i ne isan OF NUH TM AMD WEST VANCOUVEH ian Publisher: Editorin-Chiet Managing Editor Advertising Director G@ ssasuday, August 9, 987 0 North Shore News Display Advertising 980 O51 | ee Men ce ted we Fs fos cos Hews Vie wpoimnt ; Ciassified Advertising 98b 6222 4 a ate 4 Mowsrmom 985 233) floney machine | Subscriptions 986.1537 OVERNMENT bureaucracy causes dehays and frustration, but when the red tape becomes more important than the people it serves —- al the taxpayers” expense — it voids a povernment agen- cy's reason for being. A North Vancouver man recently applied for unemployment insurance when he was laid off in June from his job as a janitor at BCIT. But the motivated young man — seeing the lack of jobs locally, and wan- fing to get back to work — bounced back and found a job as an apartment maintenance worker in Gold River, B.C. , which began Aug. 4. However, in order for (he man to get to his new job, he needed to collect his first unemployment insurance cheque which fe applied for in early July. But backed-up paperwork and unbending rules do not allow the UIC office to expediently process such claims. According to a Vancouver Employment and Im- migration spokesman, the unemployment act is “designed to help people who don’t have a job. If they have a job offer, it’s up to them.” This is a sad reflec- tion on our backward - thinking government: tet’s help individuals pet onto the unemployment insurance dole at a hefty cost (o the taxpayers, but Jet’s not help them get off it. The UIC office should not be looking at its role as a passive money-processing machine, but as an active agency in the community encouraging the unemployed to get back to work, offering incentives of speeding up claims when necessary and coutributing to travel ex- Peter peer bet Varah Haerett brother Dinar Ste esiart SUNDAY 6 WEDNE Stony + pay 1139 Lonsdale Ave. : ot wt , North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Wl errr or . ; Pnitre 1987 coritert:, North Shore free Press Lid All ave me ghts § NEWS photo Neil Lucente penses for workers offered out-of-town jobs. CHRIS AND STEFFI will have to wait awhile...busy North Van sports painter Ken Wesman works on his study of Martina Navratilova in the lobby of the international Plaza. usy Ken married to a very demanding partner CAPTURED ON CANVAS will be exciting action highlights of the recent Federation Cup matches— once Ken Wesman can get around to finishing them. That might not happen until 1988. The busy North Van artist, who specializes in sports subjects, is not exactly starving in a garret. He made the preliminary sketches during Fed Cup play, but Jast week he was off on an extended trip to Calgary to de a painting for the "88 Winter Olympics site (a replay of the similar dramatic work he did for Expo 86). After that he has other commissions to carry out in California. With only brief hops back here for a few days ata time, it could well be the New Year be- fore he’s able to settle down again for any length of time in his condo studio at the International Plaza. Born 41 years ago in Alberta, Ken arrived in Vancouver at the age of four and produced his first oil painting at 12. After leaving school at 16 he spent some 23 years (punctuated by a three-year stint in the navy) in the world of commer- cial art, then travelled the world and finally, in 1979, decided to return to his first love: fine art. Vibrant color and. a dynamic, im- pressionistic style—both ideally suited to sports action—are his trademarks in energy-packed studies of skiing, windsurfing, sail- ing and athletics that find a brisk market among individuals and corporations. , The macho-looking bachelor ar- tist brushes aside any thought of matrimony. ‘‘I tell the girls ['m already married,”’ he quips, ‘*... to my art!’” Meanwhile, at the Humberston Edwards Gallery, 1360 Marine, West Van—where numerous of his works, including earlier tennis ac- tion paintings, are on display— impatient Fed Cup fans can at least get a preview of what he'll eventually do with Chris Evert and Steffi Graf. EIGHT EXCITING MONTHS lic ahead for Cap College student Ir- win Oostindie of North Van— chosen to participate in the Canada World Youth program, which brings together young Ca- nadians and their counterparts in Third World nations for an ex- tended one-——-on—one relationship. In Irwin’s case the nation will be Costa Rica. His group is now spending four months with a group of young Costa Rican guests in Quebec. For the remaining four months the Canadians will become guests of Costa Rican families, ex- periencing at first hand the every- day life of that country. The CWY program was founded 16 years ago by a group of Cana- dian citizens to foster tolerance and openness to foreign values and lifestyles. Since then over 10,000 young people from Canada and more than 30 exchange countries have taken part. Son of North Van District Parks Superintendent Dirk Oostindie, Ievin should fit in well. His numerous community activities to date include the board of the Association of Community Col- leges, the executive of the Cap College Student Society and —~ 5 IRWIN OOSTINDIE...Costa Rica bound. dedicated work in organizing North Van teens. sat POSTSCRIPTS: We finally got te the QE and ‘Cats’? last: week— with grave personal forebodings. | figured a show that generates such overwhelming hype must inevitably be a letdown when you actually see it, especially at $45 a seat (there are still a few left, incidentally, for the remainder of the run ending around September 12). How did I honestly rate ‘'Cats*’ on a scale of ten, an equally skeptical friend asked afterwards. ‘‘Twenty,’’ 1 replied, ‘‘and that's selling — it short.’’ Quite simply, you've never in your life seen any show like it. Eat macaroni cheese for a week—but go! For neighbors who are genuincly strapped at the moment, the North Shore Family YMCA now has a scholarship pol- icy to ensure (as they put it) that “no one is denied participation at the ‘Y"* because of the discriminating factor of finance.” {t's made possible through regular financial donations by the volun- teer ‘‘Friends of the *Y’ "' group and if you’d liked to know more, whether as a potential donor or applicant, cal! 251-1116 (North Van) or 926-554) (West Van) ... Checking the calendar, happy bir- thday tomorrow (August 10) to North Van's Florence Currie— and congrats to North Van’s Charles and Marjorie Cordocedo, married 51 years ago on that day The same again Tuesday (August 14) to West Van's Ray and Winnifred Anderson, celebrating their 61st anniver- sary—and a very special bouquet to Irma Detant, the grand old lady of Dollarton, who chalks up her 103rd birthday on Tuesday, + WRIGHT OR WRONG: Nice guys don’t always finish last. Sometimes they finish next to fast. Noel Wright @ Sunday brunch ® NEWS photo Stuart Davis FRIENDS OF THE ‘Y’...honered at a reception by (2 to r) executive director Nancy Forrest, veteran volunteer Fraser Wright and ‘87 cam- paign chairman Jim Reger.