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…
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West Vancouver arts edifice is monumental mistake
Appeared in the North Shore News – September 27, 2013 It may seem whimsical to urge saving a parking lot and to politely advise an arts centre lobby to look for a site elsewhere. Or get lost. If it’s whimsy, it’s serious whimsy. This is a special parking lot on invaluable land. The aggressive arts…
West Vancouver arts centre unneeded, unwelcome
Appeared in the North Shore News – September 13, 2013 Tear-jerk stories and other exploitative tricks of the writing trade are usually despised by the undersigned, famous for appealing to reader reason and logic. But desperate causes, desperate measures. So: Mummies and daddies and dear little kiddies will lose the happy experience of driving into…