“Tonight . (Wédnesday)
the ‘laying- -on of. hands. for
selected” “West ~ “Vancouver.
election . candidates. : ‘The™

Association meets. at 8 p.m.
in St. David's. = -Church. hall,
Upper “Levels © ‘and “Taylor -
Way. to: endorse. its.-official
slate. for. ‘the November 19:

poll. :

Of ‘the. “hopefuls ‘who |
addressed .the | “associati ion

and the _ public ‘nine ‘days
ago...and who > have also
submitted to.a ‘thorough-go-
ing .oral exam. by. the
directors....three will. finally
be chosen to run for council ©
and. two’ for school | board
under the WVEA banner.

the wee brochure to be.
sent’. to all’ West Van"
households and if the
pattern”. of. former years:
repeats. itself,” they...
virtually: certain to be: elected.
by the miserably small .
percentage of voters: .who
traditionally bother to turn,
out at all. re

. All of which, you may feel,
is a little hard on those able
candidates who don’t -gét the
WVEA nod tonight; 17 days
ahead of polling day. They
will be on their own:..faced,
among other things, -with.
finding up to $1,000 each for
individual brochures if they
want..to compete with the

WVEA’s umbrella publicity.

If you prefer to make up
your own mind about who
tuns® West Vancouver...as
‘opposed to accepting blindly.
the people the 150-member
WVEA thinks should run it...

make a point of finding out

about the candidatés who.
don’t appear in
association’ s brochure: You’
may find some of them
sutprisingly impressive and ©
worthy of your vote.

REID RIDES AGAIN |
Major and minor sensa-_

tions emerged in the last:
minute scramble of North

Shore candidates to file their

nomination papers before the
deadline at ‘noon Monday. -

The big. item, of course, wads:

that retiring North Van City
Mayor Tom Reid will be
running. for an aldermanic. ©

seat in his home municipality ~ th

of West Vancouver. ue &

ot
i

Yesterday. ‘West Van‘ coun. |

cil incumbents with a further
year to serve—by, and largea
polite and gentlemanly

unch.who know, ‘Mayor Tom
mainly from the North ‘Van
headlines he has. created ,

over the past seven years—

were asking a little anx-

iously: ‘‘What's the fellow
really Jjike to pet along
with?" |

The other: last-minute gut.
prise in West Van was, ‘the:
re-emergence. of Doreen
Blackburn as an aldermanic |

candidate. Doreen made a lot.
of waves during her first

eginning «. v
scheduled to. ‘start |

7 “ former
-They will be featured in

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eof hours or SO. after
[is

etired to. spend a little time

with her teenage daughters,
.now both-safely packed off to.
- university. Over her 26 years

as a North Shore resident she

has. been ‘active ‘in. almost |
‘every. community organiza-

tion you .can name. .Four
‘years ago she collected 3, 221
of. the 3 871 votes cast.
In North. ‘Vancouver City
alderman Terry

Grimwood appeared as an

eleventh-hour contender for
“the mayor’s chair—running

against incumbent Alderman |

Stella ‘Jo’ Dean, Marc
Howard and J ack Loucks for
the fop - spot. After .a
three-year . term: Terry lost
out to Loucks and Alderman

Jim Warne, when he ran.
again for ‘a council seat last
year. Since then he has been’
devoting © “his considerable.
energies to building a posh -

new private. racquets. club for
North Van. eo

” Finally, a an n intriguing ent-
rant: in the North Van City

vacancies which Tompkins is
seeking has been created by
the retirement of Alderman
Ralph Hall, a former editor of

the said~ newspaper—and
‘Hall himself has:
“now: returned to the > paper for’.

because

_ SQUAMISH

After. that it should be good.
BO ge wd - for another sixty.
“term’ as ‘an. ‘alderman from .

1973. to 1975; after which she

| ‘to six weeks of midnight-to-

_be overhauling the North’
‘Shore footings | of the. main

_Feplacement | of the ‘centre.

and main supporting trusses;.~

will apparently. involve about
50 weekend closures,
Saturday. morning _ until~

‘Sunday night, during - 1981 -

the. work. has to be done in.
| the daylight. . :

us up by outlining the entire —
bridge with lights. ’
aldermanic ‘stakes: was John...
Tompkins, city’ hall reporter”
-for that other North Shore. —
hewspaper. It’s intriguing to
the extent- that: one ‘of ‘the .

‘price tag for overhaul is put.

early days yet.lf costsescalate ©

whole thing from s ‘scratch for. 4
: $6 million! te |

BE AN ENERMISER |
INSULATE WOW

~ Winter |
means higher heating costs.
Insulate now and cut the cost of

, HYDRO FINANCING.

‘Youn NORTH SHORE mULATOR
SERVING. THE | NORTH | SHORE TO.

will be a further, four ‘years
before the job is completed.

Next spring will bring u up:

6 a.m: closures while bearing
devices. (which allow . for
expansion and contraction’ of
the structure due to temper-
ature changes) are replaced. -
Later in. the year, but this
time with no closurés, they’ ll

: Exotic variety of orchids , especially sO .
suspension cables. ~ & _- flown in. from the tropics fro as low as
Then ‘comes. the major : 7 . o ea
operation....a $30 million

. Top Quality 4’ fig or-
umbrella plants in 3 —
a ga als tubs’ _ compare
at. $29. 95

10” Decorative Pots
Reg. $10. 00 ©

span’s roadway, - sidewalk

which. won't be _completed

until some time in 1982. It | Special ae

for.

and. 1982, because most. of

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They are: . also going to’ cheer |

Total -
at around $40 million, but it’s

at the.same pace as ‘they did -

for the Sea-Bus, the 1982 bill”

will probably be closer to $70. 7
million. «

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In| 1938 they . built the |

is. here’ and. that:

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