6 - Sunday, July 7, 1985 - North Shore News Editorial Page News View, — “Charter-itis’ he strange paths down which the | Charter of Rights is leading us become stranger by the week, the latest example being ‘‘kids in suites’’. In what is described as a precedent-setting judgement (though still unconfirmed by the courts) a Victoria arbitrator has ruled that landlords who ban children are violating the Charter. If he’s upheld in law, apartments and houses available for rent only to adults will become a thing of the past. Unreasonable housing discrimination against children is not to be condoned and causes harsh problems for many younger families, especially in lower income brackets. Some provinces already have human rights laws: controlling such discrimination and a strong case can undoubtedly be made for similar and reasonable legislation ia B.C. But invoking the Charter of Rights for that purpose opens up a whole Pandora’s Box of other potential problems. In effect, it denies to all property-owners the right to decide how their property can be used. It denies to all rental tenants the right to choose the housing environment they prefer. And the result could actually be an increasing shortage of rental accomodation for everyone. _ Moreover, if property-owners are not allowed to protect private interests, why should government -- pleading protection of ‘ the public interest -- be allowed, for exam- ple, to discriminate on age grounds against children buying liquor or driving cars before the age of 16? The logical possibilities cpen- ed up by those afflicted with ‘‘Charter-itis”’ are clearly limitless. The mind boggles! . Bazowski's pius aming former top cop and top bureaucrat Peter Bazowski as acting Ombudsman smacks strongly of put- ting the fox to guard the henhousz, since his entire career to date bas been spent obeying government, not chaljénging it. But we should give Mr. Bazowslki 2 chance after all to prove his claim that he’s ‘‘no pussycat’’ because he has at least one big plus going for him. In all his mandarin posts senior officials serving under him have quit. Maybe he can work the same magic on stubborn ministers! Display Advertising 980-0541 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Circulation 986-1337 Subscriptions 985-2131 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 SUNDAY | WEDNERDAY + FmIDAY Publisher Peter Speck General Manager Roger McAfee Operations Manager Berni Hilliard Marketing Director Advertising Director - Sales Bob Graham Dave Jenneson Circulation Director Advertising Director - Admin. Bill McGown Mike Goodsell Production Director Editor-in-Chiet Chris Johnson Noel Wright Photography Manager Classified Manager Terry Peters Val Stephenson North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suturban newspaper and qualified under Schedule Hl, Part IM, Paragraph UI of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by Norin Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the Norn Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Entire contents €. 1985 North Shora Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Subscriptions, North and West Vancouver, $25. per year Mailing rales available on tequest. Ho responsibility accepted for unsolicited matenal including manuscnpts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope Member of the B.C. Press Council eR 56,245 (average. Wednesday SOA DIMISION Friday & Sunaay) THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE CASH FOR CULTURE -- there’s never enough. Even Canada Council funds are now under siege by Com- munications Minister Marcel Masse who's suspected of plotting to get his hands i-.i0 the Council's hitherto in- dependent till in order to disburse its contents to pro-Tory hacks. So self-help is the obvious way to go in the arts world and the North Shore's first lady of dance, Anna Wyman, has got the message loud and clear. At a West Van press conference Friday she launched ‘‘Anna’s Lot- tery’, billed as one of the i> MAYOR DERRICK HUM- PHREYS ... bargain-price fall most ambitious fundraising projects in Canadian dance history. it’s also one of the more ingenious: everyone wins something. Total value of the prize kitty is almost $100,0000, with the grand prize of a Ford Merkur XR 4TI and five other prestige cars heading the list -- plus lots of more modest prizes that still give a good return on your gamble. But you can hardly lose, anyhow, because each $25 lottery ticket is accom- panied by a free ticket to a major Anna Wyman Dance Theatre performance. And the organizers calculate that your chances, with a single ticket, of winning one of the six cars are a healthy one- in-2,100. Anna’s Lottery continues © until the fate fall, with tick- ets on sale at her dance stu- dio (1705 Marine, West Van); at the company's Robson Square perfor- mances July 10-13; and on various future occasions in major shopping malls. Dur- ing the four and a half mon- ths up to the final prize draw, November 27 in the Queen E., they aim to sell 14,000. If they succeed, that could net the company up to $150,000 after all expenses are paid. A quiet little parish hall raffle it definitely isn’t -- but then Anna_ hasn't brought her dance theatre to world-class status by think- ing small. What with M.Masse threatening to hijack the country’s arts budget, she can’t afford to think small now. * ek OUT ON TWO LIMBS, so to speak, is colum- nist-turned-ad-gal Joy Met- calfe who gossips about ‘North Shore People’? in 2 focal real estate company’s ads. Last week she reported that West Van Mayor Der. DANCE DOLLAR GAME the self-help way. rick Humphreys, presently vacationing in Britain, had tripped and fallen on. a sidewalk, ‘‘cracking several ribs and breaking an arm’’. His Worship did, indeed, have a fall but characterist- ically refused to pay with either cracked ribs or a broken arm. He settled for a mere bruised rib and a slightly sore wrist for a cou- ple of days, and at last report he and Margaret were still enjoying a whale of a holiday. Next time, Joy, check with folk who know! * * & .. Anna Wyman’s company goes SALUTE North Van resi- dent Richard Lowery — in- ternationally respected naval architect, marine engineer and business leader -- who was named Officer of the Order of Canada in the Governor-General’s Canada ‘Day honors list. As head of Davie Shipbuilding and sev- eral related firms, he was responsible for much of the industry’s success during the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a critical period in the development of the Ca- - nadian merchant fleet. te & i YOUNG CITIZENS ACCLAIMED ... ! to r: Katherine Campbell, Soroptomist awards chairwoman Enid Ross, Christine Lowther, Lisa Reynolds. Ruth Stott backed by Chamber luminaries (1 to ¢ behind her: past presi- dent Ron Wood, vice-president Rene Speight, president David Bakewell). HITHER AND YON: Twenty-seven years of community service to West Van, formerly as chief librarian and latterly in the business sector, have brought Ruth Stott a well- earned reward. She’s been named 1985 Citizen of the Year by the West Van Chamber of Comerce ... At tomorrow night’s public hearing by North Van District council on the issue of banning smoking in public places Alderman Murray Dykeman says -he’s keen to get the viewpoint of local restaurant owners. We could tell him right now, but that might spoil the fun ....: Congrats to Lisa Reynolds, Katherine Campbell and Christine Lowther, recipients of Youth Citizenship Awards from the Sorop- ALD. MURRAY DYKEMAN ... clearing: the smoke haze tomist International Club of North and West Van ... If you ever served in the Uni- versity Naval Training Divi- sion, the Royal Canadian Navy wants to be your host August 29 to September i in Victoria at a UNTD reunion celebrating the Navy's 75th birthday -- write or call Dr.Phil Neroutses, 645 Fort St., Victoria, B.C. (phone 382-3522) More | BCIT winners from North Van are Brian Radcliffe (B.C. Nursery Trades award in landscape horticulture), David Laubach (Quantity Surveyors Society award), Detrene Karkabe (Hotel Vancouver award) and £d- ward Kwan (Finning Tractor award)... Writing local his- tory books is all the rage in rural Saskatchewan this summer, bringing appeals for help from the chroniclers of Biggar and Herbert to expatriates of those com- munities now living on the North Shore. Former Big- garites and Herberteans with any old pictures or other memorabilia are asked to write, as appropriate, to Isla Solanik, Box 446, Biggar, Sask. SOK OMO, or June Buhr, Book Comittee, Herbert, Sask. SOH 2A0 ... And a closing note for red- faces from reader 1.Frew who writes: ‘‘If) your neighbor has recently ac- quired two lovely ferns in cedar planters, you might be interested to know where thye came from. They were stolen from the entrance to North Lonsdale United Church on the weekend of June 22nd.’’ End of message. Take ‘em back, you rotten guys -- at dead of night! * * * WRIGHT OR WRONG: There’s one thing you can say for greed -- it produces some mighty imaginative reasoning.