‘TIDYING-UP DAY for your
scribe’s sagging in-tray —

. Starting with North Van

. District’s rookie Coun. Pam
Goldsmith-Jones ...

Getting her knickers all tied ina
knot over the alleged sins of fellow
Coun. Ernie Crist, the lady seems a
tad unclear about which level of
government she belongs to.

Her rantings against Ernic
appear to charge him. with breach-
ing, so to speak, “cabinet solidari-
ty.” The snag being that at the local
municipal level there IS no cabinet. .

‘On the North Shore, thank heav-
en, we have so far been spared
municipal political parties. .

Mayor and councillors:are elect- ..
ed as individuals, answerable only
to 6 the voters.

-. The mayor’s function is chair-

: ‘man, mentor and consensus-seeker.
“Head of government” in the sense

ofa | majority-backed premier or

prime minister he is NOT..

“ss: sCouneil members found lacking
: don’ t get re-elected.

."” If Emie is wrong in his latest

charges of municipal mismanage- :

‘ment, let him take his lumps at the’
» ballot box next year. But outraged
Pam and her ijk might do well to

remember one thing.
_,, Aside from a single one-year
absence, watchdog Ernie has a-

record of re-election that leaves the |

rest of council looking like babes
in the wood.

., Have the voters REALLY been :

oe screwing up for 16 years?

~~ ONLY ONE ‘THING is abundant.
ly clear about. the controversy over

the “seawalk sewer” in West Van

the confusion i in which it is
mired... —_
“The GVRD and its allies j inv
: West Van Parks Department are
“pressing for a September start on a
“$3.3 million, six-month project to
: lay.a relief sewer line alongside the
-seawalk, which would be widened
‘ with additional landscaping at a’
“ast'to West Van of $367,500.

But respected engineering con-..:

: -sultants Dayton & Knight Lid.
~ think the new sewer line and radi-
cally, changed seawalk may be
unnecessary if the problem of .
‘feducing rain and groundwater «:
leakage 1 into the existing sewer can

‘Peter Speck mide
| Publisher Otek s 9 “s Comptntter,

ga5-2¢31 { 01) .

Boug Foot

985-21 31 (193).

be solved at a much lower cost.
Opposition by numerous West
Van residents to messing with the
present seawalk and a strong plea
by former mayor Derrick.
Humphreys to defer action until all
the options are known have given -

- Dayton & Knight a six-week

breather to. come up with a counter-
proposal. :

Even if it’s positive, no doubt
the GVRD and the parks depart- <
ment will try to panic council into
giving them the nod, arguing that a
September start means time for fur-
ther thinking has run out.

Council should resist and take
however long needed for the best.
answer.

“> West Van won’t slide into the

‘sea if the old sewer is a bit over-
‘-loaded for another year. So —
_ empire-building aside — WHY

THE RUSH?

“AND WHEN will independent
'' West Van-Garibaldi MLA David

',Mitchell come in from the cold to
join Reform B.C? Some now spec-

‘ulate perhaps never.

-: He may figure he could well
influence public policy far more as

. an author, columnist and TV per-
‘sonality than as a party yes-man,

“DEFINING HERITAGE” will

‘be speaker Robin Inglis at W. Van

Historical Society's 7 p.m. meeting .

'. May 25 in Cedardale Centre ... And

many happy returns of Friday, Ma’
26, to News boss birthday boy
Peter Speck.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: Refuse
all‘but the best and you “H get it!
oftener. ,

. Shris Bohnson ,
5 21, Operations Manager. ..
= 985-2131 (166)

EXPECT YOUR
SUPPORT IN THE

MOKING AND eating don’t mix. That.

message is steadily increasing in volume
from all quarters of the Canadian pub-
lic.

Despite the whiraperings of smokers and

some restaurant owners, the dining majority -
don’t like consumni=% cigarette smoke with
their meals.
"Ina recent Angus Reid poll a whopping |
two thirds of Lower Mainland residents back
the push to ban smokirg in. restaurants and
other public places.

And in @ recent Nerth Shere News poll,
approximately 62% of the 546 residents
across the North Shere polled said they were
in favor of banning smoking i in all restaurants

‘in their municipality.

j The defenders of personal rights and free- ;

doms, of course, continue to cry foul wheney;
er thei issue is raised. ; Zé

Reformed Zalm rejected

Dear Editor:

‘Re: The, Zalm: . Reformed’
(May 12 North Shore News).“A
tose, by any other name, would
smell as sweet ..." I could believe
1 “religious experience.” | could
believe he thinks we've forgotten.

Ray Sutton
North Vancouver

Linds Stewart
Sales & Marketing Director

980-0514 (319)

Timothy Renshaw
Managing Editor ;
985-21 31 (1 16).

1 could believe “Reform” doesn’t

spell “Socred.” I just can’t believe

“What's good for The Zatm is

good for the country!” We tried
that once, remember?

Pater Kvamstrom :
Display Manager ‘
980-0571 (103)

50, 1 CAN

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WPCOMING

Conspiracy of the looney left; environmen: -
talists ran amok, they argue. :

Restaurateurs, ; meanwhile, wring their
hands and say their businesses will collapse
without the support of the smoking public.

But the reality is that an.overwhelming.
majority of peopie are fed up with sucking up.’
second-hand smoke in places like restaurants,
where most non-smoking sections are merely
window-dressing.

In California many municipalities have
.already initiated smoking bans in’ restau-
rants,. and University’ of California _
researchers have determined that smoke-free |
laws have not adversely affected | restaurant,
sales. : :
/ It’s time to bite the bullet and give the
/ majority what it wants: smoke-free restau-.’
rants on the North. Shore. und elsewhere _
around the Lower Mainland. oe

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