4- briday, January {, TIME TO SALUTE the 2,200-odd guests who've enlivened this col- umn in the past year — 99% North Shore residents. young and old, Business types, ar- tists, Newlyweds and Golden-plus An- niversary couples. good causes. Preachers, soldiers, 198s - | News Viewpoint Goodbye 1987 SW YEAR'S Day is traditionally a time for gazing into the future. A new year means new hope, new opportunity, More important, New Year's is a time to reflect upon the past. 1987 had its share of misfortune: the stock market crashed and labor troubles continued. A lot happened locally, too. All must be taken into ac- count before stepping boldly into the new year. 1987 will be known as the year local municipal gov- ernments hobbled affordable housing for the com- munity’s less fortunate. West Vancouver shot down a proposal to build a much-needed seniors home in the municipality. North Vancouver District, in an attempt to preserve single-family zoning, created a bylaw to phase out illegal suites and inadvertently reduced the municipality’s future availability of low-income hous- ing by failing to provide viable alternatives. 1987 will also be remembered as the year the Socreds frustrated a lot of North Shore residents: Bills 19 and 20 legislation sparked labor protests, which resulted in a one-day general strike and an instruction-only cam- paign by North Vancouver and other B.C teachers; er- ratic Squamish Highway construction closures in- furiated many; and a lack of provincial funding for Seymour area schools prompted protests. On 1987's positive side: Versatile got the $350 mil- lion Polar Class 8 icebreaker contract; Park and Tilford’s fate was finally decided; and the Canada- U.S. free trade deal promises great future economic opportunity. Whether these events will profoundly shape the future remains to be-seen. And if they don’t, wasn’t the weather great this summer? North Share News of all comes iast! | folk with extraordinary experi- ences. And our elected public ser- vants, bless 'em — who graccfully suffer our occasional kindly com- ments on the error of their ways. Turning the pages of the year, one is reminded once more of the wealth of interesting, talented, dedicated and otherwise outstan- ding neighbors with whom we share North and West Vancouver. No space today, alas, to list them all individually again, so the best we can do is greet them by proxy — with a mere handful of names from each category ... eee THE POLITICIANS: May 1988 polish ali your images and keep your feet away from banana peel. Not forgetting MP Mary Collins (‘‘no noose is bad news!’) and MP Chuck Cook who hates phony ref- ugees ... our MLAs Joha Reynolds who takes the gold as Speaker, Ringmaster Angus Ree, the Socred whip, and Jack Davis, a minister bursting with energy ... Our mayors — indestructible Jack Loucks, suite-reasoning Marilyn Baker and ‘‘shirt sleeves’’ operator Don Lanskail, Achievers and winners, The musicians and housewives. Volunteer workers for endless police and firefighters. Ordinary IVAN ACKERY ... zest for fife goes on. MARION LAMBIE ... century of enjoying. ‘Remembering, too, rookie Ald. Bill Bell whose NDP farm team RON GAMBLE ... banner-bearer of reform. THR VINES OF COT AND WEST VANCOUVER prvrerspTran St DAT TRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 $8,804 .averace. Wednesday Friday & Sunday) Display Advertising 980.0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 ap ueibe ty ane see tea St DesGeyre AGNES half-million angel. WATTS ae BILL BELL ... City council upset. ./ / af The best 1988 news ‘ victories changed the’ tace of City council ... Ald. Stella Jo Dean iio survived the upsef’ to win a Zth year ... Ron (Reform Party) Gam- ble ... And ‘Cap College's kamikaze Gord Wilson, the new B.C. Liberal leader. eee / COMMUNITY SERVICES volun- teers: May 1988 bring lots mare like Chamber of Commerce workaholics Graham Reid, Bil! Soprovitch and Dave Bakewell ... Citizen-of-the-Year Mike Nicell ... tourism booster Judy Ainsworth .» Cancer Unit queen Norma Sharp ... CohoFest chieftain Don Griffiths ... Xmas hamper ladies Erica O'Dwyer and Ruth Stout ... Lynn Valley’s Betty Waters ... and every Lion, Legionnaire, ANAFVet, Kiwanian, Kinsman, Rotarian, Soroptimist and their ilk from Deep Cove to Lions Bay. eee ASSORTED GOOD GUYS: May 1988 be as rewarding as 1987. That goes for world wheelchair champ Rick Hansen ... former West Van mayor Derrick Humphreys, busy as ever on federal and provincial government boards ... West Van’s 98-year-old Variety Club ‘‘angel’’ Agnes Watts (over half a million donated‘ to date) ... Federation JIM McCARTHY ...‘*75th’’ stage manager. MIKE NICELL ... Year. ' GORDON WILSON ... kamikaze mission? Publisher. Managing Editor Associate Editor Citizen of © Peter Speck Barrett Fisher Noel Wright .tinda Stewart Bad fond urd fe teeta Pe Grene as F rgeay Gg, i See Cts 5 are abtiCeera? Dut ate WTA TANS AMS Far OG (05, awe deasdte ALC OAT Entire contents 7 1987 North Shore Free Press Lid All nghts reserved. ERICA O'DWYER hamper lady. DERRICK HUMPHREYS. aes higher level business. Noel Wright © friday focus ® Cup tennis tournament organizer Tor Bengtson ... Jim McCarthy who stage-managed West Van's highly successful 75th anniversary program,..former West Van alderman Geurge Morfitt, B.C.'s new auditor-gencral ... and Robert Wal, West Van's second Rhodes Scholar in two years (out of 11 for all Canada). eos THE SURVIVORS: May 1988 be the first of your next 10 years is our wish to Anna Willcox, 106 on Jan.7 ... Gertrude Tett who turned 102 in September Amy Lee Parnum, Marion Lambie and Ger- (rude Watker, all of whom chalked up their century last year ... “Mr. ' Theatre Row", former Orpheum manager [van Ackery, still dapper and girl-watching at 88 ... Arthur and Anan Cragg, married for 75 years last July, and Frank and Ena Butterworth who celebrated their 70th anniversary in October. For the rest of us, as we enter 1988, they're the best news of all! eee DON GRIFFITHS ... CohoFest chieftain. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Wher you're low, don't forget that the sun sinks every night but comes back up every morning. A very happy New Year of mornings to you! ARTHUR AND ANN CRAGG ... a marital marathon. FRANK AND ENA BUTTER- WORTH ... 70 years later.