if. she asked people to make contribu- tions to a heritage fund, so that old buildings could be purchased and maintained. “If they feel that strongly about this building, let them put together $800,000 or so to buy it,” said Reimann.