TO THE Press Coucil again, this time as a bitcher rather than a wretch accused of being dangzrous. A bit of a lark, if you ask me, since I do not approve of press councils. If a person has a beef against a paper, he can write a letter to the editor. But there's the rub. One expects editors to play fair, especially when their own writers are on the spit. There is no lack of howls in the North Shore News against my humble self, for example. Which is as it should be. Such things go with the territory. It seems to be different with the Vancouver Evening Wimp, though, for it declined to publish a letter from me replying to an at- tack in its pages on my harmless self. So it was off to the Airport Inn yesterday with pike and musket, Here’s the background: Regular reader, if he exists, will recall that the delightful Aziz Khaki, late of Tanzania, did his best some monthis ago to put this newspaper and little old me out of business. As head of the mis- named Committee for Racial Justice, he tried to organize an ad- vertisers' boycott of the News, on the premise that Doug must go. I called it multicult-style democracy. mish is about. It is about lousy reporting and The Wimp’s shyness in putting the record straight. She did not name me in her piece because that would have brought on the vapors. Instead, she wrote sbyly about ‘‘a North Shore newspaper columnist.’ She quoted liberally from my item on Khaki, however, to show what a pest [ am. In sobbing over that multicult- style democrat, she carefully omit- ted to mention he was out to smother the News and me. And she could not plead ignorance because the information was in the very column she was quoting. Ob- viously, to have written about Khaki’s noble deed would have spoiled her story. As I told the council, it was a bit like saying there was a war on L, sobbing over that multicult-style democrat, she carefully omitted to mention he was out to smother the News and me. And she could not plead ignorance because the information was in the very column she was quoting.’”’ Enter The Wimp's Mistress Quickly, otherwise known as Nicole Parton, dubbed ‘‘Quickly”’ because she is quick to shed (ears over the world’s weepers and writes more quickly than she thinks. The dear girl took pen in hand to castigate your agent, which is OK by me. Her views on the North Shore's Chief Rotter only make me faugh and are not what this skir- without mentioning which side fired first. And although it is too dramatic a comparison, it was also a bit like the Chinese government being Sland about what happened in Tiananmen Square. My response to The Wimp was short and gentle. Short because I didn't want to give it the excuse of ‘no space,’ and gentle because its editors don’t like spilling their cof- ee. NEWS photo Clady Goodman DAN BUBAS and Sonia Gallman were two of North Vancouver School District's top art students chosen to participate in an intensive three-day print making course at Carson Graham Secondary recently. The students are showing some of the work they produced at 310 West 21st. Students work with art pros THE CHANCE to work intensive- ly with professional artists was greatly appreciated by North Van- couver District students who reported on their recent experience with the Art in the Schools Enrichment Program. Sonia Gallman of Balmoral Secondary and Dan Bubas of Sutherland Secondary were two of the students who participated in this year’s program, which focused on the art of lithographic print- making. *“We enjoyed working with peo- ple who are really serious about art, as well as working in small groups,"’ Gallman recently told North Vancouver School Board. The teacher, nationally recognized master printmaker Rob Wilson, didn’t ‘‘hang over the students’ shoulders,’’ Gallman noted, but he was always ready to assist when needed. **We had a lot more time to work on our projects — I feel lucky to have been chosen,’”’ said Bubas. After Wilson had given pres- entations at various schools in the district, a number of students from Grades 10 and 11 were chosen from cach school! to participate in an intensive three-day workshop with him in April. “They worked very hard and each produced 20 editions of 20 or more prints,’’ reported district art consultant Bill MacDonald, who said the workshop thus generated about 400 pieces of art. Editions of each print have become part of the permanent art collection at the Marshall Cur- riculum Centre at 810 West 2Ist Street. Carson Graham art teacher Wing Chow also told the board how much his participation in the program had assisted him in gain- ing insight into teaching. “For a teacher to work with 15 hard working and enthusiastic stu- dents is a real joy,’’ said Chow. Now in its taird year, the enrichment program has shown See Immersion Page 10 BYSECO TIRE SALE! NORCO TIRE 26x2.00 ON/OFF ROAD DYNAMITE PRICE $899/ 44. TUBES 26x1.75/2.125 $] 99/ og, Limit 5 WATOH FOR NEXT WEEK'S SPECAISI BICYCLE SERVICE CO. 213 E. 1ST. N.VAN. 986-9477 Two weeks later I called the let- ters-to-the-editor chap, who was vague about whether my smail missive would be run. Two weeks after that he was vague again, whereupon it was clear they weren't going to run any risk of Collins casting doubt on the lady’s perfection. When worms are on a pin, they wriggle. So do people who don’t want to publish bad news, and in this case the wriggling has provid- ed me with some hearty hilarity. In his pre-hearing response to my plaint, The Wimp’s editor-in- chief, Nick Hills, wrote a page of bilge on how there was ‘‘nothing sinister’’ about the letter not being published. His paper receives about 100 letters a week, etc., and they can’t print them all. Sure. As for Quickly’s not men- tioning the boycott, he said that ‘‘a newspaper column is largely a per- sonal piece of journalism.’’ Tell me about it. But I believe the public is always interested in who is trying to kill whom. Frank Rutter, who runs the edi- torial pages, gave vent to an cven better piece of cockamamie. He stated that Quickly’s column ‘‘was not about Mr. Collins but about somcone clsc.’’ Who might that be? Miss Man- ners? Give us a break. What the press council will say I don’t know. But Judge Collins says The Wimp tan away when it was confronted with evidence of Quickly’s skewed reporting. He also says it refused to honor the time-honored tradition of the right of reply. This court is now adjourned @ . 9-— Friday, June 23,..1989:- North Shore News Man has one week to clean up WV property A MAN responsible for the untidy property at 1812 Mathers Avenue has been given another week’s reprieve. Although Phillip Bradley, the son of the property owner, had considerably cleaned up the site since a complaint was first lodged against him with West Vancouver District Council, the work had not been satisfactorily completed as of Monday’s council meeting. Council was against granting Bradley a further four weeks’ grace, despite the excuse being of- fered that he was called away to a family emergency. “This is visual pollution and it has gone on far too long,’’ com- mented Ald. Andy Danyliu. As there was no verification that Bradley had actually been called to a family emergency, Ald. Rod Day and Ald. Alex Brokenshire were also against extending the time be- fore which the municipality would have to take action cn the proper- ty. One of the neighbors, Harry Binks, painted himself as the ‘‘vic- im” of this situation, in which Bradiey had allowed the property to remain in an unsightly state for over a year. 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