AFTER 22 years, Jack Loucks is cleaning out

' CONTRARY to popular
. belief, Jack Loucks was
not born with a brush cut.

: Chamber of Commerce and the city.

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months before the election.” 5). °

born: May 23,'1918, in. Vancouver. and spent his
living in Woodfibre on. Howe Sound before his par-

ed to Vancouver. A year after high school he be;
eurisy and tuberculosis: Loucks wouldn’t
goal of becoming a ‘schoolteacher. He
graduated from ‘ Varicouver’s

‘1942 and taught in Agassiz and Hope.

¢'carn 3 Bachelor of Arts Degree

He. began © a -*30-yea:

career: with the North °
‘Vancouver ‘school ‘dis- °

trict:as “a teacher at
North Star elementary.
By 1970 he was working
in: administration: at

‘May 23,1928, in:
rncouver to parents Charles

school board head office .

and decided: to run for
/.alderman’s : seat .on
council and spent a two

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his office to make way for new city mayor Barbara Sharp.

council has set in motion similar ns for
the Fullerton Fill and Versatile Shipyards proper.
ties.
“I've seen development happen, but it happened
very slowly. The first thing you have to do is
have somcone come in who wants to develop. In
Lower Lonsdale we've got the ideas and we've
got a plan and we've got companies that are
interested in developing down there.”
What “hasn’t changed -is Loucks’ modest
demeanor and his haircut.
“I started that about 1947. when I first started
teaching over here. 1 really felt odd walking
around with a crew cut the first while, but I'd

"feel odd without it. I feel comfortable and it:
doesn’t take much to look after it. I gather it’s
becaine a trademark; I didn’t set out to do that.”
The popular mayor was celebrated at two tribute

week. by the North Vancouver

dinners . this
The chamber invited Jo: business leaders to join’ Loucks’
political friends at Grouse Mountain's Observatory restaurant
Tuesday. There were several'current and former N Vancouver
District counci! members wh. tried throughout the years to per-
suade Loucks to accept their : malgamation overtures. Even thos: °

‘who once touted the “A-word” admit Loucks stecred a respoasi-

ble course for his citizens. : ; 2 a
“The city has been’ served exceedingly well by: gentleman -

Mayor Jack,” said former North Vastcouver District mayer Marilyn

Baker. “He's down to carth, Pragmatic, he’s caring. He’s' even

handed and he’s fair, he listens an:

a ” : BO . we a . : “
‘News ‘publisher Peter Speck, who’ attended schools where

Loucks taught, described Loucks as someone with “a heart full of

; Patience and a love of the city of North Vancouver, its history and

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_ Lonsdale for my

is listened to. He is respect- °

‘ mittees: “Ma
_ cious. If you believe in. something,

Bob Mackin
News Reporter

IT’S hard to imagine North Vancouver City
Council without Mayor Jack Loucks.

It will be harder to imagine Jocal government without Stella Jo
Dean. ;

Dean, the city’s longest-serving member of council, is also
retiring from politics. Her 27 years on council will conclude
Monday night when the new council is sworn in.

“I would not be telling the truth if I said I was not going to
miss council,” Dean says. ; ;

Dean ran for office in 1968 after a litde nudge from a local leg-
end, Citizen newspaper columnist/editor Ralph Hall. Dean
became well-known for her community work in organizing envi-
ronmental cleanups, and Hall suggested in the paper that she was.
pondering a run for office.

“I went to see him and said
‘Ralph, Pm not running for
anything’,” she recalls. “He
put in the paper Jo Dean can’t
make up her mind if she’s run-
ning in the city or district. I
went to see him again and said.
‘Ralph [’'m not running in
either of them!”:

“Ralph Hall convinced me I
should run in the city. So I let
my name stand, I didn’t spend |
any money and I got in. The
next time I ran I spent $60 and
got in.” :
The rest, as they say, is his-
tory... ;
Dean, who _ hails.’ from
Manitoba, came west to work ©
for Trans-Canada Airlines as a
passenger agent. She. raised
three children: with husband
Roland and furthered her edu-
cation as a mature student at
Simon Fraser University... © - eee Co aT Ss

Dean becante involved in a variety of community causes, rang,
ing from Girl Guides to organizing local events for the. 196.
national centennial. as Ce Eek

She helped start North Vancouver's first arts and crafts fair and
she also ran_a Christian book shop, Sign of the Fish, in Low
re tharta decade. Dean was instrumental in ‘anni
al FolkFest celebrations. of cultural , diversity “and has’ tirclessly

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’ bled for retail divers!

‘worked to preserve North ‘Vancouver's heritage and promotin;

approve the adjacent shopping centre arid : 4

Though she won’t be in the public eyess much; Dean plans to
remain invoived in the ‘conimunity, volun ral
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xething, be tenacior
thing. Don’e. think “about: negative thi
That’s my advice to people.” ..