6 ~ Friday, September 16, 1988 ~ North Shore News vwveek were the fish! A GREAT WEEK FOR THE SALMON -— and the public — wound up, as per tradition, in a blaze of warm September sunshine at last Sunday’s climax to the ninth annual Coho Festival. Over the course of the day more than 10,000 people are estimated to have jammed into Ambleside Park. By noon, the radio was warning visitors to leave their cars at Park Royal and take a shuttle bus to the party. Well over 500 joggers registered for the 14 km Coho Run to Kitsilano and some 4,000 hikers did the 7 km Coho Walk down from Cleveland Dam via the Capilano Hatchery. Back at the park Coho Festival veterans voted the entertainers the best yet, line-ups of 20 or more were com- mon at the concessions and the salmon barbecue ran out of salm- on before 6 p.m. Festival president Don Griffiths and his fellow coilers slept soundly that night, their job well done. All net proceeds from the event go to support the salmonid enhancement programs conducted year-round in North Shore schools. Earlier in Festival week the salmon had received another shot in the fin when Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon opened the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s new $45,000 gift shop at the Capilano Hatchery. A non-profit charity, the Foundation promotes the con- servation, restoration aud enhancement of salmonids for the benefit of this and future genera- tions. Its programs include clearing estuaries and streams, building hatcheries, rearing ponds and fishways, providing egg incubators and marking young salmon to check on the results of the enhancement techniques. The gift shop is expected to raise $60,000 a year to help along the good work. Allin all, it was a week when you might sometimes have felt you'd rather be a fish! 50TH BIRTHDAYS are a good excuse to seek out those forgotten ike Wakefield $60,000 INCOME HIKE for the salmon...Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon opens the new gift shop at the Capilano Hatchery. Shipyard mayday HE STALLED contract negotiations between Versatile Pacific Shipyards and its unions must be restarted quickly if permanent long-term damage to the yard’s reputation is to be avoided. Last weck $3 million in cruise ship repair contracts g treasures from the past in base- ments and attics, and that’s exactly what North Shore Neighbourhood House — which celebrates its first half century next year — is hoping you'll do. Their Jubilee Committee is looking for historical informa- tion, old photos, articles and writ- ten or spoken memories of the ear- ly days of the House for use in the 1989 celebrations. Three specific points they also need to confirm are the addresses of the first and second Neighbourhood House, and what sort of activities went on there during the first 10 years (1939-1949). Photos should show, if possible, the names of the peo- ple, the date and the activity, and of course they’ll be returned, together with all other memorabilia, to the owners. If you can help — even with verbal anec- dotes — Karen Tessler or Don Rutherford would love to hear from you at 987-8138. kat SIGN-OFF: A warm welcome back (hopefully now for keeps) to popu- lar Ambleside Inn restaurateur and host Willy Bruecke!l who returned home to West Van Tuesday. Since his successful heart transplant earlier this year he's spent the past several months at University Hos- pital in Edmonton for post-opera- tion tests to make sure that the vital anti-rejection medication is working just right for him ... Yesterday saw the first of Gordon Raglin’s serics of discussion groups on world affairs at West Van library —- open to everyone and VBNDER Za iN aUSTRAL WILLY BRUECKEL...welcome home. continuing each Thursday at 10 a.m. ... Call Vincent Santacroce, 929-6686, if you happen to belong to Burnaby Central High’s Class of '78 which is holding its 10-year reunion Sept. 23-24 ... For water- color lovers Ross Munro’s exhibit this month at North Van's Court- house Gallery, 200 East 23rd, is well worth a visit ... And happy 63rd anniversary today, Sept. 16, to West Van’s Cliff and Flora Upham. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Small deeds done beat great deeds plann- ed@ weighed anchor and sailed south to hungry Seattle shipyards after representatives of P and O cruise lines pointed noses into the current labor climate at Ver- satile’s North Vancouver and Victoria yards and smelled the distinct odor of a strike. Fleeing customers, especially in the current stagnant world shipbuilding market, should signal loud alarms on both sides of the dispute that everything — not just this year’s contract — is at stake here. The future of Versatile’s North Vancouver ship- building operation is already in doubt. Though the $350 million Polar Class 8 icebreaker contract is still destined for Versatile, recent estimates have put corstruction costs of the icebreaker in its current design at $70 million to $80 million over the Canadian Coast Guard’s budget. And union officials have said that the North Yan- couver yard will get virtually none of the construction work on the massive icebreaker. Versatile’s unions, which have rejected the last two company offers by 96 per cent margins, will take a strike vote Sept. 26. If they vote yes and a long Versatile shutdown en- sues, the North Vancouver yard, a major local employer and the biggest focal shipbuilding facility, may never recover. . 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