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NEWS VIEWPOINT

Awakening youth

IOLENCE SHOULD
condoned, but the assault charge
being considered against a member
of the North Shore Young Greens in con-
nection with a _ protest
McDonald’s restaurant sends a _ positive

signal to society.

For too long, the impassioned student
760s has been a dim

memory beheld through the rose-colored
glasses of nostalgia that bears little rele-

involvement of the

yance for today’s youth.

Students have made headlines in the past
few years, not for sticking pins in tise
bloated body of the status quo or for fak-
ing politicians to task, but for lamenting
such trivialities as the demise of the stubby

beer bottle.

But today’s students have suddenly had

rarely be

ata local starting to be

their emoticons fired and their fears ignited

by what some might perceive as the ap-

proaching environmental Armageddon.
Their much-needed energies

then are
funnelled into exposing and

ending the abuse of our environment — an

abuse that has been initiated and perpetu-

with, because

ated by the wilting Flower Children of the
760s and previous generations.
Today’s youth is a force to be reckoned

it is their future and the

future of their offspring they are fighting

for. Their protests may become unruly,
their actions at times may seem inappro-
priate. But today’s students can no longer
be dismissed as childish — they are grow-
ing up quickly, and we would be wise to

listen to what they have to say before it is

too late.

NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“I think the person who stole my
candy...1 hope he chokes on some
of it.”

Cort Jackson, after he was hit
by a car and had his Halloween
candy stolen.

‘“‘When we came out of the res-
taurant, I said to the client that
Wd bring the car around so he
wouldn't get wet. I walked around
the corner and i¢ wasn’t there.
They had towed it away.”’

Imperial Parking Ltd. president
Paul Clough, on having his car
powed away from his own parking
ot.

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“Only wimps bleed. You're a
wimp because you are bleeding."

Unidentified assailant, to a
Sardis man who had his throat
slashed at West Vancouver’s
Ambleside Park.

**We're proud to say that within
24 hours we can deliver protesters
to any McDonald's on the North
Shore.”’

North Shore Young Greens
member Irwin Ovostindie, on the
group’s protests against the use of
chlorofluorocarbons in
McDonald's restaurant food
packaging.

‘People would walk up to the
meter and I would say ‘Good
morning’ and they would say
good inorning back.”

Imperial Parking Ltd. president
Paul Clough, describing reactions
to a practical joke in which he
spoke to patrons parking in one
of his lots through a_ hidden
transmitter.

**A fot of people ask me if I can
wrap the bodies up to make sure
they don’t get cold in the fridge."

Jim Baigent. LGH mergue at-
tendant, describing some of the
requests he gets from the relatives
of dead people.

SCREW EN TOTHE WALL, (ug

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Aldermen and

# trustees rich

in challengers

THE NATIVES seem restless — and we're not talking
about Chief Joe Mathias. On the North Shore it's the
white peasants from whom rumblings of revolt at the Nov.

17 civic elections are audible.

The rumblings come from the
list of candidates. Whatever else
our present elected representatives
lack, they've no shortage of com-
petitors for the 32 council and
school board seats up for grabs.
The latter have more than doubled
compared to last time — from 23
to 51.

Fighting to defend their turf are
21 sitting aldermen and trustees
who want back in. That leaves on-
ly nine council and school board
seats vacant, due (o retirements,
for a hungry 48 challengers (the
other three being involved in the
mayoralty contests).

You don't have to be a math
genius to figure that this situation
could result in higher than average
casualties among present office-
holders.

The only comparatively peaceful
oasis is North Van City, where
Mayor Jack Loucks has once
more been acclaimed and the three
longtime school trustees face only
a single outside contender.

The five council members seek-
ing a further term are hoping City
voters have got over their blood-
letting mood of 1987, when half
the council went down to defeat.
But the incumbents still have to
cope with seven outside con-
tenders for the single vacancy, in-
cluding two former aldermen on
the comeback trail.

For the real action, however,
watch West Van and North Van
District — each with a four-
cornered mayoralty race that
could end in a tight finish be-
tween, respectively, two and three
of the candidates.

Their councils have three sitting
aldermen apiece seeking return,
leaving three vacancies. Out after
them in West Van are nine
challengers — the heavies being
two recent council members, a
current parks commissioner and
former schoo! board chairman,
and a highly regarded business
and community leader.

North Van District's incumbent
trio are fighting an even bigger
field of 12 enthusiastic would-be
aldermen — none, however, with
civic office experience.

In both the West Van and
North Van school boards life is
equally tough for trustees hoping
to keep their jobs. West Van's
quartet face eight challengers
compared to only three last time.
In North Van — where all four
incumbents went back unopposed
in 1988 — today’s three are battl-
ing seven outsiders.

The 122 per cent jump in
challengers to the local civic

Noel
Wright |

HITHER AND YON

“establishment’’ is partly due, no
doubt, to these being the first
three-year-term elections. Can-
didates and voters don’t get
another kick at the cat until 1993
— which may encourage a now-
or-never spirit in both.

Still, one wonders a little
whether current disillusionment
with politicians is seeping down
even into city hall. Whether ‘‘time
for a change”’ is becoming the
conventional election wisdom.

Only 13 days more fun before
we find out!

TAULPIECES: Honored fast week
at the official opening ceremonies
of the school that bears her name
was veteran North Van school
trustee Dorothy Lynas, 78, who
retires from the school board this
month after 34 unbroken years of
service ... Because today’s stu-
dents are tomerrow’s employees,
North Yan Chamber of Com-
merce and Schoo! District 44 in-
vite business community members
to a panel discussion tomorrow,
Nov. 5, noon to 1:30 p.m. (lunch
served), at the Leo Marshall Cen-
tre, 810 West 2Ist, on co-op
education programs to prepare
students for the job world. Mod-
erators are John Ludgate and Bill
Friesen ... Meanwhile, West Van
Chamber of Commerce holds its
All Candidates meeting Wednes-
day, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. in West
Van Senior Secondary ... Anda
very happy birthday Tuesday,
Nov. 6, to former West Van
mayor Derrick Humphreys.

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Van.

city council on environment.

BOB Fearniey ... challenging