6 - Wednesday, April 29, 1987 - North Shore News ting AIDS the B.C. School Trustees Association B: downplaying the role of education in combat- shows an odd lack of logic. The BCSTA Says AIDS is a medical, not an educa- tional problem. There'is ‘‘no empirical evidence’, it argues, that programs like that launched by the Van- couver. School Board will halt the spread of AIDS in any significant way. So what? Obviously, there’s never any empirical evidence that an untried educational program will work. But Operation CounterAttack and the anti- smoking campaign are just two examples that prove education CAN bring about major changes in public attitudes. Like Premier Vander Zalm, quite a Jot of parents are worried by the uncomfortably direct terminology that is unavoidable in school sex education about the AIDS threat. In any other context their fear that such explicit details of sexual intercourse could actually encourage experimentation by students might well be justified. But AIDS makes it different and today’s high school students are quite bright enough to get that message. The whole thrust of the Vancouver program is that safety ties in (NOT having sex and NOT shooting drugs. In the video the final word from a young person is that it’s okay to say ‘“‘no”’ Despite these simple precautions — and the fact that the AIDS virus is not caught by casual contact — the fatal disease is spreading at an alarming rate. Until a medical cure is found, education offers the ONLY hope of saving the lives of potential victims. Distasteful as such a program is to many, it’s better in this crisis situation than doing nothing. Noel Wright ® wednesday world @ RICK HANSEN ai Man in Motion World Tour SCISSORS were busy in Tid- dlycove cottages and mansions, clipping the entry form and pledge list for this weekend’s West Van Walkathon to raise ‘welcome home’’ donations for Man in Mo- tion Rick Hansen. In case you missed it or want an extra copy, we’ve reprinted it on Page 25 of today’s paper. Sponsored by ‘the Municipality, Ambleside-Tiddlycove Lions and the North Shore News, this pedes- trian mini-marathon takes place Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, with a Seawalk “Jap’’ from 24th to 19th St. and an Argyle “‘lap’’ from 19th to the park entrance at 13th St. And, in addition to a healthy appetite and bucks for Rick, you can have a shot at an even bigger reward. - From Walkathon organizer Ald. Pat Bonamie come the glad tidings that city hall will present a year’s free pass to the Aquatic Centre — or the equivalent in other free Rec Centre or Seniors Centre programs — to the under-SO and over-50 trotters who clock up the greatest number of Japs and collect from their pledgers. Start limbering up today! Meanwhile, under the ‘West Van in Motion for Rick Hansen"’ banner, schools and other com- munity groups are pressing ahead with their own fundraising schemes, seven schools also being already headed towards an $8,000 total. Rain or shine, it promises to be a fun community weekend to salute the man with 23,000 wheelchair miles round the globe under his belt. See you on the Seawalk! e*#e TORY BRASS were here in force LETTER OF THE DAY individual freedom fundamental for a democratic society. THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER SUNDAY - WEDRESOAY . THIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, 8.C. V7M 2H4 Disz.y Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advartising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2431 Distribution 988-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Advertising Director Peter Speck Noel Wright Barrett Fisher Linda Stewart North Shore News, fourded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualibed under Schedule tl. Patagraph tI! ot the Eacise Tae Act, 1s published each Wednesday, Frida iday and Sunday by Morin Shore Free Press Lid and dis!.outed io every doot on the Nortn Shore Second Class Mail Fiegistration Humber 3885. Supscnpions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year, Malling rales available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannot accecd opeesmnty lot unsobéitud material including manuscupts and prctures winch should be accompamed by & stamped, addressed envelopa 58,287 (average. Wednesday Friday & Sunday) last week, rooting for our two North Shore MPs. External Af- fairs Minister Joe Clark and Im- migration Minister Gerry Weiner did the honors for the Mary Col- lins Booster Club — while Lincoln, Ont., MP Shirley Martin, PC caucus vice-chairman and boss of the Commons task force on daycare, brought cheer for Chuck Cook. Joe, who looks more prime- ministerial every month, pressed the flesh at a Four Seasons recep- tion attended by some 200 of Mary’s Capilano fans, regaling them with an admirably clear summary of Canada’s world role. But even more interesting were the introductory remarks by consti- SDA DIVISION United Nations. She believes: child care support should go only to parents really in need and you’ll be glad to hear her cost estimate is less than one — twelfth of that $11 billion figure tossed around by the political panic-mongers. ene WRAP-UP: Hot off the press, a ‘brand new tool for small! busiriesses that can’t afford an ad agency. The Advertising Manage- ment Course is a 600-page home study manual with six cassette tapes, designed to teach the indi- vidual merchant and entrepreneur the ad game from A to Z and how to play it most effectively. Author Godfrey Mead, who ran his own ,ad agency in Park Royal South’s tuency president Derek Cave who | lavished praise on Joe’s earlier. glory as party leader and prime’ minister, noted his still youthful 46 years and concluded by hoping “the future will be very kind to him’’. When you're scoring ‘A’ grades as Minister of External Affairs, ‘kindness’? means only one other government job — especially if you've done it before! Alas, I missed Gerry Weiner, who reportedly spoke well about his thankless job. But I’ve a hunch we'll hear a lot more of Shirley Martin. She’s an impressive lady. Elected in 1984 after a 30-year business career culminating in a top position with Ma Bell, she’s chaired a fact-finding commission to GATT, OCED and NATO, promoted Canadian technology in China and Japan, and_ been Canada’s principal delegate to the Dear Editor : Canada’s new Bill of Rights is clear. Freedom to associate, yes. Freedom to organize, no. We can associate with anyone we wish. But we cannot organize others without their consent. Recently our Supreme Court ruled that ‘“‘the modern rights to bargain collectively and to strike are not fundamental rights and freedoms’’. Unions can organize workers but there is a limit to their organizing authority. They can sign people up but they cannot run roughshod over individuals who want to do their own thing in this JOE CLARK...a ‘‘very kind’ future? country. Big Labour, like Big Business, is governed by federal laws and pro- vincial laws. Armed with this legis- Jation union leaders can direct us in various ways. But organized labour’s influence, thanks to our new Bill of Rights and Freedoms, is circumscribed. The union’s “right to organize’’ is limited. It cannot, in any way, diminish our personal right to life, right to freedom of expression, right to worship the way we want, right to associate with others, etc. Putting the freedom of the indi- vidual ahead of the selfish interests Sins RG: Entire contents “ 1987 North Shore Free Press Ltd. Ali Ss. rights reserved. reserved, Weaeeae black tower before moving over- town some years ago, believes it fills a need never before met — and also hopes it ‘‘sells like hell so I can give up my two: morning paper routes’’. Call 682-2200 for info ... And who was’ celebrating his 15th birthday Saturday evening with Mom and sister Katja at Willi and Martha Brueckel’s Ambleside Inn but world-class violin prodigy Corey Cerovsek, formerly of North Van and now the music and math prodigy’ of Indiana Universi- ty. sae WRIGHT OR WRONG: The trouble with a college education is that it gives you more things to worry about. SHIRLEY MARTIN...we’ll hear more. of ‘‘collectives’’ is fundamental in a democracy. Monopolies, business and labour, have their place. But the Big Boys cannot push us around. Otherwise we are captives of the few, not their equals. So the Supreme Court put Canada’s unions straight on this issue. Association is voluntary, not compulsory. My freedom to associate with you is sacred and, together, we can resist the organizational efforts of others. Hon. Jack Davis M.L.A., North Vancouver/Seymour