@ - Sunday, THATS RIGHT TAS. VALCOUAT....HES RIGHT NOW RELAXING UOT THE HES STOPPED_.NO. THATS THE SPORTS DEGTION...HES OPENING A SEER... _AEADING THE HOGKEY SCORES... all. individzal. Before the ae when the dispersing of technologically based medical intervention became the standard regime, before the time when peopic tum- ed for the mitigation of the aftendant diseases of modem existemce io a pra- liferation of doctors armed with ailment- vanquishing magic bullets, we simply know drags and highly “Why shoxkin’t we kick some butt? I'm prepared to kick some ‘patt.”” West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Jeremy Daltow, on getting down to business as the new Lib- eral house leader. , “If people are mot exposed to the arts at a young uge they're not fikely to become comsumers of the arts. And if theyre not, who on Earth will be? 2f we lose our kids we're tost.”’ Publisher - a Assouinte Editor Comptrolier North Shore News, founss © if we cat through the governmental jargon and the recent barrage of health initiative announcements, one message is clear: the government inteads to return the responsibility for individual heali to the S QUOTES 0 Lone Pater Specs img Editor. Timothy Renshaw Noel Wight Sales & Marketing Director Linda Stewart Dovg Foot 1959 as an < years alone. al ana nanny AWD () iY ISHS) ‘oo heaith HE RECENTLY uaveiled ‘‘new di- rections” for the provincial health- care system are really nolso new at we had to take good care of ourselves. It is shocking paltry 3% of our health budget to promote good health and prevent illness and injury. Health-care costs, year concern, shot up 37% in the past five that we in B.C. spend a now a. $6-billion-a- Primary among the five ‘‘new’’ priorities for health care as outlined by the Ministry of Health should be the notion of keeping therapies. EEIKE {LRA RSS CEE ATS West Vancouver arts activist Nini Baird, on exposing young people to the arts. “Next year whea things fook a lit- tic better, we'll be looking for a 58% imerease to catch up. Lead- ership is taking measures (o cut taxes." Nonh Vancouver City Coun. John Braithwaite, in debate on a proposed 25% cut in North Van- couver City Council salaries. “My staff reported cleaning ap a Display Advertsing 980-6511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Ciassiied Advertising §— 986-6222 Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions 986-1337 Fax y j Administration 985-2131 porta people healthy and out of hospitals. As we wean ourselves from the big- hospital, big-doctor binge, part of the commitment should include an extension of medical services plan support for atter- native healing approaches chiropractic and naturopathic and massage such as tot of blood after."' North Vancouver Recreation Commission (NVRC) Director Gary Young, after five teens were attacked and hospitalized follow- ing a gang attack at the William Griffin Recreation Centre. *“We live in the best place on the Earth to live, and we're not proud of it. We're so well respected zround the world, but we as Ca- nadians don’t respect ourselves.”’ Locat entrepreneur Rob = Ar- thurs, on Canada and Canadians. © Printed on 10% recycled 986-1337 C9 985-3227 Nortn Shore managed ——~—~~= MEMBER independent Suburban neashane and guatded under Scnecwe 135, Paraganh il of soe Excoe Tax Act, 6 pubkshed each Weanessey. Fordzy anc Surday by Nomin Stee Free Press fia. anc cisiributed 10 eeery doo on the Noh Snore Canada Post Canadian Puthcatiuns War Sales Product Agreement Wo O087232 Mating rans avaladle on esuest Suomessa are weicone ud we Cannol acces, (esgonsnilty lor umonhotes Maletiad eckGmng Manscrens and pictues wtucn shoukd be accomarved Gy a Samoa, aosressed ermvetope., etab: 1473S Lonsdale Avenue, SDA DIVISION Norit Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 61,582 {average circulation. Wednesday, Friday & Sunday} Entire contents © 1993 North Shore Free Press Lid. All rights reserved. NO HEAD-COUNTING POLLSTERS were observed at 7 a.m, Wednesday in the Bayshore Inn, where some 600 car- ly breakfasters of all ages packed a king-size banquet room to greet their political Messiah. Reform Party leader Preston Manning was there to fire up his B.C. troeps for E-Day — which he believes may come by June, with twelve-percent Brian Mulroney still heading the poll- battered Tories. Step by logical step he outlined his 130,000-member party’s three point platform -— pave the way to tax relief by controlling govern- ment spending; overhaul the justice system to better protect lives and property; and make poli- ticilans more responsive to the voters. His three-year deficit reduction program would downsize the cab- inet by one-third; slash the number of departments; cut their overhead by 15%; and chop fed- eral subsidies and equalization payments, making services free: only to those genuinely in need. What, he challenged, és the alternative? If we don't do these things ourselves fed-up foreign fenders will soon do them for us. On public safety he called for. tightening up the Young Offend- ers Act, abolishing automatic parole, putting jailbirds to work and a binding referendum on cap- ital punishment. ' And finally, of course, Reform’s patented political nostrum -— free votes in parlia- ment; a standing national referen- dum mechanism; fixed election dates; anid the recall of MPs who ignored constituents. : As familiar as this dawn fove-in between Manning and the faithful was, Wednesday’s sausage-and- scrambled crowd differed in one notable respect. No longer was it a solid sea of grey and white heads. At least haif the thatches, dark or blond, sprouied not a single grey hair. Youth — the fong-term beneficiary, as Manning pointed out, of Reform Party debt- fighting —- scemed to be firmly on board at last. ft showed in the candidates in- troduced from among the 26 al- ready tp and running in B.C. The other six riding nominations will follow shortly and Manning promises a total of 200 Canada- wide by summer. So what about that Angus Reid poll that reduced the RP’s January standing to 7% nationally and 14% in B.C.? Reformers quickly point to Gallup and Ot- tawa Sun/Insight polls that gave markedly different January PRESTON MANNING... a gen- eration-spanning love-in. numbers — 10% and 14%.na- tionally, 22% aud 28% in B.C. Which reminds us, in conclu- sion, of Margin of Error — col-- umnist Ctaire Hoy’s revealing . book on the pratfalls of pollsters. in politics, too, nothing is over until the fat lady has sung! “A GENTLEMAN” was the. spontancous tribute from many of his friends who gathered Thursday at the memorial service in West Van United Church for David Laird Mathiesoa, who died last Monday aged 89. In part they were recalling his carcer'of distinction, his roots in Prince Edward Island, as wartime ar- tillery officer, legal lurainary and | Queen's Counsel. But those of us privileged to enjoy his compary regularly remember him for siuch « - more — for his scholasly and ai wide-ranging interests, his civi-.. |” lized strength of mind, his warm , sense of humor and his unfailing Old- World courtesy. Outdated though the term oftenseems’ nowadays, David was a gentleman in the truest sense, who left our individual worlds the richer and happier for knowing him. eeo + my SCRATCHPAD: Memo to teach- er/administrator Gwen Smith who thinks your scribe can’t add up when commenting on teachers’ salaries. Try 187 teaching days divided by seven, Gwen, and you’ll find they spend the equivalent of 26.7 full weeks a year actually on the job. By the same formula an average five- days-per-week worker with four weeks holiday a year spends 34.3 full weeks on the job ... West Van School District invites students - and parents to drop in from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.-24, at its Post-Secoudary Caseer Fair in | Sentinel Secondary Schoo! ... Meanwhile Nerth Van Youth © Band is seeking new members ag- ‘ed nine to 18 with any level of music experience for its concert and marching programs — call 986-1934 ... and happy birthday Monday, Feb. 22, to North Van Kiwanian Sakerkhazu Karim. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: In your tush to fix things that have gone wrong don’t screw up things that .