© — Sunday, August 22, 1999 — North Shore News

Pearls in per

North Shore Arts

Commission was three years in

the making. It was created after

an unprecedented two years of cooper-

ation by all three focal municipalities

during which time artists, politicians

and municipal staff reviewed arts facil-

ities and arts programming available
on the North Shore.

The vision in 1988 was for “a string
of pearls” — a series of cultural facili-
ties stretching across the North Shore
that would collectively serve its artistic
and cultural needs. Eleven years later
the string is broken and the three
municipalities are not looking very
hard for the pearls that are rolling
around on the negotiating table.

West Vancouver District decided it
was getting little arts commission
value for dollar and went off to play by
itself in 1996. Since then it has flirted

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with the concept of an arts centre —
but only if a private trust is willing to
raise the capital and operating costs.
And the concept is just that, driven by
the vision of the fundraisers, not the
politicians and people of West
Vancouver.

if the centre is ever to be built, wilt
it include, as suggested, an art gallery
capable of hosting major exhibitions?
If so, can North Vancouver support a
similar facility whether it is at the
Centennial Theatre site, somewhere in
Lower Lonsdale or a yet-ta-be-deter-
mined Windridge location?

There are other overlaps in cultural
planning, too. Would it net behoove
our local politicians to once again get
together and colicctiveiy pian our
future in the arts?

Tf not, some of the pearls may roll
off the table, never to be seen again.

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“We were all young at one time and who knows why
“Kids do what they do.
Joanne Whittier, media relations officer for BC Ferries on
the problem of a few teenaged passengers’ behaviour on the
Bowen Island ferry. (From a Aug. 18 News story.)

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a proud. New the is to raise my sisters,”
~Twenty-year-old William Chen on his new role as
guardian to his three sisters after their parents were killed in
comes Aug. 10 Poating accident. (From a Ang. 20 News story.)

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Your call, godless scientists!

SCIENCE versus God. In the
U.S., Charles Darwin is getting
the bum’s rush in at least seven
states and his evolution theory
is reportedly reject-

ed by some 84% of

Americans.

Since 1995, school
boards in Arizona,
Alabama, Iilinois, New...
Mexico, Texas, Kansas” ~~

a.thousand. copiessmmant, ‘Nebraskauhaxe-been.

working to remove
Darwin- -style evolution

fum their state schools
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reqilinisig Fall 57
ql its aa cle ‘schoolgto
bear a sticker reading: “Controversial
theory... No one was present when
life first appeared. Therefore any state-
ment about life’s origins should be con-
- sidered a theory and not a fact.”

Two years later Texas failed by only a
very slim margin to pass an order that
Would have replaced all its school biolo-
“gy books with new ones omitting any
mention of evolution.

Last week Kansas board of education
was poised to introducc a new state-
wide science curriculum eliminating all
reference to evolution, natural selection
and even the origins of the universe.

Meanwhile, recent nation-wide
Gallup polls suggest there is surprisingly

widesptcad support for junking Darwin. . .

They show about 44% of Americans
believe i in biblical creationism, for exam-
ple, that “God created man pretty much

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in his present form at one-time within
the last 10,000 years.” Another 40% or
so believe in “theistic evolution” — the
idea of God oversceing and guiding the
millions of vears of evolution that finally
produced mankind.
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Brecding skepticism about these still:
unresolved scientific theories is giving .. . ‘
creationism in the US. its biggest. beost ;
in years.

Today, Christians who take the book
of Genesis literally —- at least to the-
extent of believing God created all liv-:
ing creatures (whether at one time or
over millions of years). — appear to be:
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‘ferences.q label the secular scientific
concept of evolution as nothing but a .
completely unproven theory.

As well, the 40% of Gallup respon--”
dents who. accept the concept of “theis-
tic evolution” pose a still unanswered
question about the scientists” “Big
Bang” theory of how the universe came.
to be.

But what, ask the believers in mil-
lions of years of God-guided evolution,
led to the Big Bang?

For the human mind it’s inconceiv-

able that such an event could have been

brought about by nothing. .
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speciat meaning right now for West Van's
well-known community activist; “Master
Butcher” Peter Black, as a résult/of hi
successful battle with the scalpel
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