Ad - Friday, August 3, 1984 - North Shore News

FEDERAL ELECTION BRIEFS

Safety, bridge wars, rewards

CAPILANO NDP candidate
Larry Whaley is looking for
more than just a_ political
seat — he’s added a new
wrinkle to campaigning with
a plan to inaugurate a child
safety seat exchange pro-
gram through his campaign
office.

Whaley, who wil! open the
office at 115 255 West First
Street in North Vancouver
will be asking

this week,

people whose children have
outgrown child seats to call
and leave information about
how parents in need of a seat
can contact them.
The information, says the
candidate, will be passed on

to parents seeking safety
-seats.
Whaley will also have

copies of a B.C. Medical
Association petition calling
for mandatory auto safety
seats for children at his

campaign office.,and is
challenging other North
Shore candidates to do the
same.

THE CONSERVATIVES
and the Liberals in Capilano
took their battle to the
bridge Tuesday morning
when each party sent a
group of workers to Lions
Gate Bridge.

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

e were having breakfast when somebody

yelled:

‘“‘Hey! There’s a bear!’”’

I must

admit my own heart stopped when the
big black bruin shambled into view.

We were in our own house,
‘so the panic level wasn’t what
it could have been.
Everybody was around the
table. The kid wasn’t down at
the swings. The baby wasn’t
out on the porch.

**Are all the doors clos-
ed?’’ | wanted to know. Then
1 thought of the dogs. Peek-
ing timidly out the open win-
dow, I saw what the dogs
were doing. They were
cowering, dead silent, against
the wall.

Normally, they yap their
heads off at every butterfly
that goes by. Suddenly, not a
peep. Not so dumb, those
dogs.

That bear was big! I guess-
ed probably around 300
pounds. Maybe only 200
Who knows? I didn’t go out
and weigh him

Stopping to nibble at the
grass, to shake his ponderous
head around, and once [© sit
down and scratch, the bear
took his time. Having emerg
ed from the hedge behind the
kid’s swing, he wandered
leisurely across the lawn, past
the sandbox, and into the
bush, stopping at the edge of
the forest to look back at the
dogs with almost a trace of
amusement before
disappearing

The dogs waited a good
two on three minutes before
starting to bark and run up to
the cdge of the bush Well,
within 10 feet of the edge

That bear left us bobbing
in his wake, all nght. Seeing a
bear in your back yard -
wild bear -- is quite different
from looking down and
across a moat at the poor
creatures who beg for pop-
corn in their cement prisons
In ZOOS.

This guy had a mind of his
own.

We've had bear scares
before. One year, a bear torn
the wall off the chicken coop.
lt also ran away with a pet
rabbit in its yaws.

“One year a
bear tore the

wall off the
chicken coop.

Back then, all we had to do
was call the wildlife branch
By the next day, a conserva
von officer had showed up
with a culvert: trap laside
was a garbage can load of
dead fish By midnight, there
was a clang and a lot of
snarling

In the morning, we could
go look at the trapped bear
It hissed and spat at us Its
three-inch long claws clicked
against the cage We didn't
dare go closer than five feet

The culvert (rap was hitch
ed up to a Jeep that morning
and hauled away to some

FREE

WIN A TRIP

The bear facts

place out past Hatzic Lake.
By afternoon, the bear was
probably being beaten up by
an older, meaner bear for in-
truding on his territory. But
that was his problem.

The difference this year is
that we are living in the
backwash of Premier Ben-
nett’s austerity program.
Among the civil service cuts
were reductions in the
wildlife branch. Offices clos-
ed, men and equipment
consolidated.

lt wouldn’t have been so
noticeable if there hadn’t
been a larger-than-ever influx
of hungry bears into the edge
of the suburbs because of
lousy weather, but this unfor-
tunate coincidence has
highlighted the problem.

The truth is, most of the
bears that have been shot by
RCMP and conservation of-
ficers didn’t NEED to be
shot. They could have been
caught in culvert traps and
trucked away. Except that
there are no funds to save the
lives of bears. Kall “em! It’s
cheaper!

Bears scare me. Us family
types don’t enjoy om.
nivorous, possibly bad
tempered behemoths sniffing
our kids. Bears can’t be
allowed within city limits.
But we don't HAVE to be
slaughtering them. We're on-
ly slaughtering them because
Victoria is too damn cheap to
shelf out a few extra bucks
for more traps and maybe a
couple oof extra
men

By the way.

part time

hasn't
somebody formed u save the
bears committee?

why

While Mary Collins led a
group of young Tories onto
the bridge to publicize her
candidacy, a small group of
Liberals led by Sen. Dick
Stanbury of Toronto set up
alongside the Marine Drive
bridge ramp to tout tonight’s
visit by John Turner.

Stanbury, president of the

_ Liberal party from 1968 to

1972, was in town visiting
his daughter Jane, married
to Capilano Liberal presi-

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dent Brian Baynham.

IN NORTH VAN-BUR-

NABY, meanwhile, the
competitors are co-
operating.

DP and the Conser-
vatives have gotten together
to pool some of their money
for use as rewards for in-
formation leading to the
conviction of anyone caught

vandalizing election
and posters.

Each party will kick in
$100, so you can make
yourself $200 richer by turn-
ing in anyone you see tearing
down or spray-painting
signs. ,

signs

To claim the reward con-
tact either party’s campaign
office (NDP is at 984-4441;
the Conservatives at 980-
6781).

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