INSIGHTS Wiiderness-lovers must name price, stay awake! MOVE OVER, MOM, they don’t really need you any more. Every motherhood-mouthing politician who values his seat today is transferring his love to Mother Nature. Old-style motherhood is out. The Environment is IN. No love like a new love — especially when it packs votes! Thus, North Van District Coun- cil has hastily backed off (at least, for six months or more) from the Official Community Plan that would eventually desecrate the Lynn Valley wilderness area with 1,900 housing units. The roar of protest from 1,000 residents at the hearing two weeks ago left no im- mediate choice for any with-it pol- itician. Nevertheless, a word of caution to the wilderness-lovers about FISHERMEN’S DELIGHT ... West Van Mayor Don Lanskail receives $130,000 fish pier cheque from West these instant aldermanic en- vironmentalists: don’t lower your guard too soon. Councils, rightly in many cases, are bottom-liners — and the pro- posed development could eventual- ly raise $100 million in extra reve- nue. That’s quite tempting enough to spark thoughts of how to do an end-run around the opposition, once the current hullabaloo has died. As Ald. Craig Clark at least had the courage to point out, you don’t lightly ‘‘kiss off?’ such money. It could buy an awful lot of sewers, water mains, roads and recreation facilities all the way Van-Howe Sound MLA John Heynolds (see item). photo terry Waste not ago have been focusing its vaunted free enter- T= SOCIAL Credit government should long prise expertise on creating markets in B.C. and beyond for recycled material. Government inaction in the past has put B.C. on a collision course with its own garbage. , Now, with an estimated two-thirds of B.C.’s garbage dumps in danger of reaching capacity in 10 years, En- vironment Minister Bruce Strachan has said municipalities will have to cut their garbage by up to 50 per cent through prudent recycling and other con- servation methods. But while the message of recycling is gradually being absorbed by the public, the message of using that recycled material has not been similarly absorbed by industry and senior levels of government. Without markets there is no recycling cycle, and the effort expended in collecting recyclable material is wasted. Retail markets for eavironmentally benign products are only just being established to serve what appears to be a shift in sublic philosophies away from disposable to reusable. But the conscientious consumer needs alli the help he can get. Senior levels of government can create markets for recycled goods by requiring their use where possible in products sold in areas under their jurisdiction and by requiring government-run businesses and services to use recycled materials. Free enterprise is a marvelous vehicle that can be harnessed for the benefit of more than just business. from the Capilano to Deep Cove. Ultimately it’s for wilderness- lovers throughout the district — not merely in Lynn Vatley — to name the price they're ready to pay to keep this inter-river Eden unspoilt. Let’s just hope the pres- ent pause in the debate won’t lull them into falling asleep at the switch. eet WELL-EARNED HONORS were bestowed Tuesday evening by the West Van Chamber of Commerce on two major contributors to the quality of community life over jong periods. Named 1989 Citizen of the Year was David Bakewell — NEWS phoio Torry Peters Publisher Associate Editor .. Peter Speck Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher ...Noel Wright Advertising Director . Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph tl of the Excise Tax Act, is published each former Chamber president who spearheaded that body’s impressive growth in recent years and worked tirelessly on a raft of other impor- tant community projects. And retiring school board exec Don Fletcher, Hillside’s former popular principal, received a special Award of Excellence marking his 34 years of dedicated service to West Van School District as teacher and ad- ministrator. Other highlights of the Chamber's a.g.m. and President's Dinner in the Hollyburn Club, at- tended by some 100 members and guests, were the induction by Mayor Don Lanskail of incoming president Patricia Treadwell and her 1989-90 slate, homage to her predecessor Bruce Pepper — crut- ch-borne from a lost battle ona tennis court! — and a skilful “non-partisan’’ review of Social Credit achievements by head-table guest John Reynolds, West Van- couver-Howe Sound MLA and Speaker of the Legislature. Chamber secretary Per Danielsen emceced it all with his refreshingly light touch, and Chamber manager Joan Foster rated straight A's for her stage management of the whole show, A happy affair in the authentic Tiddlycove tradition. TAILLPIECES: Cap College's new swing choir, Night Cap, directed by Rejean Marois, is back from Music Festival Canada in Toronto with gold medals and an invitation to perform at the U.S. national Jazz Educators’ Conference next TEE VOICE OF NORTH ANO WEST WARCOUVER SUNDAY » WEONESBAY ee’ 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every door on the Nonn =V7M 2H4 Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $75 par year. Mailing rates available on request. Subrmssions ate welcome but we canno! accept tesporsibility for 59,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures 5 which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. SDA DIVISION Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions DAVID BAKEWELL ... Cltizen of the Year January in New Orleans ... A gift to local fishermen came with that $130,000 cheque handed Monday to Mayor Don Lanskail by MLA John Reynolds. The money, from B.C. Lottery Corp., Is for con- struction of a fishing pier in the new mini-park at the foot of 14th —- featuring rod holders, a crabb- ing hole, benches and expanded docking facilities for larger vessels ... And it’s give-and-take tomor- row, Saturday, at the garage sale from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. by North Van's Sons of Scotland at 865 East 17th. The canny Scots will be giving customers free coffee to set them up for the ‘‘take'’! eet WRIGHT OR WRONG: Tomor- row is today’s greatest labor-saving device. 980-0511 986-6222 * 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 North Shore owned and managed Entire contents © 1989 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved.