Appeared in Business in Vancouver – December 22, 2014 West Vancouver, the wealthy widow of Metro, might well ask Santa for Christmas: please, how about some nice fresh prosperity for our businesses? Especially for the main business stem, Marine Drive, Ambleside. A former councillor once drily counted something like 13 beauty salons by any name…
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Wheels of progress roll over us all
Appeared in the North Shore News – October 24, 2014 You can’t stop progress. Oh, you’ve heard that? Very disappointing. I thought I’d had a brilliantly original thought for a change. What’s seldom mentioned in stories in the media, and doubtless even less in the developers’ boardrooms and in-camera council meetings, is just exactly what…
West Van foodies foraging farther afield
Appeared in the North Shore News – April 11, 2014 Decisions, decisions. Today’s topic: Should I expiate on the Quebec election? Or deplore lives and minds so impoverished that a losing hockey season triggers mass civic depression? Neither. Extra Foods at Park Royal Shopping Centre will close April 22. How and where West Vancouverites forage…
What they learned in a year on the job
Appeared in the North Shore News – January 18, 2013 In time, as the Gershwins mused, the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, but love for West Vancouver is here to stay. As proven by the following. I asked West Van’s three rookie councillors and first-term mayor to write essays on their first 12 months…