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…
Tag: Argyle Avenue
Time to rally on ludicrous waterfront plan
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…
Quit messing with Argyle Avenue
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…
Hurrah for common sense on West Vancouver council
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…