A6 - Sunday, January 27, 1985 - North Shore News

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News Viewpoint

he news that Expo ‘86 is now budgeting

for a cash foss of $311 million will give

fresh ammuniition to those who claim
the Socred government has got its priorities all
wrong.

The shortfall is apparently to be covered
by lottery revenues and by $126 million in
provincial taxes ‘‘directly attributable to
Expo’’. Critics may be tempted to argue that
such taxes could have been used to restore
cutbacks in education, health and welfare

- spending if earlier projections that Expo
would break even or -make a _ modest
operating profit had proved accurate. But
without the fair, of course, they wouldn’t be
coliected in the first place.

The main aim now, therefore, must be to
ensure that Expo---a ‘‘high risk business’’, as
chairman Jimmy Pattison freely admits---
doesn’t sink still further into the red and
become a charge on taxes it does NOT
generate, In that case, the werst fears of its
political opponents would be confirmed.

Meanwhile, regardless of the wisdom of
the original decision, there is no turning back
at this stage. Moreover, the history of other
successful world fairs, of which Seattle is a
shining example, shows they can bring a city
major and lasting long term benefits that add
up in the end to far more than the value of
the gate money during the fair period itself.
This is the positive spirit in which everyone
should now view and encourage Expo: =

With good luck wishes io Mr. Pattison
and with determination that we’re going to

- MAKE it succeed---even with fingers cross-

"ed.

Try a non-image!

ohn Turner kasn’t much time for

‘image’. Describing himself at fast

weekend’s Capilano (Liberal meeting,
he declared: ‘‘What you see is what you get’’--
-and what the 250 faithful saw brought him a
standing ovation. Honest John could be on to
something big here after all the careful
political image-building of recent years.
Maybe the image of a non-image leader will
eventually become the winning image!

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Expo MUST work

S B.C. REALLY
I READY yet to replace

permanent Socred-NDP
mayhem with a new middle-
of-road political sanity?
There was no clue to the
answer at Thursday's 1985
opening meeting of the North
Van Chamber of Commerce.

Guest speaker was
Graham Lea, Independent
MLA for Prince Rupert,
who aims to restore that po-
litical sanity to the province
by forming a. Third Party as
early as April or May. He
paid for his lunch with the
best speech the assembled
Chamber has listened to
since Walter Block of the
Fraser Institute regaled it
with the trials and tribula-
tions of an economist.

The former Barrett cabi-
net minister, who quit the
NDP after losing out to Bob
Skelly in last year’s leader-
ship race, talked of ‘‘Old
Fears, New Hopes'’. He
stressed that the boom years
are gone for ever and we're
now in the post-industrial
world spawned by
technology, a time of ‘‘fun-
damental change’’ which
neither of the old parties has
any idea how to cope with.

The problems are global
but the solutions have to be
local and non-ideological, he
said. The answer lies in a
massive decentralization of
power from Victoria to local
government---municipalities,
schoo! boards and regional
districts. This, he declared,
will spark the native creativi-
ty of British Columbians to
finally solve the problems
for themselves.

The hundred-plus business
audience responded with
dutiful applause, though
hardly: wild enthusiasm.
From the floor came only a
single mild question (on a
taxation point). Then the
statutory thanks, and that
was that. .

If Mr. Lea’s new party
does catch fire this spring,
there seems little danger of
arson charges being laid
against the North Van
Chamber of Commerce.

NEWS photo Jan Smith

GRAHAM LEA ... is it too soon for sanity?

- ft ©
AT IT AGAIN is North
Van's indestructible, inde-

fatigable Gertie Todd, in-
ventor (back in 1950) of the
Miss North Shore Pageant
and still its presiding guard-
ian angel. This Friday she’s
off on a flying visit with
Sharka Chobot, Miss North
Shore 1984 sponsored by the
North Shore Optimists Club,
to join B.C.’s other
‘queens’? at the Vernon
Winter Festival’s Snowflake
Ball---then back early Satur-
day (Feb.2) for the Miss
Teen Vancouver and Lower
Mainland Pageant in North
Van Centennial Theatre.
Starting at 7 p.m., with
coverage by BCTV, it prom-
ises to be a glittering evening
of talent and family fun with
North Van's Alison Phelan,
Debra Kellner and Sharon
Biro, plus West Van's Sara
Orr, among the 15 contes-
tants for the local title. The
winner goes on to the Miss
Teen Canada Pageant March
4 in Toronto, after which

Gertie, with hardly a pause
for breath, will be heading
fast into preparations for yet
another Miss North Shore
Pageant. This year marks
her 34th in a row.
ww of *

GRANDMA MOSES had
about only one thing in
common as an artist with
West Van’ Winnifred Finck,
who took up the brush
seriously 40 years ago after
raising a large family. She
studied at the Nova Scotia
College of Art, under well
known teachers from coast
to coast and is currently still
learning from Chinatown’s
Eddie Ching. Her paintings
have appeared in many
shows and grace private col-
lections in Canada and
abroad. The link with
Grandma Moses comes next
Saturday (Feb.2) when her
daughter Gwen Mortimer,
holds an exhibition of her
mother’s works from 6 to 9
p.m. at 1073 Keith, West
Van, in celebration of Win-
nifred’s 80th birthday. That,

“WELCOME TO THE CLUB” ... Kiwanis Lieutenant Governor Ernie Belogus (left)
gieets new members of the West Van Kiwanis at a recent ceremony. Those installed, but
not all shown in the picture, included Rodney Vosper, Desmond Vosper, Mayor Derrick
Humphreys, Larry Coles, Don Waddell, Ron Ingraham, Len Roth and Peter Donaghy.

SHERMAN
jackpot playwright.

incidentally, will be after
Winnifred's daily three to
four-mile walk (she also ac-
companies ‘three younger
generations of the family on
the annual Peace Marches).
If you've ever wondered how
full and enjoyable tife can be
at 80, come and meet her.
You'll go away vastly reas-
sured! ‘
* &

SCRATCHPAD: Installed
last weekend as 1985 Poten-
tate of the Gizeh Temple and
leader of 4,000 Shriners in
40 B.C. and Yukon Shrine
Clubs was West. Van
businessman Ken Smith ...
Also inducted at the same
ceremony as Gizeh Temple
Recorder was North Van’s
Cecil Rees ... Neighborly
greetings to Marcel and Julie
Salley on opening their latest
ice cream parlour, The Big
Scoop, in North Van at 1461

’ Marine, near Burger King ...

Talking about his life and
experiences as a dramatist
this Tuesday (Jan.29). ‘at
Lynn Valley Library is
Sherman Snukai, author of
“Talking Dirty’, one of the
most successful plays in re- |
cent Canadian theatre histo-'
ry ... Congratulations to
West Van’s Ted Reynolds,
awarded the 1984. Sport-
scaster of the Year Medal by
the.Canadian Sports Federa-
tion ... And don’t bother to
fly to Las Vegas next
weekend---the North and
West Van Ringette Assn.,
reports president Betsy Holt,
is sponsoring fundraising
Casino Nights Friday and
Saturday (Feb.1i-2) in the In-
ternational Plaza ballroom,
complete with black. jack,
roulette, money wheels and
dancing. Admission a
modest $4, after which the
Kets are on you. ;

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WRIGHT OR —“ WRONG:
Maybe you can't make a silk
purse out of a sow’s ear, but
you can still make a very
nice pigskin purse.

WINNIFRED FINCK ... th
art of living. :

KEN SMITH ... leader of
the 4,600. :

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SNUKAL ...