A6-Sunday News, May 4, 1980

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NEWS VIEWPOINT

Sunday shopping

North Vancouver City council’s proposal for a committee representing all three North Shore municipalities to consider a unified bylaw for North Shore Sunday shopping hours is a reasonable step. But its members from each municipality should, nevertheless, proceed with caution.

Unified Sunday shopping hours may NOT necessarily be in the best interests of all North Shore residents — or even of all North Shore merchants.

Wide open Sunday shopping, for example, might be considered desirable in North Van City which is working hard to build up its tourist industry and to attract overtown shoppers to the Lower Lonsdale area via the SeaBus. But it might be much less desirable in the residential areas of North Van District and in West Vancouver, which has no in- terest in cultivating tourism.

Moreover, as the annual hassle over late- night Christmas shopping has shown, many smaller merchants suffer as a result of ex- tended hours which increase their overhead without commensurate gain. Either that, or they stay closed and lose customers to bigger, better endowed competitors. And in the large shopping centres, of course, they are compelled to remain open whether they can afford it or not.

The chief beneficiaries of the extra business day would likely be the major chain stores in the malls. But there are many local quality-of-life factors to weigh before rushing into unified, wide open Sunday shopping throughout the North Shore.

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Coming apart?

The troubles in Iran have taken a bizarre new turn. The country is now facing an acute shortage of zippers. The local brand of zipper has become hard to find and doesn't even work when you find it. Meanwhile, imports of foreign zippers have dropped to a trickle and prices have more than doubled.

Given the indispensable role of the zipper in modern life, this latest Iranian crisis may be the last straw. Cover-ups will become increasingly difficult. It could be the first

sign that the Ayatollah’s revolution is coming apart at the seams.

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Ottawa sees the light

By W. Roger Worth

Finally the federal governmeat has eliminated one of the great injustices in the Canadian tax system.

By allowing more than 100,000 hard-working hus- band and wife teams running independent business, farms and fishery operations to de- duct salaries paid to spouses for tax purposes, Ottawa has halted a massive npoff that cost small entrepreneurs $160 milhon per year.

Ics about ime.

Unul the change’ was announced. the deep thinkers in the tax depart- ment had effectively con- cluded that spouses (husbands or wives) working in a propnetorship did not really contribute to the well- being of the enterpnise. Ottawa ruled that, from a tax point of view, these people should work for nothing.

Since most of the spouses are women working with their husbands, the tax measure also eliminated the discnmination that’ turned these females into second class citizens.

The wonder is that it took

ON YOUR FEET: If you've awakened in time to tread this before noon, do something for your health, physical and mental, by joining today’s Heritage Walk around North Van -- led by Bill Baker of North Van Museum and Jack Warts of the North Van Community Arts Council. It starts at | p.m. from the Royal Bank corner, 2nd and

Lonsdale, visiting Emerald Park Lodge and 14° other histome Lower Lonsdale

buildings -- capped off with refreshments at Presentation House, 4th and Chesterfield. around 4 p.m Provided. only, that 1 doesn't rain or shower, in which presently unlikely event they tl postpone tt to a future date Intscovernng your roots with your shoe leather could be a rewarding way .of spending a fine Sunday afternoon

Marking = the niversary of Tiddlycove’s May Day tradition, West Van Commuatty Day this year is slated for Saturday. June 7.

SOth an

with the ever bigger and better parade. Bavanan

live music

fitness events, Garden dancing and arts crafts galore lo Golden An niversary they re planning to revive Maypole dancing (last seen at Ambleside Park tn the carly sixties) and for the

first time to hold an evening

and celebrate the

dance

Pheyre also looking for memorabuia of (he pood old days right back to 1940 Have you any old photos of carly May Days in West

so long to get the policy changed.

John Bulloch, president of the 55,000-member Cana- dian Federation of Indepen- dent Business was elated when the tax measure was announced:

“We've fought a six year battle with the bureaucrats and politicians on this issue,” he said. “It’s important [to know that changes in the system are possible if you have enough patience.”

What's perhaps more im- portant is that governments are Starting to understand the crucial role of in- dependent business in the Canadian economy.

With the small business sector creating a majonty of the new jobs 1n the country, any moves by Ottawa or the provinces to make life a httle easier for entrepreneurs will undoubtedly result in more employment.

What's unusual about the spousal tax chanp~ 1s that the move was supnorted by all three federal political parties. After years of pro- crastination, Canada’s politicians have finally seen the light.

Roger-Worth is Director, Public Affairs,

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

Van? Were you once a West Van May Queen’? If you possess any such artifacts tor are one yourself), or uf you'd like to volunteer

your services, call indefatigable Mark Sager, this year's

chairman once again, in about ten days time at 926- 7004 -- he's currently on a short) vacation from his chores as manager of one of the wests unique furniture stores and Canada’s youngest school trustee

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Bright new fund raising idea from the TB Vets, those mce people who send you the key chain tags for your car keys every year (have you sent them that buck or two you owe them”) Theyre offering personalized stack -on address labels for all those letters youre pomp to write in the

now

next ecapht

months tastefully decorated with ae B ¢ dogwood emblem Phey tre

handy, too for sticking on things hke Cheques) records tapes and books If youd like a supply at a bargain

price, gust drop a note with

your address detail to Tuberculosis and Chest Disabled Veterans Assoclation SO West

Broadway Vancouver

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Bright) new cost cutting idea for small office business ventures in West Van trom Albon Eland. Her s00" mothe Ambtcside ISth and Marine

small

“Suite

Centre at

rents out smart

private offices together with

pooled secretanai help, use of a boardroom and sophisticated business equipment at a= price descnbed as “surprisingly affordable” Quite short leases, too, while you make your first milhon If you're hell-bent on hanging up your own shingle without too many cash flow problems, give Alison a ding at 926- “361

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TUTS-TUTS: Its 40 year ago since summer theatre in the open air began at the Malkin Bowl stage in Stanley Park, but after 23 seasons Theatre Under The Stars, which had meanwhile become aecompletely company, was finalty beaten by nmsing costs and bad weather From 1964 to 1968 the Malkin Bowl stood empty Then, in 1969. the non profit Pheatre In the Park Society revived the summer shows with the help of the Musi al

professional

amateur Dunbar Theatre and they have continued to be a Mounting success ever since

embodying the professional quahty of the “TUTS™ company without the high costs that

led touts downfall

onginal

This year the operation is

reverting to its omginal nostalgn name of Theatre Under Phe Stars TTS as Canada’s only traditional open ate summer theatre They open July oo} with Mikadea followed July 1/ with “My bain Lady” and dont forget to take along your sweater and plast rain cape

Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

PEOPLE ARE _ FUN:

Congrats to West Van's Marilyn Chilvers, newly elected vice-president PR

for the United Way of the Lower Mainland (she's also president of the PR Society of B.C.)... Birthday greetings to North Van Kiwanis Myrna Handel and Dave Bonner... Happy anniversaries to their clubmates Maureen and Ed

Shadeck, and an and Harry LeBlond..{ A hearty pawshake to J Calrnes,

elected 1980 président of the North Van Lions... And a hard-work citation to Rev. William Perry of West Van Presbytenman Church. in addition to serving on the West Van Community Services Advisory Com. mission he's secretary of the World Council of Churches planning committee for the 1983 WCC Assembly m

Vancouver and also president of (he Vancouver Council of Christian

Churches

For the arts and crafts set a new show with an in triguing title “Spin And Phrow” | opens Monday at the Studio Shop inp Dun darave, the tithe begins to make sense when you learn that it features weaving by Madeleine Chisholm = and ceramics by Ron Tribe, both tops in their class And many blissful retirement years to West Van teachers Rod MacKenzie, Alan Harvey, Jessie Griffin, Elizabeth Crider, Gladys Smiley, Florence (luff and BO McCulloch.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: As the mattre'd observed at Ambleside's ncwest scalood restaurant, one man's meal is another man’s poisson