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All rights reserved. 58,489 (average, Wednesday cial component of the Park and Tilford develop- Enday & Sunday) ment currently working through its birthing pangs in North Van City seems to be a case in point for amalgamation in North Vancouver. While city council is busily genuflecting and bending i SDA DIVISION over backwards with tax concessions to seal a deal with Cannell Studios, the negative impact of a $25 million, 175,000 sq. ft. shopping centre on existing commercial of business in the municipality is being flippantly down- played. The impact the development will have on traffic patterns both in the city and district has to date not been sufficiently addressed. Instead one finds the city tweaking the collective noses of North Vancouver District politicians and staff asking for cooperative and coordinated input on the development. Add to the pot the fact that the city, GVRD and province have publicly supported the concept of a town centre designating Lonsdale Quay, the Marine Drive corridor and the Park Royal area as a ‘‘com- mercial business node’’ in which to concentrate future commercial developement. City planner Richard White states conversion of the P&T site to commercial puts pressure on the entire area to ‘switch to commercial use, congesting the Cot- ton Rd.-Third St. corridor to Second Narrows Bridge. The development will impact on the community as a whole, long after the shouting and petty mud-slinging across electoral fences has died down. The city should recognize that electoral boundaries are arbitrary lines of delineation — not set in stone. Concerted municipal and business community cooper- ation is imperative for the well-being ¢7 all of North THE SOCREDS WERE RIGHT..ONE YEAR LATER, WERE STILL GETTING BENEFITS FROM EXPO... 4 ] 4 i 4 a g é i ? 4 Vancouver. larching to a gold-pl LOCAL-BOY-MAKES-GOOD DEPT.—featuring a North Van son and mom who march strictly to their own drum- mers. No question about it in the case of community showbiz queen Ger- tie Todd — permanent president of the Miss North Shore Pageant, which she invented 36 years zgo, and still its human dynamo. Gertie does things her way, with an ex- uberant personal style that owes nothing to anyone else. It seems to have rubbed off suc- cessfully on her equally in- dependent-minded progeny. For Calgary musician Rick Todd, the 40-year-old son of Gertie and former North Van fire captain Charles Todd, the payoff is finally in sight. Born in North Van, Rick at- tended Lonsdale Elementary, Sutherland and North Van High, and played in the renowned Kit- silano Boys’ Band — having form- ed, from the age of four, his own clear vision of heaven: a place with a pair of sticks and a set of drums. In due course his passion for percussion brought him into learn- ing contact with such masters as Dave Brubeck’s famed jazz drummer Joe Morello in Chicago, Jimmy Blackley of Toronto’s big- gest drum studio and Eddie Thigpen, once with Oscar Peterson and now with Ella Fitzgerald. Fer the past 10 years, ‘‘still with lots to learn’, he’s been playing and teaching in Calgary — and work- ing part-time in a supermarket when the musical pickings were thin. Now, after a two-year labor of love, he’s completed the project that could finally bring the big bucks, simply because there’s ap- parently never been anything quite like it before. It’s a home study course in the art of drumming, designed for raw beginners and intermediate players. It comes with an hour- long cassette tape that demon- strates all the elements and subtleties of drum technique. As students advance, three other hour-long tapes are available as options. The Rick Todd Drum Set Home Study Course has two other pluses for Rick himself. It’s personally endorsed by three champion drummers — jazzman_ Louis RICK TODD...a four year-old’s-vision of heaven. Noel Wright ® friday focus @ © Bellson, spouse of famed Peart Bailey; Hai Blaine, the Hollywood . drummer who’s’ played for the likes of John Denver, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra; and top drum theorist Forrest Johnson of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As well, ;the course is being distributed by a subsidiary of the Coca Cola-conirolled Columbia Corporation which plans to sell it worldwide for around $20 U.S., with Rick getting the standard author’s percentage. Columbia and Coca-Cola aren’t in the business of backing losers. That fact alone should put our Local Boy on the path to becoming a rich winner, marching in future to a gold-plated drum. Gertie deserves at least a new tiara out of it! DOUBLE MOTHER'S DAY was celebrated last weekend at the Macdougall home on West Van’s waterfront. For years chartered accountant Brice Macdougall has been driving wife Miriam gently up the wall by choosing her special day (or thereabouts) to announce: “} wish I had a kayak ...”’ Last Sunday he awoke to a gift from the kids —- a kayak with a 6 ft. stuffed gorilla and a banner reading ‘‘Happy Mother’s Day, Dad!’* With Brice’s self-pitying fi- nally silenced, Miriam says it was also her own best Mother’s Day gift in ages. / eee WRAP-UP: Former nurses who want back in can now retrain at home with the Open Learning In- stitute’s RNA-approved Graduate Nurse Refresher course which Susan Beauchemin of North Van recently completed. It uses home- study lessons, a tutor with a toll- free number and practical work at any convenient clinical agency ... Elected 1987-88 president of the North Shore Information and Volunteer Centre is West Van's Lynn McKeown. Other elected of- ficers include past-president Rev. Bill Perry, veepee and secretary Virginia Beirnes, and _ treasurer Ron Norman ... College friends stand by you, as Cap College legal assistant student Karen Wishneski — left a quadriplegic by a January accident — can testify. Staff, faculty and fellow-students netted over $1,700 towards her rehabilit:. tion from a special rundraising carnival they held last monih ... And the nostalgic wail of that deep baritone whistle, accompanied by clouds of white steam will be heard once more Sunday (May 17) all the way from Norgate Park to Lions Bay as the Royal Hudson sets forth on its first run of the 1987 season. ake WRIGHT OR WRONG: Frustra- tion is watching your secretary yawn while typing one of your most amusing letters. LETTER OF THE DAY Bargaining cannot. be left to the ‘big boys’ Dear Editor: . Bargaining is too important ta be left to the collectives. Big Business and Big Labor have their own special interests to protect. The greater, ‘‘public inter- est’’ is ignored. The old NDP-enacted Labor Code is on its way out in Vic- toria. Going, too, is the code’s bias in favor of the big boys; big companies, big unions. Thus we are witnessing the end of an era; one in which orga- nized groups come to an or- chestrated conclusion. They look after themselves and ig- nore the body politic. Bill 19, the new Labor Rela- tions Reform Act, takes the broader, public interest into ac- count. It also insists on the publication of issues which divide parties, use of the secret ballot, full membership votes before strike action is taken, etc. Putting reason ahead of emotion and allowing for public input it will lead to more cemocracy in the work place. Collective bargaining has alwa:s been collective, never free. Undertaken by monopolies, corporate and union led, it looked after privi- leged minorities, did little or nothing for the unorganized among us. The new bill, besides protecting te majority, lets the light shine in.on the bargaining process in British Columbia. Labor-management relations in this province will benefit. M.L.A., North Yancouver/ Seymour