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September 11,1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

EMOTIONS RAN high Monday as aldermen
responded to North Vancouver city staff's slam-
ming of the shopping mall complex proposed for
Park and Tilford Gardens.

Director of development
and licensing Frank Morris
opposed the $36 million
shopping centre/ festival
‘proposal in a report to
council, saying the trade
area of Park and Tilford
would overlap other North
Vancouver retail areas,
seriously debilitating existing
businesses.

Council members were
split, with Ald. Rod Clark
and John Braithwaite firmly
against’ the project, Ald.
Ralph Hall, Stella.Jo Dean
and Allan Blair for the pro-
ject, and Mayor Jack
Loucks and Ald. Dana

Taylor in favor of giving
developers Daon and Brodel
a fair hearing.

Countered Hall: ‘) would
have thought in this (city
staff) report there would
have been one nice word —
just one nice word. But it's
al! negative. It’s the sourest
report I’ve read in my
lifetime."

Hall continued, saying
Overwaitea  grocery-chain
owner Jim Pattison, who has
expressed interest in building
a Save-On Foods store at the

WEST VANCOUVER municipality has $1.3 million
in deposits tied up in the faltering Northland Bank.

“Council will have to wait
until the federal government
passes legislation that will fully
protect the ‘‘uninsured’’
‘enosits of the bank before it
gets its money.

{fowever, Mayor Derrick

Humphreys insisted Monday
night he had’ assurances
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CHURCH GROUP S$, Oxfam Canada, unions ‘and.
rivate individuals are distributing leaflets ‘throughout’
the Lower, Mainland. urging liquor store’-patrons’ to
boycott. South African spirits. Pictured from, left. to

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ht are John Black, . ‘Elizabeth’ Russell. and Erin.
Williams who distributed leaflets at. Westview eartier .-

‘this week. The lesflet explains that boycotting Souti |

Aftican wines, and brandies isan important gesture to -

Badd to the. mounting « international pressure on the «
: inelde African regime to “change its . policy on apar-

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Park and Tilford site, has
said the shopping complex is
a viable one.

“Whose opinion are you
going to take?’* Hall ques-

Galloping

success
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tioned. ‘‘Our staff who've
never worked in the real
world, or Jimmy Pattison’s?
I'd take Jimmy Pattison’s
opinion any day.”

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But Morris said the origi-
nal market study submitted
by Daon did not take into
consideration new retail
development in the city, such

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centre
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as Lonsdale Quay, Capilano

Village and Capilano .Mall

expansion, ‘tall of which will
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