3 ~ Wednesday, October 9 1985 - North Shore News " NORTH SHORE gg ene nero CONE Oe eee 22 Peete rman eet nie aM FS “was” “elected. ‘Tuesday’'in “West Van-~ j couver.provincial court to. -cour trial by idge. without Crtwo ‘THE WINNING spray is exhibited by North Vancouver City firefighter Alan Boomer and Queensbury school students Kaelan Phipps and Lisa Clark. The three won the hose drill race during a fire department demonstration at their school Monday. All three’ Nerih Shore fire departnients have been staging events to promote this week's Fire Prevention . Lmcemettte gets orem t ‘ HSN Ree ape narrate ne TELE nee eng AEE pemnrnertee "Tempelmayr, : Week. A national, fire drill wili be heid tonight (Wednesday) ‘at 6 p.m. PUBLISHER ‘Peter Speck of the North Shore News is the new president of ‘the British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspapers Association. He succeeds Ross Mavis, : publisher of the ..Nerth ‘Island Gazette in Port Har-' dy. Elected vice-presidents at the’ association’s annual ~ meeting, October 2 to 5 at the Delta River Inn. in Richmond, were Tony Richards, publisher ‘of the Gulf Islands Driftwood,and Jeff den Biesen; publisher of the Bridge River-Lillooet News. lan Wickett,- Salmon" Arm Observer; Press; |_Elizabeth ‘Lundell, a Revelstoke . Review; George : Le Masurier, editor; Comox ; District Free Press; Manfred Ladysmith- Chemainus ‘Chronicle; Bob Grainger, .” Williams Question; and Brian’ McCristall,.. . Surrey ‘Leader. ‘ . , Luke -Vorster-. * : mans, 100 Mile House Free - : Lake’. . Tribune; Gordon . Grierson, . Abbotsford,”:Sumas, Mats- qui: News;. Glenda ‘Bartosh, - Whistler . Manfred - Tempelmayr, Peter Speck -and Tony Richards were named as the BCYCNA representatives on the board of the 600-member Canadian Community Newspapers Association. The BCYCNA accepted membership applications .,from the Vancouver East .. “Ender and West Ender, br- inging total membership to 74 newspapers with a com-- bined circulation of more : than 800,000. “Our 74 member newspa- pers are the primary print medium, and in many cases, the only print medium, for readers who have more than 32 billion dollars in ‘disposable income,"’ Speck points out. ‘With -a circulation of more than 800,000, many advertisers are realizing _community newspapers are the best and sometimes the only way to reach this- tremendous market?’he says. “The result is that com- munity newspapers are the fastest-growing medium in North America."” The North Shore News is a case in point. Started as an eight-page weekly tabloid 16° years ago, the News has become one of the largest community newspapers‘ in PETER SPECK Canada, area with three editions a week, averaging 52 pages each, delivered to more than 55,000 addresses. serving the rich North and West Vancouver . The association honored 1! journalism and graphic arts students with scholar- ships worth $4,500. ‘Reci- pients were Carol Adams, © Wendy Plain and Luciile Dahm of Vancouver Com- munity College who were awarded $1,000, $500, and $250 respectively; Kevin Chubak and Elizabeth Hug- gins of Camosun College, $250 each; Susan Dicker and Dina Von Hahn of Universi- ty of Victoria, $500 each, Frances Bogyo and Tom Brown of Kwantlen College, $500 and $250 respectively; and. Cathy . Edwards’ and Rick Kringle of Capilano College, $250 each. Honored at the conven-- tion as best all-around newspapers in their respec- tive categories were -The Eagle Valley News of Sicamous, Whistler’ Ques- tion, Guif Islands Drift- wood, Ladysmith-Che- mainus Chronicle, Fraser Valley Record,’ Quesnel Cariboo Observer and The Cowichan Leader of Duncan. NEWS WRITER WINS | _ NORTH SHORE News business columnist Lisa Smedman walked away with a top award in MacMillan | Bloedel’s 23rd annual community journalism awards program. Smedman received the $500 award for a series of columns on tax savings writ- ten in late 1984. Karen Kersey of the Sur- rey-Delta Leader received first prize and a $500 award in the hard news category for a series of articles on the Surrey schoo! district and Frances Bula of the Comox NEWS phate Mike Waketield MacMILLAN BLOEDEL’S Eric Lauritzen presents top prize to North Shore News reporter Lisa Smedman for her series of articles on tax savings. District Free Press won first prize in the features category for a story on the future of fishing in the Tsolum River. Three honorable mention awards of $250 were also given out. Honorable mention for hard news went to Stan Stodola of The Osoyoos Times for a series of articles on the town council of Osoyoos. Mike O'Brien, formerly with the Interior News in Smithers, and now studying at the University of Victoria, received honorable mention in the features cate- gory for a story on interna- tional adoption. The editorial honorable mention award went to Robin Brownlee of the Peach Arch News in White Rock for his column called Sportsline. The awards were pres- ented October 3 at the an- nual convention of the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Association. RUBBER: ‘CHEQUE = totalling _ approximately, “10 to. “June At shoppin spree ‘for a.. variety. ‘of goods. “The cheques: were A BOWEN Island man is’ - without.a car after/a fire on the weekend. ” - Ivan Dragan’ was pro- “ ceeding along: the Trans -Canada Highway Friday - _sevening . when ‘his. car’s ~.. ‘engine caught’ fire. Pull- - ing off-the road, Dragan - was forced to. get out of the vehicle when the fire: started Car. . West to. cons Vancouver” firefighters responded but. the car. is.a write off, fire ~ officials said, : There were no injuries .and.it is not known. how the fire: started= in: the 1979 Mercury Marquis station wagon.