6 - Wednesday, September 7, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS THE LATE SUMMER FROLIC launched by Mike Nicell eight years ago as a West Van community picnic is back again —- now a five-day funfest enjoyed by thousands of Lower Mainlanders as well. Today through Saturday, Park Royal hosts the build-up to the ninth annual Coho Festival -— the celebration of the return of the spawning salmon to the Capilano — with over two dozen displays telling the story of B.C.’s salmon resource, fishery and coastal ecology, plus native folklore and exhibits in a major art contest on the same theme. Saturday and Sunday, by calling 921-7461 in ad- vance, you can also charter a 32ft boat for two hours’ fishing at the mouth of the Capilano for only $23.50 (including tackle, bait and licence). The final curtain-raiser is the Saturday evening reception in Park Royal South with ample nourishment, refreshments, music, entertainment, awards in the art contest and lots of prizes. If it matches last year’s party, the salmon-'n-wine buffet and the hobnobbing local celebrities alone are worth the $25 tickets — a few possibly still available by calling 926-6600. The only problem with Festival Sunday's rich smorgasbord of physical exercise, feasting and fun, based at Ambleside Park, is where Farm & He Fa) WE g SEH livers to start. Earnest joggers (last year over 500) will be off at 8 a.m. on the 14km Coho Run to Kitsilano. Hikers can choose the more leisurely Coho Walk. The hungry can eat all day at the pancake breakfast and six-hour salmon barbecue. For the thirsty there’s the beer garden. For kite flyers, a kite contest with cash prizes. For everyone, continuous outdoor- stage performances by top local talent, A nice mix I’ve done more than once is to catch a fairly early shuttle bus up to Cleveland Dam — every quarter hour from the Park Royal South readergraph west of the White Spot. Minutes from the dam you can poke around the interesting hatchery for a while, them complete the 7.5 km Coho Walk down the wooded trail Photo submitted MORE THAN 10,000 enjoyed this kind of relaxed fun scene under traditional war.n sunshine at last year’s Cohe Festival in Ambleside Park — West Van's “second Labour Day weekend.” is long overdue. proposition. clean air. Is water wet? environment. non-smoking mouth. Three cheers for smokeless skies. Pass the pretzels please. Smokeless skies HE RECENTLY announced Air Canada ban on smoking while flying North American skies and all the way to Hawaii and Mexico may have tobacco puffers clawing in the cabins but the decision The cynical distinction made when offering the fly- ing public smoking and non-smoking seats while squeezing them into a confined air space shared by hundreds of others is quickly becoming a last gasp If any fault is to be found in the airline’s newly discovered sense of collective health it is that the com- pany spent good money on a ‘‘comprehensive’’ cus- tomer preference study to show that travellers prefer With flights as long as five hours commonplace in the North American air travel market, diehard smokers will have to become more creative in developing Strategies for survival while relegated to the smoke-free A suggestion Air Canada: provide better food. Frustrated smokers are notorious eaters. Statisfy the oral fixation. Augment the main meals with copious quantities of grazing foods. A busy mouth is a happy, me Yi 9i8 [ire (Gow S Publisher Managing Editor... Associate Editor Pa We Shore Second Ctass Matl Registtation Number 3885 Nd West Vancouver, $25 per yeat Mailing rates avatabie on request Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept responsinity tor unsolicited maternal including manuscripts and pictures camich should be accompaned by a stamped, addressed Subscriphions North envelope Peter Speck Barrett Fisher Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded tn 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule ttt, ph tit ot the Excise Tax Act, is published each esday, Frday and Sunday by Norte Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every door on the Nonh along the Capilano, back to the park — to relax with food, drink, entertainment, games and people-watching galore. Thanks to Mike’s 1980 brain- wave, West Van’s summer no longer ends on Labor Day! ttt GERMAN-SPEAKING residents of North Van are outnumbered only by the Fraser Valley, and North Shore mountains are reminiscent of the European Alps. Hence, this Saturday's other big noon-6 p.m. binge, the Edgemont Village Bavarian Fest ~- with traditional Bavarian beer garden, oom-pah-pah band, schuhplattler dancers, bratwurst, sauerkraut, pretzels and lots of fun for kids. Add to the scene, say the orga- nizers, by dressing in national costume, German or whatever — including, presumably, Canadian! ete WRAP-UP: North Van's Volun- teer Tutoring Program, which provides one-on-one aid for elementary students with reading and language learning disabilities, needs volunteers to tutor a child two hours a week during the school year. They get comprehen- sive training, and interviews are now being held. 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