AG - Sunday News, November 15, 1981 =ndum:. invites a a “yes” or :-open Sunday shopping. The that this would benefit people who .work Saturdays is not entirely con- | “vincing,Saturday ‘workers invariably have Monday or one other midweek day | off when: shopping is a easier and less crowded 1 on Saturday. The main beneficiaries would be couples whose in- dividual ‘free | days during the work week do not coincide. 7 Meanwhile, many merchants (including even large stores) oppose _ wide-open ~- Sunday shopping on the grounds that there-are limits to consumer - expenditure. They foresee weekend shopping merely being spread over two days instead of one, with little or no total net gain. to offset the extra overhead. Pretty. obviously, ‘the smaller merchants would stand to be the major losers in that situation. The second referendum on the opening of home improvement stores only is a quite different matter. The bulk of all home projects. by do-it-yourselfers are -carried out on the weekend. If extra sup- plies are suddenly needed, it makes sense for them to be purchasable on Sunday, rather than. the busy home handyman ‘having ‘to’ Postpone his job for a further week... Sunday opening of the few stores in- volved ‘would hardly affect the “quality of life” on the North Shore. Wide-open Sun- day shopping : very definitely might. Uncharitable! Bulldozing those thousands of bottles spirits, wine and beer from of Ambleside’s flood-stricken liquor store into the garbage dump last week was a mean thing to do. Why not a flood sale for the United Way? We het the contents were stil] a lot healthier than the continu- ing sludge coming out of our water taps. eanay 1139 Lonsdale Ave. news North Vancouver, 8.C. V7M 2H4 news (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING NEWS 980-0511 CLASSIFIED 1 980-6222 966-213 CIRCULATION 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noe! 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TAYLOR How often, when you were young, were you, instructed to ‘turn the other cheek’? When the class bull belted you on one side of your jaw, did you ever obediently turn the other side? If you did, probably all you got for it was molars loosened on both sides, instead of just one. (With that kind of results, you may ‘have suspected: that Jesus. would. rather. have been a_ dentist than a carpenter!). . OF course, Jesus .wasn't talking only about getting clobbered on the cheek. That was why he went on to give other examples - about going a second mile, or giv- ing up a coat. He wanted us to understand that he was talking about a whole range of difficult situations, not just a particular kind of inci- dent. But although we still tell children to ‘turn the other cheek’, we rarely take it seriously ourselves. If we really believed it, we should offer the guy who just crun- ched the back of the car a fair shot at the front as well. Or if a crook cleans out your cash register, you show him where your safe is. Or if a nuclear bomb wipes out Winnipeg, you should offer Toronto too. % If fact, if someone clob- bers us, our first inclination is to clobber them right BOOMERANG: The last thing you could cver call News food columnist Eleanor Godley is a scxist. Quite on the contrary, she’s a staunch feminist who doesn’t hesitate to slap the wrists of male chavuvinist editors who step out of linc. Luckily, Eleanor also has a great sense of humor — and she needed all of it the other week. For the past five years she's becn conducting her popular cookery classes for fone males at King George School in the West End under the auspices of Van- couver School Board's Com. munity Education Services A short time back a young woman accosted her as she was about to center the classroom and asked = to enrol Efcanor explained courtcously to the applicant that the class was designed for men only and why, and suggested she should join a less specialized course cookery Whereupon = the young woman retreatcd A week or two tater Micanor was informed that her men-only classes at King George have been cancell ed, effective January Seems Ken Harvey, head of Com munity Education Services, had scent down an outraged message Uhat anyone indulg ing in such sex discrimina up. at ya rowful eyes. It tucks its tail between its legs, and ‘then tries to wag its behind. And it Comes back to you, again, for love. Have you ever had the heart to refuse it? Fve seen” it work in business life, too. Sometimes - the things I have written have upset people. They have lashed out and I have felt humiliated, belittled, un- fairly criticized. But I still have to work with those peo- ple, whatever their role in the church. Trying to avoid them won't help either of us. So I go back in the next time, wide open to get zap- ped again, just trusting that they will be as fair as if nothing had happened, trusting that they won't hold a grudge cither. And almost always, it works. Would ‘turning the other cheek’ work with corpora- tions, with nations, too? sunday brunch ‘many. that have: tried. it: I just’-know that there’s “much more truth in. Jesus" recommendation than we by Noel Wright tion was “not welcome” in the Vancouver School District. All of which has left Eleanor a mite confused about Women's Lib and (come the New Year) 24 male cookery students holding cmpty = skillets, wondering what to do next Remembrance Day is no longer only for aging veterans and Andy Ellb of the West Van Legion has a touching little story to prove it. He was selling poppics last weckend when a young boy of 13 or 14 came up and dropped coins in his box. As Andy presented the poppy. the boy drew himself up, looked Andy straight in the cye and said: “Thank you, sir, for my freedom * oo Sull on the © gratitude theme was a lettcr last weck from an anonymous rceadcr who signed herself “the lady who says breaking into cars is not always bad " With only two hours to get to the air port lor a flight to Reno on October 30, she locked her keys in ber car at Park Royal They were retrieved by the aimble-fingered o1- pertise of Ruesecll Bowan, Cary Maunder, Brad Warner and Scot Hollaed, to whom she sends warm thanks for rallying to her = rescuc “There are many fine people out there,” she wrote, ad- ding: “Yes, I made it to the piane on time. No, I did not tell my husband.” Sunshine Cabs, that posh new Cadillac service with drivers in ties and jackets who will open doors for you, still hasn't got the green light —~ bul at least it now has the amber. President Richard Hughes, who's been raring to go after the North Shore car- riage trade since fast February (when he op timistically inserted his Yellow Pages ad), has finally been granted a public hear- ing by the Motor Carrier Commission bureaucrats on December 9. It will be held in the MCC offices, 4240 Manor St., Burnaby, starting at 10 a.m. The present North Shore taxi monopoly will, of course, oppose the applica- tion. If you'd like a little classy competition when you need a cab, show up at the bearing and say your picce oe HITHER AND YON: Retiring North Van school trustcoe Don Burbidge will be roasted for his 12 years of service at oa $20-a-plate din- ner November 23 at the Ca- nyon Gardens — call 987- 8141 for tickets ... Caulfeild Christmas Family Ball December 19 at Gleneagles le don’ t’ t know, Idon't know ' usually give him credit for. Wames ‘A: Taylor is a syn- dicated columnist for the United Church’ "Observer in Toronto.) ° WROW Sun Le es in aid of the Save St. Paul's Fund has a touch of class. It specifies tuxedos or tails — which figures when your guests of honor. are Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving and wife ... North Van's Hedley Brass has a message for Michael War- ren, ‘president of our fledgl- ing Canada Post Corp.: cut national unemployment by 5,000 or more and give the economy a boost by restor- ing Saturday mail delivery ... Congrats) to Certified General Accountant Bill Smyth of North Van elected first vp of the CGA Associa- tion of B.C. ... Ditto to West Van's Barbara Brink, named a governor of Bigtown’s Arts and Sciences Centre Society .. Three cheers for that Tid- dlycove connoisseur who salvaged two bottles of Grand Marnier just before the bulldozer got them at the North Van dump — wherc damaged stock from Ambleside’s flood-strickcn grog shop was junked last weck Condolences to Mark Sager, stuck with buy- ing a new Jaguar convertible after the repairman totalled his Porsche on a test drive And don't forget to quiz your candidates on channel 10 TV's 7 p.m. phone-ins hosted by Mike Nicell and Richard Hughes — North Van District hopefuls per form Tuesday, North Van City Wednesday and West Van Thursday. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Anyone who agrees with everything you say will bear watching in other ways too