6 - Friday, August 14, 1992 ~ North Shore News Ferry fight LTHOQUGH THE B.C. Ferry Corp. ‘(BCFC) has called the first half of its all-night ferry sailing program on ‘the Horseshoe Bay-to-Nanaime run a suc- - cess, recent traffic snarls at its Horseshoe Bay terminal should convince the Crown corporaticn to rethink its experiment. Ina press velense this week, BCFC stated that a steady increase in all vypes of : traffic taking “advantage of the all-night > ferry service showed. that the “program has been even. more: - successful than we an- ticilpat i me The. ‘pl-night sailing scheduie,, which ‘in- cludes ‘ferries ‘running. at-1 a.m., 3 a.m... and 5 a.m.,: was | launched ‘on’ June 23 and. until ‘Sépt.. 8." travellers to: use the early vehicle: and passenger “will initially r To ‘entice: ‘mroraing | ferries, fares are discounted 50% on the 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. sailings. And such incentives appear to be working: according to BCFC figures, 16,083 vehicles and 33,933 passen- . gers had used the early morning sailings ’ from Horseshoe Bay by July 31. But as shown by the horrendous traffic lineups that choked the Upper Levels Highway in West Vancouver prior to the B.C, Day long weekend, the all-night sail- ings have failed to reduce traffic Hneups at the already overburdened Horseshoe Bay terminal. The all-night sailings experiment has _been successful in determining that ferry users 2re willing to travel at odd hours; it has. been equally successful in proving that _ all-night sailings should be moved to a ferry terminal with the. capacity to handle the extra traffic. Gypsy moth threat fictitious * Dear Editor: to say no to the B.C. forest in- of Europe, where this pest has not devoured a single orest even. ‘. The gypsy moth spraying in the '- Vancouver area proves just how vuinerable governments have become to the power of the big -> monopolies. =: With a deficit of $2 billion for ~.the 1992-93 fiscal year, the mere . thought:.of bad publicity against B.C.’s forest industry by their American. counterparts sent shivers up and down Victoria’s spine: Faced with potential blackmail, “ our government was not prepared shor ing Editor . . Astod ate Editor Peter Speck . . Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright . Linda Stewart © dustry’s demands. This despite the fact that the gypsy moth threat is largely a figment of the imagina- tion. In Ontario, the gypsy moth program was abandoned after 10 years as being virtually irrelevant. This in spite of the gypsy moth’s preference for Ontario’s: tree species. if the gypsy moth could not do any appreciable damage in On- tario then it can do even less damage in B.C. where the trees are less to its liking. 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Subscriptions 986-1337 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax 985-3; Administration 985-2131 though it has had 20,000 years to 0 it Instead of continuing with this charade -and subinissiveness, Vic- toria might consider sitting down with their American counterparts and, for the sake of public health and nature’s well-being on both sides of the border, putting com- petition between the forest giants back into the more traditional areas of discrediting each cther. © Ernie Crisi, councillor, District of North Vancouver 986-1337 €2 Printed on 227 10% recycled _ 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday. Friday & Sunday) Entire contents ©.1992 North Shore Free Pres. 3S Ltd. All rights reserved. More than one- job per worker the way to go! _ “MOONLIGHTING” has so far been a faintly disreputable word. A se- cond job you do on the sly to pay your bills — taking care not to let boss No.4 know in case he gets of- fended, with costly results for you. Today, however, “‘moonlighting’’ is on the verge of respectability. The one-worker- one-job tradition may finally be on the way out — to the ultimate benefit of both bosses and their hired toilers. The latest dismal item of reces- sion news could be telling us quite a Jot about tomorrow's work force. Since last October, Canada has lost 243,000 full-time jobs. At the same time part-time jobs rose by 82,000 and now account for one in every six of ALL jobs. In a tough recession, of course, there’s nothing odd about this. What's odd is that we see it as a “‘negative”’ trend, when it could, in fact, be the whole key to future recession-proof employment. For employers, part-timers are clearly a boon — provided they work as efficiently as full-timers. They give businesses flexibility and enable them to fine-tune costs according ta economic conditions. Why be forced to cut out eight hours'work a day, when you only need to cut out four? Ditto when good times return -- why bump your wage bill faster than the work load requires? True, scheduling and payroll accounting for part-timers mean a little more paperwork than for full-timers — but that’s why the Lord gave us computers. - It’s among the hired toilers that the revolution in thinking has yet to come. To guarantee a perma-. nent income -~ MOSTLY as good as, or better than, a full-time one — tomorrow's employees may ‘have to spend their working life doing two, or even three, jobs at the same time. “‘Moonlighting’’ would vanish from the language, once two or ‘three simultaneous part-time jobs were the norm for a majority of. workers. They'd seldom, if ever, lose more than one at a time. And the whoie economy being geared to this way of operating,” the odds on quickly replacing lost part-time work would be high — especially for those smart enough to acquire ‘two or three different © sets of skills. - . In short, workers would be taught, from the.classroom up- GOLDEN CLUB enrol- ments...John and Ethel Moore on Aug. 75, 1942. ing. A pipe dreara?. ‘Hardi ready ‘Starting. Alli ’ learn is that two jobs ai respectable — bat one. Legionnaire Seba and E tel Moore, now holid WRIGHT OR WRON' monds are a girl's bes why must men make do with : os’ GOLDEN CLUB. ho: gtads...West Van's: John Peart Barrett.