"Our real estate agents refer to the 1300 block, north and south side, as the Gaza strip."
West Van Mayor Michael Smith discusses the need to develop the 1300 block of Marine Drive (from a March 6 news story).
"She prances through her useless, meaningless life looking like a psychotic bastard child of Cruella Deville (sic) and Barbie."
Radical anti-fur group the Animal Liberation Front takes responsibility for spray painting the door of a West Vancouver clothing boutique run by reality TV performer Jody Claman (from a March 29 news story).
"I took pictures of my son skiing two months after a heart transplant." Shannon Westerlund discusses the recovery of her 12-year-old son, Andrew (from a June 2 news story).
"It's hard to eat concrete." North Vancouver's Edible Garden Project manager Heather Johnstone says bees are threatened globally by pesticides and disappearing food sources (from an Aug. 25 Sunday Focus story).
"Those moments when the sea subsides and it's absolutely gorgeous and warm and you're sitting on the boat and rowing in this magic land of perfection, of mirror glass water and it doesn't feel like the Arctic."
North Vancouver adventurer and North Shore News writer Kevin Vallely recalls his recently completed 1,900 kilometre sojourn through the Northwest Passage in a rowboat (from a Sept. 4 news story).
"All the artists and architects in the region were inspired by Binning's house, like a cipher of Rosetta Stone."
Architecture journalist Adele Weder blasts the potential sale of West Vancouver's Binning House (from a Nov. 8 news story).
"The first voice that I listen to is citizens who are not born yet."
West Vancouver Coun. Trish Panz looks to the future as she backs Grosvenor's controversial Marine Drive development (from a Dec. 4 news story).
