6 - Sunday, January 1, 1989 - North Shore News INSIGHTS Neighbors who heiped to make the N. Shore’s 1988 THE ALMOST 2,000 GUESTS whose doings have regaled readers of this column during 1988 come in all shapes, sizes on ree ora” oo ALD. JOAN Gadsby ...poll- topper. ' t See ee fortlessly, and colors. Achievers and winners, young and old. Career folk and housewives. Artists and musicians. Police, soldiers and firefighters. Parsons, pedlars and politicians. Ordinary citizens with extraor- dinary stories. Volunteers and heroes performing endless good deeds. All of them part of the rich fabric of our North Shore com- munity -- but today, alas, there’s no space to list them individually again. So the best we can do here is greet them by proxy through a tiny handful of typical examples... eer TO POLITICIANS, a 1989 free from banana peel — especially to Capilano MLA and Solicitor Gercral Angus Ree ... Our three mayors: many-hatted Marilyn Baker, lifetime-guarantced Jack Loucks and ‘‘towering’’ Don Lan- skail ... District’s perennial poll- topping Ald. Joan Gadsby ... And rookie West Van Ald. Carol Reynolds (watch her waves). And special greetings to one-of-a-kind politicians Bert Fleming who took aK = os BARBARA Brink genius. Rescue insurance GAIN SKIERS have ignored obvious out-of- bounds ski markers and have ended up risking their own lives as well as the lives of those 26 per cent of the West Van mayoral vote without campaigning at all... Dorothy Lynas, re-elected yet again after 32 years on school board ... And the News’ own Doug Collins, Reform Party can- dicate for all of 12 hours! nae TO COMMUNITY toilers, may their tribes flourish in 1989. That goes for West Van Citizens Task Force jeader David Bakewell ... West Van Citizen of the Year Jim MacCarthy ... Duck Race orga- nizer Andy Turner ... Seniors* ‘Keep Well’’ lady Lynn Cove ... Lions Gate North beautifier Joe Cantafio ... Legion fund-raising genius Tom Donnelly ... Science World ditto Barbara Brink ... And North Van’s Save-Our-Buses crusader Fred McCormack. ete AMONG ACHIEVERS, salute North Shore architects Rick Hulbert, Barry Downs and John Davidson — picked as top plan- ners for Lt Ka-shing’s Expo lands RICK Hulbert ...Li Ka-shing‘'s choice. e sunday branch ° development ... Industrialist Wen- | Cancer Fund Campaign. dy McDonald of North Van — named 1988 YWCA Woman of Distinction ... West Van's Madge Aalto — now boss of Vancouver Public Library ... and 1981 West Van High grad Kimberley Conrad — chosen by Playboy emperor Hugh Hefner as his bride-to-be! tet AND FINALLY, three special Good Guys: Jim O*Connor, reci- pient of the Legion’s highest honor — the Meritorious Service Medal — for his 30-year dedication to North Van Branch 118 ... Teacher and Deep Cove native Julie Brier- iy, invested with Canada’s Medal of Bravery by Governor General Jeanne Sauve for plunging into a November sea to rescue a couple from a capsized canoe ... And a West Van's handicapped Linzey a Frank who can move only with a ° walker but still insisted on canvass. JULIE Brierly ing door-to-door in last April's heroine. Lat a GENER KIM Conrad ...Hefner sur- JIM O'Connor rendered. honor. WRIGHT OR WRONG: May the best of your Old Year be the worst of your New Year! » top Legion + RST eS eC WAR KR SRD 4 THAT GURDNTEG)UNCONEMNSTED SND INTERRUPTED? called in to search for them. Again the cry is raised, ‘‘Make them pay for their misadventeres.’’ This time around, Cypress Bow! is out $3,006 to $5,000. As taxpayers we pay to fund the Canadian Forces rescue service and the North & West Vancouver Emergency Program administrated North Shore Rescue Team. In addition to the considerations of cost, premeditated mountsin-bound misadventures test the continued goodwill of those who volunteer their time and effort in pulling people back to civilization. Billing such skiers directly makes sense instinctively but 23 a practical policy there would be problems. How would authorities handle a case where a skier is lost and then waiks out under his or her own steam? Does one bill for a service neither needed nor called for? Would a bill be delivered to grieving families in cases where skiers have died in the wilderness? It VONCL OF MONTH AND WHET VANCOUYEM Display Advertising 980-0511 Classied Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 Peter Speck Managing Editor Barrett Fisher Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart Publisher A possibJe answer might be to add a nominal rescue North Shore News, founded in 15964 a5 un operations funding surcharge on ski tickets purchased by all skiers. Much like any other form of insurance, it would be there when needed. Future rescue operations would then be partially paid for by those who would benefit most dizectly by services provided. SUDu Dan newspaper and quantied under Sc! 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