6- Friday, August 8, 1997 — Nortn Shore News
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VIEWPOINT

OUTH need work, And a
healthy community needs
youth to work.

Just as it needs youth, without
which it can’t hope to survive or
prosper,

Youth need to be needed, and the
community is key to making them a
productive component of life on the
North Shore, especially during the
summer months when they have an
abundance of time and a dearth of
activities to fil! that time.

Here’s-a simple way to kill two
birds with one stone: hire youth. Not
just at businesses, but for work
around your house and on your
street,

Earning money through hones<
means builds self-confidence and
pride. .

It also develops experience and a

‘THE North Shore News Free Speech Defence
‘Bund continues co progress siowly beyond the

halfway point.

To press time Thursdas, donations from over 1,300 News
readers and free. speec porters to the fund stood at
fed thus far by the News have already
hit approximately $200,000, The final bill will be rauch
higher. All finds received will help defray the legal costs
faced by the News in its battle with che Human Rights
. Tribunal over a complaint. laid against the newspaper
and its columnisr Doug, Collins by the Canadian jewish |
- Congress. The hearing into the matter, which began on,
_ My 12, concluded on June 27 with final arguments at
the Century Pizza Hotel, 1015 Burrard St. The deci-
sion from Nitya Iyer, the tribunal of one hearing the

5104, 314, Legal footed

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work ethic that is so vital to success of
person and community alike.

And apart from anything else it
focuses youth on meaningful tasks
and away from idle mischief — still
very much the devil’s playground.

Our children are rarely given the
chance to prove themselves. They are
underused and overprotected.

They are all too often abandoned
to the emptiness of video and other
virtual entertainment.

They need to be given the chance
to fail, just as they need. to be given
the chance to succeed.

Right now they are a sadly wasted
resource.

Give youth a chance, Give them a
purpose. Give them a job.

They are the future North Shore.

Start building that future now.

Tap into the present.

it’s shop and swill

THE issue in sleepy old West

Look beyond: Stare into the
future. What’s next?

’ Why not a coast-to-
coast mali?

You enter at Horseshoe
Bay on a sort of giant
Shop-and-Swill people-
mover moving th through a
tunnel of glittering stores.
You stap and shop, or
stoke up on junk food,
when and where you wish.
Or use the handy ciosed-
circuit TV in your com-

’ fortable compartment.
Simply order off the screen.

Vancouver isn’t big-box stores.

Your eyes searched your grocery fist, or

his shelves, or both. You asked for Heinz
ketchup. He got the Heinz ketchup.
Repeat.
When you had everything you wanted,
or as much as the human .
body could carry for $2
or $3, you paid. Mr.
McColman. You
exchanged thank-yous., |
(Praise God, he did nor
say “No trouble,” neither
did he advise “Have a
good day.”) The transac-

tion was tidily over. And //

no shoplifting.

That scene could be

repeated anywhere in tie.
country.

_ common-dengminator. collap

ti | you dro

shoes, Everything was ligly, graceless, lov
less,
Recently I iemembered something I

_ necded while near a Wal-Mart. The offick

welcomer was rummaging deeply th

the bags of an East Indian farm ‘Some?
welcome. Some dignity. I found my $
item’and got out fast.”

change, about a kind of f retail: dum

down equivalent to the cultural lowest:

S that mai

fy Fair. Lad;
rean':

Casablanca: ov Rebecca: or
or Rear Window rise td Sh:

_ levels as time pors by. Look at the‘shab!

ness in the cities. of onc of the world’s
richest nations. ‘Imagine | the minds.B:
not in West Vancouver. 'lonce pickishi

Yes, there were, or soon, were, “big”
stores like Loblaws and Dominion —
about the size of today’s Save-on-Foods’.
produce department.

And department stores like Eaton’s and
Woodwards, which had dramatically , working butcher, opposed Sunda
advanced retailing by by puns various if ping, and Caulfeild Village, and th
goods under one driving many —_»-_ mall's big London Drugs. He’s fhe
despairing small specialized stores out of - Time and retailing march on. >. :
business. / | My heart, though, is with Chamber
Today Woodwards is gone, Eaton’s | Commerce president John Clark, who'll
seems to have been snatched from the keep patronizing the local Home *:
brink of bankruptcy, the past’s “five-and- Hardware, thank you, and with anti-big:
dime” stores in retreat, The very names of or rotester Jim Barnum. But our town
the big-box stores sound man ctured: e, y-with-a -sting, Lionel Lewis, thinks
Wal-Mart, Costco, K-mart. Big enrange is inevitable and in a decade’

You get off and begin the return trip in
Halifax, or even St. John’s. In fact you
don’t actually have to get off. There’s a
giant turntable that points you back in the
direction of home.

You spend your entire life on the end-
less Shop-and-Swill circuit. Buy when you
want. Pig in when you want.

And why balt at national boundaries?
Girdle the globe! Utopia! The age of
Homo convumeris pertected.

The above may not even be an exag-
geration. It may undershoot the coming
reality. In uhis youthful (see picture) man's
lifetime, merchandising has not only

summed it up: English market te town
1938. I stick with that. -

lof Park Royal’s Peter: Black; quoted by I
Noble: Many residents, recalled the hard

complaint, is expected some time lacer this year.
More ccarohon the hundreds of respondents vo the
cause:

"Please please continues yt the good fight. ... You
an up against the big battalh and endics monetary
resources, but many of us are willing to contribute in the
interests of fair play.

— G.H. Kerr of West Vancouver
O00

1; am dismayed and outraged | by the efferts of our pre-
sent provincial government ta contro: expression of opinion by
restrictive legidation. I conumend the North Sho Shore News in its

efforts to bring dis to the attention of its readersrip and combat
rearinion of any Lind of freedom of expression,”

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— James D. Weight of North Vancouver

Donations to the fund can be sent to: 1139 Lonsdale Ave.,

changed retail businesses. It has changed
mankind.
When, 45-odd years ago, you got your
groceries at McColman’s store in my
home town, you stood at the counter, Mr.

I went to one of the big boxes in the
suburbs. Once. It was as high as a hangar
and the air was thick with lowbrow greed

-— sub-humans sniffing for “bargains,” for «

West Van’s present character will vanis
Too bad. Not to romanticize. the ‘pas

mind you. When our family finally got

first postwar car around 1951, my mother:

the cheap-labor, shoddy throwaway stuff
of a throwaway soci oy that consumes sex
or other people like T-shirts or running

began shopping at the’ supermarket: an
gently dropped McColman’s. She'd always
said its prices were outrageously high. :

McColman came to the counter and bade
you good day. You gave the good day
straight back to him.

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the North Shore News Free Speech Defence Fund.
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