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RUNDAY so WON DAY!

“£4139 Lonsdale Av
North Vancouver, B.

, - appointing of a foriner: “alderman me
ancouver. City’s library board: Tues-
into-a’ petty, playground squabble of

finger. pointing and name calling? / }

Former alderman Rod. Clark, the centre of the con-
vers has” an exemplary” record . of “serving”. the
: ‘ommunity, from his ‘commitment«to: the. Lions Gate
Tospital Board! and the North Shore Union Board of.
dealt. to his. work’ with: thé® North: Vancouver
mber of Commerce and various council commit

WHE SIMPL,
to North 1987 Noith
a Free Press. Lid.

All tights. reserved,

“Pros to and during the 1985. city election, the. con- of
. tentious BCE:Dev ‘elopment (then? Daon) shopping .cen-""
“tre proposal for the Park. &: Tilford: site dominated the
* headlines, . with © three ‘aldermen’ and an -aldermanic
candidate joining a° Daon-backed. ‘slate: under. the®:
auspices oF voluntary. S: “the ‘Park & Tilford

; “Then- “alderman Rod Clark: would have nothing. to do
“With the slates not thatshe: wasn’t given his: fair chance
to join.up — he-was. Bul after a Feb.: 25,1985: council
resolution, it in. which council unanimously voted against

the, installation: of.

shopping centre: ¢

on: the: Park 1&

7 Tilford: site’ to: ‘preserve | the valuable industrial=

‘land | ‘necessary: to support the community's, commercial

base, Clark wasn’t prepared to sell his voters short. :

wo Pretty: admirable stuff, considering Clark. took: the:
~hard road, stuck: to: his ideals and ‘put his political’ ca-!
“reer on the line by coming forth to:reveal the hard- ball
‘tactics of the shoppi 2 centre promoters. ;

s It's ‘an ‘example aldermen should - follow rather than

TEE! NAGE: “PARTY. ‘RIOTS «
West ‘Van -=-‘like the. recent! night
of. mayhern ata 34st: Street home

which left ‘police’ ‘officers: ‘injured

and damage to public ‘and’ private

property running into thousands of.

dollars .— must ;be ‘nipped’ in’ th

“bud before they develop, West: van :

- council has decided... :
h As a first step, council has set up
Jatask: force headed |. by Alderman

F2t Boname to collect: community:.
nthe : problem,

views “and ideas

and: to <report’: bac
mendations ‘for action :withi
next couple of months.

with: recom

It- won't be! an) easy job. The’

crux. of: the. matter’ is: the teenage

going to'stop operating. A decent,
‘law-abiding kid invites 20-30 per:
sonal ‘friends to a party, as often as

not with the blessing ‘of; his: or-her,,’

decent,: law- ~abiding parents. :The

next thing they know i is an invasion:

100!" ors.more- gatecrashing

Strangers with booze in their cars.
; where:
“ground 400 gatecrashers. turned up;- i

the 3tst: Streets: riot,’
some..cars’ reportedly ;: carried:
:, supply..of rocks ‘as ; well vand :
- wanted ‘guests’? “arrived from
» farafield as Surrey.) heh
{Calling the “police “at” the, very
first: hint : _ trouble,

“the

un.

BEFORE; ae
wio" s THE T HIEF who, a week :

“ALD.
‘jungle ielegraph"" which ‘just isn’t °

‘assignment,

n many cases. Even better :
‘might be: ‘to, make teen: parties of
more than'a dozen invited: “guests |

illegal unless the police are notified

» IN- ADVANCE ~like. we’ used: to
have’ to notify: the fire department:
before burning’ garden trash. For:

some, that. may sound‘ a: bit too
authoritarian, but. have you :éver

heard of’a garden fire causing: the ..
kind of havoc wreaked by the Bat--

tle of 31st Street?
-Lots‘of luck,. Pat, "an How,
time they? ve handed

ovember 1985 ‘unveiling, jeremony ‘with (to.

ick Humphrey

jana Re

a UPGRADING

This

“English

couver Legaci

/AMBLI
Barber at the opening
Odeon. :

or so ago, stole the ‘municipal pla

“que: from the low! wall in'front‘of
the: Shoppers Drug’ Mart - “parking

loin, West;Van?; Commemorating

“the, completion of. one. phase i in the
beautificdtion! of « “Ambleside.

village, the plaque was. unveiled i

HO chie and former: ‘West Van ‘mayor
’: Derrick»
- whose .
"Municipal Manager Terry. Leste

‘Humphrey s—both ‘of
names:

‘says. the: police. are investigating

and a replacement will be provided.”

if the original can't be found.

Is ‘the thief a scrap metal ‘dealer

times—or some.
outwardly -tespectable. member: of.
* ‘the ‘community who's, allergic. t to

certain lames? .

fallen: on® hard

‘A HAPPIER PLAQUE story con:

cerns ©: the; Golden Anniversary
Aug. 24; Of: Woodcroft’ residents
Everett: and Dorothy Irwin. “Thei
four’ ‘adult, children;
also. live on

tion and one particularly fitting for

vs: a bench on ‘the: seawall at

‘Such: gifts—including

be: arranged i! through
ee, which

‘cluding “ests.
swonderful,”.says ‘danghtes
gate of North Van.

community can

12:
bs

piyoung .

‘a pioneers’

:two!of-whom -
the. North: Shore, . -.
“decided io, give a gift that. would :

“endure from generation to genera-

ireés, :
fountains, playgrounds, * etc.—can_*
the 3): Van-

brought. together 136:
the Galpin family.
with: their. wives, “had /emigrated

from Newfoundland ‘10 settle”in

- North, Van between 1907, and‘1911,
In addition” to the present’: ‘North
Shore. branch: of =the: clan, other

‘members ‘at: the , festive: gathering’

ecame from Vancouver, the Fraser.
Victoria;

- Everett, as' Vancouver. Parks: Board ° :
member -and, clatterly its chairman,’
“from. 1946 to: 1949; ne

Bay “bearing a lovingly *
«worded ; plaque honoring © the ‘cou-
: ple’s.50 years'of marriage. :

ENDURING GIF

averett and Doroth

Keremcos,:

nine ‘of whom, «:
“$3rd. anniversary wishes... Tuesday
: (Sept.15) to longtime North Shore

: matter.

Sunday brunch o

Vernon,
Alberta, Seattle: and
And: for closers; happy

8 Peachland,
Neison,..
Tacoma

residents Jim and Dona Morgan.
WRIGHT. OR WRONG: Graceful”
ging is a case’of.mind over, mat-;.
ters If, you don’t, ind,. it:doesn’t

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