The North Shere Mews is published by Rorth Shore Froe Press Ltd,, Poblishor Pater Speck, from 1139 Lonsdale Avenue Worth Vancouver, B.C., V7M 2H4 PETER SPECK Publisher 995-2131 (101) lng Editor . . «Sats 8 Manating Detar : er) (118) 950-0511 (319) sibuibar, newspaper and quiified ‘ Potageagh Vit of Sea Excive Tax Adi, is pitiiatns! cach _ Wedrvenday, Friday snd Sunday by North Shore Free Prous Lad, and distributed wo every door on the North Share. Canada Post Credo Pubticices Mea Sales Profiay Agreenzrt No. cer. (From a Spr. 20 News story } : ono F mailbox oe ! Clean up Dear: Editor: : period. ¢ndin | i quotes of the week _ high school ‘graduates : are severe- “I don’t believe the answer to every de yelopment is to turn it into a park at public expense.” » Rick Buchols, who has con- - firmed that he will run again for : North Vancouver District Countil, . on development, (From, a Sept. 40 “News story.) °°. aoa ne “What we're trying to do i is . Yaise awareness of prostate can- . cer."Many people don’t even know what the | prostate is. T' didn’t even know what it was. As_ ‘soon as I found out they took it. Out — I never met the bugger.” Jack’ Carlisle, on his prostate | cancer support grou and the'need ‘to rais¢ awareness oO: pr ‘ostate can- / af “Tam m discovering that many Your Sept. 13 issue fisted the West Vancouver. municipal [sewage plant as a repeat. offender in : pollut- ing discharges under the Lions Gate © ridge and that during a six-month March 31 lof} this : year, 74% of the time, the plant. exceeded the permit flow limits and - , that during the: same. period the: - plant. exceeded’ rotal suspended’ solid limits 28% of the time, -, “Following reports in your. paper ‘of Amblesi le lifeguards being dis- ‘news viewpoint | | Star Chamber ‘spell end of a free society — CONFUSION continues to reign among some of our Mailbox con- tributors over what free speech and / / a free press are all about. Admonishing your scribe once more for. stating that the Holocaust could never have taken place if pre-war Germany had enjoyed - freedom of the media and individual expres-, ; sion is reader Lionel Kenner. He makes the interesting suggestion that the Holocaust could ‘have been averted if . Council. HONG KONG EXPATRIATES HURRY Home x0 | PERMANENT: RESIDENCY STATUS Aaa ett sam amt bb, ly lacking the necessary skills to succeed at reaching their full : potential... students have to be taught entreprencurial skills in order to meet the challenges before them, including the cre- ation of their own jobs.” ., North Vancouver District 44 School Board candidate Tim’ Morrison, on education and entre- preneurship. (From a Sept. 18 News | story. ) OQ “When you’re peeing five times a night when you're 79 years old, it’s time to get the laser.” Jim White, on the need for - Lions Gate Hospital to get a laser inachine to treat prostate cancer. (From a Sept. 20 News story.) our sewage system gusted at what they encounter on.- the beach is it any wonder with the. sewage plant in such’ close proximi- ty? T appreciate that the plant is ~ operated by the Greater Vancouver “Sewerage and Water. District: but docs that ‘relieve . the | West Vancouver -District municipality of “responsibility? Surely West Vancou- ver one of the most affluent munic- alities ‘in Canada, can do ‘better an this! Bernard Moore West Vancouver rere pee entnatemetans someased Fresh bit only Nazi Germany had had a version of the B. C. Humaa Rights: Well it might, of course — with one important proviso... The 1933 German “Human Rights Council” would have to‘have’ been backed by a Jewish-friendly government that passed legislati fling any opinions of which #t,.in turn, disapproved. Which m exactly what threatens to happen today.in B.C. » It would no'more have given Germany genui p' than the Nazis did. You can no more have “half” treédom of. speech’ an: a “half free press than a woman can be half-pregnant A vital part of the essence of a free democratic. socie tered interplay of ideas and opinions of every kind,:The price that freedom Is that individual egos. will inevitably suffer passi from time to time. But the experience!never does them fast ing: because freedom ultimately guarantees fairness.,”' Actual libel or defamation (as:distinct from merely -hurt: feelings) i very different thing, for which the: proper and fully adequat : either individual or class actions in our’ established It is NOT a revival of .16th-century ‘Star Chambe Tun by. gove ment- ‘appointed hacks. Those Spell, the: iend of af EXERCISE, ‘we all know, is good fo | “ot your Sept..29, you can enjoy some that will so al health too. ~ Specifically, B.C.’s nearly 8; 009. victims of Par order of the nervous system thar inhibits-contr marily in people over 55, though it’can lit earlie: include tremor, unsteadiness and ‘slow. movement. -They’re working hard to find’a cure: » to function better, but not ‘always without si is the key. Funding for PD research and ‘sup; - Parkinson’s Disease Association is only a fraction of that de AIDS, which has only one quarter as man’ “Which brings us to your healthy exercise. project next:-Sunday:a:7, kr walk/run or (for the less vigorous) a Z*km stroll d Stanley: Park's - Lost Lagoon or Seawall —- with family and friends spons signing your pledge form for donations to the ECPDA Registration is 9 a.m. at Ceperley Playground, Pets. ‘Thar there are numerous merchandise prizes. Or register by:TI 26, and ‘you'll also get a commemorative T-shirt..To | pre-re pledge forms, call the assdciation’ tomorrow,’ Monday ¢ sweat you work up next ‘Sunday, will ever tas ee bol es oe ” MANY HAPPY RETURNS of Tuesday, Sept 24, t0'We st'Va . Peter Wardell. : a Q a od WRIGHT OR: WRONG —advice from Ann Landers: if t first. you do succeed, try something: harder. ; The North Shore News believes ‘strongly in » free omni of speech right of all sides in a debate to be heard, Toe colammnists published in’ the ews present differing points of view, but those views are not necessar those of the newspaper itself. a i “much new is happening at all. ”ANTED: fresh blood for the local . body : politic. Municipal “W . elections are fast approaching. Excitement | is building. Voters are -hyper-ventilating, Candidates are jockey- ‘ing for position. ; . Right? Well, maybe not quite. On the: North Shore, for example, not The same cast of characters who have occupied the local political stage off.and on for the past two decades’ are all set to assume their traditional roles.. - We’ have, for instance, ‘Jack Loucks heading unopposed for yet another term as mayor in North. Vancouver City; .we have Don. Bell set to reclaim the district: mayoral chair he left in 1982; and we had, until _Humphreys ready to contest the West earlier this week, Derrick Vancouver mayoral throne he lost way _ back in 1986. Surely the successful and talented ; North Shore population. can produce some new faces with some new ideas and some new approaches to. running the. North Shore. ; : Maybe the iow glamor factor affixed to municipal politics’ is just not sexy enough for younger generations. po Perhaps they need a reminder, how ~ er, that, though not particularly: orous, municipal politics matters. It is the closest thing we all ha grassroots . community’. democracy action, Municipal government has a ‘direct impact _ on. stich mundane : ervices as fire services. Basic quality of life stuff, T! . glue that holds together. the: high quality ‘fabric of everyday life on the North She: Without it that fabric will unravel quickly. So get involved. Fresh ‘ ‘communi blood is needed, Give at ry ‘pall hall. :