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WEST VANCOUVERITES ASKED
TO SIGN PRO-CANADA PETITION

IN THE shadow of national constitutional discord, a group
of West Vancouverites has banded together to convey a
message of conciliation and national unity to the citizens of
Verdun, Quebec, West Vancouver’s sister city.

West Vancouver Citizens For A
United Canada (WVCUC) formed
recently after a group of friends,
anxious over the possibility of the
country breaking up as a result of
bitter ongoing constitutional
wrangling, decided to coordinate a
petition drive in support of na-
tional unity. .

The group has since grown io

‘include former Lt.-Gov. H.-P.

Bell-Irving as honorary chairman,
Dave Harper, Harry Macdonald,
Peter Stanley, Tom Konkin, Pierre
Heuskin, Rev. John Gouws of
West Vancouver United Church,
Father Tim McCarthy of St. An-
thony’s Parish, Dianna Hutchison
and Nancy Thordarson.

Said Macdonald, 67, a retired
Canadian Forest Products execu-
live, ‘*We were sitting around talk-
ing about what was going on
around Canada. We were very
worried that the French population
in Canada was receiving the wrong
information. A newsworthy event
is something unusual. So they
(media) were picking up crazy
things like a few people stamping
on the Quebec flag. And we were
very concerned that this was get-
ting publicity.

*“*Were we like the rest of the
vast majority that let things slide
and didn’t do anything? This is too
important to fet slide. This is crit-
ical. This is fundamental,’ he ad-
ded.

The ad-hoc group will attempt
to collect 5,000 to 10,000
Signatures this weekend in West
Vancouver.

The petition states, in part, to
the citizens of Verdun: ‘‘...what
we can do together is much greater

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NEWS reporter Michael Becker
-«- ‘honored and proud.”

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than what we can do separat-
ely....We the undersigned are
committed to the preservation of
our unity and a spirit of goodwill
among Canadians.”*

Macdonald said the petition will
be sent via fax to Verdun early
hext week.

West Vancouver Mayor Don
Lanskail fas backed the aims of
the group with letters of support.

And West Vancouver council
has already conveyed a_ similar
Message of unity to its counter-
parts in Verdun.

But, said Lanskail in an open
letter to ‘fellow citizens’: “A
grassroots communication in the
form of a faxed petition comaining
citizen signatures will have a much
greater impact.”

Macdonald sees the petition as a
way for West Vancouverites who
support the concept of a unified
country to express themselves.

“We hope this will more than
offset all the garbage. There is
nothing political about this. We
don’t care about what happens to
Meech Lake. It can be signed and
if it doesn’t get signed it can go in
the garbage can. That doesn’t mat-
ter to us. Meech Lake is just
another exercise. What concerns us
is that we have Canada stay
together. Whether Canada has a
constitution or not is a matter of
complete indifference.”*

The petition will be available for
signing this weekend at Park Royal
North and South and various West
Vancouver businesses and chur-
ches.

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NEWS phato rT Davis

CHILDREN DANCE around the maypole in an annual rite of spring. The dance was
part of West Vancouver Community Day activities held Saturday at the West Vancouver
Recreation Centre. A parade kicked off the day and entertainment was provided at the
recreation centre throughout the afternoon.

THE NORTH Shore News was recognized for editorial and
photographic excellence at the June,1 1990 B.C. Newspaper

Awards ceremony.

Senior News reporter Michael
Becker, 33, won first prize in the
Jack Wasserman category for
newspapers published less than five
times a week for his four-part
series of stories focusing on Lions
Gate Hospital’s participation in
the Pacific Organ Retrieval for
Transplantation Program.

The awards judges said Becker
managed ‘to blend information
and human interest in four crisply
written stories about a little-known
aspect of family tragedy.”’

Becker said he was “honored
and proud” to have won the
award.

The stories in the series, he said,
“‘were generated from an original
seed of information which iden-
tified LGH as a provincial leader
in the supply of organ-donor
ceferrals."”

Becker also received an honor-
able mention in the competition's
best news story (under 60,000 cir-
culation) category for a story writ-
ten about the doomed Si. Alice
Hotel.

In the Wasserman award cate-
gory for weekly papers the judges
also took special note of an eniry
submitted by News reporter Peggy
Trendell-Whittaker. The three

Burst watermain wreaks havoc in

RESIDENTS living in West Vancouver’s Caulfeild Drive
area were left without fresh water Tuesday morning after a

local watermain burst.

A spokesman for West Van-
couver’s public works department
said a 12-inch watermain broke in
the 4600 to 4700-block of Caulfeild

Drive some time between 1 a.m.
and 2 a.m. Tuesday.

As a result, residents living in
the 4600 and 4700 blocks of

Caulfeild Drive, the 4200 and 4300
blocks of Rockridge Road and in
the Willow Creek area were
without water on Tuesday.

In addition, portions of
Caulfeild Drive, Rutland Road and
Rockridge Road were blocked off
to traffic due to heavy water dam-

stories that made up her entry
chronicled tie locaf mental health
care dilemma,

In the photography category,
News photography manager Terry
Peters was recognized with an
honorable mention for ‘‘a
delightful shot of a disgusted
bear.”

Judges for the 1990 B.C. News-
paper Awards considered 105 en-
tries from 21 newspapers.

Of the entry total, 59° entries
were submitted by the two Van-
couver dailies. The balance of en-
iries was submitted by 19 other
B.C. newspapers.

The awards program, ad-
ministered by the Vancouver Press
Club Foundation, distributed close
to $8,000 in prize money this year.

West Van

age from the burst main.

News reporter wins Wasserman award |

Municipal officials had not
determined the cause of the
watermain break to press time, and
area water service was not expected
to be back in operation until
Tuesday night.

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