A6 - Sunday, November 27, 1983 - North Shore News EE editorial pag ¢ NEWS VIEWPOINT All right, Jack? West Van School Board’s decision to cancel teachers’ ‘‘professional days’’ in order to make up the three instructional days lost in the recent strike seems a commonsense solution to a confused situation. Let's get things straight. By striking illeg- ally, the teachers robbed their students of three days schooling. Those three days must obviously be restored this year. One way, of course, might have been to allow teachers to retain their scheduled non- teaching professional days and simply leng- then the school year by three days. But why should 12,000 or more innocent parties — the students and their parents — suffer such addi- tional inconvenience from the teachers’ illegal act? If the latter feel professional days are vital to their career development, why can’t they take that paid non-instructional time AFTER school is out at the end of June? If they did, presumably they would be entitled to be paid out of West Van’s share of the estimated $18 million saved province-wide during the strike. Education Minister Heinrich has said the sav- ings should be used in the current year, ex- pressly in order to make good the three lost days. The teachers’ leaders, on the other hand, have been demanding that the savings be held over to reduce 1984-85 layoffs. In any event, teachers must recognize that they can’t have their cake and eat it in the current year. Either they forfeit their professional days (or postpone them until term is over), or they tell their students: ‘‘We’re all right, Jack — hard luck you’re winding up the year short of three days in class!’’ Strange logic What’s so wrong about showing speed limits in kilometres AND miles, selling meat by the kilo AND the pound? In Britain, separ- ated from metric Europe by only = 22 miles/35km of Channel, school students were learning inches and centimetres side by side half a century ago with no mental ill-effects. It's a strange logic that urges Canadians to become bilingual but forbids them the simpler pleasures of being ‘‘bi-numeral’’. sunday — Otaptay Advearttaing 980-0511 news Classified Advertising 986-6222 north shore | Newsroom 965 2131 news Circulation 986 1337 Subacriptions 980 7081 1139 Lonsdale Ave North Vancouvwo: O. vim /H4 Publiahor |’ Moe Asouciate Publiatrer tdttor in Cmet Advoctiotag Omwocte. He ee soto Moe Wy nofoa Personnel Dtroctau. \ lesaltted Dito tau. Cte ubation Diroc tur the: tlle cesta iver ber ty rs MA now Production Dtro« te. rot , tone a . , Office Manoye: rewtoygraphy Manage North Shouse News tw ” . ue » rete ry toe " no wet . . Nee ' : . » wo a MAS te . "4 Wee bintere « anevionta ‘eas Naoetty Shore bree Preee ttc A ‘tights ‘eee: vod Member of the 6 © ceeG | Press (Cuounc ll 4 (tM Soy smi G&G THIS PAPER Ib MRECYCLABLE FINAL SCORECAST: Lions 26, Argos 21. Relax, did 1 ever lie 10 you before. . .? * s s A FAMILY TREE of Vien- nese restaurateurs dating back to the 17th century, with strong roots on the North Shore for the past two decades, is about to sprout yet. another branch. At brunchtime next Sunday (Dec. 4) longtime West Van resident Helmut Petrak, wife Anne and family launch their latest venture, Perry’s Res- laurant, in a stately 1910 mansion house at St. John's and Elgin in Port Moody. Helmut arrived in Van- couver in 1960 to build and manage Trader Vic's at the Bayshore, and lived orig- inally in the Hobbit House on Capilano Road in its pre-res- taurant days. Later there followed a stint in England and Europe, opening up Trader Vic’s in London for the Hilton chain and a string of Esso motor hotels on the continent. Back here tn 1969, making his home on Bayridge in West Van, he joined with two partners to build and open im = quick = succession three popular Lower Main- land dining places — the Three Greenhorns on Den- man, the S.S. Essington at the Wharf and the Salmon House on the Hill. The part- ners also became involved in the operation of the old Ritz Hotel, as well as hostelries and restaurants in California, Washington State and Alberta In 1979 Helmut sold out sunday brunch by Noel Wright and spent the next four years sailing the South Pacific with visits to Australia and New Zealand, winding up _ the Odyssey with the loss of his boat on a Christmas Islands reef. This fall, having surviv- ed the call of the sea, he found the call of his ancestors again too strong to resist. HELMUT PETRAK ... call of bis ancestors wins out. Perry’s, in a distinguished old hentage building where the steel first reached the coast, is the result. This time, in the centuries-old tradition, it’s a strictly Petrak-family affair — which means the meal alone could be well worth the dmve for North Shore friends . . . e es e Trouble-free poinsettia shopping is being offered by — of all people — the Van- couver Youth Symphony Or- chestra, which 1s sponsoring a pormnsettia sale to raise funds for 1s program. Red, white and pink plants avail- able at $6 50 each, including TASKS AHEAD FOR... 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What could be simpler? s * s Sept. 6-9, 1984 is still some time away, but that’s the date for a grand four-day reunion of all Commonwealth war- time aircrews in Winnipeg. They’re organizing it now DAVID BARR .. . double honors from high-tech and science. and want to hear from every- one who is eligible and inter- esting in attending. Details from Allister McDiarmid, P.O. Box 2639, Winnipeg, Man. R3C 4B3 — or phone (204) 489-9256... e o * FOLKTALES: Whoever emerges the winner at today’s lictle shindig in B.C Stadium, local Tomes are already the winners at tomor- row night’s $150-a-plate fund-raiser dinner for Brian Mutroney and his Mila — the P.C.s have sold a_ record 1,500 tickets and taken over both Hotel Vancouver Speaking at a recent sym pesmum on Canadas space program at York bo niversity Gsatry Lindberg dirccotor of the NRC's Acta nautical Establishment. said this new teduice the Natioal technology will possibility oot damage and accidents aud therefore tmrease the satets and cttictemey ot space (lights Coround tests adi ate the system cam reduce the tame needed to tnstall pay foads in the shuttle Cage hold tour ot frou neatly Mall oan about five ue ovis thhinkutes ballrooms for the bash. The Mulroneys will be at the Grey Cup game, of course, this afternoon, no doubt picking up halftime tips from Premier Bill Bennett and plagued by only one small problem: when you fly from the east to win the west, which team do you cheer? . The North Shore is handsomely represented among the province's ruling legal beagles. The 25 Ben- chers elected by the Law Society of B.C. for 1984-85 include West Van's Tom Braidwood, Q.C. and Jack Edwards, along with North Van’s Kenneth Fawcus and David Tupper, Q.C. ... Double honors have been won by Sentinel grad and second-year BCIT student David Barr of West Van, recipient of a $500 Xerox Canada scholarship and the Jack Woodard Memorial Award in Physics (in which he achieved a 98 per cent mark) U of Vic grads presented with their degrees at yesterday's Fall Convoca- uon included North Vancou- verites Carolyn Therese Mc- Callum (B.Ed.), Colleen Patricia Drain (B.Sc. in Nur- sing) and Catherine Jean Matter (M.Ed.) Con- grats to Margaret Ashby, hitherto of the Toronto Dominion Bank at [Sth and Lonsdale, on her promotion to assistant manager of the TD’s Richmond Main Branch, where she starts tomorrow ... s ° e WRIGHT OR WRONG: Then there was the Argo fan who thought ‘‘The Day After’’ was a movie about the Monday following the Grey Cup party FARTHM ROBOTS Tandberg said the proyes will also provide industria! benefits to Canada by creat ing a high tech for Canadian aerospace com panics (which should be atle toosell operational systers to the UL OS NASA) spiro oftsain che frebd ot tidhas new market Space agen y ana by prroosvdnrepe Chiral robots used on canth The clements of (he svsteus ine dude reflective surfaces on the target objyects tsatcthitcs cle). a laser light seruree Tas Whustenate the reflectors tele VUSHORD CAETICEAS AN SCTISOES atid a special pout prarse certs bora computer that wall proces Aata and produce a disgrlay vevedbeartirige Che prorsiticn akties tendo anid trrction of the tapes crbyee tt pedatese te thee strat de Peas aetapesor tage Cf ob pecs toe wrapped bey thye arian bee witht aprteate or a es On Py Spec Deri pera Thad SL : ee aout ve th eb tre vvsteurr wali atnes toe cul: Ch et ee OY de tle. theo Poste vpe tapes Nprace ten vhvate owell bye ty bec haope tes bresesqgeres fon baons PRONE be meearn gy avseristely aiyet aligrrriie rye vel Var we vga strap tures OC aareatehtaaer We teres Ne wee