Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart Re pape! and quathed under Soneduie ilt dS Holt by Nortn aoe Free Piss 9 Suse rpbons ‘S ewelecree but we shoud be accompaned Peter Speck Barrett Fisher SUNDAY ~ WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 At what cost? HE QUICKEST and cheapest way for a drink- ing driver to get home from a holiday party is to drive — but it’s also the most expensive and the deadliest. Telephoning home for a ride, taking the bus or call- ing a cab cost money and require waiting on other people’s schedules. Besides, drinking drivers usually feel pretty confident about their driving — they feel just fine. So why go through all the bother when the car is parked nearby? Because the chances of drinking drivers petting * caught and charged are good. And the chances of them’ killing or seriously injuring themselves, their passen- gers or innocent people are good. j A hefty fine, possible jail term, suspension ‘of licence, a criminal record and a newspaper publication ‘of the incident are the subsequent penalties that follow a drinking driver arrest — things that don’t usually “make employers, family members and friends proud. The few bucks seeraingly saved by driving home . from that fun-filled Christmas party can turn into a ' windfall for ICBC when it raises the driver's insurance rates. Those same few bucks saved can be parlayed in- to a pricey court award to the driver’s victims. The few minutes of time saved in the decision to drive home can reap 2 lifetime of sorrow when the driver must live with having killed or permanently disabled a man, woman or child. People are going to have a gocd time at parties’ this Christmas, and so they should. But when they make that decision on how they are going to get home, we ask that they weigh ALL of the odds, and ask 10 fates dl t 3 Inaterielschading manu cugts, aed Pectuens, Oy a amped adiedte Entire contents ¢; 1987 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. 58,489 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) SDA DIVISION NEWS photo Tom Burley FIR ENOUGH!...Organizer Mary Jean McGuinness and new Argyle principal Terry Shaw take a close look at themselves, at what cost? rst the batt THE NEWEST KID on Canada’s political block is up and running on the North Shore. The five- week-old Reform Party, introduc- ed Nov.15 in this column, is already taking practical steps here to ready itself for the day when Brian Muilblarney, faces his mo- ment of truth. The RP’s goal, you’ll recall, is to give the West more — much more — clout in Ottawa with an elected Senate equal in its powers to the Commons, free (as opposed to party-line) voting in both Houses, the right of constituents to discipline elected representatives found wanting and referenda on all major national issues. Sup- porters are demanding an end to the domination of federal policy by Central Canada. ‘‘The West Wants In”’ is their battle cry. . After the battle cry, however; e en comes the comes the battle. In politics the No.1 job is to get elected and most of it is sheer hard work. The Alberta-based party, led by the personally untested bearer of a famous political name — Preston Manning, son of Senator Ernest Manning — aims to run candidates at the next election in the max- imum number of constituencies from Kenora to the Coast, which means first /organizing them. Former North Van aldermanic candidate Ron Gamble, chairman of the RP’s constituendy organiza- tion committee, is beginning this week right here on his home turf. Thursday, Dec.10, the local RP holds its first public meeting to or- ganize the federal constituencies of Capilano-Howe Sound and North Vancouver. The ‘everyone wel- come”’ rally starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Esplanade Room of the North bargain-price Christmas trees for sale at the school next Saturday (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and Sunday (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Proceeds go to support Argyle Drama. cry, jattie Van Rec Centre, 123 East 23rd. For those who are fed to the teeth with Ontario and Quebec hogging all the federal goodies, it could be an interesting evening par- ticularly if you’re so mad at Ot- tawa that you’re even ready to run yourself against Chuck Cook or Mary Collins! e*¢* SWEET NOSTALGIA was the main course at a recent North Van lunch for retired elementary teach- er Ann MacLeod given by Doris McCall, with guests Coleen Miiler of White Rock, Joan Armstrong of Burnaby, Betty Anderson of Horseshoe Bay and North Van neighbor Betty Guthrie. Doris and guests had all been Grade 5 stu- dents of Ann from 1935 at Charles Dickens School in Vancouver and some of them hadn’t seen teacher photo submitted NEW WEST VAN RESCUE UNIT keys are handed over to Mayor Don Lanskail and Fire Chief Colin Evans (both left) by Vaucouver Freightliner representatives Walter Websier and Wayne Lowes. ida ES nn Lae Se Noel Wright in over 50 years. Ann, who later taught at Lord Selkirk until her retirement in 1970, rates as a North Van pioneer and then some! She’s lived in North Van for the past 75 years — attending Capilano Elementary and North Van High before train- ing for her career at Vancouver Normal School. ne * WRAP-UP: Memo to free trade opponents — that huge new Fire Department Rescue truck you ‘re now seeing around West Van is a genuine homegrown product. Cab. and chassis were built in the Bur- naby plant of Vancouver Freightliner, the body by Anderson Engineering of Langley. Who says B.C. can’t compete? If you want to know why foreign students come here, Reb Turner, dean of instructional services, can give you the answer for Cap College. This semester, he reports, there were 45 of them taking 193 courses — 30 in humanities, 28 in social sciences, 37 in natural sciences, 13 in ESL (English-as-a-second-language) and 57 in a variety of career programs Still on campus, congrats to Cap staffer Lynne Hamilton on being awarded a citation by the United Way for outstanding ser- vice to the community — she’s chaired the College’s United Way campaign for the past several years Across the Great Divide, Camrose Normal School, Univer- sity of Alberta, is planning a reu- nion party for all 1912-1938 alum- ni, most of them now scattered throughout the west. If you quali- fy, write Dean of Education R.S. Patterson at the UofA, Edmonton, T6G 2G5 And if you’ve got secrets to guard, PRINT — don’t write — on your happy birthday @ Sunday brunch ® card tomorrow to West Van graphologist Renate Griffiths! | see WRIGHT..OR WRONG: If he ig- nores what you said, don’t assume he’s hard/ of hearing. He may be just hard of listening. / RON GAMBLE...Reformer gels moving. RENATE GRIFFITHS...reader of secrets.