tw ve ae ae aS, - VFO 6 - Sunday, April 21, 1985 - North Shore News Editorial Page + SUNDAY. WEDeEeGAy - yRibaY News Viewpoint Mixed blessing nly one thing is certain at this point about the anti-discrimination section of the Charter of Rights which came into force Wednesday. It’s likely to prove a very mixed blessing. The trouble lies in its failure to define ‘‘discrimination’’. Experience to date with af- firmative action measures and proposals for the workplace kave shown all too often that removing ‘‘discrimination’’ against one group automatically results in reverse discrimination against another. One person’ s “‘discrimina- tion” is another person’s fair-minded com- mon sense. Court challenges under the new section are | already lining up like boxcars. The total legal costs will ‘obviously be eriormoiis.and in many . ;, Cases: the decisions. may not be handed dow: "for years. If some of the actions. are subsidized (as has heen hinted) by the government, it will be one further burden on: the taxpayer. One ‘wonders whether all this money and effort would not be better used for more construc- tive social ends: ’ The biggest danger arising from the absence /of any firm definitions of “discrimination”, : however, ‘is the transfer of the law-making function - from: . Parliament to individual “A, judges.in effect, Parliament has thus walked away from its primary Fesponsibility, and the. courts, whose proper ‘job is‘ merely to ad- -minister.Parliament’s laws, will henceforth be actually: MAKING specific new laws as they a, go along. -That- isn’t how | democracy—based ‘on Parliament as the.highest court in the land—is _ upposed to work. The intent of the new sec- eeiniag Its ultimate consequence - ‘est Van t has been’ ‘named Canada’s - most . ‘affluent community. | This ‘month, North Van City can hold its |clkead high. A’ Financial Post Magazine survey “*inclades the City ‘anion; the six municipalities | in Canada that: give the taxpayers the most:for-- ‘their: money. in protectiot, schools, medical : facilities, . sport,’-recreation and culture. So }. now,-North:Van District; what’s YOUR claim _, to. fame? Display Advertising Classitied Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom’ 985-2131 Circulation ° 986-1337 Subscriptions 985-2131 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B .C. v7 2H4 Publisher Peter Speck — Marketing Director Operations Manager ; Robert Graham... Berni Hiltiard Advertising Director - ‘Sales . 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Press Council a §5.770 (average, V/ednesday SD4 DIVISION Friday & Sunday) THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE 980-0511 : EWSPAPER WORK N bad for your health? Full of tension? En- courages heavy smoking, heavy drinking, high blood pressure, lots of other threats to longevity? Right or wrong? Definitely wrong once you've met Chester Frowde, resident of North Van’s Evergreen House and — after 50 years on the hot seat in one of the nation’s busiest newsrooms — the picture of health and men- tal alertness at age 96. His legs aren’t too good nowadays, so he gets around in a wheelchair. He prefers to use a hearing aid for sustained conversation. [n all other respects you could be talking to a man 40 years his junior. Born in Peterborough, Ont., he plunged into his chosen career of journalism three years. after’ finishing school, starting at $5.a week with the Peterborough Review. There followed a stint with a Saskatoon paper where he met his wife, Norma (who worked in «the ‘circulation department), and took time out to marry her in 1915. Scon aftérwards he moved to the old Ottawa Journal. And there he remained, rising to night city editor and finally overall city editor, until his retirement in 1960 — during which time he met.and inter- viewed most of the notable public characters of the period: the Mackenzie Kings, the St. Laurents, the George Drews, the Diefenbakers, you name them: . After-retiring, he and Nor- ‘ma lived for some. years in California before eventually making their home in. Vic- toria. Norma died in 1972 and_ Chester then moved. in with — their only daughter and her husband in Vancouver. He has sunday brunch death, March 30 in Sechelt, of Rev. John Hallett Low, rec- tor of St. Clement's from 1957 to 1974. **Father John”’, as his parishoners affectionately called him, spent the last 11 years on the Sunshine’ Coast in a missionary parish -he established to preserve. the older forms of the Anglican Church, whose modification in recent times he strongly opposed, 3; HITHER AND YON: Only 21 out of 18,000.Grade 9 students across Canada wrote a perfect paper in this year’s Pascal math exams sponsored by the Watcrioo Mathematics _ Foundation. Winner of a gold medal and $200 prize for be- _ ing one of them i is Paul Carter ’ of Sutherland — whose Grade 9 team also placed ninth in the _ country out-of 1,126 schools : What ‘do - North Shore . ladies Lisa. Borsholt, Penny -. Bruin, Doris Burton, Shirley - Carter, :Ariyn’ Coad, Irene Croden’ and* Sylvia “Ann Hockleu have in. common? They’ve all been’ nominated “for 1985. YWCA’ Women: of . Distinction Awards, that’s > what, with winners'in i categories — ranging from the arts and business to conumini- : ic d by Noel Wright NEWS Photo Noel wet “a GOoD FOR ‘HIS HEALTH ... 50-year career as a. newspa- am . perman leaves Chester Frowde spry and alert at %6. . ee bravery, a devoted family man North Shore lives. “Among and tireless worker for his - them, 1 mine. . : community, : this warm, human, fun- ving | “gentleman: leaves, by. his, /passing, a very ~ personal sep. in hundreds of. : ge ‘recently fire-ravaged St. \ John’s Church took place at 7 early honeymoon train. to “Lillooet! ..... Heading preparations for the grand Reunion of Killarney: Senior -Secondary’s class of 1960 — four.grandchiidren and a baby ©. - great-grandchild, his special pride and joy..A year ago this month he made Evergreen ™ House ‘his home for the. ~ future:-A voracious reader, he spends much ‘of his time now with books,’.writes a steady _ Stream of letters to friends and acquaintances (he has his own. typewriter), watches TV, gets out at intervals to visit the family and praises the Evergreen House staff to the skies, Asked the inevitable ques- tion about the secret of. suc- cessful aging, Chester first allows he was ‘‘never addicted to alcohol”? (make a note of that, colleagues!). In his younger days he engaged in track and field, and played amateur hockey. And, he adds, ‘‘l was always a great walker.”* All good points, but my own guess is that there’s * something even more impor- tant in his story: to wit, a.Aap- py life, entirely devoted to do- ing what he enjoyed doing most and did very well. I’s paying off. To this junior fellow newspaperman, Chester's a most heartening spectacle . ok MOST POLITICIANS are ex- pendable, but not Frank Mar- cino, to whom we bade ‘“‘au revoir’ Friday at St. Agnes Church, Mayor Jack Loucks said it alt: “We'll fill his chair but it won’t replace him.” Decorated: for wartime ‘Marine, . West! Van,° and (as usual on these occasions) he’s still searching. If you qualify, - ‘ or know a grad who does, call Chuck at 922-3429 or Betty Knex (Davidson) at 929-2595 . Business folk who haven’t yet got their Tuesday evening at’ North. Van Centennial Theatre had. better’ phone . North Van Chamber of Com- merce (987-4488) pronto — seating is limited to 200 for those seeking to learn the secrets of ‘creating their own - prosperity without waiting for the government . .'. Greetings last week from former veteran News photographer Ellsworth Dickson, loving every minute of his new life in Hawaii (ex- cept for the Honolulu traffic jams) and now ensconced with his family on beautiful Hanauma Bay, 10 miles east of the city .. . A 50-time blood donor, Carisbrooke School librarian. Robert Brown,.is 1985 president of the North Van branch of the Canadian Red Cross. . . His slate, also elected at the recent annual meeting, includes Larry Scheibe (ist veepee), Valerie Young (2nd veepec), Carol Cole (secretary) and Richard Clarke (treasurer). . . And make those two !ast items your reminder of the Lions Gate Hospital blood donor clinics tomorrow and Tuesday “FATHER JOHN"... mise FRANK MARCINO ves sionary priest. never gave in. WOMEN TO WOMAN ... Capilano student Jackie Wilson (left) receives Mary Nei] Memorial Award bursary from Ann ark . si Ves : Saas f %e : barber president of the West Van University Women’s (April 22-23), 2 10 8 p.m. both days.