6 - Wednesday, March 30, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS Fish lab party ignores angry uninvited OUTSIDE THE WIRE MESH FENCE a hundred furious sport fishermen, chanting ‘‘We want more fish’’, provided a raucous,accompaniment to Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon’s Saturday party in West Van. guests highest-priced housing has ong other good thing going for it. ft LOOKS very nice! eae The occasion: the festive open- ing of the new $7 million Fisheries lab on the site of the former Millerd cannery. The minister ar- rived late from an earlier stormy run-in with said sport fishermen, and enjoy a buffet lunch. The “fishy’* folk were well represented by former fisheries minister Jack Davis, the Aquarium’s Murray Newman, the Coho Festival's Don Griffiths, Mike Nicell and POSTSCRIPTS: North Van City staff’s Rete MeKay reminds us that North Van's big Easter Ege Hunt happens Saturday, April 2, frony Iia.m. to 2 p.m. in Heywood Park at Marine and McKay op- after your blood again at the West Van Legion's special blood donor clinic tomorrow (Thursday, March 31) from 2 to 8 p.m. in Pack Royal. There could be a rough weekend ahead on the roads! Chamber of Commerce president Bilt Soprovich. Among other well-known locals on view wert Ald. Pat Boname, lawyer John Lakes, Dr. Marlene Hunter, former Liberal MLA Dave Brousson, Tory riding exec. Valerie York and internationally honored industrialist Wendy McDonald. Dedicated to research into fish culture, salmon production and habitat, the lab’s mass of sophisticated equipment boggles the layman's mind. Eventually, one gathers, its boffins may even solve that chinook shortage. Meanwhile, this new next-door neighbor of some of Canada’s livid over his restrictions on chinook fishing. But security guards and West Van’s finest bar- red the .bused-in mob from in- vading the grounds and, aside from the background uproar, everything finally went smoothly and sweetly.’ . Mr. Siddon said:his piece to the 100 or so invited guests. Short speeches followed from MP Mary Collins and Mayor Don Lanskail ~ — both paying tribute to the vig- orous initiative of former mayor Derrick Humphreys (who was present) in pushing for the project. The trio then cut the ribbon, unveiled the plaque and led the company inside to tour the facility NEWS photo Noal Wright THREE HANDS, ONE SCISSORS...(I-r) Mayor Don Lanskail, MP Mary Collins and Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon join in cutting the rib- bon to open the new West Van fish taboratory. nce again the politically weak have been offered 6 fas sacrifice to the voracious gods of budgetary OX restraint. As the dust settles in the wake of Thursday’s provincial budget pronouncement the real _ victims of the various measures are becoming painfully - evident. While many are shedding tears for the higher cost of beer as part of a $95 million jump in alcohol tax reve- nue, the double whammy of a 38 per cent hike in Med- ical Services Plan fees and a jump in user fees for seniors in long-term care from 75 per cent of their budgets to 85 per cent is sick. . Those of us not locked into fixed incomes can * grumble, push to increase our earning power and vow _ to ourselves to oust the pocketpickers come the next election. . For the sick jand elderly it's another matter altogether, Inexorable hikes will. push many inte hard places where the raw options are simply to opt out of the system. ; A means test for those in government-subsidized, fenp-term care wil] make those with savings pay even - maore out of pocket. Insterd of allocating where needed a $450 million ‘ gmenperied bonus in revenues for 1987-’88, the pro- wincia] government has decided to kick around weak. ‘ _ Whe age is quickly beimg tarnished by gov- ernment’s off-handed decisions. While the eldery cringe, younger people on unfirm financial footing can only anticipate retirement with fear and loathing. posite Sears. Sponsored by the Moodyville Lions, it's for kids ag- ed four to 12, with single-parent families especially welcome ... The “sold out’' signs went up early Saturday afternoon at West Van Cancer Unit's daffodil stalls in Park Royal. Unit president Norma Sharp reports that this year’s sales of the ‘flowers of hope’ raised a record $3,600 for the Cancer Society’s April fund-raising cam- paign which starts in earnest with the door-to-door canvass a week from today ... Back on the balmy west coast after a taste of REAL witter is Cap College music in- structor Arlene Mctntyre who was adjudicating voice students earlier this month at the big Winnipeg Music Festival... Also absent from the Cap campus for part of March, teaching at McGill University in Montreal, was Keith Wade of the Natural Sciences Department ... Congrats (in advance) to North Van's Harold and Edie King on their upcoming 45th anniversary April 10 — and to Harold himself, a North Shore native son, happy 75th birthday wishes for April 21. Reason for the rush: they’ tl be celebrating away from home next month, on a trip with the North Van Lawn Bowling Club ... More happy birthday cards, please, for North Van Kiwanians Art Wessen (tomorrow, March 31) and Carl Busby (Good Friday, April 1)... And Isobel Colpitts is Saturday’s inauguration of the Du Publisher Peter Speck Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher Associate Editor .... Noel Wright Advertising Director . Linde Stewart Worth Shore News, tounded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualitied under Schedute' 111. Paragraph tt of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free V7M 2Ha Press Ltd. and distubuted 'o every door on ine Noun Shore. Secand Class Mail Registration Number . Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. 58,489 (average, Wednesday Mailing rates available on request. 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