6 ~ Wednesday, July 6, 1988 - North Shore News _INSIGHTS ‘Progress’ in West Van noisy, Gusty and pricey IT’S A WONDERFUL SUMMER in West Van for developers and their ilk, as suffering residents and users of the !7th-23rd St. corridor can testify. “Stay as sweet as we e”’ is definitely on hold. pants plan to move back into the new tower when completed. Meanwhile, to the outrage of more than a few citizens, two 21- ; : / storey condo towers are on the : i drawing board for the Royal Pon- ‘ tiac Buick site at Taylor Way and Marine, which council has leased to a developer, Newcorp Proper- ties, for 99 years in return for stage-by-stage payments totalling over $10 million. Houses for his dedicated volunteer work ... Eagle Harbour painter Forrest Johnson is exhibiting her latest watercolors and some acryi- ics of beautiful coastal B.C, all this month at the Cafe Du Coin, 1747 Marine in West Van ... And tu- When the dust from it all finally ition in the arts at Cap College has settles, the results — for those who been enriched with an $8,000 don’t like gardening and have donation from North Van Com- $350,000 upward to spend ona munity Arts Council — which will been involved in building it long pad afew feet closer to heaven — _ direct the award. , before Bellevue’s “highrise alley’ will be officially labelled “‘prog- emerged. Another longtime resident ‘ess'’. Except, as former alderman “se is Pat Wallace, former society Don Griffiths notes, that the flood trucks and buses along clogged editor of Bigtown’s morning daily. Of high-priced new condos willdo WRIGHT OR WRONG: Nature Bellevue Avenue — whose While mourning its passing and nothing for West Van's biggest gave you your face, but YOU have to provide the expression. @ denizens can now hardly get out of | memories, they and other occu- long term need: more young Ca- nadian families to counterbalance DEO | puardian. ccc “T ¥ 7 wr : “ Within a 100-yard radius at the foot of 22nd the noise, dust and i traffic tie-up experts are happily banging away on three separate new condo developments. This : Monday, Marine from 17th to ' 22nd was closed to vehicles in the name of “revitalizing” the village business strip — which was : ‘‘revitalized’’ once already in the . ° earlier 1980s. Heaven knows what price the affected merchants wilt : : pay in lost trade over the next sev- i eral weeks, as pretty girls in hard ; hats direct the logjam of cars, their own driveways. Half a block farther west, the bulldozers are reducing to rubble West Van's very first self-owned apartment complex. A 15-storey tower is to replace the venerable three-storey walk-up at 2280 Bellevue where community philan- thropist Kay Meek has lived since it opened 35 years ago — her late husband, George Norgan, having its aging population. ee POSTSCRIPTS: Reader and credit union investor Davidson (who left no phone number) hotly denies banker Jack Quinn’s claim — reported in our June 24 column — that the Canadian bank charges undercut those of trust companies, CUs and U.S. banks by 60-80 per , cent, For the record, banker Quinns’ detailed dollar figures came from a study by interna- tionally recognized accountants Coopers & Lybrand ... Back from the recent annual meeting of the Canadian Dental Hygienists’ Association in Ottawa is Barbara Hewton of West Van, a director of the Association who represented its . B.C. members at the national get- BUCKS FOR ART ... (r) former Cap College chairman Hilda Rizun and together ... Congrats to North Cap president Doug Jardine receive gift from North Van Aris Council Van's Ron Briggs, recipient of the president Judy Dennis, flanked (extreme left) by Arts Council exec. Good Neighbor Award given by director Ella Parkinson. the Association of Neighborhood NEWS photo Neil Lucente SUMMER FUN-PLACE ... Seymour’ Ss new Garibaldi Park with adven- ture playground, sports and kite-flying fields — officially opened last month by (-r) Aldermen Ernie Crist jand Mary Segal, Mayor Marilyn Baker and Mt. Seymour Lions charter president Joe Thornley. ae Le photo Edna Sakata (MW SORRY ABOUT BRIAN SMITHS HELIO. ARETHE NEW ESN BU BSRESS 8x0 GOSSES OF ME OF COE CARRIES ON READY YEF?.. Stamp of disapproval eoae ANADA POST is delivering a raw deal to resi- dents in new North Vancouver subdivisions by refusing to expand home delivery to their areas. In the move to bring the Crown corporation into the black after years of deficit, Canada Post decision- makers are locking to save money wherever possible. But by not expanding home delivery, they are doing a disservice to taxpayers, residents and businesses using the postal system. Residents in these new developments pay their taxes just as other Canadians do, and they are therefore en- titled to the same service as anybody else,.no matter where they live. Canada Post is obligated to give these residents the same service as their neighbors who live just a stone’s throw away, yet receive home delivery. Letter-senders, too, pay their taxes — as well as ever-increasing postage raies — to have mail quickly and efficiently reach its posted destination, not a community mail box far from recipients’ doorsteps. Depending on ithe destination, a 37-cent stamp may now only do part of the job; for equal cost, consumers Publisher ........... Peter Speck Disptay Advertising 980-0511 are entitied to equal service. When service is obviously Managing Editor... Barrett Fisher Glassiied Advertising ; 986-6222 substandard, consumers should pay fess. . Associate Editor ..... Noel Wright. neaeiialie 988.1337 Canadians demand fair and equal mail service for Advertising Director .Linda Stewart Hawt EB —_Subscriptions 986-1337 their money, and they are entitled to get it. To unfairly North Shore News, foundedin 1909 as an independent 1130 onadiale Avene Fax 1 985-3227 . . bur: id 1 Schedule 1 ale : and unreasonably establish two levels of service for the Paragraph ill ef ihe Excise Tax Acl ts pulisned each North Vancouver, B.C. —e MEMBER - game price is an unacceptable way for Canada Post to dea! with its financiai problems. Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distibuted to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions Notth and Wesl Vancouver, $25 per year. 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