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Suite realities | == —

, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4
aving labored for three months, the mountain
seems to have brought forth a mouse. That’s

the inescapable impression created by the
report of the North Van District Task Force on Illegal
Suites.

It recommends to council no less than six options,
ranging all the way from total elimination of the suites
to permitting them in all single-family dwellings. Such
a wealth of choices appears to put council’s deci-

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58,287 (average, Wednesday

Friday & Sunday) SDA DIVISION

STELtA J DEAN
WISHES To THANK You ALL, AND

sion-making process firmly back to Square One.

To help Mayor Baker and her aldermen we venture
to propose a seventh option, as follows:

1. All suites in single-family homes should be licensed
— or closed down permanently and owners fined if

caught without a licence,

2. Licensing to involve regular mandatory inspection
and upgrading to required health and safety standards.
3. Property tax to be re-assessed upward according

to the nature of the suite. ;

4. A maximum of two occupants per suite-bedroom
(relatively few suites have more than one bedroom).

5. Landlords to be responsible for tenants’ behavior,
specifically as regards visual or noise annoyance to

neighbors.

6. In case of complaints upheld by an independent
board of ‘inquiry, council to be empowered to order

eviction. |

Properly controlled suites in single-family homes
need NOT affect neighboring property values and
often do! ease financial hardship for both mortgage-

_ burdened homeowners and

’ especially single parents,

Jower-income tenants,

These,’ we suggest, are the 1987 urban realities that

council should address.

Noel Wright

@ Sunday brunch e

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THE WORLD WAR ONE veteran
who laid the wreath on West Van’s
war memorial Thursday, ‘‘Vimy
Day’’, returned from the 1914-18
trenches to become one of Van-
couver’s most colorful characters.

; Ivan Ackery — 88 in November,
former longtime manager of the

Orpheum jin its. movies heyday, |

- impresario, friend ‘of the stars and
bon viveur — is known to thou-
sands through his 1980
autobiography Fifty Years on
Theatre Row. Less well known is
the fact that (in vintage Ackery
tradition) he managed to repeat his
World War One service in
Canada’s armed forces twice over.

Mizimum enlistment age was 18.
But on Christmas Eve 1915, just
turned 16, {Ivan joined up, lying
avout his age, and accompanied
his battalion to England six mon-
ths later. | Alas, his fib was
discovered just before the unit
embarked for France. The boy was
shipped back home and discharg-
ed... ‘

After two boring months as an

elevator operator at The Bay the

now 17-year-old, lying once more,
contrived to re-enlist. This time he
got away with it and a few months

later found himself on April 9,
1917. with New Westminster’s
Fighting 47th Battalion in the
trenches opposite Vimy Ridge —
three times lost to the Germans by
the French and British, and a
crucial key to Allied victory.

It was the day that Canadian
troops, at a cost of over 3,000
lives, took Vimy Ridge back for
keeps —- making Canada overnight
a nation respected worldwide in its

MARGARET CHESTER...achieve-
ment rewarded.

LETTER OF THE DAY
Rewards better than
punishment as way
to educate drivers

MAY, THE GOOD LORD

own right. On Thursday, 70 years
later, Ivan relived that national
day of destiny just two blocks
from his West Van home. «

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SCRATCHPAD: North Vaz artist
Don Wimbles figured City ‘Alder-
man Stella Jo Dean’s many well-
wishers might like to see how the
lady looks during the slow, painful
treatment:in LGH fer her wrecked
elbow and ankle — with the result
shown at the top of this page ...
Richer: by $500 each in B.C. Tel
awards for outstanding academic
performance are ‘“‘mature’’ Cap
College students Margaret Chester
and Susan Albert. ;
Margaret, a legal assistant stu-
dent who’s been chalking up

out solutions together. For details

call Linda ‘at 988-2732 ... And
apologies to SFU student Mark
Kayll, winner of the . coveted
Science and Engineering Schol-
arlship worth $17,500 a year for-
three years (Wednesday World,
April 8)—the gremlins in that col-

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straight As aud hopes to get a ' :

practicum placement this summer,
is a former social worker and a
single parent, originally from
England. Susan, 26, who plans to
become a doctor, achieved the re-
markable grade point average of
4.20 last term in her second year of
science courses Congrats to
husband-wife business writer team
David Cruise and Alison Griffiths
of West Van, winners of a $1,000
National Business Writing Award
and the only Westerners on this

year’s annual prize list sponsored .

by the Royal Bank and the Toron-
to Press Club. They won it for
their Saturday Night feature on
“The Collapse of the| Canadian
Commercial Bank” ... Struggling
to cope with a rebellious teen?
You’re not alone and help is at
hand from a support group of sim-
ilar parents who meet each Tues-
day to swap experiences and work

Dear Editor: .
Reading Bob Hunter’s column
in your paper on March 15 has
prompted me to write a few
thoughts on the problem of road
behavior. | wholeheartedly . agree
that drinking drivers should. have
their licences removed, but more
fines and more punishment are not
the best ways to educate people.
We all know that the driving test
is ridiculously easy; because it
seems to be society’s expectation
that everyone should have a right

BLESS YOU.

umn got his name spelled ‘‘Kyall’’.

se *

WRIGHT: OR WRONG: Educa-
tion comes from reading the fine
print experience from not
reading it.

oto Stuart Davis

SEVENTY YEARS from Vimy Ridge...Jvan Ackery, who was there,

remembers Canada’s day of destiny.

to drive. This means that a majori-
ty of drivers have little concept of
road manners and a low level of
driving ability.

On the principal that most peo-
ple respond better to reward than
punishment, especially if it affects
them financially, I would propose
that the Defensive Drivers Course
should be altered to become the
Driver’s Proficiency | Course and
expanded to teach people sound
driving skills including a car han-
dling course. This would culminate

in an advanced exam the passing
of which would entitle you ta
reduced ICBC rates — say 50 per
cent.

Subsequently, if a driver so
qualified were involved in an acci-
dent he would lose this privilege.

This scheme would provide both
a financial and emotional incentive
to improve the level of driving
ability at a relatively small cost to
‘the taxpayer.

Dr. Robert Follows
West Vancouver