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t’s good to learn that Nerth Van City council has

finally sent the controversial shopping centre pro-

posal for the Park & Tilford property to the advi-
sory planning commission and the advisory design
panel. It means the project will now be assessed
primarily on its own merits rather than on a com-
parison with alternative concepts for the site.

Council concerns about the project have been more
than a little confusing for the public. Initially, the
main objection by some aldermen was the need to keep
the 30-acre property zoned industrial because of the
City’s diminishing industrial land base. This, despite
the fact that not a single serious industrial bidder has
emerged since the ciosure of the distillery in 1984.

Then, opponents began to concentrate more heavily
upon the mall’s economic viability and the competition
it would inflict on Lonsdale Quay and recent major

new commercial

development

elsewhere. Latterly,

North Van District has also got into the act with fears
about Main Street traffic congestion.

Answering the initial objection, the revamped pre-
posal would now keep half of the site area industrial.
As to economic viability and competition, are these
matters for council to rule on at all in a free enterprise

society?

Meanwhile, the mall

project would generate

significantly more jobs and tax dollars than industrial
development—for which there have been no takers,
anyhow, in two years. And North Van's beloved Park
& Tilford gardens would be restored as an important
tourist attraction at no cost to the City.

THE SPANISH ARMADA, 1986
style, is smooth and easy on the
palate. .
Wednesday, the invaders planted
the flag of ‘‘Viva Espana’? on
these western shores, adding to the
Spanish Wine Society that already
thrives in Toronto, Montreal and
Ottawa its first B.C. chapter. The
200 guests in the Hotel Vancouver,
with a gourmet buffet as their only
defence, surrendered gracefully to
the pride of Spain’s wine industry
(third largest in the world)—
decorously sampling a score of
reds, wiiies, roses and sherry from
the Rioja, Penedes, Navarra,
Ribera del Duero and Jerez

regions. Hosted by Spanish Consul
Frank Bernard and colleague Mar-
ta Bruecke!l of West Van, notewor-
thy North Shore tasters included
Energy Minister Jack Davis and
wife Margaret, artist Daniel Izzard
and wife Denese, Ambleside [nn’s
Willi Brueckel and Lt. Col. Bill
Dew.

If you’re already an aficionado
of Spanish wines—or would like to
know them better—call B.C.
‘Viva Espana’ president Michael
Ross (421-3293) to learn more. But
be warned: your local Chateau
Plonk °86 may never taste the same
again!

CHANGING OF THE GUARD ... seven-time Coho Fest chairman Mike
Nicell (left) hands over next year to Coho-colleague Dave Bakewell

(right).

LETTER OF THE DAY

Doug been pulling our leg for years!

Dear Editor:

Over the last few weeks, I have
been gathering the post-South
Africa visit series of Doug Collins’
column Get This Straight. I read
them all, then I read them again,
then I scratched my head, then I
began to laugh. Suddenly, | real-
ized that Get This Straight is actu-
ally a clever and subtle joke. In
fact, Doug Collins has been pulling
our legs for years.

Let me explain. The four col-
umns, put together, are basically a

superficial and selected look at this
terrible dark spot on the world
map. The series is seen through the
eyes of a white South African —
you know, the ones that are “...
outnumbered six to one’’ (Nov.
14). The information is fed into
the column via the ‘‘South African
Information Bureau’? which, by
the way, is not a propaganda
ministry; ‘'... if it were, it would
give world wide circulation ...’’
(Nov. 9). (Did you know that the
North Shore is not worldwide with

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THREE BRANCHES and 170,000 entries later ... Helen Dickinson, North Van District Uibrary’s head cata-

foguer, calls it a day.

Noel Wright

WHAT YOU READ tells what
you are—and a tea party Friday at
North Van District Library
honored a lady who knows better
than anyone the reading habits of
her community. Retiring after 22
years as the library’s head cata-
loguer is Helen Dickinson, elected
in 1960 as president of the volun-
teer Capilano Public Library
Association, which founded the
library and built its original
building. Her enthusiasm took her
on to the UBC School of Library
Science and she was a member of
its first graduating class in 1962.

Since 1964 she has been respon-
sible for the processing of every
single item in the library's now
170,000 collection and has seen it
expand to fill today’s three bran-
ches in Edgemont Village, Lynn
Valley and Seycove Community
School. Happy retirement wishes,
Mrs, Dickinson, from all the folk
to whom your work has brought so
much pleasure!

respect to South Africa?)

The whole joke, as tasteless as it
is, is based on absurdity. Imagine a
Canadian columnist who visits
S-A., including Crossroads and
Soweto, and reports back that the
problems are really just exaggera-
tion. Imagine a person who sees a
few of the 22 million human beings
living in unthinkable poverty,
under racist repression and then
has the gall to write about the cost
of a bottle of scotch.

It’s absurd! It’s enough to make

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“GRANDMA’S CHRISTMAS”
comes to the Centennial Theatre
next Saturday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m.
courtesy of tireless Folkfest chair-
man and City Alderman Stella Jo
Dean. With a cast of 150 dancers,
singers and performers repre-
senting, among other countries,
Sweden, Italy, Scotland, China
and Hawaii, the script—written by
husband Roly Dean—features
Christmas songs, dances and tradi-
tions from around the world. The
other good news is that all the per-
formers are volunteering their time
and talent, meaning admission is
FREE. At that price you can’t
miss!

WRAP-UP: The some 150 guests
at West Van Chamber of Com-
merce’s Coho Fest ‘‘thank you’’
party Tuesday in Park Royal were
entertained with more than wine

you laugh! But it does bring
Doug’s more serious arguments to
light. What he really wants to
show us is that things down there
really are unacceptable and that
only someone as shallow and in-
sensitive as the personality he
reflects in his column could believe
otherwise, The reat Doug has a
real heart and real human compas-
sion.

Sorry, Doug, I had to spill the
beans. 1 just had to enlighten my
fellow readers about your clever

evening was an excellent 20-minute
and succulent deli. Highlight of the
video of Coho Fest activities—
both on the fun day itself and dur-
ing the year-through program of
salmonid enhancement by the local
school groups that the committee
sponsors. Guests also heard that
Mike Nicell, founder-president of
all seven Coho Fests to date, will
hand over next year to Dave
Bakewell, his long-time close
associate in staging the popular
event ... Lunching with proud
Mom Tuesday at the Ambleside
Inn was former North Van violin
prodigy Corey Cerovsek. Now all
of 14 years, Corey had wowed Or-
pleum audiences fast weekend
when he performed with the Van-
couver Symphony under Maestro
Rudolf Barshai. For a youngster
who's already given many recitals
on two continents and played be-
fore Queen Elizabeth with the
Toronto Symphony it was all in a
day’s work before returning to In-
diana University’s School of
Music, where he’s a prize student
of famed violin professor Josef
Gingold ... And if you ever go to
court, remember North Van’s new
Justice of the Peace is Kathleen
Joan May, sworn in recently be-
fore Judges C. Bakony, J.K.
Shaw, B. Paradis and admiring
family and friends.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: We're all
self-made, but only the rich will
admit it.

subtleties, it took me so long to
figure it out myself. But as a par-
ting favor, let me re-write the
beginning paragraph of your last
in the series. I'l] do it the way you
really meant it:

“South Africa is one of the
best and most entertaining coun-
tries in which to take a holiday ...
if you're white and have absolutely
no human compassion ...’’

D. Stewart
North Vancouver