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A FASCINATING Socred ¥s.
Sccred fight teoms in West.
Van-Garibaldi, once Mike

“Barcourt recovers sufficient-

‘ly from his Feb. 23 TV. disas-

“fer to cull the provincial

election — this fall or in the

| spring: of 1996.

Mind you, “Socred” i is not the

“". Official label of cither candidate.

MLA David Mitchell — admir-
ing biographer of W.A.C. Bennett.
elected.in 1991 as a Liberal but.
now sitting as an independent — is

‘widely expected to jump on the -

Reform wagon at any moment,

B.C. Reform being the 1995 code

word for right-wing Socred.
Mitctell’s Liberal challenger -.

‘Ted Nebbeling — two-term mayor

of Whistler, a fit 50-year-old and
accomplished skier — comes over.

» Like a’ ‘Sophisticated Socred i in all”.

but name, /

“Laughing off a crack about: ;
Literals as “socialists in suits,” he
insists Gordon Campbell has

‘nioved B.C: Liberals well ta the

|

centre-right, making them a gen-
uine free enterprise party in which

“y any Socred can feel at home.

-The term “free enterprise” crops
up repeatedly in Dutch-born.

_ Nebbeling’s rapid-fire talk. He has.
_ the entreprencurial credentials to
: back his enthusiasm.

Settling in Whistler immediately
on arriving from Holland in 1977,
he launched six successful food-
retated and retail businesses there
over the next decade, before decid-

“Peter Speck ©
Publisher. © ::-/.°
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Comptroller

“= Dotg Foot
985-2131 (133)

6- Wednesday, March 8, 1995 - North Shore News

rai

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Noel

/
. ing to try municipal politics.

After two terms as an alderman,
he ran for mayor in 1990 and won
by 34 votes. in 1993 he was |
reiumed with a 75% majority.

Five years as mayor have given
him valuable 1995- “style election

‘ammunition. ;

Since 1990 Whistler has under-
gone major development, set up its
own self-supporting transit system

_and is building its first high school.
=< Under Nebbtling’s guidance all of

this has taken place with no tax
increases and no borrowing.

. “We must live within our means
and govern’ with the money we
have to spend, ‘not with how much

. ‘can be borrowed,” he declares.

In happier Social Credit days

‘Mitchell and Nebbeling would

almost certainly have been party _

* colleagues.

Their battle will have nothing to
do with basic policy — everything

"to do with personalities.

Chris Johnson
Operations Manager ~
985-2131 (141) ‘

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OMETHING’S SERIOUSLY amiss in

justiceland. Crime looks as if it really

does pay, or at least it doesn’t cost the
perpetrator too much.

Take the case of Richard Warner, for
example.

The 24-year-old Nerth Vancouver man

' received a stern dose of West Coast justice
last Friday.

After pleading guilty to 23 charges con-
nected with a computer theft spree that vic-
timized a host of businesses around the
Lower Mainland, including the Canadian
Coast Guard and the North Shore
Association for the Mentally Handicapped,
Warner was sentenced to two years’ proba-
tion.

Stern siiff, indeed.

The accomplished computer thief will now
have plenty of time to ponder the error of his

AMID AAMT BANS RSs

PEL TAA ERASE TRI AAT OTE AY PH a EA IANTLEE tie PE PEN WAS

ways in the comfort of his own home,

He might even have to report to a proba-
tion officer once in a while.

Lower lips quivering with sympathy yet?

No. Heartless types!

The real sympathy should be reserved for
the businesses whose equipment. was stolen:
and the police officers who spent time gather-
ing evidence, corralling Mr. Warner and
ensuring that he be put through the
Canadian justice system, only to see him get
away virtuaily unscathed.

It’s an ali-too-familiar scenario: the vic-
tims have paid, the police have done their job,
but the criminal pays nothing.

Our justice systern continues to serve the
wrong people. Criminals are merrily going. -
about their illegal business and the rest of us’
are footing the bill. That’s a bad deal all-
round. ;

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‘Timothy Renshaw
' Managing Editor.

A high-profile incumbent,
Mitchell has some edge right now
over Nebbeling, who to date is less

_ widely known in West Van where

“he has his office at 2232 Marine
(922-1121). And federally it's
Reform territory — which might

/ help Mitchell if he runs for B.C.

Reform.

But on the downside, his mid-
term desertion from the Liberals
has earned him more than a few
local enemies cager to punish his
“betrayal.”

Nebbcling’ s first job, imean-
while, is to familiarize Tiddlycove
as fast as possible with his face and
voice. His second, to dispel the
Liberals‘ former.pinkish tax-and-
spend image by selling the party’s
claimed new dedication to free
enterprise and balanced budgets.

Whoever wins, however, West
Van will again be sending to
Victoria a Socred — smelling to
the faithful just as sweet by any’
other name!

HOUSEWARES, clothing, books,

tools, toys, small furniture and
much more await treastire-hunters
‘40 a.m. to noon Saturday, March

11, at St. Martin’s Annual .
Rummage Sale, 195 East Windsor,
North Van ... Happy birthday today,
March 8, to Mt. Seymour Lion’
Colin Pew ... And the same Friday,
March 10, to Avrii Phaedra -

. “Kim” to her voters!) Campbell.
WRIGHT OR WRONG: Success
and failure are never necessarily

“final. ;

985-2131 (116)

Linda Stewart ae
- Sales & Marketing Director -
- 980-0571 (319)

rr iiioox

. Collins columns
raise racial tension

Dear Editor:
Re: Response to Doug Collins’
Feb. 19 article.

With the football season over
and no hockey games on the

tube, [ happened to read a

Collins column which teally
angered me.

He is trying his utmost to cre-
ate friction between the Asians

and Whites by’ writing things -
that would be acceptable in the —

*60s but not inthe "90s.

The North Shore has thov-
sands of Asians, and: if. the
library decides to cater to them,
‘I.don’t see any harm in it.
‘'-. He also wrote , that”
libeary takes three,’ English
papers: including the Sunday
Times,”

. Dear Editor: ;
JI wish’ to compliment your
newspaper on including in its arti-

» Cles the one by Shaun Conlin on
various aspects of driving. This is a‘ -
subject that interests me very much :

and for many years [ tried, unsuc-
cessfully, to persuade the West
‘Vancouver Police Department to

/ do something similac ~— in, other ::

» Peter Kvamsivom’
Display Manager ‘

“the

and now wants more so |

- Classified Manager .

_he could rend the Sunday
Telegraph, which costs $5 each.
Why make racist comments -

-by writing that in year 2050, the

chief librarian would be either.
Chinese, East Indian or .an’
Iranian: and that the library
would have a special section for “
the above groups. o
Personally, 1 think~ he. isa”
“bigot” who holds opinions:
blindly and intolerantly to a par-.-
ticular creed and it is about time
that your newspaper “should
restrict him from writing such’:

articles and creating racial ten-’.: me

sion, between the Iwo communi-: :
ties. a toa

Shiraz Kara |
North Vancouver

° words, get a. weekly traffic or dri-:
ving hiat published in the North
Shore News —. listing things not to.

, do and things, to do in’ order to

avoid. traffic _ Problems and acci- /
denis. ©.) °°:

_ So good luck; and I shall contin-
ue to enjoy the North Shore News.
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