By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

NORTH Vancouver
District Council wants
to do its bit for nation-
al unity.

It voted unanimously
Monday with Coun. Jim
Cuchbert’s
motion — to
consider twin-
ning with a
municipality
in Quebec.

Cuthbert
told council
twinning
could = “pro-
vide an oppor-
tunity for dia-
logue = and
through that better under-
standing of life in the two dif-
ferent parts of the country.”

He said the move was a
natural follow-up to the dis-

Device
made to
save
energy

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(into the container) and all
the black stuff is out of the
pipe and it’s absolutely ster-
ile.”

He took the idea to a
pipe manufacturer. They
liked the idea but rejected it
because they thought it
would ruin the pipe wood.

Bohme’s pipe cleaner
didn’t make it to the retail
end of the equation bur if
you are a sport fisherman
and you use a downrigger
you may have come across
some of his fishing devices.

There’s Bohme’s down-
tigger line release for “no
premature release, no lines to
pinch, no pulling c; jerking,”
or the Deep-Troil Reel-Mate,
“ideally suited to retrieve any
amount of empty fishing line

"ina jiffy.” There’s the Down
Under diving planer to take
“your line down deep with-
out additional weight,” and
the Diving Sinker, “the one
that catches more fish.”

A few years ago he came
up with a simple little device
meant to save electricity.
There was a time when his
kids always left the fights on
outside. Bohme would put
tape over the light switch to
keep it off. He advanced the
idea by making a plastic tab
that can be mounted into
existing standard light switch
panels. The user then simply
swivels the tab to cither lock
out the switch or activate it.

He took the idea to B.C.
Hydro, a utility ostensibly
quite sensitive to power con-
sumption habits. “There was
an engineer in the Power
Smart business, with all kinds
of names behind his title. He
looked at it and after a while
he said, “Ya it’s a good idea
but I don’t think we'll take
this because it’s not fail
proof. If you forget to do it
then it’s not going to work.”

He’s made them for his
relatives, they?re making
them for themselves and
Bohme is happy to share the
device with News readers.
Contact Ed at 921-7029.

“ Every time we
get the word
twinning we get
off the damned
track. ”

~~ Mayor fusray Dykeman

trict's message of goodwill
prior to the Quebec referen-
dum last year.

The district sent a letter to
St. Jean d’Hiberville on
October 23, 1995 asking
Quebee to stay in Canada.

With the letter went the

district's municipal flag and a
request that the suburb of
Montreal fly
the = North
Vancouver
coat of arms
just as the
Quebee
municipality’s
flag was flown
here.
Coun. Pat
Munroe said
the district’s
new initiative
“may indicate to Quebecers
who don’t want to separate
that there is an interest in
understanding right across the
country.”

Coun. Ernie Crist pressed
to defer Cuthbert’s original
motion thar contained the
phrase “ro enhance economic
opportunities.”

Crist said he had no prob-
lem with better understanding
but that the issue of economic

benefits should be debated
separately.

Mayor Murray Dykeman
expressed exasperation with
the concentration on econom-
ic benefits.

“Every time we get the
word rwinning we get off the

Wednesday, October 30, 1996 — North Shore News ~ 29

nal unity

damned said
Dykeman.

He urged council to follow
the advice of the Governor
General of Canada - “Tell
Canada to get talking, to get
with it.”

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motion which stated: “That
the District of North
Vancouver consider twinning
with a municipality in Quebec
to increase understanding
between the nvo communities
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