6'« Sunday; October 6;'1985'- North Shore News

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Why so shy?

xpo 86 is supposed to be a world fair that
Bite to the people — for the simple

reason that the taxpayers of B.C. are
funding its construction and will pick up the
tab for its losses.

Since Expo is a Crown Corporation, you’d
think its books would be open to any B.C.
citizen who wished to check on how his money
was being spent. A billion dollars-plus is not
exactly peanuts. But the Socreds are showing
a strange reluctance to level wit: the public.

Last February the Legislature passed the
Financial Information Act which requires ail
Crown Corporatiors to make a full financial
disclosure within six months of the end of their
fiscal year. That disclosure must include assets
and liabilities; all contract payments, debts and
guarantees; and salaries, bonuses and expenses
for each employee. And the information must
be available ’’for inspection by any person’.

The deadline for Expo, whose fiscal year
ended March 31, came and went last Tuesday
with no disclosure. That’s because the Act does
-| not become law until proclaimed by the cabinet.

.. Asked when this would finally happen, Finance

Minister Hugh Curtis made soothing noises but
would give no firm date.
All the public presently knows comes from
a one-page Expo budget statement forecasting
an operating deficit of $311 million. That’s if
the millions of hoped-for visitors all
materialize. If they don’t, the taxpayers’ even-
“tual bill could be significantly higher. .
Expo’s long-term benefits might still justify
. the investment and Expo boss Jim Pattison
claims there’s nothing to hide. So why is Vic-
toria so shy about coming clean with the
. “shareholders’’?

Protest pays! .

ore ‘than a few: eyebrows may have.
‘been; raised by the news that the U.S.
“#& -executive ‘committee ‘of Mothers
Against Drunk. Drivers has fired its founder,
_ Candy Lightner; following a dispute over a pay
hike, The lady wanted $10,000 added to her ex-
“isting $76,000: p.a. MADD’s aims are ad-
mirable;- ‘like . those: ‘of.. many. other
2 ‘‘motherkood”’-causes, but we never knew the
: Protesting profession paid THAT well!

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ecte!

JUBILEE GIFT from Holland ... in uniform (centre and right) the Legion L.A.’s Dorothy
Hancock and Fran Ruegg. With them (left tn right) Cedarview residents’ council members:

NEWS notoT Terry Peters

Jessie Green, Clare Conway, Hattie Snare and Ana MacGillivray.

BEACON HILL Lodge
wheelchair residents, bad-
mouthed by a handful of
‘concerned’? West Van cur-

* mudgeons for ‘‘cluttering up’’

the lobby of their own home,
now have even the kids rally-
ing to defend them. |
North Van U.C. youth
group leader Sylvia Dykes
sends us a bunch of letters to

the unnamed beefers by
=: youngsters aged 1} to 15, Here
- for the heartwarming record
| are extracts from just three.

Fom Sheila Byers, Masry

. Davies, Colleen McLaren and

Rochelle Watker:
“We are a group of young

people from Capilano United. -

Church. We are also concern-

ed! We think your feelings ©

. stem from the fact that you're
" afraid to face your own mor- . §
tality. Senior citizens have —

earned their places in ourcom- , @
munities and shouldn't be hid- : &
den away because their ap- | 7%
pearance may offend some @
people. Perhaps their unhap-°:
py faces are the result of sacie- ,

ty’s attitudes.”

From Johanna Gunn,- §

Cathy and Erica Molinski,
Shawna Murray, Tracy
Schupplt and Christine
Thomas:

“As members of the North
Shore United Church's youth
group, we believe old people
have the right to live in their
home and sit where they wish.
Some day WE might have to
depend on wheelchairs and a

CHECKING ON EXPO PROGRESS ...

view for entertainment. Peo-
ple near the end of their lives
still deserve to do everything
the rest of us do.”

And from Sue Arnold,
Bronwyn Carrodus, Jennifer
Eastwood, Katy and Nicola
Snow, and Pam Warner:

“Have you ever thought of
growing old yourself? What
will YOU do when you are old
and can't take care of

‘yourself? Have you ever talk-

ed to those people? Maybe

they’re nice. Have you ever

thought of adopting a Grand-

ma? Maybe if you visited

them, they’d be happier.”’

anenks: kids — you say it
i

THE NANCY GREENE BREED ... West Van's Karen Col-

Loren in the flesh ... There’l!
be a splash of Holland in
North Van's Cedarview Lodge
gardens next spring following
the presentation to residents
Wednesday of Dutch tulip
bulbs by Fran Ruegg, North
Shore Zone Commander of
the Legion's L.A., and
Dorothy Hancock, secretary-
treasurer of the North Shore-
Howe Sound L.A. — a gift
marking the Legion's Dia-
mond Jubilee .. «Showing the
B.C. flag this week j in Saskat-
chewan is North Van-
Capilano MLA Angus Ree,
there to attend the Com-
monweaith Parliamentary
Conference of 40 Com-
monweaith nations ... At least
Rev. Dal McCrindle no longer
needs a boat to visit his flock.
The new minister of St.
David's U.C., West Van, was

, actively involved in the opera-

tion of the “‘Thomas Crosby
Vv", a mission ship calling at
B.C. coastal outposts during
his eight-year ministry in
Prince Rupert ... Congrats to

West Van's Karen Colbow,
winner of the provincial
government’s Nancy Greene
Scholarship presented to her
Wednesday by West Van-

NEWS photo lan Smith

bow receives her scholarship from West Van-Howe Sound

MLA Jobn Reynolds.

photo submitted

NO NEED FOR A BOAT ... St. David's new minister, Rev.
Dal McCrindle, and family -- wife Helen, Elizabeth and

Bruce.

kkk
HITHER AND YON: In
town this week, one of screen
stardom’s most glamorous
veterans — here to promote

photo submited
North Van District

Alderman Craig Clark (left) at the B.C. Pavilion with Con-

sumer Affairs Minister Jim Hewitt.

- the Coty perfume that bears

her name. At the downtown
Bay, 10:30 a.m. Monday and
Woodward’s Oakridge, 1:30

p.m. Tuesday, meet Sophia

EXHIBITION ARTIST AT 10 ...
preud Susi Schiller with her ‘Canada Geese’'.

Howe Sound MLA John
Reynolds ... Proud 10-year-

_ old is Susi Schiller of Chart-
» well Elementary whose pastel

painting ‘*Canada Geese’ has
been selected from over 3,000
submissions by the B.C.
Young Artists Exhibition for
a 14-month display tour win-
ding up at Expo ... And if
British music hall songs are’
your thing, go listen to North
Van actress Cecilia Smith sing-
ing them Thursday to Satur-
day until Oct. 19 at Harmony
Joe's restaurant just behind
B.C. Stadium.

kkk

WRIGHT OR WRONG:
Courage is fear that has said
itz. prayers.

photo submitted
Chartwell elementary’s