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BIA is A-OK, following split council vote JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
After being delayed, rescinded and revised, the Lower Lonsdale Business Improvement Area was finally approved Monday.
City of North Vancouver council voted 4-3 in favour of the BIA, despite Coun. Pam Bookham blasting the “dubious” negative petition process and criticizing conditions at the foot of Lonsdale. “We have made life very, very difficult for many of our small business owners,” she said, citing years of ongoing construction, inadequate street cleaning and sidewalk maintenance, and a failure to keep lanes clear for delivery trucks. Coun. Craig Keating repudiated Bookham’s comments, noting the number of businesses that have opened up shop in the area below East Fourth Street and bordered by Forbes and St. Georges avenues. “If Lower Lonsdale is the small business hellhole, I better go tell all the new small businesses that are opening up in Lower Lonsdale that they’ve made a crucial and tragic mistake,” he said. While generally supportive of an organization that plans street festivals, cleans up graffiti and promotes the district’s approximately 496 businesses, Coun. Don Bell nonetheless
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Pedestrian, 21, struck in Lynn Valley dies BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Police say a pedestrian injured in a collision with a driver last week has died.
HIDDEN MASTERS The 12th annual Anonymous Art Show opens with a reception and sale this Thursday, Nov. 17 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at CityScape Community Art Space, 335 Lonsdale Ave. Purchase from hundreds of works by local established and emerging artists all priced at $100. Proceeds from each sale is shared equally between the North Vancouver Community Arts Council and artist, who remains anonymous until after purchase. Funds raised support NVCAC programs. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
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The victim, a 21-year-old Vancouver woman, was crossing Lynn Valley Road at East 29th Street around 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 when, police say, she hit the side of a white SUV as the driver was turning right onto 29th. Police say she suffered head injuries when the collision knocked her to the ground. “She remained in intensive care for the whole time and passed away over the weekend,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong,
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