6 - Friday, November 13, 1987 - North Shore News Se ee A VANCOUVER Publisher Managing Editor Peter Speck pisplay Advertising 980-0511 ; Barrett Fisher Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 3 Distribution 986-1337 Associate Editor Noel Wright Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban Newspaper and quathed under Schedule It, Paragtapn tot the Excise Tas Act. 1s putdished each Wednesuay. Friday and Sunday oy North Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every Goor on the Notin Shore Second Class Mail Registialion Nurnber 3885 Subscriptions North and West Vancouver. $25 par year. Mailing fates available on request Submissions are welcome bul we cannot accept tesponsiodity for unsoboded matenal including manuscnpts and pcturen whch should be accompanied bya a stamped, adgressed envelope Mews Viewpoint . SUNDAY = WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Princi inciples ACK STEVENS has put the courage of his con- victions ahead of his school and walked out on a situation that he says has made it impossible to do the job he feels school principals should do. The Queensbury Elementary School principal has said the separation of principals from teachers wrought by the Teaching Profession Act, which comes into ef- fect Jan. 1, will effectively render principals as man- agers rather than leaders of teachers. It will also, he says, hobble the ability of principals, who will be hired on a contract basis by school boards, to speak out on behalf of students. Stevens has dramatically underlined his concerns by resigning 2 position he enjoys to return to teaching, which will pay him approximately $15,000 less per year. But while there is much to admire in such a dramatic protest, it also leaves the teachers and students of Queensbury schoo! without a popular and respected principal. Stevens has decided ‘he system will not work, that a principal as representative of management will lose his rapport with the rest of his school. But his decision is based on the perception that management must be aloof and separate from those it manages. If that in- deed were true, most businesses would be doomed to failure and the economy doomed to collapse. The system may be suspect, but it deserves a rea- sonable effort by both principals and teachers to try to make it work. Entire contents © 1987 North Shore Free Press Lid. All rights reserved. 58,489 (average, Wednesday . A Friday & Sunday) SDA DIVISICN MUNICIPAL ELECTION CANDIDATES solid new reason to vote MUNICIPAL LEFTWINGERS are having another try for North Van City Council, with three con- testants entered in the Nov. 21 election. Bill Bell, Bob Davis and Barbara Sharp ran last time under the banner of the civic NDP farm team a.k.a. the Community Elec- tors Association, which fielded five urisuccessful candidates in 1985. Counterbalancing this year’s so- cialist trio among the hopefuls on :the outside looking in are two former aldermen, stockbroker Rod Clark and, businessman Gordon Cross. ; With a total of seven outside challengers vying for the single seat being vacated by Ald. Dana Taylor plus those of any of the remaining five incumbents they can knock. off, you'd think the election would be exciting enough to attract a de- cent voter turnout. Pulling against that hope, of course, is the absence of any mayoral or school board contests — Mayer Jack Loucks and the three City school trustees Ta) (Roy Dungey, Marg Jessup and Philip Joe) all having been return- ed by acclamation. However, there’s one entirely new factor this ‘Wovember that should prompt every City voter to spare five minutes for the polling station. Under Victoria’s new regulation this is the City’s first election for THREE-YEAR terms. If you make the wrong choice — or ne- giect to make one at all — you’re stuck with what you get until December 1990. Think about that! *en NORTH VAN EYES tend to glaze over these days at mention of the word ‘‘gmalgamation’’ and there’s good reason. A recent history of the issue compiled by SFU political science student Karl Newholm of Lynn Valley shows it has been busily getting nowhere for 30 years. The City broke away from North Van. District in 1907, West Van in 1912. In 1957 a District- NEWS photo Hite Wakofictd HAPPY LANDING...North Yan City clerk Bruce Hawkshaw (L) signs agreement with Cannell Studios for their Park & Tilford site piant, wat- ched by (L-R) Aid. Elko Kroon, Mayor Jack Loucks, Ald. Stella Jo Dean and Cannell representative Ingrid Friesen. | City study committee on getting together again was formed but eventually died on the vine. For eight years from 1963 on there were attempts to bring West Van Noel Wright 6 friday focus @ president of the Heraldry Society , of Canada is North Shore neighbor j Rob Watt, Vancouver Museum as well back. into the fold, but i director and a resident of North Tiddlycove finally said ‘‘no dice’’ in 1971. Meanwhile, there were endless: study conimittees and professional studies on City-District reunion, plus a 1968 plebiscite in both municipalities, with District 90% “sfor’’, City 51% ‘‘for’’. But the latter’s opposition hardened in a 1971 City-only postcard ballot which showed only 35% ‘‘for’’, 65% ‘‘against’’. So much for polls! District '‘'fayor Don Beil initi- ated another attempt in 1980 but got nowhere. Today, his successor, Mayor Marilyn Baker is at it again. However, City Mayor Jack Loucks (just returned for a new three-year term) and five of his six ' Van... And also moving up, Ma- } jor Bill White — who handed over command of North Van’s 6 Field Engineer Squadron fast Saturday to Major John McKay — has been present council remain firmly op- posed. Heavy yawn. POSTSCRIPTS: Beating the frec trade drum, Capilano MP Mary Collins will present the gospe! ac- cording to Mulroney regarding the alleged benefits of the proposed pact to a special $6.50 breakfast meeting next Friday (Nov.20) sponsored by the North Van Chamber of Commerce. Everyone welcome at 7:30 a.m. in Cheers Restaurant, 125 East 2nd — but members and guests must reserve in advance by calling the Chamber office, 987-4488 ... Nice to watch fitness buff and former alderman George Morfitt performing again at West Van’s civic dinner last week, In top comedy form, he “roasted”? erstwhile council col- leagues, then told us all about the Olympic Terck. Relay which will pass through the North Shore Jan. 24 with public ceremonies | at Cleveland Dam ... Newly elected é appointed Brigade Major of Pacific Militia Area. . * * f / WRIGHT OR WRONG: Learn from other people’s mistakes. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. NEWS photo Terry Pelers TWEENIES NO MORE!...newly initiated members of the 25th North