December 31, 1980 - North Shore News

strictly personal |

I must t admit it was the most gripping television

footage I'd ever seen, next to people being.
assassinated live, so to speak.

There was this character
perched on the edge of the
CN Tower in Toronto, with a
guy-line attached to his
harness, abont to leap.

The color was great. The
camera was close on his
face. You could hear the
adrenalin buzz in his voice.

I hope that 1981 will bring
an wunprovement im the
Canadian economy, full
employment, i

formuls for amending it.

in British Columbia, I
would fike to see the
provincial government

establish a ncw system for
financing education that will

We in West Vancouver
are aware of our good
fortune in fiving m such
beautiful natural
surroundings, a place that is
second to none in the world.
It is up to cach and cvery
one of us to aticmpt to retain
quality of hfe for the
colicctive cnjoyment of all
who have chosen to make
their homes in West Van-
couver.

Our Community Plan was
launched in 1980 and we
now have guidchincs which
have been fashioned by the
mput of a great number of
our residents, our Advisory
Commissions and = our

Boy, was I mesmerized! It
was exciting to be lying there
in _bed, sipping wine, wat-

some idiot throw
himself off the CN tower.

Well, the guy jumped.
Slowed slightly by the guy-
ine, he whistled down,

down, down until the line

any increase to a reasonable
level.

Eq in

ind will be the need for

maintained or improved
without an undue increase in

impiementation of our Ten
Year Plan. In addition,
activity should increase at
Lonsdale Quay, and the Low
Level Road should move one
step closer to reality.

In closing. I would like to
extend Best Wishes for a

council. These guidclines
will assist us in dctcrmining
our goals. If we maintain an
interest in working for
quality of Life. then our
Municipality will contmue to
be a most desrable com-
munity to live in.

As 1980 fades and the New
Year is about to be rung in, |
express the bope that our
combined cfforts will sustam
the special essence that is
West Vancovucr.

To cach of you, | wish you
well, |] wish you very well
May the bnght New Year
bnng you peace and con

came to its end and jerked
him to a halt, leaving him
dangling in the air above the
pavement like a tiny spider
at the end of the longest
thread in the world.

Alive. .
It was hard to believe this
was actually happenimg in

front of my cyes, but there it
was.
To compound my

astonishment, the same guy

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- Jewels e christensen |

_1850 Lonedele Ave. 988-8545

_ Of thing. Oh hum,
‘another Evil Kneivel clone

proceeded to switch scenes, entirely. - Anything that
magically transporting his becomesa television show in
crew to an American desert America immediately
region, where he drove acar becomes a part of the
off a cliff in to a canyon, | culture. It never goes away.
parachuting out in mid-air,” It is probably inevitable
just before the car flipped now that the spectacle of
over. stuntmen risking death in
Now — I know there’s ever more outlandish ways
nothing new about this sort will become a new major
just unofficial national sport.
it seems that we are in the

doing his thing. process of re-creating the

“** gladiatorial arena, of making

But there is a difference. the gladiator business a
Now, instead of these regular industry.

public quasi-suicide at- This poses some rather
tempts being hustled by serious moral questions. |
private promoters making an mean, in an age when we
out-front buck on_ consider ourselves relatively
somebody's desperate bid civilized — that is, we play
for fame, as they did back in football with helmets and
the days of Kneivel!’s historic box with gloves and duels
Snake River Canyon jump aren't permitted any more —
(or fall), the big networks here we are, legitimizing the
have started to in- ancient practice of having a
stitutionalize the game. warrior pit himself against

And I that's something else death itself for our al

opportunity to speak directly ©
with members of Council on °:
matters that affect them. :

Finalizing the new road
access into Seymour and -
actually beginning con-
struction of this much .

barbaric minds ~ anc
_ Its effect was to corrupt the.

tertainment.

At one level, these New:
Age stuntmen are just.
contemporary Houdinis, -
perhaps to be honored. Not -
all that different from
trapeze artists, after all.

Yet, I'm'sorry, ry. I can't help:
noting ‘that. gladiator:
arena was a aus in- -
stitution, the product of.
ics.

Roman spirit by indulging its:
bloodlust, stimulating its:
lowest, most murderous:
impulses.

When the show was over,
I looked sideways to see that
my two-year-old son, who
had been watching along
with me, was poisedona pile  ~
of pillows at the edge of the
bed, getting ready toleapon =~
to the floor.

He jumped.

I caught him.

But thinking about it later,
I wondered if maybe. I

7 caught fim: too late.

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