OCTOBER 20, 2000 Bright Lights ooo $2 = Classifieds ove 34 —] Crossword Pri Lautens ; : Mercer 92 Pages PPA] boss Graiil eevbCr UPbalt faere ee NT Ge SG hy thaccment Neay vemend tor afesk ot Obor Mbt | alos ort beritoy CEMENT RLS GaP UPL ee The Voice at North and West Vancouver since 1969 | WY Persian | coll cei Keith Lowe Contributing Writer DR. Esmail Azarm, a leading light for literacy in the Iranian ~ community, will be honoured for ; his generosity to the West Vancouver Memorial Library. At 7:30 pam. on Sun, Oct. 22, the library will hold a reception: recognizing Azarm’s contibu- Gens to its Persian collection of books. Avarm was a founding member of the Pars Society ins the 1980s. The group sought to bring together men : bers of the Iranian community. Following the dis " solution of the society he convinced: the others to donate $15,000 trom the sale of a property to start the collection in 1YSS. Now numbering over 2,500 vohunes and growing, it isone of the most comprehensive selec uons of franian fireratore in Canada. dn addition to a wide vanety of boss, the library has purchased CDs, tapes and CD-ROMs, which provide intor- mation on Persian architecture, geography, history and language. Azarm was borni in sfahan in 1907, He received his doctorate in Scotland and was a lecturer at Tehran University and a profesor of re ia See Puctor page § B.C. Supreme court judge sentences North Van man 7 6). «| Anna Marie D’Angelo _ News Reporter adangelo@nsnews.com TRAjJ Rezaei, a North Vancouver resident and immigration