A6 - Sunday, September 2, 1984 - North Shore News Gl editorial page] Winners only halfway home niess a miracle of Biblical dimensions overtakes John Turner and his embat- tled colleagues within the next 48 hours, Tuesday’s vote seems destined to go down in history as the election that the pollsters decided six weeks in advance. Regrettably, the two-month campaign -- dominated by ‘‘image’’ and largely devoid of any real substance -- has also done little to enhance public respect for politicians as a breed. If the predicted Tory landslide mate- rializes, it will be based primarily on Brian Mulroney’s personal skills as a pediar of promises, backed by a superbly tuned Tory campaign machine. Plus, of course, the disarray in which Pierre Trudeau contrived to bequeath the Liberal Party to his hapless successor. As a result, more than a few among the majority of electors expected to cast their ballots for Mulroney candidates will un- doubtedly do so with their fingers tightly crossed. One single factor will have persuad- ed them to chance their luck on a party with hardly any track record in government for the better part of a generation, headed by a new and untested leader. Nevertheless, that one factor has finally become all-important: the crying need of the country for a CHANGE. No parliamentary democracy remains healthy under one-party rule for periods as long as 21 years or more. Even if Liberal administrations since 1963 had been exem- plary, this would still be true. But the truth of the matter, say the pollsters, is that Cana- dians in their droves have come to regard the recent Liberal record as so disastrous that any change at all is now preferable to more of the same. Our guess is that pollsters will be proved right. But the outcome will be very different from a vote of confidence in the Tories. Mr. Mulroney and his party will have to set about winning that vote AFTER September 4. On Tuesday they will only be halfway home. Tea VOCCE OF MONTH Al? 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Subscriptions North and Weal Vancouver $1% pee yea Matting ates availiable on frequent NO fesponaibillty BC CEDTeEG for Uritole ted materia ie bo bray MaANUSCHpts And pictures whet stwutd be ae cor armed try a staciprerct addressed envelope Member of the 8.C. Press Council a 68,770 (average Wednesday SOA OVISION friday & SuNndiny! P ih al, nee Our ~, en) * Ge ont eee wee Ute ‘ THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE EADING FOR THE Hee in the calendar of major B.C. celebrations is an event that started out five ago as an end-of-summer community picnic sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. Like the girl in the cigarette ad, the 1984 West Van Coho Festival next Thursday through Sun- day (Sep. 6-9) has come a long way, baby. From its modest origins as a Labor Sunday salmon barbecue in Ambleside Park and a stroll along the nearby bank of the Capilano to glimpse the returning coho, this year’s Festival has burgeoned into a four-day extravaganza of activities for every age and condition -- from moppets to marathon runners. All of them pro- moting the vitally important cause to which the Festival is dedicated: salmon enhance- ment. For the first three days Park Royal shopping centre is the scene of the action. On view there, some 40 colorful displays and exhibits by the Department of Fisheries, North Shore School Districts, the Squamish Out- door School, Capilano Hatchery, the Wildlife Fed- eration, the GVRD_ parks people and Vancouver Aquarium, to mention just a few. sunday brunch by Noel Wright MALCOLM AND MARGARET ROBERTSON ... 2 Golden Sunday all in the family. ago to avoid clashing with the Labor weekend. It kicks off at 8 a.m. with a 10-mile ‘‘Salmon Run’’ to Kitsilano Beach where the aspiring marathoners will re-enact the old native tradition of carry- ing the message that the salmon have arrived at the Capilano to the Indian tribe families across the bay. Meanwhile, a West Van Lions pancake breakfast will be in business for runners and spectators from 8 to 11 a.m.at the foot of Taylor Way. From 10 onwards the highlight is the scenic ‘*Coho Trail’’ watk from Cleveland Dam down to the mouth of U News phate Noel Wright MIKE NICELL ... dynamo behind the hoopia to help save the salmon On Saturday the Festival moves into high gear with a tag day (featuring a tag so original and tasteful that you can wear tt afterwards as a conversation piece) and a canned sockeye sale that aim, between them, to raise $10,000 for North Shore enhancement work For the kids, a fishpool derby (candy fish and balloons as prizes), a poster-coloring compctu tion, a gucss-how many salmon contest and the Ted dy Bear Family with others costumed mascots wandering through the malls * ° e THE BIG, DAY was moved to the second Sunday of September a couple of vears the Capilano, along the route of the migrating saim- on. Up to 2 p.m. you can leave your car at Park Royal and take a shuttle bus up to the Dam. Hugely popular last year, the walk is ex. pected to draw over 1,000 hikers. The less energetic can do their fitness thing from 1) to 3 pm on a Family Treasure Hunt from Taylor Way (where you pick up the clue sheet) along the estuary bank to Ambleside Park. There, awaiting them and the trail hikers, will be the traditional salmon barbecue and a beer and-wine garden Plus non-stop entertainment until darkness -- a break dance contest, West Van Youth Band, martial arts, the Summer Pops Band, square dancing, a jazz con- cert and folk singing on the beach by bonfire. And, as the admen say, much, much more s s * HUMAN DYNAMO behind the Festival, and its chair- man from Year One, is Mike Nicell, manager of Eaton’s, Park Royal. One measure of the stature the Festival has now attained, he notes, is the CHQM mobile broad- casting unit that will be covering this year’s Saturday and Sunday events -- not for advertising revenue but as a program feature. He points with pride, too, to the army of community activists who’ve been working for months to make this the big- gest show yet. They include 1984 co- chairman Bill Chapman, Park Royal PR manager Per Danielsen, accountant Don McMahon, Woodward's Peter Robinson, fitness gurus Sue Hills and Clare Fitzpatrick, Sara Hawe (The Village Groom), automobile beautician Len Macht, the GVRD’s Shirley Yamaoka, Sunshine Cabbie Richard Hughes and Chamber of Commerce president Ron Wood. Not to forget this years distinguished honorary chairman, ‘‘Bull of the Woods’’ Gordon Gibson Sr. That's the hoopla. But the real story of the Festival, Mike stresses, is us continu. ing support of the salmon enhancement programs in which scores of North Shore school students participate year round. Capilano Col lege is already looking at the idea of producing a full- length audiovisual pres- entation on those programs. And, encouraged by Mayor Derrick Humphreys, Mike now envisages the possibility of the whole concept -- backed up with guided tours of local hatcheries and spawning grounds -- developing into West Van’s unique contribution to the B.C. pavilion at Expo ‘86. Judging by the past five years, it’s no idle day dream. Join the fun next weekend and see for yourself ... zs * @ GOLDEN SUNDAY wishes for many hundreds more ahead to Malcolm and Margaret Robertson, mar- ried Sept.1, 1934 in Ker- risdale. Shortly afterwards they left for the States where Malcolm, a math professor, taught in turn at Chicago, Yale, Rutgers and Delaware - Universities until their BRUNCH’S Sunshine Girl --- Violet (Dolly) Dixon, 82, of West Van Kiwanis Lodge feeds one of her many friends in Stanley Park. retirement back to West Van in 1972. In addition to con- gratulatory messages sent by notabilities from Governor General Jeanne Sauve downward, the warm little family item is that they're being honored this morning at an anniversary service and reception at St. Monica's, Horseshoe Bay -- with their son, Rev. John Robertson, officiating » . » WRIGHT OR WRONG: They say it’s smart not to believe more than half you hear, but the problem is which half? A very happy labor Day anyhow -- especially to all newlyweds with 49 years still to go! RUPERT HARRISON (centre), West Van's historian and former Municipal Clerk, recently honored by West Van Rotary with its most prestigious award, the Paul Harris Fellowship, With him, wife Grace and Rotary District Gov- ernor Ralph Crawford.