Appeared in the North Shore News – June 3, 2016 You may have heard – or bellowed yourself – something like: ‘‘By Jing, that moron Coun. Thimblehooper! I’ll never vote for that idiot again!’’ The Thimblehooper moment has come in West Vancouver. Because only a council of Thimblehoopers could consider for one New York minute […]
Posted in North Shore News on Jun 4th, 2016
Appeared in the North Shore News – May 20, 2016 It’s the classic solution looking for a problem. There is nothing wrong with Ambleside beach that West Vancouver town hall can’t screw up, permanently, irrevocably – starting with the core surrender of delightful Argyle Avenue to the Spirit Trail bicycle lobby and its enablers. To […]
Posted in North Shore News on May 23rd, 2016
Appeared in the North Shore News – October 25, 2013 With more than a touch of petulance – having lost a camel’s-nose-in-the-tent tie vote on experimental parking, pedestrian and bicycle lanes on Argyle just two weeks earlier – Mary-Ann Booth and Nora Gambioli failed again Monday to get West Van council on side with the […]
Posted in North Shore News on Nov 2nd, 2013
Appeared in the North Shore News – October 11, 2013 All praise to some West Vancouver councillors for a good night’s work Monday – stiffing a fool plan for Argyle Avenue, and elsewhere listening to Eden Place residents. Victories for good sense (a career specialty for Bill Soprovich, which explains his years of poll-topping) and […]
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