@ » Friday, Mareh 27, 1987 - North Shore News News Viewpoint THE VOICE OF NOHTH AND WEST VANCOUVER: Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Peter Speck Noel Wright Barrett Fisher Linda Stewart Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 966-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Free spirits T HE PROVINCIAL Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) must be applauded for allowing wine sales inva North Vancouver drug store. British Columbia and the other Canadian provinces are alone in the civilized world for retaining » puritan ethic when it comes to liquor distribution. Since Victorian times, Canadian governments — both federal and provincial — have had a firm grasp on the sales of alcohol, The LDB's recent experiment of granting Andres Wines a temporary licence Co sell fiquor at North Van- conver's London Drugs is a glant leap forward. Of course, only wine products are being permitted to be sold at the licensed outle!. This move reflects a rather obvious policy of promoting domestic wines — an expanding B.C. business. Furthermore, (he experi- ment is just that...only an experiment, What the LDB gives it can also (ake away in four months time. But hopefully, the experiment will meet with un- qualified success and the LDB will end once and for all its current monopoly of alcohol sales. Following the American example of over-the-counter Hquor sales through licensed merchants is long overduc. Sunday pub openings, and wine sales at drugstores are only a beginning — it is time (o permit the sale of all liquor in grocery and convenience stores. Although the London Drugs experiment is Jess than two weeks old, the LDB must prepare (to end its monopoly, open up its distribution policy and fet the free market take its course. ‘Noel Wright ® friday folktales @ THEY BROUGHT KARL home “Tuesday to his beloved acres on North Pender Island. It was a day of cloud gradually yielding to bright sunshine,, a day of tears mingled with gratitude. Some truly remarkable human beings become ; !widely known to the general public. Others equally remarkable, like Kark Begrich, miarch to a more private drummer. The tears of his 120 or so friends gathered at the North Shore News’ Clam Bay farm were for the trag- ically early’ death of its manager 13 days ago on a Victoria badmin- ton court." The gratitude was for having shared a part of their own lives with one who packed more into his 41 yedrs — as photographer, filmmaker, carpenter, boatbuilder, sailor, world traveller and agricultural scientist — than most folk achieve in their entire allotted span. But above all, the memories Tuesday were of his zest for life, his unfailing good humor and sense of fun, and his constant readiness to give of himself to’ others. Memories of a widely loved man, never heard to utter a bad word about anyone — a pretty impressive epitaph. The informal open-air service was conducted by Rev. , Trevor Fisher of Powell River. News publisher Peter Speck, a’close per- sonal friend, delivered the moving eulogy, following a sensitive trib- KARL BEGRICH (1945-1987). LETTER OF THE DAY Our best wealth is in people, not in homeowning Subscriplions SUNDAY + WEDNESDAY + 139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 56.287 Caveraqe, Wednesday be braday & Sunday) ad Sa] WE Ae ute by another close friend, Helmut Petrak. After which, Karl’s mother, Gertrude Gibson of California, accompanied by Helmut, scattered the ashes and a mass of golden daffodils from a boat on the still waters of the tiny bay. It was Karl’s kind of homecom- ing. Simple and relaxed. Infinitely warm. Sadness lightened by the happy memories. And a renewed sense of peace at the end of the day. eae FRIDAY THE 13TH can’t be all bad if measured by what it brought this month to three North Van students —- honored at Simon Fraser University’s first-ever chem- istry department awards ceremony, From Dr. Chris Orvig of UBC Kevin Lobo, a former Cap College student, received the Society of Chemical Industry Merit Award, while Windsor grad Lynn Wilson and Carson Graham grad Ruby Nagelkerke were presented with Chemical Industry of Canada awards. : Because the trimester system means chemistry award winners have sometimes teft before the general award ceremony is held, “‘a Jarge number of awards go unheralded each year,”’ says chem- istry department chairman C.H.W. Jones. ‘‘This may well become an annual event.” Hopefully, always on a Friday 13th! ee Dear Editor: Recognizing the need of acces- sory suites: Most of these suites are built or owned by homeowners or private individuals not the taxpayers or real estate developers. There is no question in my mind, that for people who want and need affordable housing, councils of the various municipalities must recognize that neither shutting down or preven- ting new construction of illegal suites is a workable solution, nor is it trying to provide low cost, sub- sidized, social or co-op housing continually at the expense of the taxpayer or large developers are going to solve this municipally, provincially or Canadian-wide GVA CAME IY Ue al) ] AA i \ 986-1337 "" ila | POSTSCRIPTS: If you’ve no kids in the West Van school system but would like to see where your tax dollars go anyhow, Chartwell Elementary will oblige, reports principal Johu Bowbrick. He’s holding open house next Thursday (April 2) from 8:40 to 10:25 a.m. to fet the public at large visit classes actually at work. Parents are invited during the same hours any .day next week ... En- trepreneurs high on government - “privatization” can hear the top British expert on the subject at a noon lunch Monday (March 30) Advertising Director MAgtape HE Ute Wet Ot ot Har Mahan) eaten 4 AV ay mans s [i Entue contents 1987 North Shore Free Press Lid. Al! nights reserved. in the Hotel Vancouver (call 688- 0221). Guest speaker Dr. Madsen Pirie is the architect of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's sweeping privatization drive ... And finally, the Doug Collins Medal of Bravery to reader Jim ‘Hill of North Van. Fed up with nuclear-free zones, non-smoking zones and zealots who’d suppress all opinions but their own, Mr. Hill has dared to propose that North Van declare itself Canada’s first Free Speech Zone. How about that, Marilyn? Jack and photo submilted HAPPY FRIDAY 13TH in the lab ... chemistry award winners (I to r) Lynn Wilson, Martin Ridgeway and Ruby Nagelkerke with Dr. Chris Orvig. problem. Cost of housing has increased to a level that many income earners who are making $40,000 a year can’t afford a mortgage. There are single parents, older people, stu- dents, etc., who are a definite part of our community, giving of themselves, who are not home- owners. This country was founded on the backs of many people who had ab- solutely nothing to give other than themselves. It was through their own sweat and desire, that allowed this country to be built. It was built and shared mainly on Chris- tian principles, faith in mankind and the ability to freely make something of ourselves. We walk upon these ashes of the generations that have gone this way before us, and to which our ashes must in turn contribute. For those people who once lived in a rented suite, who now have or own their home, and want to pre- vent others from doing the same, is not only unjust, it’s hypocritical. Private enterprise, providing a market demand or making profit, the last time I looked, were not dirty words, but encouragable. We cannot afford to judge a person by their money. For those who cannot afford the luxury of a mortgage, we just never attempt to strip away that dignity each one of us possesses. Pride and the giving of ourselves is sometimes our best wealth of all. Ronald K. Gamble North Vancouver