8 - Wednesday, February 27, 1985 - North Shore News

They all believe

the cause is safe. And there is even less Jack

Tee IS NO LACK of cause-signers when
of cause-signers when the cause the signers

are signing for {3 their own.

J refer you to a two-page
advertisement that has ap-
peared in the Globe & Mail.
It was an “Open ‘Letter to
Prime Minister Mulroney On
Public. Broadcasting’, and
must have cost $40,000 and
the signers described
themselves as “‘Friends of the
Cpe.”

It was also a roll-call of the
liberal left, and above all a
list of those who get bucks
Out of the CBC,

What they were objecting
to was the $75 million that
has been lopped from the
CBC budge. From all the
blarney they produce, you

’ would thick the cuts were the
Most serious threat to this

county since the war of
1812.
Without this. ‘electronic

_- bridge,’? we were informed,

“we Canadians would have
nO cross-country sounding-
poard, and little opportunity
10 exchange facts, fantasies,
oPinion and trends.’’

“Oh yeah? Those people
should be prosecuted for
\spteading false news.

What they really mean is
‘that without the CBC. there
wouldn’t be the forum there
js‘Tor liberal. propaganda of
“the deftish sort, © litber.. pro-

aganda of the worst sort,

, 4 and all the things that make
\ ‘the trendies happy.

“That's why we see. NDP
“jeader Bob Skelly on the list;
plus Mayor Mike. Harcourt,
at Kube, Laurier LaPierre,
“pat Clarke, (he of the
Bp C.T.F.) Dalton: Camp
(who: pretends ‘he's’ a Tory}
2 and so Many professor sand

wit them.
‘But above all; you see the
ersOnal. pocket-fi ilers and

Pegrndets
Pierre Berton, -

for in-

© stance, who has made more
“mosey out of the CBC than

most of you will ever.see in a
-sifetime.

Léon Bibb, for instance,

who has sung and danced his

wy through many a fat fee

08 cae Stages. Then there
we vovd Bochner and all the

“ite Bochners; Monte Hall

rofessoresses that you could

staff a: whole new. ‘university .
: “turgid scripts that disappear

unheard into the.
: stratosphere: ‘One thinks par- | [3
/ ticularly of CBC radio plays, .." 0!
-which are a‘sort’of welfare’.

get this
straight

Doug Collins
CREPE ET AES

the games expert; Celia Fran-
ca the ballet expert; Charlotte
Gobeil (a lovely French’ gal
who suffered with me for
some years on a program in
Ottawa); Peter Herrndorf, a
former CBC vice-president
now running Toronto Life
Magazine and waiting expec-

‘tantly for the Tories to give

him Pierre Juneau’s job as
CBC president. And dozens
more.

“Writers” are also lined

‘up ten deep. Margaret “At-

wood, for.instance, who is a
Teal writer (like the above-
mentioned, Berton) but .also

, dozens and dozens. of

‘writers’? you have ‘never

Lower

tracted from the hapless
British public whether the
citizens want to pay them or
not).

Also on parade in this
mighty list were inembers of

Garbage battie cont

NORTH VANCOUVER
District is coming under fire
from Vancouver and Delta
over its determination to
close the Premier Street
landfill site by the end of
this year. :

A. strongly-worded | staff
report to Vancouver City
counci) called on aldermen
there to oppose the plan to
transfer North Shore gar-
bage to Delta’s Burns’ Bog
landfill because of the effect
on the landfill and the in- j

‘crease in heavy truck traffic

through Vancouver, | Rich-
mond and Delta.

The report also hit. .the,

garbage disposai, because.
“there is
economic or technical reason

to close Premier Street at
this time’’
a closure ‘‘is not in the best

Jong term interests of the

Maintand in

general’,

Mayor Marilyn Baker says
Vancouver’s concerns, which .
have been echoed by Delta,
are based on misconcep-.
tions. Once those are.cleared
up, she says, she is hoping
“some sanity will prevail’’
on the question of‘ North

heard of and ever will hear 7

of.
-.Most.: of: them deliver

system for unemployed ac-

‘tors -- and writers who. :
. Would never sella Play i in the -

open market.

. The last time: 4 checked, the jj.
“CBC was the only tadio net-. sX\
work in the English-speaking’:

world that’ still put on :such
plays (always excepting Bri-

‘tian’s BBC, of course, which
“feeds on licence fees ex-

peda of The Gifted Child
Skills for Parents

wih doyce Juntune, Executive Director, National Association
for Gilted Children. St. Paul, Minnesota. Seen on ‘Donahue’, author
of four books on the subject and one of the world’s top authorities

her presentation will focus on:

Acceleration, Stimulation, Expectations,
Successful Parenting
Westin Bayshore, Thursday, February 28th, 7:30-9:30 p.m,
Light refreshments. $35 per person. $50 per couple.
Call Whistler Conference Centre at 684-1022
To reserve a space, registrations will be accepted at the door,
but space is limited.
See Joyce on “Webster”: February 28th, 9 a.m.

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the Orford String Quartet.

Is Orford a place? Is it a
man? A bird? Alas, the
mystery is nol explained.

The great list would be
more acceptable if the

Shore garbage. ,

North Vancouver District
council’s decision on the
landfill was made prior to
the release of the proposed
Lower Mainland-wide refuse
management. plan by the
Lower Mainland Refuse
Project.

As part of that draft plan,
it is recommended that
Operation of the | Premier
Street site as a landfill con-
tinue at least until, October

. proposed closure because of — BR
existing agreements covering

signatories appended the
amounts of gold they have
received from the corpora-
tion that pays them,

Like: Pierre Berton

of 1986, at which time plan-
ning for its replacement
would commence.

The Refuse Project has
suggested the installation of
an incincerator, not at the
Premier Street site-a3 earlier
reported, but near Canadian
Occidental or other in-
dustries that could take ad-
vantage of energy generated
by incinceration.

A second option would be
to install a transfer station

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For bucks like that there
are millions who would sign
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garbage would be gathered
for transport to a regional
landfill site. .

Baker says as far as North
Vancouver District is con-
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Shore waste will. be.transfer-
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