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Forget Jackhoots!

Te iNegal suite policy adopted by North Van $8,287 (average. Wednesday PoPar=] a Bl “mtg me a he G By North Shore
District council] may have the law and smart Friday & Sunday) Sed owison fee Sa Free Press Lid. Alt
politics on its side, but it still leaves an unpleas- an aust _fights reserved.

ant taste.

Firstly, because it will inflict hardship, often severe,
on up to several thousands of decent, quiet and
otherwise perfectly law-abiding North Van residents —
tenants and owners alike forced out of their homes
here because they can no longer afford them.

Ironically, owners will also have to shell out $750 up
front — the inspection fee for the suite they are con-
demned to lose by registering it. Small wonder that a
good many owners say they intend to lie low and risk
the $2,000 fine for non-registration if caught.

How far a beefed-up inspection staff will go to un-
cover these delinquents has yet to be seen. But it’s dif-
ficult to see how it could complete its job without an
invasion of household privacy on a scale never before
contemplated.

‘Vigilante’? complainants will not, apparently, have
to give any reason other than zoning for reporting a
neighbor — which leaves the door wide open to pre-
judice and inequity. There’s also been talk of seeking
access to B.C. Tel records in order to track down
dwellings with extra phone lines. Once this type of
sleuthing, normally reserved for major criminal cases,
is deemed acceptable, where does it end?

Will it come to an inspection of EVERY home,
backed by search warrants? The knock on the door
constantly feared by citizens of totalitarian states?

Jackboots aren’t needed here. There IS a fair and
humane way to control suites with no loss to adjacent
property values: make strict rules — then license ALL

suite owners ready to. obey them.

Losing week on the North Shore

THE LOSSES ‘to the life of a community that inevitably
accompany the passage of time come in packages some
weeks — like last week on the North Shore.

May 6 saw the death, at 77, of
West Van's Peter Kaye who retired
last year,as chairman of the Van-
couver Foundation after 27 years
of distinguished service with
Canada’s largest community fund.
During that period he supervised
the distribution of many millions
of, dollars from the. fund
($13,010,224 in 1986 alone) for
child welfare, health services,
education, help to the aged, medi-
cal research and the performing
arts. ;

A native of Yorkshire, England,
Peter. Kaye came to Vancouver in
1°34,, after graduating as ‘a
Chartered Accountant, as an exec-
utive with the Yorkshire & Pacific
Securities Company, of which he
later became president. A reserve
officer of the B.C, Regiment in
World War Two, he went on to
serve as an official in the Muni-
tions & Supply Dept. before retur-
ning to his company in 1945. Later
he became headmaster: of
Shawnigan Lake~ School’ before
joining the Vancouver Foundation
in 1959 as executive director. His
numerous other community activi-
ties included the Anglican

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_ G, PETER KAYE
1910-1987

Theological College & Vancouver
School of Theology, Boy Scouts of
Canada and the Vancouver
Botanical Gardens Association.

He’s survived by wife Barbara,
daughter Wendy Clark, son John
and nine grandchildren. Son
Michael died earlier.

Meanwhile, the same week
brought a double loss in the field
of children’s medicine wih the
deaths, in quick succession, of two
well-known North Shore pediatri-
cians.

Also on May 6, North Van’s Dr.
Peter Padwick, who had practised
here for several: decades, died in
Lions Gate Hospital — just two
days after the death of West Van
Children’s specialist Dr. J.
Mashal. .

The North Shore community is
poorer today for the passing of
these three talented and dedicated

members.
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SCRATCHPAD: April's. Grand
Prize for tasteless publicity goes to
an Ontario group whose press

release hit our desk last month. |

The stated objective of ‘RODDS’}
headed‘ by one Ronald M. Hart of
Picton, Ont., is to help lung cancer
victims and their families sue the
tobacco companies. Nothing
wrong about that if you feel
strongly: enough — but an-outfit
that flaunts its full name as ‘‘Rela-
tives of Dead and Dying Smokers’'
seems, to us, terminally sick itself

. No tickets for that May 23
“Rock for Rick’? dance in North
Van’s Mickey McDougall Gym will
be sold at the door, says organizer
Merrill Shepard — you must get
them in advance from the
Chamber of Commerce, 131 East
2nd (987-4488). Pizza and
refreshments by Dino’s Place will
be on sale, with proceeds also to
the Rick Hansen Fund. And, adds
Merrill, there'll be a “‘quiet room”’

LETTER OF THE DAY

The North

Noel Wright Shore must

@ wednesday world @

for non-rocking Rick fans! ... A
week-long enrichment program at
SFU (lectures, labs, studies and
campus rec activities) was the
reward won this spring by Sam Oh
and Antony Crabb, two top Sen-
tinel chemistry students, among 82
of their lab peers province-wide ...
Blood supplies are down as the
long weekend’s traditional accident
toll looms. Please help at the
special blood donor clinic spon-
sored by the North Yan Red Cross

LAB SMARTS REWARDED...Sentinel’s Sam Oh (left) and Antony

Crabb.

Friday (May 15), 2 to 8, in the west
mall of Capilano Mall ... And a
late flash from West Van Ald. Pat
Boname who reports that last
weekend’s Seawalk ‘“‘toll’’ raised
$3,360 for Rick Hansen — with
pledges from Walkathon entrants
still to come in.
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WRIGHT OR WRONG: If the
best things in life are free, how
come the next-best are so expen-
sive?

Dear Editor:

The Kamloops hospital abortion
problem must serve as a warning
to North Shore citizens: In June
there will be an oppcertunity to
elect four directors to'the Lion’s
Gate Hospital. Board. There are
already four anti-abortionists on
the board. If four more are elected
in June, Lion’s Gate will start to
parallel Kamloops.

Since the anti-abortionists took
over in that city, most of the abor-
tion applicants have been rejected.
But, and this is what scares the
writer, all of the applicants have
received abortions — in other hos-
Pitals, in the United States, or ‘up
the back alley’. Before the Crimi-
nal Code was changed to permit
abortions in hospitals, all abor-
tions — and there were many —
were home induced, or performed
in the ‘back alley’, Many of those
women were later admitted to the
hospital as ‘bled white’, dying,
dead, or at the very least, unable
to have a child later in life under
happier circumstances, This in-
formation is ..uvided to me by a
well eernerted physician on the
s’.:t oF Lion's Gate Hespital.

Don't let the Kam/oops horror
story repeat itself on, the North
Shore. Join the society before the
deadline of May 22nd, and then
get out and vote on June 24th.

We must elect directors with the
capabilities and desires to manage
our hospital, and not those who
merely want to stop abortions.

Ken Bruce
Former Chairman
Lions Gate Hospital