A2 - Sunday, February 20, 1983 - North Shore News

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

A North Shore joy

SOMETIMES the most delightful surprises are to
be found in your own back yard.

Specifically, I’m thinking
of the Wigwam Inn at the
end of Indian Arm.

From Deep Cove, it's
about half an hour by water
taxi, if you don't have a boat,
or if, like me, your stupid
blank-blank boat is out of
commission.
__Indian—Arm-_—itself--
strikes me as one of the
greatest assets of hfe in or
around Vancouver. It is
astonishing that Tight next to
a massive encampment of
one million human beings,
there should be an inlet that
pokes like a long bony finger
into wilderness that ts almest
unscathed.

Barring, perhaps, such
out-of-this-world spectacles
as Princess Louisa Inlet and
Knight Inlet (which are
wetter), Indian Arm has to
rank as one of the best
natural hits anywhere on the
coast.

Ill go further: the play of
ight on the mountains and
the ever-changing shapes of
the clouds as they steal along
the lower slopes offer about
as much stimulation as any
setting on earth.

FEBRUARY .

But what is really so
wonderful about the Arm 1s
the amazing degree to which
it isn't polluted.

The flushing action of
Burrard Inlet backing up to
Port (gasp) Moody, then
being sucked back into
English Bay, guarantees that

northernmost reach of the
Arm for a week at a time. It’s
a great place to write.

I prefer the Arm to Howe
Sound by a wide margin
because there is no
Squamish at the end. You're
not blasted by any awful
stenches. ] have yet to see an
oil spill. And there are no
ferries to dodge.

But until last weekend, I

by arriving on a weekend
when there was a quarter-
inch thick sheet of ice across
the top third of the Arm. Our
water taxi had to slow down
to a crawl to crash through.
There was the curious
spectacle of sea_ gulls
watking around us mstead of
floating.

This meant that we were
the only guests that night at
the inn. It was lke inheriting
a mansion for 24 hours.

In summer, I gather, the
place is a bit of a bee-hive,

with a lot of Americans,
Europeans and Japanese
arriving to sample _ this

choice experience. I think I
like it better having the place
to ourselves.

And that’s the joy of it.
For people living on_ the

District tops
for video charges

CHARGES THAT video
amusement machine
licences are “excessive” and

charged to video machine
operators.
“We suggest a fee of $30

surpass most other would be much fairer and

municipalities’ fees were more economical to the

levelled against North game business.”

Vancouver District council Mayor Marilyn Baker told

Monday. Sims she doubted whether
Robin Sims, spokesman District could reverse the

for the Lightyear Leasing bylaw in effect because it

Lid., a group with 14 video could have legal im-
machines operating within plications.

District, told council that District voted in
after reviewing other November 1982 to amend

municipalities’ hcence fees,

the business licence bylaw
District's proves to be the

governing video and arcade

highest at the cost of $100 a machines in the
machine. municipality.
“The average fee (levied) At that time, council

by other municipalities is voted to limit the number of
$30," noted Sims. machines on any premises to
___He asked council to two while at the same time

of the
biological zone of nullity
around Vancouver actually
pushes its way much further
north than Deép Cove.
Beyond there, you are
back in a pristine, honest-to-
goodness Garden of Eden.
Orca are still willing to cut
through the chemicat bath of
English Bay in order to reach
the Arm because the har-
bour seals breed there in
such great numbers.
Often I have tied up at the

“had never actually stayed at

the Wigwam Inn. I want to
report that the place is an
absolute delight. And
because yourcan't get to it by
road, it preserves that exotic
quality of being genuinely
distant.

1 paid $65 for a second-
storey room with a balcony
overlooking the water, a
brass bed, an oak commode.
and other antique fur-

nishings. Good value.
My wife and I lucked out

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winter, you can have
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You definitely get the full
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gelting away from it all.

Much recommended.

Margaret.

wisdom and

the

Development

Lectures and Workshop
with Margret Meyerkort

for 25 years tn a Waldorf Kindergarten and is founder and director
of a teacher tramng program in early childhood education She brings

We tnoite the public to attend these lectures and workshop to be held at

Saturday, February 26th

Monday, February 18

reconsider the licence bylaw _ increasing the licence fee to
and reduce the amount $100a machine.

ESTATE ADMINISTRATION
WILL PLANNING

Royal Trust since 1899
555 Burrard Street phone 668-5000

Chi idhood

an_ early childhood educator from England, has taught

msight to the task of working with young children

The Vancouver Waldorf School
2725 St. Christopher's Road
North Vancouver, V7K 2B6

Lecture:
Cultivation of Wonder and
Imagination.
(Including the Fatry Tale)
(Coffee break

D0tsc usston and (Questions

9 30am

11 OO TT 30
11 30:12 30

1? 30° 130 Lunch
130 330 Workshop:
Working with bmaginution Puppetry
#00 Lecture:

Child Development The
Waldorf Approach to
Education.

fi aangquage and memory a day i
the Kindergarten phystobogscul

changes)

BOO pm Lecture: Loving Firmness,

the creative approach to disc tptine

Pre-registration

is required.

$l fee for Lecture/Work shop

Svertes
Inc hades lunch on Saturday
Registration deadline Noon Pruday
February 25
For tinformation please call the

Waldorf School Manager

985-7435

The Vancouver
A WALDORF SCHOOL

Veducation for the whole child”