6 ~ Wednesday, January t, 1986 - Editorial Page North Shore News | Hopeful 1986 | he doomsayers are always a dime a dozen ‘ at this terminal point of the Old ‘Year. Their theme, with variations, being that y the past j2 months have been bad and the next ; . | . 12 will be even worse. At the risk of being accused of Pollyanna- ism we beg'to differ. _jNatural catastrophes, plane disasters and ier- rorists iave plagued 1985. Terrorism clearly demands that all civilized nations develop and coordinate techniques for thwarting the in- dividual madmen who would hold them to ran- po *. som by killing innocent bystanders. \W They’re working on it. Hard.’ , | ae “The-agony and. suffering caused by major _ _ earthquakes, . drought and volcanic eruptions '. are. still beyond human control. Like jet . ve crashes, their high incidence in 1985 is hopefully ‘ 0 more than, a statistical ‘blip’, unlikely to - mo be repeated ona similar,scale in. 1986. : ; Meanwhile, 1985 was not without its pluses. The nuclear holocaust did NOT happen and the Reagan-Gorbachev Summit stirred new hope im. for a safer world. ae Sp " Naturally '— despite the Mulroney govern- = : ment’s fendency, to shoot itself in the foot — inflation is ‘down and the economy is slowly on. the way up. Mo! permanent recovery’ could Let - be speeded by freer trade with the U.S., a top by '-} government pricrity. for the year ahead. rd B.C. needs to generate pay cheques for more‘ than the present 17 out’ of 20 of its workers.’ . . { ° But we're headed for an exciting six-month par- r i a. sty in Expo, wiich’ may help. Also expected is . ae a 1, if. they’ve failed us‘en2.s Start afresh. ° coal Pe Choser.to home,‘our own three North Shore 7 municipalities are all doing a solid job of pro- | in the. boondocks — read Daughter. No.: |. and hubby's big ranch nine ‘miles out of 100 Mile. House -—~, was in» 1980. and. we made jit, up there by rail/all the way. That was ‘the Christmas of the torrential. rains, which . ‘s washed” out .17- BC Rail “.: overpasses ‘while we blissful- “ly. .stuffed -;oursclves « with turkey. “The “journey. back. . home, *: courtesy aC Rail, consisted of a: - Juxurious 80-mile’ taxi tide to Cache Creek, we ‘were “even. thouig ‘will cost : us a few, more e bucks . ; the Caribo Street: right on time, in a Greyhouind bus.. BC. Rail and Greyhound ; make }a- great..team in: the winter!” months. This year, Dispiay Advertising 980-0511 ~ Classitied Advertising 988-6222 Newsroom ©: , 985-2131 those parts we phoned the - journey! | ; “local whistlestop a couple of , Operations Manager , Editor-in- Chief’ : Berni Hilliard 02’ Noel Wright ~ from : Prince™: ‘Georg ‘running on time. It wasn't. It wasn’t ‘Tunn: ‘ing at all. A.Christmas..Eve ‘derailment at 70 Mile. House. - But not to worry, the station man told us. Just turn-up at. « the’ scheduled time’ for a two-and-a half hour bus ride to Lillooet where the’ Budd cars would -be dutifully . awaiting us again. : In’ a brief moment of frustration 1. conjured up-a new title for our late Premier “Wacky"”! Bennett’s “pride and joy: BC DeRail. ! Actually, though, it’s un- fair.” The short two to ‘five car. passenger trains - never derail. It’s only those Advertising Director ‘ .. Managing Editor Linda Stewart Nancy Weatherley North ‘shora News, tounded in 1969 as an: independent suburban newspaper and qualitied under Schedule Ill; Part Ill, Paragraph Ill of, : the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Fuday and Sunday’ by North Shore Free Press Lid, and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Entire contents ©1986 North Shore Free Press Ltd, All rights reserved. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25. per year. Mauting rales available on fequest. | me , ” Submissions are are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material including manusenpts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope: Member of the B.C. Press Council. a 56,245 (2verage, Wednesday SOA DIVISION _ Friday & Sunday) Nee : “THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE 9 1986 election — we can throw the rascals out CHRISTMAS “IN! THE BOONDOCKS | has. a. » lot: ace | to be said for it. Fun is the name of the game —*: especially if you travel north via BC Rail. “viding our day-to-day sécurity and comfort,” | -The last Christmas’ 1 spent “once * you've travelled the tortuous winding - “track! of delivered: to Dunsmuir ©. WE jou een do : /the ‘three small children: in tow, °, .” made for the young. . : ” dry and bare, though the last ‘Just . hours before-departure (oops! ‘train)‘ time; came the news of a Tasty complimentary meals. deraiiment near Squamish. User-pay. bar So! ‘at 7:30 a.m. it was buses ‘Spotless washrooms, from North. Van for a two-.-200 miles of:jthe’ Earth's’: ; andéa- half hour ride to -most spectacular *Clreutation |. 986. “Pemberton, where the .