Scere sere A6 - Sunday, January 6, 1985 - North Shore News GE editoriall Open’ ‘Sunday n many ways, despite .its~ obvious . popularity with s sizeable segment of the buying public, Sunday shopping presently remains a mess. First, of course, there’s the inequity of merchants in one municipality being forced ‘to remain closed while their, competitors’ cash registers ring .merrily..a block or two away ina neighboring. ‘‘open’’ municipality. Mearwhile, . a, .goed. number of the siore- . keepers now opes_ on Sunday are themselves Sar froni happy. They claim Sunday shopp- ‘ing merely. spreads. available business over - '. seven days instead of six, with no increase in profit.; And with staffs already cut.to the "-bone..in many cases, store employees are . a frequently being compelled to sacrifice their *. Sunday leisure regardless of their wishes, : This leaves service to the. public as. the main justification for the “open’’ Sunday-- the most:‘convenient shopping day fora | rowing ‘number of: working couples -and in- uals. But even’. here: there are wide dif- : : “ferences of opinion. Sunday -. ‘shopping referendums | on “the - North, ‘Shore. have: oven’ -won (or, in West Van, lost). by comparatively narrow margias. ° - A‘recerit NEWS poll found 42% in favor as . against, 38% opposed and 12% neutral. Log: - ically, of course, there’s also: no reason whiy Sunday opening should’ be: confined . to ; ‘Stores. ‘Why -not ‘banks, - lawyers, doctors; : ‘dentists, governmeit offices and even in- ~ ; dustrial . “plants., as: well? And -how: would © -THAT vast’ increase in Sunday workers af-— : fect public attitudes? The: best. answer,: we . suggest, -would be a to.: “allow: “Sunday opening the marketplace to curious dual: attitude iment help. A big: 86 percent . ‘said. the ‘fed ral deficit was an ~‘unfair : be reduced.’ But. 67 per luce the deficit by scrap- ocial programs. That;, Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Cireutation 986-1337 Subscriptions 985.2131 North Vancouver, 8.C. V7M 24 "Operations Manager Berni Hilliard + Circulation Director. Bilt McGown Editor-in-Chief. . : : Neel Wright” : Display Advatisog Managar “Production 0 Diector Mike Goods “. Chris‘ Johnson Classified Manager « Photography Manager - Val Stephenson “Terry Peters North Shore. News, founded in'1969 as'an independent suburban” newspaper and qualilied under Schedule tl, Part fil, Pacagraph it! of he Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Ciass Mail Registration Number 3885. Entire contents ‘€ 1984 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Subscrptions. North and West Vancouver, $25. per year. Mailing rates available on request. No tesponsiihly accepted tor unsolcited matenal including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a starnped. addressed envelope. -Member of the B.C. Press Council 55,770 average. Wednesday Friday & Sunday) GN G THIS PAPER !S RECYCLABLE SDA DIVISION rR UBBLY FOR B BREAKFAST isa fine way to Start New Year’s Day. Depending a I:- tle, of course, on the starting time. As the. result. of New Year's Eve dinner at their favorite Ambleside restau- rant, Bob Graham, associate publisher of The News, and. wife .Anne Marie weren’t . -given. much choice in. the matter. After welcoming in 1985, they eventually retired ‘>to bed towards -3.a.m.---only to be aroused from their _ Slumber. around 6 a.m. by a (thundering on the front door ‘and the jingle‘ of cow bells. “Throwing on a’ robe, Bob | - opened, up ‘to find. Thierry - - Damilano, maitre -d'’ of. the . Cafe des Alpes, - son the: * dborstep,.:"bearing “cham. .* _ pagne.:and ‘croissants; and “"}. “accompanied by half a dozen. :-{ | ‘other revellers... just 7 Thierry’s fun way of.saying . Happy: New. Year to good Ridgewood in North Van for the: .enjoyment of: three-° year-old Kellie and. (saon) nine-month-old Bradley. But the question was how to. get it over to them. The answer, eventually, was a truck---and a king-size - crane. Bruce hadn’t stinted ; his. kids. The doll house ceil- ing is six feet high and, ‘when. Kellie and Bradley aren’t playing in it, the Johnsons. , will now have. a nice. extra "bedroom on the - lot.’ for ‘Greater. Vancouver, Conven- . tion & Visitors Bureau, for. - the Bureau's. handsome 1985 out-of-town visitors! £ *e WACKIEST contribution last month to the North Van Christmas Bureau, reports. “chairman ‘Ida Paddock; “ceame from’a group bearing” » the intriguing title “North Vancouver’ Drinking and customers; So ‘in. they all ~’[. trooped . and, with . the, sleepy-eyed Grahams,” got down to enjoying the goodies until the first pale fingers of 1985°s:first dawn streaked the eastern horizon. ‘Next New Year's the .Damiiano Dewn Party will likeiy idke. place elsewhere. Thierry---who devotes all his leisure time to ‘winning windsurfing champion- of ships---recently bought. his own first restaurant. in’ the West End. Appropriately christened ‘Chez Thierry”’, —it’s~ at 1674 Robson, a champagne cork’s flight from Denman, and’ the opening is planned ‘for around Jan.i9. The : Grahams .and. other West Van patrons can ‘look for- ward te enjoying familiar flavors on the menu because _ : chef Francois Launey is also quitting the Cafe des Alpes to join Thierry in his new venture. Tous nos voeux, messieurs! * A DOLL HOUSE built for his three children by Bruce Hodge, late of Ottawa | Avenue in West Van, pres- ented a slight problem when the time came for the dodge family to move to Regina at the end of last month. Bruce and wife Nada decided to give it to their. good friends Dennis and Sue Johnson on GENTLY DOES IT...New Year's gift arrives for Kellie and Bradley Johnson. Gilford photo THAT “INFAMOUS” BRIDGE...with condolences io Art Jones. Loose “Change Society’’. But, - she: adds, there was cruise ship outward bound through the First Narrows the caption reads: ‘“fhe Sun Princess passes under the in- famous Lions Gate Bridge'’. Don': fret, Art, it happens to newspaper folk every day «. A proud salute to West Van's Ray Peters, chief exec. of BCTV, awarded the Order of Canada for his use of the network as a public service vehicle. Among other innovative geod works on the tube, Ray introduced the telethon format as a charity . fund-raiser, the Kiwanis TV ‘auction’ and the BCTV ‘scholarship program to, St. Michael's College School .:. ~ Congrats to former B.C, Liberat leader and North Van '4LA Gordon Gibson and wife Kilby for producing B.C.’s first New Year baby’ well ahead of schedule---they obviously took. John Turner's call to rebuild ‘the - party seriously. ... Seekers os after new talent — will.” be dropping by ‘this month at West Van Memorial Libr: the late A. C.Aiken and Irene nothing wacky, about’ the.size . i ‘of. their gift---a whopping $1,300. Withthat kind of - loose change to donate to a - geod cause, ove: wonders -- how NVDLCS members ever manage to buy themselves a drink... : HITHER. AND YON: The. Murphy. Law . Department's prize of the year goes to Ait Sones, president of the calendar with its beautiful color photos---and the ’ beautiful “‘typo’’- the - pro- -ofreaders failed to catch. be- ‘ fore, sending it to press. Under the June picture of a ak: o NEWS photo Stuart Davis . GORDON GIBSON » ... Keeping the Grit membership growing. “Poskitt, is holding her first. exhibition of oil and water- color portraits ... Treat. for youngsters of all ages. -at 10:30 a.m. next’ Saturday QJan.12).in' North Van, City Library is the ‘‘Hansel and Gretel’’ . puppet. show by Waldorf. School’s ‘Marjorie Thatcher “and friends ... ‘i'm just about ready to faint,’ cried North Van's Malcolm Kibblewhite, talk- ing to the prize payout cen- tre in Winnipeg where he'd sent his winning ticket in the Anniversary Gala Draw of the Western Canada Lottery. They'd just told him that his prize, which he thought to be $1,000, was actually $10,000 ... And also singing all the way to the bank is North Van's Stan Sheppard with an instant pre- Christmas win of $10,000 in the Pioneers of the West Lottery. . x * WRIGHT OR WRONG: Most folk would be only too happy to pay as they go---if they could only catch up on where they’d been.