A6 - Sunday, August 26, 1984 - North Shore News

Duty neglected

here are 14 Social Credit MLAs in the
Greater Vancouver and Victoria areas
affected by the transit strike.

They deserve severe censure for flagrant
negiect of their duty.

In its attitude to the 22-month-old bus
shutdown, which now threatens to drag on
for weeks longer, the Socred government has
Shown itself both callous and hypocritical.
At any point the cabinet could have declared
the buses an essential service and ordered the
drivers back pending a negotiated settlement
or, if that didn’t work, eventual binding ar-
bitration.

This happened soon enough with the pulp
strike early in the year, when the government
faced rising secondary unemployment and
falling tax revenues. But, of course, neither
of those factors apply with the transit strike.
Instead, Victoria is actually saving millions
of dollars as the buses stand idle. So let the
peasants -- especially the elderly, sick and
jobless -- suffer through a miserable sum-
mer, and businesses slide towards bankrupt-
cy, while cabinet ministers prate sanctimo-
niously about respect for collective bargain-
ing.

The 14 Greater Vancouver and Victoria
Socred MLAs were elected, first and
foremost, to serve and protect their constitu-
ents. They are sufficient in numbers to bring
very powerful pressure on the government --
even to the extent of threatening its defeat in
the Legislature.

Why haven’t they the guts to band
together and bring it to its senses, before the
people to whom they owe their seats suffer
any further? .

Don't shoot him!

he pollsters are getting it in the neck

from Liberals and some _ neutral

quarters for deciding the election in ad-
vance, which is a bit unfair. Without the
Gallups we'd be at the mercy of the politicians
themselves to learn what others think of them.
Sure, we should make up our own minds, but
knowing how candidates rate with our
neighbors is a perfectly legitimate aid to that
process. Don’t shoot the messenger -- it isn’t
HIS fault!

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OVE AFFAIRS take
| many strange forms,
but the one they’re

celebrating shortly after 10
a.m. this morning at the foot

of Pemberton has to be
unique.
As the Royal Hudson

prepares to depart, the train
crew will honor $3-year-old
Tom Wright (no relation to
your agent) with a pres-
entation, a cake and a con-
gratulatory letter from
Tourism Minister Claude
Richmond. Mr. Wright has
earned it. In fact, at 12
bucks a time, he’s almost fi-
nanced the Royal Hudson
Operation singlehanded.

When he chmbs aboard
today, it will be his 300th
fare-paying ride along the
scenic tracks to Squamish
and back.

His first was on June 21,
1974. That year he did eight
tnps. In 1975 he did | f2.
Since then he’s averaged/two
to three trips a,” week
throughout each “summer
season. During’ a_ recent
three-week vacation he rode
the Hudson every single day
it ran. He’s clocked up an
estimated 24,000 miles on
the train.

A truck driver for the
Salvation Army, picking up
donations from their drop
boxes, Mr. Wright is divorc-
ed and lives in Burnaby. He
can’t point to any earlier
railroading background that
might account for his in-
fatutation -- though he
recalls his grandmother
taught English to Indian and
Chinese workers laying the
CPR tracks to the coast a
century ago. The next ob-
vious question: how on earth
does he make out during the
long Hudson-iess months be
tween September and May
each year?

“| play the Hudson record
all the time,”’ he rephes,
“tthe sound effects, the whis
te and so on, and 1 think
about next Victoria’ Day
when it'll be back Once
you've ridden that train a
few times, It gets into your
blood.”’

That, | guess. is more of
less how all great love affairs
start

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FIXED BAYONETS = and
tamrod backed officers with
ransed swords marked the

“COME. AGAIN SOON”
British C O Major RJ Pope

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

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. ° “NEWS photo lan Smith
**MONEY FROM OTTAWA to fix this, please, you guys!”’
... West Van Mayor Derick Humphreys (left) points out scene
of last year’s Cypress Creek flooding to election hopefuls
Dave Brousson, Mary Collins and Larry Whaley.

photo ‘submitted

BOWEN LOCALS threw themselves a party last Sunday for
the official opening of the old Union Steamship Company
Store, part of the island’s new Crippen Park on land provided
by Glenn Crippen of West Van.

ceremonial parade outside
City Hall Friday as the 25-
man detachment of Britain’s
Royal Monmouthshire Royal
Engineers prepared to head
back home, after par-
ticipating earher this month
with North Van's 6. Bideld
Fngineer Squadron Militia in
summer exercises in the
Chilcotin Doing the farewell
honors, Mayor Jack Loucks
- whe flew up north to
watch the exercises -- in
spected the British boys in
khaki and thei Canadian
comrades to the manner
born, and exchanged gifts
with the Monmouths’ © .O.,
Major R. J. Pope

TAKE A

this week
Bamboo

PANDA to lunch
(well, of)
leaves, staple

sort
the

diet of the pandas at Ed-
monton;s Polar Park, are in
desperately short supply and

panda-lover Denese Izzard
of West Van (921-9798) is
appealing to any North

Shore residents with healthy
bamboo plants to help out.
She'll coordinate collection
and shipping if you give her
a call

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FOLKTALES: It’s not every
day a TV host ts given a new
yob, on the aur, by the guest
he’s interviewing, but it
happened the other week to
West Van's Ed Keate during
his regular Channel 10 show.
The guest,West Van Mayor
Derrick Humphreys, invited
Fd -- who also happens to be
president of the highly suc
cessful Vancouver

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

Clty Mayor Jack Loucks (right) exchanges au revoir gifts with

Downtown Parking Assdcia-
uion -- to come up with a
professional solution to
Ambleside and ,Dundarave
parking problems. The
slightly startled Ed accepted
... What's a nice girl like Ci-
ty Alderman Stella Jo Dean
doing in a place like that, the
place being Lions Gate
Hospital? Last week a
wonky kitchen stepladder
collapsed, throwing her
heavily to the floor, with
several crushed vertebrae as
the result. Encased in what
she describes as ‘‘a kind of
chastity belt’? to ease the
pain, she reports cheerfully
over her bedside phone that
she’s ‘‘getting lots of work
done’’ -- but she’s hopping
mad about missing the
Alaska cruise she and hubby
Roland were booked on this
Wednesday Back in
North Van are TV astrologer
Geof Gray-Cobb and part-
ner Marya after two years
absence running a motel in
Revelstoke. ‘‘We met some
fascinating people and en-
joyed doing something com-
pletely different for a time,”’
says Marya, ‘‘but we missed
the psychic work.’’ Adds
Geof: ‘‘Nice to be laying out
charts and shuffling Tarot
cards for folks again.”’ If
you want to know what’s go-
ing to happen to you next,
their new number is 986-

0179 ... Looking for a pet?
Then get along today (Sun-
day) between 10 and 4 to
Park where

Ambleside

FALLEN LADY ... Ald.
Stella Jo Dean.

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GEOF GRAY-COBB
stars led back to North Van.

North Shore dog n’ cat lady

Doris Orr is holding an
Adopuon Day for pooches
and pussycats in need of lov:
ing homes Whatever
Capilano Liberal candidate

Dave Brousson's supporters

may lack ino numbers, they
make up for in quality

like, for example, SO) per
cont of West Van council

With Dave last week, waving
Cortt posters at
morning motorists oi the
bridge line up. were
Aldermen Doo Griffiths and
Diana Hutchinson Abscnicc
colleague was Alderman
Dave Fintay, himsclf a
former Liberal candidate

COMMUCAR

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: A
taxpayer if someone who
doesn't have to pass a civil
service cram to work for the
government