12 -— Friday, December 27, 1996 — North Shore News

INTERESTING quotes
abounded in 1996.
Below are some of the
more quotable as
reported in the pages of
the North Shore News.

“It is ilfegal to cause
someone embarrassment in
the workplace. It is illegal
to be insensitive. It is illegal
to be impolite. Orwell's
worst nightmares have
come true. Our rulers now
attempt to control by law
the expressions that people
may have on their faces.”

Ontario lawyer, Karen
Selick, on Human Rights ran
amok. (From the Jan. 17
Doug Collins column)

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“They’ve treated us like
some sort of redneck hill-
billies.”

Capilano Sportsmen's
Club membership director
Dr. Anne Autor, on the con-
tentious issue of the club’s
eviction from its Ambleside
facility to make way for a
youth club, and how she says
West Vancouver District
Council has treated club
members. (From Trevor
Lautens’ Feb. 2 Garden of
Biases column.)

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“He knows I’m watch-
ing him. That’s pretty bad
when you have to watch the
garbage man.”

Tatlow Avenue resident
Kathleen McCaig, complain-
ing about the sloppy job her
garbage man does. (From a
Jan. 28 News story.)

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“We're no longer a
dying breed. We're a cold
dying breed.”

North Shore smoker
Claude Saint-Amour, on
being forced outdoors to
smoke at the Kap 100 build-
ing in West Vancouver, com-
plaining that the area they
have been limited to can get
very cold and windy. (From
a Feb. 9 News story.)

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“I support adult cross-
ing guards but not at the
expense of city taxpayers.
Money doesn’t flow from
heaven and i¢ doesn’t grow
on trees — it comes from
taxpayers.”

3 North

Vancouver
City Coun,
Stella Jo
Dean,
speaking
out against
the city’s
funding of
unionized
crossing
guards in
North
Vancouver
School District 44, (From a
Feb, 21 News story.)

STELLA JO
DEAN

“IT cannot accept that
Korean culture honors and
venerates 20-year-old gang
members.”

North Vancouver provin-
cial court Judge Bill
Rodgers, to a defence
lawyer who claimed Korean
culture influenced the way
three teenagers accused in
brutal robberies at
Waterfront Park respected
the gang’s recruiter. (From a
Feb, 28 News story.)

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“It makes me want to
get back into politics and
run for the don’t know
party.”

West Vancouver-Garibaldi
Indeper-dent MLA David
Mitchell, on a News survey
in which 49% of respondents

said they
didn’t know
4 who they
would vote
for if a
provincial
election
were called
now. (From
a WE ¢ March 22
= News story.)
DAVID OOD
MITCHELL “If I should
ever get
back into politics it will be
only one way: I'll change
my vame.to Richard
‘Potato’ Schaller and you
can call me ‘Dick-tater’ for
short.”

Legendary Rhino party
representative Richard “the
troll” Schaller, on his future
political career. (From a May
15 News In-Person feature.)

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“E would strongly urge
voters not to trust me or
any other politician with
their hard-earned money.
Neither I nor anybody else
can spend other people’s
money as wisely and effi-
ciently as the person who
earns it.”

Bill Tomlinson, North
Vancouver Seymour
Libertarian, on trusting
politicians. (From a May 17
News story.)

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“Definitely not. Our

The Corporation of the
District of West Vancouver

forests are the lungs of the
earth. We must preserve
the existing forests as much
as possible. Skiing is a pop-
ular activity, but then so is
breathing. I know more
people who breathe than
ski.”

West Vancouver-Garibaldi
Green Party candidate Pegyy
Stortz, responding to the
question “Do you support the
logging of 50 acres of old-
growth forest in Cypress
Provincial Park for commer-
cial ski expansion or for any
other purpose?” (From a
May 19 News story.)

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“it’s very kind of people
to think that I'm worth 20
of anything.”

West Vancouver-Capilano

Jeremy
Dalton,
reacting to
a proposed
deal to pull
20 Social
Credit can-
A didates in
key Liberal
_ tidings
JEREMY around B.C.
DALTON in exchange
for the
Liberals withdrawing Dalton
in West Vancouver-Capilano.
(From a May 24 North Shore
News story.)
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“The only way to ensure
that proper decisions in
government occur is to
make sure that the collec-
tive consciousness of the
people is maintained. The
Natural Law Party ... will
always maintain a group of
yogic flyers to maintain
that coherence ... Any gov-
ernment that does not have
@ group of yogic flyers to
create this coherence is
bound to fail.”

Sheila Elliott, North
Vancouver-Lonsdale Natural
Law Party, on trusting politi-
cians and maintaining coher-
ence. (From a May 17 North
Shore News story.)

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“At the end of my trav-
els I came to realize that I

was as good as anyone. But
I'm no better either. Once
you come to that, life
becomes an awful lot easi-
er.”

West Vancouver adventur-
er Shane Collins, realities
gleaned from life on the
road. (Front a June 5 News
Life feature.)

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“You're never too old
for Sax.”

Murray Uncyk of the
West Vancouver-based Sax
Energy Corp., with a catchy
corporate saying, (From a
June 16 News business
story.)

“You can almost hear
God breathing in Deep
Cove.”

Writer
Trevor
Carolan, on
living in
Deep Cove.
(From the
News’ July
28 Our
Town spe-

CAROLAN

ple say, jail is just an
expensive way of raking
bad! people worse.”

Defence lawyer Anthony
Zipp, debating the value of
sending his client, a repeat
offender, to jail. (From a
Sept. 13 News story.)

On,

“I can’t imagine Ernie
Crist ripping cigarettes out
of mouths of bikers in bars.
I'd like to, but I imagine
he’d only do it once.”

West Vancouver Coun.
Andy Danyliu, on the need to

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three
municipali-
ties have a
consistent
no-smoking
bylaw.
(From a
Sept. 22

a News
Story.)

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“Ie was like this silent
monster coming toward
me.”

Larry McHale, who tried
frantically to clear the
Marine Drive and 22nd
Street intersection from the
path of a runaway dump
truck, on the truck's
approach. (From an Oct. 2
News story.)

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“At the last public hear-
ing, people talked of a
restaurant on the site. At
the Public Information
Meeting in March ‘96, the
restaurant was described as
a ‘Bistro.’ Now it is a con-
cession stand. At the rate
that it is being downsized,
by the time if is built, it will
be a Mr. Tubesteak.”

John Addie, during pre-
sentations to the Cates land-
ing rezoning hearing, On
potential mixed-use develop-
ment of the site. (From an
Oct. 2 News story.)

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y “3 don’t
know why
he wants ty
be a sepa-
rat.t when
the French
have been
running
the coun-
try for the
last 30
years.”
North
Shore
News columnist Doug
Collins, on debating Bloc
Quebecois MP Pierre de.
Savoye on the issue of
Quebce separation. (From an
Oct. 13 News story.)

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“One of the members ...
described (the yard) as
looking as though they
were trying to create their
own landfill.”

North Vancouver RCMP
Const. Catherine Galliford,
on the state of a garbage.
strewn North Vancouver
home that was attracting

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COLUNS

bears. (From a Nouv. 6 News

story.)
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“Generally, it is uneain-
mon that we will arrest the
same person immediately
after he has left the court
house.”

North Vancouver RCMP
Const. Catherine Galliford,
on the arrest of a teenager a
half hour after he was
released from jail. (From a
Nov. 22 News story.)

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we “I’m better.”
4 Wesi
Vancouver
District
mayor-elect
Pat Boname,
on why she -.
beat chal-
& lenger Jim
§ Hogan in the
" recent
PAT municipal
BONAME elcction.
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Nov. 20 News story.}

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“I'd rather be fiscally
responsible than a teacher's
pet.”

North Vancouver District
44 school board candidate
Tim Morrison, ws received
a C- from a teachers union
group grading prospective
candidates, on receiving a
failing grade from teachers in
their assessment of local
school board candidates.
(From a Nov. 10 News story.)

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“I'd go up on the bridge -
and jump, but there is teo
much traffic.” .

Store owner John Clark,
after more than $60,000
worth of men’s clothes were
stolen from his store, during
the Second Narrows Bridge
upgrade. (From a June 23
News story.)

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“I want you to watch
carefully when I bless the
new council and if they
don’t dissolve in a puff of
smoke you'll know they are -
all right.”

Father Ron Barnes, bless-
ing the new North Vancouver
District Council. (From a
Dec. 8 News story.)

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paid slight-. §
ly fess than

i would

have madz

at Mc-
Donaid's,

but it wasa
lot more
fun.”

Former
West
Vancouver
Coun. Andy Danyliu, on bis
counciilor’s salary. (From a
Dec. 20 News story.)

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ANDY
DANYLIU

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