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6 - Sunday, August 27, 1989 ~ North Shore News

Saddling up to win
honors for Canada!

AS TEMPORARY SUNDAY RELIEF from the GST,
Meech Lake, multicult, abortion and the environment, meet
North Van’s Fiona Brown, a young lady whose passion is

taking her far — but at a cost.

This Tuesday, for example, to
Tokyo as one of the five-member
Canadian team competing in the
Japanese Nations Cup, a major in-
ternational equesirian event. At
23, the UBC student is among
Cariada’s top riders and in the past
four-years she has represented
Canada in the saddle at prestigious
international riding competitions
in six Zuropean countries.

She was also chair-
man/organizer of the 1987 Student
Nations Cup of Canada which, for
the first time, brought riders from
14 nations around the world to
Vancouver to compete in dressage
and show jumping. Last year she
was Canadian team manager at the
Italian Nations Cup in Milan and
at the World Championships of
Student Riding in France. And
she’s current president of The Ca-
nadian Universities Riding Clubs
Association.

Fiona and her teamraates (all of
them university students) have to

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FIONA Brown “costly passion.

pay their own way while winning
honors for Canada at these world
events, and Tokyo — with mini-
mum hotel costs $100 a day and
food and all other prices to match
— will be particularly tough on
them. They could gratefully use
any financial sponsorship avail-
able. Every $100 helps.

Lovers of horses and riding who
may be interested in easing the
team’s financial load a little can
call 986-2700 for further details.
They could be sponsoring a future
Olympics champion!

ner

AH, YOUNG LOVE...! Weddings
are held in the darnedest places
nowadays — in balloons, on
mountain tops, even in scuba div-
ing kit under the water. Paul Shut-
tle and Sylvia Johansen, she fresh
off the plane from Norway where
they’d met when Paul lived there
earlier for a period, did it THEIR
way. The other week they booked
into Marianne Hartkepf’s North
Van B&B for a couple of nights
and calmly announced that they
wanted to tie the knot there the
next day. A justice of the peace
was summoned to the Hartkopf
living room, Marianne supplied a
bottle of bubbly, she and a friend
witnessed the marriage register and
within 24 hours the blissful Shut-
tles shuttled off to Paul’s Saska-

toon home!
weet

FAITH RESTORER: If you lose
your wallet and you can’t recall
where, Jemila Izzard recommends
doing it in North Van. The 19-
year-old daughter of West Van’s

Media’s message
BILL Vander Zalm’s recent statement
that the media is more powerful than the peo-
ple’s elected politicians may be justified, but it

can hardly be viewed as a criticism.

After all, it is the same

people who elect political

representatives who give the media their power.
Surveys on various issues show that members of the
public get most of their information from television,

slewspapers and the radio.

They do this by choice, very few having the oppor-

Danic’ and Denese Izzard — back
here recently on holiday from Pisa,
Italy, where she’s training horses
— had $200 and tk> usual cards in
hers. She found it missing from the
shopping bag into which she
thought she’d popped it after pay-
ing a restaurant bill in West Van
and driving over to the North Van
Motor Vehicle Branch. Panic,
dismay, despair... then finally the
happy ending at Northmount
Pharmacy on East 13th, where a
nameless stranger off the street

had handed it in to staff member
Lorrie Mann — money and other
contents intact. I tell you, the
North Shore is the ONLY place to
live!

WRAP-UP: The new incumbent at
West Van Presbyterian Church,

’ Rev. Ian Victor, will be formally

inducted there this Thursday, Aug.
31, at 7:30 p.m. with a reception to
follow. Later, they’Il also be ex-
pressing their appreciation of Rev.
George Philps — their very papu-
Jar temporary shepherd during the
15 months since Rev. Bill Perry’s
departure in May !988... From the
Better Late Dept. congrats to
North Van’s Joseph Wright (no
relation) who's now onfy two years

short of his century after turning
98 last Sunday, Aug. 20... Happy
92nd birthday today, Aug. 27, to
North Van’s Christena Gillis...
And the same again tomorrow,
Aug. 28, to B.C.’s “top cop’’, So-
licitor General Angus Ree of West
Van — stili several decades from
qualifying for an age mention.

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: When
you get someone else to blow your
trumpet, the sound carries twice as
far.

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NEWS photo Tom Busey

BED & BREAKFAST BRIDE...their knot just tied, Pzal Shuttle (right) and bride Syivia Johansen in traditional
Norwegian costume wait while European B&B hostess Merianne Hartkopf (second from left) and friend Gerda
Swift witness the wedding register; behind, officiating Justice of the Peace looks on.

BECAUSE OF THE MASSACRE
IN TIANANMEN SQUARE...

CANADA IS PULLING QUT OF
CHINA’

WE HAVE A REQUEST FROM THE
LOAN AT 17%...

CHINESE GOVERNITENT. FOR A

) YORROEST THE ECNTANS |
OF DISSIDENTS, WERE SHERING
OUR BISWESS TES WH

tunity to follow the decision-makers around or to at-
tend parliamentary sessions or even local council
meetings.

Politicians and the media have ean uneasy partner-
ship: they need each other, but one is always striving to
be a step ahead of the other.

It is one of the cornerstones of democracy that this
partnership promotes public debate and discussion of
ali issues rather than for politicians to succeed, as they
have in other countries, in dictating to the media what
ihose issues will be.

If the media really do choose and create the issues
that grab our attention, they are for a market and a
population that has always determined what it finds
interesting and meaningful and whom it considers to be
worthy of forwarding its various causes.

Long before the invention of the printing press or
the television, public opinion has had the power to
depose rulers or leaders who do not display the
qualities of strength, integrity and charisma that con-
stitute good leadership.

Publisher ........... Peter Speck
Managing Editor. |. Barrett Fisher
Associate Editor . . Noel Wright
Advertising Director Linda Stewart

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THe STUDENT MOVEMENT, WERE
STAYING OUT OF CHINA!

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