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FIRST winner in the North Shore News Hidden Name Con- testis Mr. Richard Ironmonger of North Vancouver whose - name was hidden in Sunday’s classifieds. Mr. Ironmonger pians to spend his $25 prize on lottery tickets.

EARN'TO SOAR this year at free BMX clinics. The North Shore BMX club is giving the beginner lessons at its bicy-

le track at 23rd and-Lonsdale. The cli

nics will be held June 19 and 26. Interested riders call 985-7640 or 987-0793.

OPEN SUNDAY or closed Sunday?

West Vancouver mer- chants were split on the Sunday shopping issue Wednesday night at a public forum at West Vancouver

Secondary School.

While some retailers ex- pressed concern about being left out of the Sunday boom, others were angry that they should have to take pact in holiday commerce.

Phil Boname, a market researcher hired by Park Royal Shopping Centre, told an audience of about 50 people that having stores closed on Sundays will cost West Van merchants 325 million in lost sales for 1985 — $18 million from local consumers and $7 million in outside dollars.

West Vancouver and Sur- rey are the only two municipalities not allowing Sunday shopping, and ac- cording to Boname, Surrey will vote in favor of the practice within a month, leaving West Vancouver as the only non-participating municipality.

Said P. Lawson Travel manager Julia Mcintosh, one of the Park Royal mer- chants: “Just because all the other municipalities want to jump off the bridge, it doesn’t mean we have to.”’

McIntosh said she did not feel her company could offer good quality service if it was open seven days a week. ‘1 think it does more harm than good,”’ she said.

But Ron Cockroft, florist shop owner and president of the Park Royal Merchants’ Association, said Sunday shopping is a matter of sur- vival.

“T just want to keep what I have,’? Cockroft said. ‘Retailing is a competitive business and if we are not allowed to compete on an even basis, we will suffer."*

Cockroft referred to regu- lar customers, saying ‘'Cus- tomer loyalty is nice, but you can't sit back and say, ‘Goody-goody, I've got loyal customers,’ and forget about service and convenience, because the moment you do, the customers will go elsewhere."’

Boname said Sunday shopping has evolved as a result of a need for more convenience shopping.

“It’s a matter of conve- nience and work habits,’ Boname said. ‘*Seventy to 80 per cent of shopping is done by women, and women are finding it increasingly dif- ficult (to shop) if they are also working.””

After a March = survey, Boname said he found 42 per cent of West Van shop- pers are in favor of Sunday shopping, and quite a few who were against, admitted to indulging in it.

Forty-five per West Vancouver shoppers are taking their Sunday dollars to Pacific Centre, 27 per cent to Capilano Mall, 18 per cent to Granville Island and 13 per cent to Oakridge Shopping Centre, Boname said.

The public forum was or- ganized by West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce.

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mbieside safe from sewage

RAW SEWAGE dumped into the Fraser River

won't end up on Ambleside Beach.

North Shore Union Board of Health's chief inspector David Cooper said it unlike- ly any North Shore beaches will be affected by the dum- ping Tuesday of untreated human waste.

The sewage was released by the Greater Vancouver

sewerage and drainage branch.

Initial estimates by the GVRD put the amount to be released at 40 million litres

over a three-day period.

Cooper, however, in an interview with the News, said revised figures have in fact reduced the actual discharged volume of waste by as much as 26 million litres.

He said according to GVRD officials. the dump- ing of raw sewage was speeded up and completed in one day instead of the plan-

ned three days.

Chances that tides and currents would carry the waste to the North Shore area are slight, said Cooper. But he added that monitor- ing of local waterfront strands for possible coliform contamination will be under- taken by GVRD staff,

Sampling of beach-front water will also be carried out

by NSUBH officials since it is a part of the board’s poli- cy to test for water-borne health hazards regularly from May to October, Coo- per pointed out.

When asked whether the GVRD had informed the NSUBH about the planned discharge of raw waste, Cooper replied tha! no prior notice had been given and

the board learned of the dumping from the media.

But the main point about the whole raw sewage issue, said Cooper, was the amount leaked and the fact it was ‘minimal’.

“Y can reassure people us- ing North Shore's beaches that there won't be an in- crease in the level of col- iform.””