6 - Sunday, August 12, 1990 - North Shore News V'KNOW..7M BEGINNING To WONDER IF WE REALLY WANT THIS LAND BACK... INSIGHTS oF oe brea oy] Gopi NEWS VIEWPOINT Down the drain ORTH SHORE ‘rcsidents must wake up to the reality that our ‘‘endiess’’ supply of fresh water is indeed finite, and, especially during the recent hot weather, increasingly precious. Despite warnings, many people continue to blindly waste water, doggedly watering their lawns and gardens in contravention of local sprinkling bylaws. In West Vancouver, where the Eagle Lake reservoir is reaching critically low levels, officials report that some sprinkling bylaw violators, having just been issued a warning, turn on their hoses again as soon as bylaw enforcement officers have gone. But it’s not just gardeners who waste water. It is a Canadian tradition: average daily waier consumption in Canada is 5,000 litres per person; average daily water consumption in Switzerland is 350 litres per person. We are fortunate to have a good water supply, but continued reckless squandering of that supply will not only result in severe shortages, it will strain the infrastructure needed to pipe the water to our homes. This month, the Going Green on the North Shore campaign is encouraging local residents to take active measures to make wster conservation part of their lifestyles. Those measures can range from installing a low-flow showerhead to putting a water displacement device in your toilet tank to turning off the tap when you’re brushing your teeth. But for some, the first step will be sim- ply to observe current sprinkling bylaws. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “That's really unacceptable. There’s no reason for it.”” ICBC president Tom Holmes, commenting on statistics showing that alcohol-related accidents ac- count for 35 to 50 per cent of all fatal accidents in North America. “*North Vancouver is the place I like to live, and it’s not true that the reason I tive here is why we moved our headquarters over here!’’ ICBC president Tom Holmes, on living in North Vancouver. “You feel uneasy when you're sit- ting and working and someone's husband is taping everything.”” West Vancouver District Ald. Pat Boname, commenting on the Publisher Associate Editor envelope. Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noe! Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and quabfied under Schedule 111, Paragraph Il of the Excise Tax Act, 1s published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and drsteibuted fo every door on the North Shore. 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V7M 2H4 59,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) SDA DIVISION Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions Squamish Nation. “The idea of the mecting was to fill that gap. Rather than blocking the bridge let’s build the bridge.”’ Squamish Nation Chief Philip Joe, explaining the philosophy behind an Aug. 2 open house at the Indian band’s Capilano reser- vation. “We swam about 200 yards. I swam that with a cellular phone out of the water. I was trying to press 911 with my thumb. It didn’t work, but I managed to save the phone.”’ Boat owner Dana De West, whose new $10,000, 19-foot jet boat sank in Indian Arm after a cooling system hose broke in the boat's engine. 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 Saree ents wo Anene North Shore owned and managed Entire contents © 1990 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Laughter was John Mythen’s best medicine! NORM, MEET John! Dr. Norman Vincent Peale achieved fame with his book on ‘‘the power of positive thinking.”’ West Van's John Mythen would have been high on the list of the good doctor’s role models. British-born John is a profes- sional! cartoonist who entertained North Shore News readers back in the 1970s. He’s also a victim of Multiple Sclerosis, the so far in- curable neuro-muscular disease which primarily afflicts 20 to 40- year-olds born in temperate climate zones. Its effects — among them, im- paired walking, fatigue and other bodily restrictions on working, social and personal life — vary from one sufferer to another, especiaily in the earlier stages. Remissions can occur but victims invariably wind up in wheelchairs. The frustrating handicaps in- flicted by MS often add another symptom: bouts of deep, even suicidal depression. It was President John F. Ken- nedy who said God’s greatest gift to us is laughter. Once over the initial shock of his 1974 diagnosis, professional Jaugh-maker John Mythen was to become living proof of Kennedy’s belief. Even during early physiotherapy the cartoonist’s mind began to see the funny side of some of the sit- uations he would face. And the ideal interpreter of such situations already existed. For quite a time the Mythen trademark had been Claude, a lovable, very human hound who played, so to speak, the “‘straight man’ in Mythen cartoons. So John ‘‘gave’’ MS to Claude, put the pooch in a wheelchair and sublimated his own frustrations by depicting his canine ‘‘patient’’ in all kinds of hilarious situations created by MS handicaps. Dozens of the cartoons now il- tustrate Claude MSing Around, a remarkable book written also by John and published this year. It’s a very warm, human and often humorous story of his own battle with MS and how he has learned to cope. Rounding out the book are ar- ticles by Drs. Donald Paty, George Szasz, Howard Fenster, S.A. Hashimoto and Shirley Baker. Thomas o:: aspects ranging from physical disabucties and psychological effects of the disease to current research. A comprehensive, positive and upbeat manual on the disease by ane of their very own, it offers MS victims and their families en- CLAUDE MSing around Noel HITHER AND YON couragement, hope and many a chuckle. Dr. Peale would have loved it! Claude MSing Around is avail- able to MS patients through the MS Society, 437-3244, and goes on sale to the public this fall at W.H.Smith cutlets. ake WRAP-UP: Now rapidly taking shape is the 11th annual Coho Festival — West Van's “extra Labor Day.’’ Highlights are the Sept. 5 gala reception in Park Royal, followed Sunday, Sept. 9, by the popular 14 km Coho Run, seven km Coho Walk, salmon barbecue and 12 hours non-stop fun and entertainment in Ambleside Park. Call 926-6600 for info ... Warm wishes for happy “*golden times’” ahead to Grace Jette — just retired after 20 years service on the North Van Chamber of Commerce staff, where she looked after member- ship and accounts ... Meanwhile, how come so many lovebirds tied the knot on Aug. 127 Among others, it’s happy anniversary greetings today to West Van's David and Beth Mathieson (29th), and Lioyd and Arlene Walker (40th) — along with new North Van ‘Golden 50th Club’’ recruits John and Vi Jones, plus North Van's Fred and Avis Godfrey (51st), and Joe and Jean Yearsley (54th). eek WRIGHT OR ‘SVRONG: The best way out of a problem is almost always THROUGH it. POSITIVE thinking ...MS victim John Mythen (right) reassured by modet of his ‘‘Claude"’ cartoon character. See column item.