A6 - Sunday, March 27, 1983 - North Shore News editorial pg Costly delay Two wide categories of British Columbians stand to suffer costly confusion from the latest move in Premier Bennett's on-again- off-again election manoeuvres. He has now indicated that the Legislature will not be recalled for at least a month. In that case, action on two measures with urgent deadlines will remain stalled. The first is Victoria’s announced intention to cancel the B.C. low-income tax credit and renter’s grant. The feds, advised of this months ago, omitted the claim sections for those reliefs from the 1982 income tax forms. But the cancellation still has to be passed into law by the B.C. Legislature. If that has not hap- pened by March 31, it appears the credit and/or grant may legally be demanded by those qualified — although they could presumably be forced to pay the money back later if the eventual legislation is made retroactive. The second measure left swinging in the wind is the promised variable mill rate system for municipalities. This would permit the latter much greater flexibility in taxing different categories of property at equitable levels. But municipal budgets must be finalized by May 15. If the new w legislation is ind) ; $ eehig yg ts By ISOBEL J. BODIE I DROVE past Pauline Johnson Elementary School the other morning. My route has taken me past there every day in the last sixteen years. But this time I looked atit differently. For next year, it won't be a school. Earlier this month, the School Board decided that it would be one of five to be closed. What a sad demise for a great lady, as there she Stands, majestic and dignified, proudly reminiscent of an early West Vancouver era. Af- fectionately called P.J., she is older, at 61 years, than nearly all of her neigh- bouring dwellings and, built in 1922, the second oldest school building in our district. You can tell she is old by her traditional pre-war architecture. Tall, stern and square, she is the perfectly functional brick school building of that time; just two long corridors, one over beautiful virginia creeper, proliferating over the years to cover the entire western face of the building. When it is in leaf, it obscures the name of the school, but now you could see the words there through the winter foliage, etched forever into the stone heading. A few weeks ago, the NEWS phot Terry Peters SAD at the prospect of his school closing, grade 6 Pauline Johnson student Brent Olynyk wonders about the future as he relaxes on the playground swings. Patrick’s Day and the fir trees at Christmas. These childhdod expressions will be gone. In the fall, I'll no longer be able to tell that it’s three o'clock by seeing parents waiting patiently outside, their children running towards them with clutches of : the _other,—-aH _-elassrooms - to go along, for another year, on the old inflexible system, with all its individual inequities. A leaked government poll reportedly shows 40% of the electorate presently “undecided”. Mr. Bennett’s continued dilly- dallying will hardly help them make up their inds about him. a New math? Just a moment, please, while we reach for our calculator. A B.C. Teachers Federation survey claims that every teacher laid off will result in five other jobs being lost elsewhere in the economy. In that case, each teacher must be keeping a total of six people and their dependants all on his own. We always knew teachers get a healthy average pay packet but we never dreamed ft could be stretched THAT far. Let’s see, now: $33,000 divided by six. . .! reed YUSLE ov PCTT St Ale WEY VasCOrvER sunday we enn aren gs ww “| Display Advertlaing 980-0611 north shore Classified Advertising 986-6222 a | ews Newsroom 985-2131 Circulation 986-1337 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver BC V7M 2H4 Publisher Peter Spec Assoctate Publisher Robert Graham Editor-in-chief Noel Wright Advertising Director Tam Francis Personnoi Director Mrs Bern Hilhard Circulation Director Bran A Eihs Production Director Office Manager Chins Johason Oonna Grandy Photography Manager Terry Peters North Shore News founded a UD U an ae dependent oceenunity Freowy moppeaprers ceeved cquacatofierdd capvedere “ac Prerchube HE fart dit (tear enge agit i of the tacase Tan ACE as pubhshed cach Wednesday and Sunday ty North Shore Free Pross tid and dintotuled tooo every daye oo the North Share Second Chay aN Mad Ho gstiation Numer i865 Entire contents 1982 North Shord Free Press iia All rights roserved Subscaptions North and West Vancouver $25 per yeu Mailing eaterea avebabrte ci cect Nie emer natlit, Margate th bias he Se re Ts ee raphe pe Ft ww ft et te og poe ay oe Se Le tele ee OOo VE RIRIE GD COHC ULATION $4 643 Wedneedey $4 003 Sunday Ge THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE cre oF on opening neatly out on both sides. The additions to the school at either end were recently painted a light gold colour, but on the central block there still grows a LOVE STORY: The U.S. government calls it “political propaganda” and has placed restrictions on its presenta- tion in America. Other Americans think so highly of it that they've nominated it for an Oscar in next month's Academy Awards. These facts about the anti-nuclear documentary If You Love This Planet, produced by Canada’s National Film Beoard,-have—atready been widely publicized. Less well known 1s the fact that it was conceived and directed by a North Shore woman presently living in Montreal A Sentinel grad of the sixties, 34-year-old Terry Nash is the daughter ol Charlies and Bette Nash of West Van, the tormer a rered BC Hydro vice president She took her master’s degree from Simon Fraser University. then set her sights on a doctorate from McGull, where she received her Ph D last fall For the past year or so she has also been working for the NFB tn) Montreal on misceHancous research and directing assignments. Along the way she sold the Board on her idea for a hard hitting ant nuclear film and was given the yob of carrying through to completion The documentary a based on a 19SL lecture to) Amerncan students by outspoken nuclear cnt Dr. Helen Caldicou urs national presdecat of Physicians for Social Responsibility Its ground floor windows had red Valentine hearts stuck to them. This time there were snowflakes of snipped white paper, and I remembered the other decorations Fd always seen, the “stained glass”, the shamrocks on St. jackets flying. Next year, theyll be no more buses atriving back late on Friday afternoons, depositing their tired throng of drooping youngsters returning from outdoor school. And only one more sports sunday brunch by Noel Wright chilling theme is the catastrophic medical consequences of a nuclear war. This North Shore lady's love story about Planet Earth is being shown at 8 p.m. tonight (Sunday, March 27) at the Unitarian Church, 370 Mathers, West Van. It also runs from tomorrow through April 8 at the Ecology Centre in’ North ‘vans Lynn Canyon Park (call 987-5922 for showing times). Come April, 1t will be interesting (to see whether the Motion Picture Academy and cx-actor Ronald Reagan judge films from the same angle Fed up with all the present crop of polaticians? Then try the newly launched Green Party of B.C... whose namesake in West Germany recently came from behind, lo everyone's surpmse, by winning scveral seats in that country’s clections carher this month The local “Greens” claim a stmilar pladiorm nucicar and general disarmament, an ccologically sound cconmomy, a conserver society and respect for basic human rights and = the cotrance [ec as only two bucks Call 733-9009) or North Van's Ted Mousscao at 985-4237 af you) would learn more And speaking of Hope (the Fraser Valley community — this time), the Hope Histor al Society wants pictures and tamily stomes from = former residents for its 1848-1948 history of Hope and District. Write Stella McLachlan, Box 1717, Hope, B.C. VOX ILO, if you can help. MERR Y-GO-ROUND: Fu. nd raising dinner tomorrow (Monday) at the In- ternational Plaza for that $25,000 still needed to complete the Scout Cabin on Hollyburn will have, as guest oO or, none other than Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving. To grab one of the few tickets still left call Dennb Gatchouse at 926 1098 — hike now ; Congrats to North Van's clegant sexagenarian Gertie Todd, organizer of the Miss North Shore Pageant for the past 30 years, who's just launched her latest venture, “The Perfect Setting” once stop bnde-and-groom shop at $24 West 6th everything from the in vitations, the dress and the tux to the cake, the music and the rice Art show with a difference opens 7 30 pm. Apni 6 at North Van Civic Centre Gallery. 141 West 14th, featuring works by gifted young North Van cartoonist Graham Coulthard 1 think you'll enjoy the humor and satire of his whimsical pen The million dollar Campus Centre at the B.C Institute of) Technology, opencd cartier this month, owes much to two West Van couverites 1981-82 studcnt president Robin Williams who quarterbached — the ‘Nady’ day, when the field comes alive with seeming hundreds of active, brightly coloured litthe figures. They're jumping in sacks or creeping with eggs and spoons, and the teachers are straining their attention to con- centrate on who is first, second and third, rushing in to pin the coloured ribbons on the tee-shirts. So, like a dear aunt who has passed away, shall P.J. be remembered; for all the happy times, for the camaraderie as the play- ground was built, for Pippi Longstocking, The Wiz and Peter Pan, for the straggling processions of children from the swimming pool, and the daily joggers of the kilometre club. “Today we went to Stanley Park; we went to see Pauline Johnson's monument,” said my daughter one day, returning from school in grade IV. Pauline Johnson, one of Canada’s greatest poets, died in 1913, and there is a small monument to her memory at Third Beach. er poetry and feel the lilt and swing of her exquisite imagery Ill remember that, as an immigrant, I learned of her through that proud old building on 22nd Street. Time passes, life changes, but memories will remain. whole project from its initiation and architect Ron Howard who designed the building Visiting with Mary loan Disher on Sentinel Hill is daughter Emily, accompanied by hubby Roland Morgan and two-year-old Rosa from their home in southern France ... A big salute to Heather Mossakowski and her 12 Lions Bay Heart Fund volunteers who, canvassing door-to-door in the devastated village just after the mudslide, collected 38 per cent more than last year _...Bn cven bigger salute to the gencrous Lions Bay fotk coping with plenty of troubic of their own when = the canvasser knocked ... And a get-well card to West Van Alderman Diana = Hat- chimon, duc home any moment now from a Lions Gate Hospital stint WRIGHT OR WRONG: As the mama whale said to the baby whale “When you get to the top and start letung off steam, that’s the time you're most aptto be harpooned ~