6 ~ Sunday, November 11 , 1990 - North Shore News PREMIER VANDER ZALM IS ON VACATION ....A PLACE WHERE NO- ONE HAS HEARD OF HIM ..HE CAN GET PEACE AND QUIET AND RESPECT... INSIGHTS a | Civic talent _ my the whole way % Dayne Mess ~ Lilldidddililiidddalitiliie NEWS VIEWPOINT Lost memories J ITH THE world poised on the brink of another global armed conflict, it is apparent that the message of Remembrance Day is increas- ingly falling on deaf international ears. Remembrance Day traditionally com- memorates the Nov. 11, 1918 armistice that ended the First World War. But it has come to commemorate the sacrifices made by Canada’s soldiers in both the First and Second World Wars: over 60,000 Canadians Jost their lives in the First World War, over 42,000 lost their lives in the Second World War. Remembrance Day commemorates the lives lost, but it should also celebrate the lives saved and the way of life preserved. But humaniiv’s memory is notoriously short. The lives lost have Jargely been forgot- ten, and the way of life preserved has largely been taken for granted. And while Canadian ships have been dispatched to the Persian Gulf to atiend the latest international powder keg, the world waits for the first bomb to drop and the first lives to be lost again. It is no longer a question of whether the world can afford another global conflict, it is a question of whether the planet could survive it. With the approaching environmental Armageddon, mankind’s real fight is for its own survival and the survival of the planet. If the energy of hate could be redirected to the real enemies of man — greed, ig- norance and poverty — Rei:nembrance Day would give us a past to look back upon with respect and a future tu look forward to with optimism. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “In an ideal world, we wouldn't have any (administration).” North Vancouver School District 44 trustee Don Bell, on school district administration. “T¢’s a passive system with the concept being that the kids of the age that hang around aren't par- ticularly interested in listening to Perry Como.”" Len McGeouch, loss prevention and public relations manager for 7-Eleven stores, on playing muzak over the public address system of the Lynn Valley 7-Eleven to discourage youths from hanging around the store. “If we don't involve youth with Publisher __. Associate Editor Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director .Linua Stewart decision making and planning, we can put youth workers on every Street corner and we're stiil going to have groups of kids whacking on other groups of kids.” North Shore Neighborhood House executive director Donald Rutherford, on the North Shore youth problem. “I’ve always grown up with this idea: that if you have two children, a girl and a boy, and you can only educate one of them, educate the girl because she is the future of your country and the backbone of the family.’ Mobina Jaffer, North Shore immigration and refugee lawyer, on education. THE VOICE OF OWT H AND WEST VANCOUVER SUNDAY +» WEDNESDAY + FRIDAY North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualitied under Scneaule 111, Paragraph Ili of the Excise Tax Act, ts published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Snore Free Press Ltd. and disinibuted to every door on the Notth Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 Subscriotians North ang West Vancouver, $25 per year Maing rates available on sequest. Submissions are but we cannot accent! responsibility tor unsolicited matenal including manusceptis ana pictures, which should be accompanied by a Silamped addressed welcome envelope 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 59,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) xo Vy SDA DIVISION — Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions “The arts are as necessary as any other aspect of education. Art isn’t just something you do when you have time feff over from pun- ching computers."’ Haida artist Bill Reid, on the importance of art. “We've had spirit dancers in. They came in, brought the medi- cine man in....He opened up his bag and gave everybody an eagle tail feather, and they chanted and danced around the body for about half an hour. That was very inter- esting.”’ Lions Gate Hospital morgue at- tendant Jim Baigent, on strange, rites at the morgue. 980-051) 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 MEMBER North Shore owned and managed Entire contents 2 1990 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. from A to Z! ONLY SIX days left before we're stuck for the next three years with our choices — good or iousy — in the civic elections. After Nev. 17 our choices wil) decide what's good for us until 1993. So let’s look again at that dismal alphabet game we exam- ined on Wednesday. The game where uninformed voters start at the top of the alphabetical list of candidates on the ballot, mark **Xs"" straight downward for the number to be elected and thus usually run out of names before the letter “1.” Candidates unlucky enough to be, say, ‘‘T’s’’ or ‘*W’s’? may be pure gold by comparison, but re- main undiscovered. As we saw, there’s some alarm- ing support for this A-to-I theory in recent North Shore election results, but it doesn’t HAVE to be that way. So let’s try playing the alphabet game another way with current aldermanic candidates. Here’s how the surnames will hit your eye next Saturday in the polling booth. Remember, the ballot does NOT tell you who are incumbents, but it does add given names (women are shown below by an asterisk for the sake of brevity). North Van District Council: BRUSKIEWICH, BUCHOLS, COLLKE, CRIST, CUTHBERT, DAVIS, EDWARDS, JONES, “HARRIS, *McLEAN, McCOR- MACK, RODGERS, TURNER, — WEISSTOCK. North Van City Council; BELL, BLAIR, BRAITHWAITE, CLARK, DARTNELL, *DEAN, FEARNLEY, HALL, *PERRAULT, *SHARP, TARPLETT, TOMLINSON. West Van Council: *BONAME, DANYLIU, DAY, FORSTER, GRAHAM, GRIFFITHS, HOWARD, HUNDAL, *HUTCHINSON, *TANCHAK, *THIERSCH, WOOD. The bad news about our new alphabet game is that it involves a little digging work. The good news is that it helps you avoid missing hidden treasure simply because it may be buried deep in the alphabetical cellar. To assist your search in the short time left, here’s Wright's alphabetical tip sheet for where to START digging. In North Vau District look for four A-to-Fs with genuine merit. Plus one each among the M-to-Rs and S-to-Zs. In North Van City the A-to-Fs offer three proven performers. For the other three, work from G downward, definitely picking one from the S-to-Zs. In West Van a couple in the A- to-F group are certainly worthy of your nod. As to the four other seats, you can find 24 carat gold in two of the G-to-Ls and again in me ii WENDY Hanna ... a chance for caregiver support. Noel HITHER AND YON two of the S-to-Zs. Follow these guide letters while you watch candidates for yourself on Shaw Cable TV this week and maybe make a few quick phone calis to check up on them. Even playing the alphabet game this way, you're still not guaran- teed a perfect slate, of course. But what you ARE guaranteed is a considerably better one than you’ll get by picking only the first six names out of the hat. After all, civic government tal- ent stretches the whole way from AtoZ! Next time, a look at school trustees — and some thoughts about mayors. eee TAILPIECES: Likely to be West Van’s biggest election rally is the all candidates meeting of the 1,000-member British Properties Homeowners Assn. Tuesday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m. in St. David’s U.C. hall, Taylor Way ... If you’re in- terested in launching a West Van Care Giver Support Society, you're invited to a meeting Wed- nesday, Nov. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the North Shore Volunteers for Seniors centre, 275 - 21st St., West Van — for info call NSVS director Wendy Hanna, 922-1575, or Wendy Ross, 983-2141 ... Man with a $1.74 million goal is North Van's David Galloway, head of the United Way mail division and the UW's longest serving Cam- paign Cabinet volunteer ... And many happy returns of Nov. 1! to North Van’s Remembrance Day birthday girl, Alderman Stella Jo Dean. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: Then there was the fellow with money to burn — and the girl in whom he found his perfect match. Ma g RAPA LS DAVID Gatloway veteran $1.74 million volunteer.