6 - Sunday, April 7, 1991 - North Shore News Fe WE RRO ON WESTIN Tee fe 1e © ( Z LZ NEWS VIEWPOINT GET THIS BOUND IN LEATHER FOR MY PERSONAL LIBRARY. Political teachings EACHERS have made another ill- advised decision to lead the charge in bringing down the shell-shocked Socred government. The B.C. Teachers Federation decided at its recent annual general meeting that its membership around the province will stage | a one-hour strike April 17 to protest the government’s new and unsavory wage con- trol law, Bill 82. The teachers union is also considering following that protest with a series of rotating strikes. Bill 82, which gives wage-control com- missioner Ed Lien the power to roll back public sector contracts if he determines that the terms of those contracts are ex- cessive, is provocative legislation. Overturning contracts that have been reached through already lengthy and costly NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK negotiation can only inflame B.C.’s labor climate. And .in the teachers’ case, it could also divert public attention from the Social Credit government’s meagre 3.75 per cent increase allotted this year to B.C. educa- tion. But teacher strikes, which serve only to punish students and the B.C. education system, are not the answer. Disagreement with such legislation should be regist::2d loud and clear at the next provincial efection, which will take place later this year. The Social Credit government is already on the ropes in B.C. Political actions taken by teachers could divert public resentment from the Socreds and from the issues that have pushed the party to the edge of collapse. West Coast cuisine. “Some things move so slowly, it is almost like a soap opera.”* West Vancouver Ald. Pat Boname, sympathizing with a res- ident’s frustration over the amount of time it had taken for a foreshore encroachment complaint to be investigated. “But where the rock is really hard, using a hammer would be like using a plastic butter knife to cut a carroi."’ Local land surveyor Bill Chap- man, on the use of rock-breaking hammers to cut building sites out of the West Vancouver mountain- side. “Last year IT went to one house and a little boy came to the door Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptroller Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart Doug Foot and he had one of these little aluminum shovels. He said: ‘Mommy, there’s a man at the door.’ Then he began to swing at my ankle and he hit me in the most sensitive part of my ankle, and I was ready to call him some- thing a little more aggressive than ‘you little brat.’ °° Broadcaster and businessman John Pozer, on his experiences canvassing door-to-door for the Canadian Cancer Society. “People would say ‘You must cook a lot of salmon and trout. Isn't that kind of limiting?’ "’ Gary Faessler, the West Van- couver creator and producer of the Chefs About Town television show, an peante's perceptions of Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classtied Advertising Nevs‘oom 985-2131 North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent Subuiban newspaper and qualtied under: Scnedule 141, Paragraph Hi of the Excise Distrinuison Subscrotions 986-6222 = Far. Aomimsiration “There has never been a bear at- tack on the North Shore for at least the past 30 years....The bears are more afraid of our children than we are.’”’ Parent Holly Turner, on fears that bears would present a danger to children in a proposed play area in Mosquito Creek park. “E can't say enough about this — get them (lighters and matches) away from children, They're touls for adults, not toys for kids.”* North Vancouver City Fire Department Lt.-Insp. Dave Burgess, on keeping lighters and matches away from children. 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 985-2131 ” MEMBER Tax Act. 1s pubushed each Weanesdav, Friday and Sunday vb; North Shore Free Press itd and distt.buted to every coor on the North Snore Second Class Mail Aegistration Numper jane Subsenptions North and West Vancouver, 325 per year Mailing rates available on tecuest Submissions are welcome but we cannot responsipuity for unsolicded maternal nciud-ng manuscripts and pictures which should oe accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope V7M 2H4 Soman Nocenennee tate 1139 Lonsdale Avenue. North Vancouver, BC Entire contents YAN — Z Po] SDA DIVISION Ge ore wahon, Wedreige, Fodav & Sutday: 1991 North Shore Free Press Lid All ngnis reserved Loyalty Loyalty, some of the media now seem Lo by saying, is only OK if you back the right horse. Otherwise, forget it. To remain perfectly safe, never trust anything or anyone. And be quick on your feet, ready to jump fast at the slightest hint you've picked a bummer. So there was no media honey- moon for Premier Rita Johnston, a Vander Zalm loyalist until the morning of April 2. For that reason, went the argument, she represented no break with the Vander Zalm past. And the same applied to the caucus for finally electing her by a single vote over Attorney General Russ Fraser, whose personal repu- tation had remained relatively un- tarnished. No doubt Fraser might have been a safer bet for the purpose of persuading voters that the Socreds were indeed turning over a new leaf. On the other hand Rita, already deputy premier, had vastly more cabinet experience. Despite which, the slimness of her margin suggests that caucus was at least keenly aware of the need to cleanse itself of ‘‘loyalist’’ tar. And since then Johnston has also added some personal detergent of her own. Interviewed Thursday by CBUT’s Kevin Evans, she frankly admitted she’d been ‘‘betrayed"’ by Vander Zalm whose word she had accepted. The Hughes Report makes that confession entirely believable. Which brings us back to what loyalty is all about. Everyone has loyalties — to family and loved ones, friends, jobs, bosses, stores, products, clubs, churches and other institu- tions, Business and the economy could not operate for a minute without customer and investor loyalty in the form of trust and confidence. How often in your personal life have such loyalties turned sour? How often have you been let down in your trust —- had fond hopes dashed — because someone suckered you? How often have you been lied to? Or sold a pig in a poke? How often have fair-weather friends suddenly vanished when you needed them? Even more to the point, how long does your heart sometimes keep you believing in somecne you WANT to believe in, even after your head tciis you to stop? And how do you finally face ‘at — : 2 — WEIGHT PROBLEM SOLVED for LGH urology-gynecology ward with donation of scales by North Van Fraternal Order of Eagles. ist the problem- betrayers are OUR FORMER Premier and his party are aot the only victims of Tuesday’s political holocaust. Also covered in Slime is the ancient virtue of loyalty. Noei HITHER AND YON the bitter moment of truth? Shed a few tears, maybe. Or explode in anger. Or wallow awhile in cynicism. But eventually you pick yourself up and dust yourself down — and, of course, continue the loyalties you still have faith in, because ultimately they are the cement that holds iife together. A lot of B.C. folk went through the first stage last week, regretting their loyalty. But loyalty wasn’t the problem. Even when a little blind, it never is. The problem is only those who betray it. eos SCRATCHPAD: Tenth anniver- sary of West Van Seniors Certre will be celebrated at an elegant reception, dinner and entertain- ment evening 5:30-9 p.m. next Thursday, April 11 — check 926- 4375 pronto for any remaining $10 tickets ... For women who've lost their husbands the Widows’ Network meets Monday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in North Lonsdale United Church, 3380 Lonsdale — call 984-8252 ... Highly topical art display at Gallery Alpha, 207 - 1331 Marine Dr., West Van, until April 13 is Friedrich Peter’s ‘‘Foi- lowing Higher Orders’? — pen drawings on the Gulf War ... Happy birthday wishes today, April 7, to gracious Ambleside Inn hostess Martha Brueckel ... Ditto Tuesday, April 9, to West Van’s Mildred Hughes ... And more of the same Tuesday to North Van birthday girl Joanna Disher. ene WRIGHT OR WRONG: Why does it never occur to teenagers that some day they'll know as fit- ule as their parents? NEWS photo Paul McGrath Nurse Wanita Moroz, Eagies Tom Pennington, Ed Martin and Wayne Nugent (left to right).