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News Viewpoint

Vigilante bugs

he new Crime Stoppers pro-
gram—offering citizens rewards of up
to $2,000 for tipping off the police
about crimes of which they have some know-
ledge—may not be entirely without pitfalls.
In cities where it already operates, the
program has proved highly = successful,
significantly increasing the number of arrests
made, drugs seized and stolen property re-
covered. Tipsters phoning information to the
police (their memories having been jogged by
media reports and TV re-enactments of un-
solved crimes) remain anonymous and their
rewards, if they qualify, are tax-free.
Nevertheless, there are potential loopholes
for abuse, especially with the lure of hard
cash in these tough days. Firstly, of course,
the chances of inaccurate or misleading calls
which waste police time and could actually
delay the eventual solution of the crime.
There's the possibility of malicious infor-
mants

wreaking their spite for personal
reasons on innocent neighbors or acquain-
tances. Groundless accusations against

parents, for example, are not unknown to
the Ministry of Human Resources and _ its
child crisis centre. And what happens if an
anonymous tipster is later needed as a vital
court witness in order for police charges to
succeed?

Today's battle against crime needs all the
help honest citizegs can provide. Hopefully,
practical experiente here with the program
will enable police to iron out the latent bugs
that any vigilante system contains.

Follow Mary!

oman of the Year Award for

crusaders against big government

goes to Tsawwassen housewife
Mary Otto. Charged with refusing Statistics
Canada, in the 1981 census, personal informa-
tion she regarded as nobody's business but her
own, she battled the feds in court for two long
years. This month Justice Minister Jobn
Crosbie finally quashed the prosecution. I
you're convinced vou're right, follow Marv!

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months with their activities
and achievements Living
proof of how rich our North
Shore is in talented, interest
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individuals

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to da handful of them
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other BRUNCH Cnames of
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THE NEFWSMARERS
Caplan’ s JO year MP Ron
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by Neel Wright

unseat Mayor Derrick
Humphreys North Van
District’s favorite socialist
Ernie Crist and West Van
wunderkind Mark Sager,
each back in municipal of
fice after a year in the polit-
cal wilderness Stella Jo
Dean, the aldermanic
dynamo behind North Van
City’s Expo ‘86 drive

Doreen Blackbura who col
lected yet another gift of

crystal on her third “retire
ment undeteated’> from
West Van council Sack

Davis, MILA turned author
(and cartoonist!) wath his
book Popular Politics’?

West Van pole ciel Bob

Broly who d hardly taken
over from tretirting Joe
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anomited ana British Prope
hes puneh up with Sikhs
Cillian West West Van
teacher and intrepid shipper
of the all women crew oi the
Naictotta Maui vacht race
Ambleside dite thost,s Wobbly
and Martha Brue cheb ution
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(Tom Wardell photo submitted)

THE MOMENT OF THE MIRACLE...portrait of Cameron Drew Wardell at age 30 se-
conds.

School all about the playing
fields of Eton Burnaby’s
Tom Wright (no relation to
your agent) who last August
took his 300th ride in 10
years on the Royal Hudson
Mike Nicell, permanent
co-chairman of the — five.
year old Coho Festival
which, last September, sur
passed all previous ones
Cap College instructor

Hilary Clark. first ever
woman to be clected chatt
man oof the Lions Crate
Hospial board Csreeter

inechiel Art) Jones, named
first full time president of
the Gsreater Vancouver Con
vention & Nasitors Bureau

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THE GOOD GUYS.) Blue
Bus deve: Graham Kitchen

who leaves the wheel to bely

little old badies over buss
CRONSTEEBES [Dr Clem
Williams for has Campaiyn
dgainst booze and  drup
abuse con the North Shore

Ivan Achery Mr Stherw
thie brome at Ba owat ty
awards from tbe Motion
Pauctare Theatre Nese hath

Res John Robertson

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Lanskail, 30 years a top
spokesman of the B.C.
forest industry (and for 20 a
West Van alderman) who
retired m the fall as presi-
dent of the Council of Forest
[Industries North Van’s
‘*TV astrologer’’ Geof
Gray-Cobb, back home after
two years as a motelier in the
boondocks .... West Van
film-maker Kelly Duncan,
winner of a fifth top award
in tO years trom the Cana-
dian Film and Television
Assocauon ... Rev. Ron
Smith who left St David's,
West Van, after 20 years tor
a new ministry in) Burnaby
Rupert Harrison, West
Van's former municipal
clerk and now its historian,
reciprent of Rotary’s most
prestigious award, the Paul
Harris Fellowship North
Van Christmas Bureau
chairman Ida Paddock who
was ‘prepared to take out
another mortgage on mv
house” to provide turkeys
and toys for the needy---but
thanks to North Van
generosity won't have to!
And many hundreds of other
caring, dedicated North
Shore folk just like them.

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FINALLY, in a remarkable
photo on this page, the spirit
of the New Year captured 11
weeks ago by West Van's
Tom Wardell as wife Ethane
gave birth to. their son
Cameron in LGH.

May 1985---still fresh and
unspoiled as a newborn

baby---bring you everything
good that you~ wish = for
yourself and your loved ones
in the weeks and months
ahead

RON HUNTINGTON
ports gift for Christmas

MARY COLLINS  — Of
tawa’s rookhic wavemaker

KELLY DUNCAN

tag his lens on awards

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