NEWS photo Pau! McGrath Nome ............ ssetsareeseeree GOTT kickboxing, motorsports Fature..........graduaie from SFU with Bucholor in Sdence Street vendors Liam Lahay Contributing Writer ANIMATING North Vancouver’s streets with street vendors wruld be detrimental to estab- lished businesses in the city. That’s the resounding opin- ion of retail outlets located in the Lower Lonsdale area as voiced by the Lower Lonsdale Business Association’s repre- sentative Vivian Kranenberg. Kranenberg, representing about SO businesses, offered her association's insights on the issue at 2 public policy commit- tee mecting held in the city council chamber on Monday. She told the committee that allowing street vendors — par- ticularly those who seli food — to operate in their ncighbour- hood creates an unfair disad- vantage for those businesses that are trying to survive. “This issuc came before us a long time ago (1993-1994). People affected by this are say- ing, ‘Why do we kcep answer- ing this question? Why do we have to run down to city hall to defend our meagre way to make a living,’” she said. “It’s very difficult for people who have fast food establishments to be here to speak to you — they’re all working right now.” Kraienberg was onc & only two persons in attendance that came to speak to the policy committee on the issue. “Where are people going to go to use the: facilifes (wash- room)? Are you going to pro- vide a public washroom for them? You have to think about the people who are paying debated for city heavy taxes and who support the very litde traffic down there "(Lonsdale Quay),” she added. City staff has identified seven locations in the city as possible areas for food serving street vendors to operate. Those locations are: @ the southwest corner of Chesterfield Avenue at West fanade; M the 100-block of Carrie Cates Court at Rogers Avenue in the parking lot; B the southwest corner of Lonsdale Avenue at 2nd Strect; @ Lonsdale Avenue at 14th Street, West Side Plaza; @ the southeast corner of Lonsdale Avenue at 17th Street; @ the Lonsdale Street; M the. southeast corner of Lonsdale Avenue at 2)st Street. The sites proposed were chosen on the basis that each featured heavy pedestrian traf: fic aad are deemed +> have the least amount of impact 091 busi- nesses that are involved in the sale of similar products. City administrative manager Francis Caouette told the com- mittee that in January, city staff forwarded 1,100 letters to the local. business community requesting their comments with regards to the implemen- tation of street vending. Only 22 responses were received, of which a mere 15 were in oppo- sition to street vending. northwest corner of Avenuc at 19th See Vendor page 13 SYRACUSE, New York — A federal judge has rejected the Jarest lawsuit by Donald Drusky in his 30-year battle against USX Corp. for ruin- ing his life by firing him in 1968. Drusky had sued “God... the sovereign ruler of the uni- verse” for taking “no corree- tive action” against Drusky's enemies, and also demanded that God compensate him with professional guitar-play- ing skills and the resurrection of his mother. Drusky argued that under the federal rules of civil proce- dure, he would win a default judgment if God failed to show up in court. Catholic officials in’ Brazil attribute the recent 250% increase in church attendance to the popularity of priest Marcelo Rossi, 31, a singer and former acrobics instruc- tor, Described by his young female parishioners as a “hunk,” Father Rossi’s high- energy stadium maasses regu- larly: draw 20,000) worship- pers. According to a recent Chicago Tribune story, Father Rossi’s services use a “Byzantine rosary,” which reduces time spent in prayer, and buckets of holy water doused by assistants over the screaming, rock-concert-like fans. A leading Brazilian maga- zine said, “You can’t deny that to be Catholic is cool now.” According to recent stories by Knight- Ridder news service and The Wall Street Journal, the latest U.3. disaster relief efforts were revealed to be rife with ill-conceived aid. Honduran hurricane vic- tims still need cooking utensils and medicine but are receiving old clothes, cans of largely unappreciated foods like arti- choke hearts, and items like microwave popcorn, dog food and dental floss. And_ food commodities donated tor starving Russians tend to lower the prices of similar Russian food, angering farmers. The donated food usually winds up being sold on the street rather than given to the poor. eoe¢ Cairo, Egypt — School superintendent Maryann Maurice, 57, was recently jailed for illegal streer beg- ging. She said she earned about $150 a day, the same amount the school paid her monthly. And retired Russian army Col. Dmitry Setrakov, 69, was arrested last month after a brief standoff at a downtown Moscow bank. He had pulled a shotgun in an unsuccessful attempt to withdraw about $22,000 from his own account, which, like nearly everyone else’s, is frozen. eo¢e¢oe Buffalo, New York — Among the reasons given by an unidentified police officer in his request for full disability pay based on psychological injury was his having walked into a station house in 1997 to find other officers celebrating -Show in an Easter Sunday mass. According to the officer's lawver, visualizing the station house now causes him such emotional turmoil that he is not able to perform his duties. According to records released in January by the world track and field organiza- tion TAAF, ULS. medal-win- ning sprinter Dennis Mitchell denied he had taken pertor- mance-enhancing drugs, despite a positive test result. Mitchell said his testos- terone was high only because he had had sex four times the night before. Alaskan gubernatorial can- didate John Lindauer, during a debate in Ketchikan last October, tried to explain why he had been inconsistent as to when his wife had donated to his campaign. (If given in 1997, the donation would be legal; if given during the cam- paign, illegal.) According to Lindauer, “E said, and (my opponents) took this shot through a radio sta- tion mirror, I believe, and took one sentence I was say- ing.” (Lindaver never explained what a radio station mirror was, lost in November, and as of March was facing an ethics investigation about the gift.) Sacramento, California — Bruce Charles Davis, 36, explaining to an employce of a U.S. Bank branch in why he had just robbed the place: “I only wanted to teach you 4 les- son. I want a job in bank secu- rity.” Davis would have been more plausible had he not already had five bank robbery convictions and another one pending. Sunday, April 4, 1999 ~ North Shore News - 71 -F West Palm Beach, Florida — An upscale housing devel- opment has been denied 3 restraining order against: pig farmer Paul ‘Thompson, who Wares country and western music from loudspeakers in order to soothe his hogs and improve their appetites And a recent A Press report from Colorado uraroe details municipal judge Paul Sacco’s punishments for viola- tors of the town’s boombox noise ordinances They must report to court weekly to listen to. selections ranging from Roger Whitaker standards to bagpipes to Navajo ute music to Judge Sacco’s own guitar compositions. (Several viola- tors interviewed by the AP admitted they were scared straight by the music.) JAMES POYNER Lawyer 1 MAJOR PERSONAL IMIURY Free initial Consultation 988-6321 maa 408-145 Chadwick Court N. Van. (Lonsdale Quay Piaza) ICBC HAS A TEAM OF LAWYERS, SHOULDN'T YOU? * All claims have time limits © Documents you sign can be used against you. 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