totem
much
loved
AN OLD totem pole in
West Vancouver, which

nobody apparently wanted
is now a desired itemn.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
Se ee
News Reporter |

‘

. Business. strata property
manager 'Noordin Madatali
recently fielded 69 phone calis: .

: from people. expressing inter-
est in obtaining the weathered
totem. |

Calis have come from :as
far. away’ as. Scotiand, , the
Fraser Valley and ‘Vancouver
‘sland.
_ 1... “have to respond to every
“phone call, Iv’s just been unbe-

= Hievable,”-said Madatali.

‘The News first reported on

March..15 about: the concems’
of strata owners living with the »..

totem* pole at 1571. Belicvue
‘Ave. :

‘tocated-. on .. strata’: ‘common

0 ‘property, is rotting at its base.

‘It would cost “an: estimated
$7,000 to restore "the totem

the pole was installed and not hoe

do ated to the strata., -

e'all passed ‘on an offer to

: the pole. for free. Anyone :

ry
pay thet removal costs includ- .

ing insurance, said Madatali.’:
Madatali sai that the i inte :

The 1k m (36 ft), totem,

A POUNDING hall storm an Saturday brought back winter memories ‘on the
North Shore In places like slippery Ross Road in Lynn Valley.

ested phone callers included:

’ BB a representative of the West

Vancouver. Yacht. club. ‘ The

‘club's request includes artist's
. sketches of how the totem pole

will appear from different per-

.spectives on ‘the yacht club

. property; ;
oa West Vancouver home- .

owner who is building a man-
sion on 1.5 acres in the British

.Properties. The homeowner

wants to place. the restored

FACTORY FUTOR

‘Entrance in rear tame .

“pole. in a native garden he. is

erating on his property;
R¥ two school girls who want
to cut down the pole and sefl it
in parts as a summer job. The
girls had planned to take the

three-ton Pole away in “their

little car.”
@a representative from a
ative school in Alberta; .
’ Bla man who wants to take the
‘ pole to Scotland;

+, ta Maple Ridge lady who has

at :
$600 |;

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phoned severaf times, but has. °f
no clear plans about what she
would do with the large pole. .
Madatali said the: business
strata council will make. its
decision in mid-April about
the fate of the totem pole,
' Madatali said_ the strata
council will not give the’ pole
to anyone planning to make a
profit, from it. an m

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