6 - Sunday, March 10, 1985 - North Shore News

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Fading blooms?

he future of the Park & Tilford Teese seems to be boiling down to a

battle between rival commercial development boosters.

The prospective developers of the P&T site want it rezoned from industrial to commer- cial in order to combine the gardens with a 250,000 sq.ft. shopping centre which, they claim, would provide up to seven times more jobs and up to three times more tax revenue than the former distillery.

City council has solidly opposed the shopping centre and said the present zoning should basically be retained because in- dustrial land is getting into short supply. The most that council! will presently concede is a possible handful of minor retail outlets directly linked to the gardens operation itself. The developers argue that this won’t generate the revenue needed to maintain the gardens without charging the public for ad- mission.

Concern about preserving industrial tand, ‘however, may be something of a smoke screen, There are indications that a much stronger factor is fear by champions of Lewer Lonsdale redevelopment about the competition that project would suffer from yet. another shopping centre--especially in

. light of the recently Opened Pemberton Plaza and the go-ahead given for an expansion of ~-Capitano Mail. ». if the job and tax revenue forecasts are right, commercial, development of the P&T site centre ‘would clearly profit the City more than ‘keeping it industrial. So whether the _ gardens wilt: bloom again. may finally hang - on ‘whether you can have too many shopping facilities. There’s some considerable market Tesearch that suggests the answer r to the latter ‘is “no”.

Down to earth!

I f you’re a landowner, how deep does your

land go? That’s the fascinating question

_faised by the owners of a downtown Van- couver office building that sits over the old Dunsmuir Tunnel, now being reconstructed to accommodate, -the’.new ALRT line. The building owners are suing B.C. Transit for trespass —. through lawyers who obviously believe in getting right Gown to earth!

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HAPPIEST PARENTS on: Bm

the North Shore last week,

after receiving a call from |

Santiago, Chile, were North Van residents Corinne and Jim Burns.

The call was from son Pat Burns to report that he and his bride of five months, Cerolina, were safe and unharmed after the vicious earthquake that struck the Chilean capital seven days ago, killing 146 people and destroying 20,000 homes. The newlyweds escaped with nothing worse than cracks in the walls of their apartment.

Pat, a geologist and UBC graduate, has lived and worked for the past five years in Chile--where miner- als and mining are one of the major industries--and now has his own practice there as a geological consultant. He married Chilean-born Carolina last October.

Parents Corinne and Jim, North Vancouverites for the past 17 years, have visited with Pat twice at Christmas, when Santiago is bathed in warm summer sunshine. Corinne says they were more than a little surprised to come across no personal evidence of an oppressive dictatorship. They found life ‘very pleasant’’, drove free- ly around the country without’ problems of any kind and were told by people of all classes that “life under Pinochet is much better’’. They have high praise for the food and wines, and the beaches as “‘fantastic’’.

Aside from the odd earth- quake it sounds a great place to’ head for in December-- even though we may get an anti-Pinochet demonstration outside the News offices for suggesting the idea!

* x * MORE HAPPY from below the

NEWS border

comes from erstwhile North |

Van City alderman Marc: Howard, now retired and! spending six months a year with his wife in southern California. Some of the U.S. dollar prices he quotes (with Canadian dollar prices jin

brackets) stop you in your

THANKFUL for cracked apartment walls ... Pat and Carolina Burns at their October 1984 nuptials.

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tracks-:as well as giving in- teresting sidelights on Marc's style of gracious living. Mouth-watering examples: Canadian rye $5.89 U.S. ($12.30 CAN), a dozen Carl- ing Black Label $2.99 U.S. ($7.00 CAN), Italian wine 99¢ U.S. ($4 CAN ard up), carton of cigarettes $3.99 U.S. ($14 CAN), Grade A

MARC HOWARD ... Aollar-wise.

beef roast per Ib. 59¢ U.S, ($1.98 CAN), 12 large eggs 69¢ U.S. ($1.69 CAN), paper towels 69¢ U.S. ($1.59 CAN), box of Kleenex 77¢ U.S. ($1.30 CAN).

The list goes on and on, says Marc--whose diet ob- viously consists of more than rye, roast beef and eggs. He attributes it all to a will-

RUTH STOUT ... fits.

HEADING FOR SUN AND FUN ... lottery winners Jo-Ann Marleaa and Gloria Stowe.

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ingness of workers to work and comparatively little unionization, resulting in much lower labor costs and less than four per cent unemployment. Whatever ... at those prices who can af- ford not to live in southern California, even on a 7i¢ dollar? sk Ot MRS.SANTA CLAUS is her name to nearly 300 needy West Van families for whom she’s organized Christmas gifts and hampers for 16 years in a row. But that’s not all. She continues her good works at ail seasons through the West Van Welfare Association, as well as being a Red Cross worker for the past three decades. The lady’s other name is Ruth Stout, best known as head of the annual West Van Santa Claus Fund which col- lects Christmas food, clothing, toys and cash through the local fire halls. This month she’s been nominated for a YWCA “Woman of Distinction’’ award -in the Community and Humanitarian Service category. The title fits... + ke f

HITHER AND YON: Back from a seminar for stage producers at the Banff Cen- tre for Performing Arts is City Alderman Stella Jo Dean--impressario for the past 11 years of the North Van Folkfest, producer of the City’s Jubilee show “Remember The Good Old Days’’ and now planning a “Christmas Around The World”. extravaganza for next December in the Cen- tennial Theatre (call her at 987-6085 if you'd like to help) ... North..Van’s Jo- An) Marleau and "Gloria Stowe were winners of trips for two, to Jamaica and Reno respectively, in the re- cent North Van Rotary Club

JO DEAN ..... on with the show.

lottery ... Apologies to Norma .Luccock of St. Monica’s. Horseshoe Bay, whose name got scrabbled by our computer into ‘‘Lub- bock’’ in last week’s story about the March 20 African Children's Choir concert be- ing sponsored by the church at Eagle Harbour Communi- ty Centre ... Do your garden and the Lynn Valley Falcons Division 5 Boys a favor next Saturday (March 16). The current provincial soccer champions are raising funds for the good cause with a manure sale from 10 to 4 at Lynn Valley Centre ... And dream tonight about being North Van’s Howard Maundrell who won $500,000 in the Feb.22 Pro- vincial draw. * * *

WRIGHT OR WRONG: When you're right, you can afford to keep your temper. When you're wrong, you can't afford not to,