6 - Friday, December 4, 1987 - North Shore News EST VANCOUVERITES can not afford to squander their opportunily to contribute to their municipality’s Official Community Plan review. It would be all too easy for the largely contented populace of Canada’s richest per capita community to behold its lot, shrug its collective shoulders and not bother to attend public meetings scheduled for Dec. 8 at West Vancouver Secondary School and Dec. 10 at Caulfeild Elementary School. But though West Vancouver Mayor Don Lanskail has said he sees nothing contentious or controversial in the municipality’s community plan review, there is much for West Vancouverites to consider and provide future municipal direction for. A community plan represents the vision of a municipality’s citizenry. West Vancouver, like the rest of the North Shore, is faced with a population explosion, not of size, but of composition. Over the next decade, the number of old people in the community will grow dramatically com- pared with the number of young people. The municipality’s current single-family focus will change. Its recreation, commercial, health-care, education and housing facilities will change to accommodate that dramatic social shift. : The complexities of such future changes must be addressed now by all areas of the community’s popu- lation, but particularly by those who will represent that massive increase in citizens over 60 years old. A community remains only us vibrant as the par- ticipation of its populace. 4139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 ; 58,489 (average. Wednesday Friday & Sunday) OW, THAT LOOKS INTERESTING... TV funds a better life for CRIPPLED. YOUNGSTERS throughout B.C. are counting on this weekend which once more br- ings the annual Timmy's Christmas Telethon. It will be car- ried live from the-QE Theatre by CBC-TV from 8 p.m. tomorrow, Dec.5, until 5 p.m. Sunday. All proceeds go to the B.C. Lions Society for Crippled Children to provide the special services needed by the province’s disabled kids. They’re symbolized by this year’s “Timmy”? who'll have a major role in the Telethon — he’s Michael Fortin of Langley, a bright, artistic 10-year-old Grade 3 student afflicted from birth with spina bifida and condemned to a wheelchair life. The 21-hour showbiz line-up reads like a Who’s Who of top tal- ‘ent, local and world-class — Pat Boone, Shari Lewis, Juice Newton, Laurie Thain, Mickey Gilley, Peter Noone, Joelle Rabu, The Melloyds, The Motown Revue and Randy “Elvis” Friske to mention just a few. And at least two North Shore residents are playing promi- nent roles: host Red Robinson and the Telethon’s jgeneral chairman, Scott Mears of North Van. Watch! It’s; not just a good cause. It promises to be great entertainment too. ane ! FUN . AFLOAT is becoming a distinctive / trademark of Eagle Harbour Community Centre. Fol- lowing the successful Indian Arm q cruise it organized in August, it’s now joining the Carol Ship parade. The Centre is sponsoring an even- ing cruise Dec.13 aboard (once more) the venerable 80-passenger. S.S.Beaver which will be one of the lead boats in that Sunday’s seaborne serenade of the West Van shoreline. The ‘‘Beaver” party — adults only because of the licensing laws — will be regaled with a free hot and cold hors d’oeuvres buf- fet, a Santa and carol sing-alongs, as well as the no-host -you-know- what. Embarkation time is 6:30 p.m. at the Barbary”Coast Yacht ' Basin east of the Bayshore and Centre secretary Joyce Matthews (921-7425) warns that tickets ($30 per person) are going fast. The remaining ones are available at West Van Rec Centre and the NEWS photo Cindy Bellamy BEAUTIFYING CARSON GRAHAM...Krista Johnson (r) shows fellow student Steven Gelinas her painting hung in the school’s newly opened Foyer Gallery, designed to provide a permanent display of students’ outstanding works of art. ‘Subscriptions by 4 stamped, addressed envelope Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 986-1337 Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Director Peter Speck Barrett Fisher Noel Wright Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 a an independent suburban neeSpaDeEt ang qualited under Schedute itl Paragraph it of the Esese Tas Act, 16 published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Fiee Press Lid and dstnbuted to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 Subsceptions Noth and West Vancouver, 195 per year Mailing rates avadadle on request Submissions ate welcome but we Cannot accept tesponcity for unsolicited matendal inciuding maruscnpts and pictures which should be accompanied SD4 DIVISION Entire contents © 1987 North Shore Free Press Ltd. uw All rights reserved. OUST WHAT YOU NEED SIR! TST ME... YOULL LOVE MT. OOPS. TIHES UP YOUVE ALREADY BOUGHT IT. CASH OF CHARGE? Noel Wright ®@® friday focus ®@ Eagle Harbour Centre only until next Monday, Dec.7 — so don’t be left high and dry! ee POSTSCRIPTS: North Van school system — lauded to the skies in last Friday’s (Nov.27) column by Irene Hatton, proud mom of three of its success stories — may soon have something else to answer for. Irene’s son James Hatton, a lawyer with a well-known Vancouver law firm, is a hot contender for the federal Libera! candidacy in Tory MP Chuck Cook’s new North Vancouver riding. North Van Grits are expected to nominate their banner-bearer by the spring ... The man who raised taxis to the Cadillac class, driven by chauf- feurs in ties and jackets who open the door for you, is “home again.’’ After splitting last year on policy issues with the board of Sunshine Cabs — which he’d launched and nurtured from birth — the company’s ex-g.m. Richard Hughes, a former radio man, retired to the wilds of Maple Ridge and freelancing on the airwaves. But he couldn’t stand being sepa- rated from all his North Shore friends. Now, the family’s happily back in Dundarave, with Richard contributing his expertise in everything to do with cars to Royal Pontiac Buick ... And just before rolling up the red carpet, welcome to flutist Jane Martin, new instruc- tor with the Cap College Com- munity Music School, who comes from the UBC faculty and Van- © couver Academy of Music, and studied under famed master flutist Marcel Moyse. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: Few people genuinely want your advice. Most just use you as a wastebasket for their worries. MICHAEL FORTIN....1987 RICHARD HUGHES...glad to be “home.’’