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WATER world ... Canadian Diving Centre owner Travis McGregor
has left Deep Cove and now calis Esplanade home.

DRY: and clean

.» Sina, Sokhanvar has owned Harbour View

Cleaners for more than two years.

COFFEE culture ... Jenny Lee usually works at her family’s Java
Hut Cafe part time and her efforts have been rewarded with a trip

to Mexico.

Wednesday, July 15, 1998 — North Shore News — 17

ART for art’s sake ... Glen Powell of the Morgan Dawne Gallery has decided on a more relaxed
and varied method of displaying art.

Fine art w

Robert Gaister

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com

LOWER Lonsdale’s newest
gallery features the work of
more than 40 artists work-
ing in a variety of mediums.
Though some may say the result
is a mish-mash, the husband and
wife team of Glen Powell and
Dawne Bringeland wanted to do
just rhat: open a mixed medium
gallery with an acces-
sible atmosphere.
However, the timing
of their opening last
March was not
entirely their doing.
“A number of
good reasons
notwithstanding the
fact our previous
location was under
demolition,” said
Powell. “Te’s proba-
bly dust right now.”
The name they
settled on is a combination of
names close to Powell's heart.
Morgan being the name of his
daughter and Dawne, his wife and
business partner.
“Art is something that lives and
a personal name like that adds a lot
of character to it,” said Powell.
They have been on Esplanade
since late March and Powell said
the response from the community
to date has been encouraging.
“Whar we try to do is present art
in a broader focus or realm,” said
Powell.
And with names like Bev Juno,
Darrell Anderson, Wayne Ngan and
Marina Papias ail displayed, mass

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appeal is not out of the question.

While the vast majority of gal-
leries tend to restrict themselves to
one art form, Powell is happily
busting out.

“There’s almost no rule on
medium,” he said. “We're bridging
the gap between craft art and fine
art.”

Dry and clean

Sina Sokhanvar, 34, is the owner
of two dry cleaning outlets, one of
which, Harbour View Cleaners,
serves the Lower Lonsdale neigh-
borhood.

While he readily admits
business could be better
— “it could always be
better” -— Sokhanvar
probably knows it could
also be worse.

He also sees his posi-
tion as a small business
owner with a degree of
realism often mixed
with skepticism.

“They tell you you
don’t have a boss (as a
business owner) but
every customer is a boss -— you’ve
got lots of bosses,” said Sokbanvar.

Water world

When Travis McGregor left
Deep Cove, he left everything
behind, including the original name
of his business: the Deep Cove Dive
Shop. Although he moved to his
present digs on Esplanade, his new
name doesn’t reflect that.

Canadian Diving Centre is now
closer to the Pacific Marine
Training Institute which allows it to
better handle joint programs.
McGregor had another reason for
relocating.

“It just seemed like an up and
coming area,” he said.

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Although he’s only 22,
McGregor has ewned the shop for
more than rvo years.

“I was interested in diving and I
was working for the shop and it was
for salc,” said McGregor. “I really
enjoy diving and you meet a lot of
cool peopie.”

Coffee culture

Sunny and Jenny Lee are a sister
act that help run their family-
owned Java Hut Cafe. :

“It’s a great place, it’s a great
view,” said Sunny of her surround-
ings. “The people are nice and the
hours are great and on nice days !
can see all the way downtown.”

While Sanny recently graduated
from SFU with a history degree and
is currently casting about consider-
ing her options, her sister Jenny is
just starting her education.

She is enrolled at Capilano
College and plans to transfer to
UBC in the future, but in the
meantime she works part-time at
the Java Hut. And she has a better
incentive to do so than most peo-

le.

“They're (family) paying for me
to go to Mexico in August so I have
to work here,” said Jenny.

All the rest

The other businesses on the
block include (east to west) Famous
Players Esplanade Cinema, Food
Store, Defieux Saxelby Insurance
Services Inc., Beverly Ball Hair
Design, Vivace! Ristorante.

Tf you have a business that is part
of a unique or otherwise worthwhile
block or know of any, share it with us.
Write to Commercial Avenues c/o
Robert Galster at the North Shore
News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North
Vancouver, V7M 2H4 or e-mail:
robert@nsnews.com

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