CohcFest 6 - Friday, August 26, 1988 - North Shore News Seecnretteng WHAT, EXACTLY, IS ‘‘COMMUNITY EFFORT” — a comfortable but sometimes vague term? For the answer, check the team hard at work to make this year’s Coho Fes- tival, Sept. 7-11, another smash hit. Co-sponsors of the event with the Coho Festival Society are the West Van Chamber of Commerce and CHQM Radio, with a major assist from the West Van Com- munity Arts Council which puts on the impressive juried art show. The 14km Coho Run is organized by the YMCA, while the GVRD and Capilano College Outdoor Recre- ation — supported by North Van District Parks, Take-A-Walk Shoes and Western Realty — look after the ever-popular Coho Walk. Co-hosting the gala reception Saturday, Sept. 10, with the Arts Council is Park Royal Shopping Centre and the big draw prize at thal party is donated by Thos. Cook Travel. At Ambleside Park on Sunday, Sept. 11, Ambleside- Tiddlycove Lions provide the pan-. cake breakfast, Sunshine Cabs the beer garden and Chamber of DON GRIFFITFHS and turning. +0 tossing Boycott Commerce veepec Patricia Treadwell is in charge of the salin- on barbecue — the salmon from Woodward's and masses of ice cream from Super Valu. West Van Lions run the kite flying contest. Day-long entertainment, involving among others the Nerth Van Youth Band, Ronald McDonald and Squamish Indian dancers, has been lined up by Kelly Millin of the Tourist Industry Association. And the grand lottery prize of a Reno trip for two with $400 cash comes courtesy of Silver Wing Holidays. No space here, alas, to name the scores of local residents con- tributing individual time and tat- ent. But one thing you can bet on: team captain Don Griffiths, presi- dent of the Coho Festival Society, isn't losing any sleep over the calibre of his players! kak HITHER AND YON: Hats off (hard and soft alike) to the unsung heroines of Ambleside’s revitalization — the pretty girls in plastic bonnets waving Stop-Slow signs who’ve coped so efficiently for two months with the traffic snarls caused by the repaving of West Van’s main business strip. Sure, they’re decently paid. But how would YOU like to stand for several hours a day cating carbon monoxide, with impatient vehicles brushing both your shoulders under a 25-degree sun? ... Good for Pinewood Place residents whose tough protest measures have halted herbicide spraying there by orf-base LD. BILL Bell has thrown his lot behind the muzzlers of free speech. The North Vancouver City alderman recent- ly called for suspension of city advertising in the North Shore News to protest its publication of columnist Doug Collins. But cooler council heads prevailed, and the call to punish the newspaper as 2 whole for continuing to publish the controversial views of Collins was remov- ed. Had Bell’s motion passed, city counci! would have set itself up as an ersatz board of censorship, using as its leverage the money it removes from local taxpayers. Surely Collias is not the only person its members disagree with. How short then the next step would be to pull advertising from any publication, to withdraw services from any business, any group for daring to stir up the muck, for daring to criticize council policies. Bell, a former newspaper man who worked for the same North Shore News that publishes Collins now and published Collins then, has chosen to forget one of the prime purposes of a newspaper: to present views from the entire spectrum of community opinion not just the comfortable, agreeable end. His call for a News advertising boycott represents the same pursuit of one-dimensional thinking be pur- ports to oppose. Pn’ E team captain sleep well INSIGHTS the Greater Vancouver Housing Corp. — and good for the GVHC itself for listening. The herbicide may be low in toxicity, but in what quantities? And who knows how MUCH of the stuff a toddler can pick up on his legs and hands — and transfer to his mouth — dur- ing an afternoon’s play? ... Wel- come to new Neighbourhood House executive director Don Rutherford who’s started his ap- pointment with a gracious com- pliment to his predecessor, popular Doug Sabourin, for leaving the centre ‘tin excellent shape’’. Hope- fully, Don will be spared the kind of problems Doug faced and suc- cessfully surmounted a few years back. DATE BOOK: Sorry to be late wishing happy returns of the day to North Van’s Charles Kiff who turned 91 Wednesday, Aug. 24... Also on Wednesday it was con- grats to Woodcroft dwellers Everett and Dorothy Irwin on their 51st anniversary ... The same an- niversary came up yesterday, Aug. 25, for 1937 wedding couple Sydney and Barbara Mercer of North Van... Meanwhile, yet another ‘‘Stst’’ yesterday was quite literally a moving experience for North Van’s Art and Kay Taylor — they celebrated the memorable day by moving to a new apartment in Metrotown ... And last but not least, happy 91st birthday tomorrow, Aug. 27, to that grand old lady of Whiteley Court, Christena Gillis. ad WRIGHT OR WRONG: Educa- tion does make life easier. For ex- ample, if you hadn’t learned to sign your name, you'd have to pay cash for everything@ \TAL YOU... WERE COMING INTO A REAL HOT, DRY SPELL... Publisher ........ Managing Euitor.... Barrett Fisher Associate Editor .... Noel Wright Advertising Director . 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