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Worth Shore News, founded in 1969 as an

independent suburban newspaper and qualified

under Schedule 11}, Paragraph 111 of the
Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday,
Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press
Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North

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“It's quick. It's predictable one

it's much less trouble.”

West Vancouver clinical coun-
sellor Pat Kitchener, on why
wonien prefer chacolate over sex.
( F rom a Sept. 29 News story.)

ove

° “The rain was stinging so

- hard that we had to dodge
’ behind things and wear snorkel

masks in order to lock into the
direction of the wind.”
. Charter boai- operator Boris. ;

” King, on being hit by Hurricane
‘Luis in the Caribbean. (From a
- Sept, 29 News story. )

. “Braemar/Dempsey has had ©
the impact on North Lonsdale of:

~ zip, and I believe that the impact
mailbox ~

i} a upgrade a priority

Dear Editor:

_ Mr. Crist’s interest in an LRT
extension to the North Shore can be
commended (News Sept. 24).

However, his. relentless cam-

: paign against the automobile leads

him to use figures that strain credi-
bility. His claim that its cost to the

. region comes to'$10,000 per year

per capita translates to $19 billion

for the 1.9 million population of the”

Lower Mainland. This is equivalent

to the total provincial budget, deficit

and all!
Although there. is an obvious

the week

\ ALREADY
RIED ‘EM

Neon dep emt et renel

of the Montroyal Connector will
be zip. And that’s not bad.”

- North Vancouver District Mayor
Murray Dykeman, in supporting
the construction of the controver-
sial Montroyal Connector. (From a
Sept. 27 News story.)

eee
“The only reason we are
debating this whole thing is to
decide whose priority is what
because we should be amalga-
mated municipalities.”

~. North Vancouver District Coun.
Pam Goldsmith-Jones, during dis-
cussion on establishing a joint
North Vancouver City and District
commission to operate the North
Vancouver museum, on the need to

- amalgamate the two municipalities.“
. (From a Sept. 13 News story),

ar el No LT a EN

need for improvements in infra-
structure, a rejuvenated and expand-
ed Lions Gate Bridge must be at the
head of the list.

Its total cost has been placed at -

$150 million, a figure comparable
to’ the cost. of GM Place, and cer-
tainly economically viable. This is a
desperately. required project that
should have the support of all politi-
cians from the: North Shore, and
indeed from the Greater Vancouver
Regional District.
Lionel Funt =
West Vancouver

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news viewpoint

THE LEMMINGS following
euch other headlong to
destruction over the cliff
edge may explain much of
what's wrong with modern
society.

Every lemming blindly obedi-
ent to the crowd, there's not a sin-
gle nonconformist amongst then.
So as the busy fall season, with all
its demands and stresses, swallows
un se socil lemmings again,
maybe we should take a short
break to listen to U.K. psycholo-
gin’ David Weeks.

His sure-fire recipe for a happy.
healthy life is to be a harmless
oddball (note that adjective care-
fully — we've enough harmful-
oddballs around already!)

In his new book, Eecentrics,
being published this fall by ;
Random House, the Edinburgh
University. researcher says there's
an easily recognizable difference
between eccentrics and the men- -
tally ill: eccentrics are happy. He
cites numerous examples, past and
present, to back his claim.

Meet Joshua Abraham Norton,
4 19th century Englishman who

for 21 years happily patrotled the |

streets of San Francisco resplen-

dent in a blue military uniform, ..
proclaiming himself Emperor of

California... ?

One of his loyal subjects there’
known as Oofty Goofty,; ‘clad in
swatches of fur, earned a living by
letting people kick him for.10. -
cents, cane him for a quarter or hit
him with a baseball bat for 50.
cents. |

enjoyed life hugely. ,

Gary Halloway, another happy’
San Francisco character perma- -
nently.garbed in a Franciscan
monk's habit, founded a fan’club
for eighth U.S. president Martin

Van Buren.

Then there’ s John Slater, the -

; only person to havé walked bare- .
foot across England i in. pyjamas, . -

who lives there iti a cave flooded
every day by high tide. eg

Also in Engiand is Ann Atkin .
who has adorned her’garden with *:
7,500 plaster | gnomes,

. Others rated by Weeks as true *:

eccentrics include Alexander
Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin,
Albert Einstein and Howard
Hughes...

The author identifies some 15

-Ooity, too, is reported to have. :

Me are lye bert hes !
“MANY. HAPPY RETURNS of *,

symptoms of eccewtricity, among:

them nonconformist, creative-: |’
ness, curiosity, idealism and devo

tion to a hobby.

‘Conspicuously absent from th
list are workaholism, political cor-.
rectness, consumerism and keep-:
ing up with the Joneses:-..°

' Eccentrics, he maintains, are”
confident, stress-free and healthier
because they are happier. There's :
no downside at all, it seems; to

: being genuinely eccentric.’ -;:";.

Moreover, you. don’ ‘t have to be
born eccentric,’

If the idea appeals. to you, y'
can BECOME an eccentric witt
just a little effort. The ma

; requirement j is s plenty f leisu

time. .

" according to social nett

while those who flout conven

‘seem to be having the time‘of the

y a
"stressed-out human lemming thes

fall days — just as long as they
don’t forget their deodorant’and **:
remember to wipe their, et on our
doormat when visiting!

today, Oct. 1, to West Vani birthday,

- tycoon Jimmy Pattison, celebrat-

WRIGHT OR WRONG: No.
matter what you do, someone
always knew you would, -

4

asa haziardous substance

HREE CHEERS — cough, cough
‘= for the Supreme Court of
Canada’s recent 5-4 decision con-

fi irming the right of tobacco manufac-
turers té advertise smokes.

The federal goverument’s complete
ban of cigarette advertising was s totally

. _wrongheaded.
The. obsessive and increasing defile-

ment .of cigarette packaging with
encroaching generic death messages did
little else than destroy the design integri-

ty of cigarette packaging and confirm’

the’ obvious to\smokers,. who by, their
very..commitment to the: product
couldn’t care less. rere

Whether you choose to view. mega: *

corporation Imperial Tobacco Ltd. a hot -.
hero or a smoldering zero — Imperial

supplies approximately 65% of domes- ,

tic market. cigarettes . to’ Canadian
puffers — its top talking head, linperial
chairman Don Brown, is right when he

‘says the Supreme Court decision “will .
_aiso protect the rights of manufacturers—_health costs associated | with smoking
and consumers of any other legal prod-

uct.”

The key words to. remember in that

statement: “legal product.” Cigarettes
remain so. But they shouldn’t.
As B.C. Health Minister Paui Ramsey

has recommended, they shouid, be listed .

accordingly. ., .

‘In B.C. alone stioking will ‘kill 5,060
people this year and cost B.C taxpaye
approximately « $1.5" billio:
“smoking-related illnesses...

But gutless and. greedy. governments
‘have chosen to absorb the staggering.

and are only too happy to tax:to death’
those who smoke themselves to death.’
As long as cigarettes, or anything else
for that ‘matter, are: legally ‘available, :
“don’t mess with the right to free expres-.
sion.
. In this case, the Fight i is to adyertis