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LAST WEEKENDE!S Plaik Floyd show was Just one of a namber of big acts that will make stops in Vancouver over the summer months, While Pink Floyd's show was arguably worth eveey one of the 42 ctol- lars if cost to see the concert, cising Geket prices ace forcing con- summers ta curefully mensure which shows vill give them more bung for their buck. Avid cencert-goers are Sinding it harder to make ends nicet after purchasing tel Following Michael Jackson and Barbra

Strelsand'’s lead, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, the Eagles, the Rotting Stones und Woodstock (94 are all exaraples of shows that will charge

Do you think concert tickets are becoming

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mare than the standard $20-30 ticket. The Eagles, easily (he suiaier’s most expensive ticket, are reportedly charglag $185 per Ucket. The flourishing scalping industry is a testament to the pap between a tick. ees market value and its retail price. Some groups chain they ure increasing the ticket prices to take the money out of sealpers’ hands. Seuttle’s Peart Jane is fighiing the trend by charging $20 for a ticket to their concerts plus Chey’re suing Ticketmaster over (he amount the company charges to handle ticked sales. Country singer Garth Brooks has gone on record as saying he supperts the group's corts.

too expensive?

Mario Pineda Vancouver

Definitely. | would say iUs getting outrageous. Id like to see more con- certs but they're too

Mike Kulik

North Vancouver Tdon't think it's an issue because | don't go to any concerts,

Mike Cleary

North Vancouver

‘Ten years ago it cost $10 to see the same bands, The Eagles’ cheap seats are $80 -- where's the justification? We bought

Darren Gagnon

North Vancouver Definitely, | was going to go tothe Pink Floyd concert but it was too expensive.

expensive.

pure FE CO EERRAT CE ES

A LOCAL mother and son have been elected to the national executive of the Liberal Party.

Mobina Jaffer was elected vice-president (English) for the party. Jaffer’s son Azool Jaffer-Jeraj was named vice-president of the Young Liberals of Canada.

Jatfer ran for the Liberals in North Vancouver dur-

family af air for duo

the albums,

ing the federal clection. She says that her son was a key member of her campaign.

“With only six Liberal Members of Parliament elected in B.C., | saw the office of vice-president as an excellent opportunity to take the grassroot con- cerns of ail British Columbians right to the source where policy decisions will be made.” '

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Bicycles claim Lions Gate Bridge

VANCOUVER CYCLISTS are in a huff over clean air.

A “clean transportation advoca- cy group” called the Bicycle People plans to protest air pollution in the region on Saturday. July 2, by tying up traffic on the Lions Gate Bridge.

The cyclists will meet at Denman and Georgia Streets down-

town at 10:30 a.m. and will cross the bridge en masse at 11:30 a.m.

They will regroup at Park Royal and then tangle traffic up again on their trek back. The group wants cleaner air in the Lower Mainland.

For more information, contact Gavin Davidson or Tim Howard at 873-3744.

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