JUST THINK OF YOURSELF AS
A“ GUEST OF THE STATE"...

6 — Sunday, September 16, 1990 ~ North Shore News

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NEWS VIEWPOINT

Industry railroaded

HILE BC Rail and its striking

unions engage in a war of words,

the economic noose around the
necks of North Vancouver waterfront in-
dustries is drawn ever tighter.

The strike is now into its 13th day, and
both sides appear to be farther apart than
they were when talks initially collapsed.

The company maintains that 150 out-
standing issues remain on the table; the
unions, which initially demanded a 23 per
cent wage increase in a one-year contract,
maintain that there is only one main issue:
contracting out.

But while both sides assail the other with
the semantics of strike psychology, there
remains one main issue for all the North

Vancouver waterfront industries that de-
pend on the BC Rail system to receive and
transport their products: survival.

Port facilities such as Fibreco Inc. and
Vancouver Wharves Ltd. are already suf-
fering.

Faced with the BC Rail strike and
plummeting grain prices that are :tting
the squeeze on North Vancouver grain ele-
vators, the North Shore waterfront could
soon grind to a halt.

As in most labor disputes, the need for a
strike in the BC Rail situation was ques-
tionable.

What is beyond question, however, is
the need to end that strike, whether by a
return to negotiation or through the in-
stitution of emergency legislation.

NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“IT never actually saw the original
quotation myself. I haven't got
time to write all this stuff in detail
myself.””

West Vancouver Mayor Don
Lanskail, responding to charges
that a message to the community
from Mayvr Don Lanskail in a
municipal newsletter about the
controversial Cypress Ridge Golf
course misquoted a statement
from a report prepared for the
municipality by landscape ar-
chitect John Neill in 1973.

“1 think it’s a matter of time until
we lose someone.”*

Publisher

Associate Editor

. Peter Speck
Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw
Noe! Wright
_ Advertising Director Linda Stewart

Dr. Robert Fris, commenting on
the need for a temporary
helicopter landing site on Grand
Boulevard.

“‘Governments are voted out, not
voted in.”’

North Vancouver-Capilano
MLA Angus Ree, on the NDP
provincial election win in Ontario.

“I could be sweating it out with
Mozart or with a jazz combo. I
enjoy it all.’’

Capilano College Orchestra
leader Arthur Polson, on his love
for music.

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“We were all given hard hats,
coveralls, linked with a sash cord
and given a knife in case we had
to cut it because you were tied to
the wrong guy.”’

North Vancouver City ad-
ministrator and orginal North
Shore Rescue Team member Gerry
Brewer, recalling the carly days of
the rescue squad.

“When it comes to lives, $40,000
is not a lot of money."*

North Vancouver City Ald. Bill
Bell, supporting construction of a
temporary helipad at Grand Boul-
evard.

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986-1337
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MEMBER

Nothing to beat
elobe-trotting
the tough way

IN THE REMOTE REGIONS of western China, bordering
on Pakistan, tourists are few and far between. Unescorted
53-year-old widows from Lynn Valley with backpacks are

even more rare.

So meet Anne Marsh (if you
haven't already).

Well known, with her late hus-
band Don, in local community
theatre circles, Anne returned
home in July from a 12-month
**budget traveller’’ trip round the
world that even fit, adventurous
20-year-olds might have hesitated
about.

Leaving North Van in July
1989, she visited her mother in
Brighton, England, then few di-
rectly to India — falling in along
the way with her travelling com-
panion for the next two months,
Hope Beverstein of Toronto,
described as ‘*a most intrepid lady
of 75."

The pair explored Delhi,
Kashmir, Daramsala (home of the
exiled Dalai Lama) and the Gold-
en Temple at Amritsar before
crossing ino Pakistan and follow-
ing the Karakorum Highway into
China, along the historic **Silk
Road.”

From there they traversed the
breadth of China by bus, train
and boat — sleeping in *‘very
hard” Chinese beds, usually ad-
joined by the most primitive of
**bathrooms,"’ for $1 a night.

“*le was hot and humid, dusty
and noisy, crowded and
frustrating,’’ says Anne, ‘*but
always interesting. Even the lan-
guage barrier didn't prevent us
from communicating with many
of the locals by sign language and
elaborate charades."’

At Yanshou the couple’s ways
parted, Anne moving on to Hong
Kong (‘flashing my plastic
again!’’) and then to Tokyo. In
Japan she stayed with West Van
and Japanese friends before
heading for Australia by way of
Thailand, Singapore and In-
donesia.

Landing at Darwin (where she
lived in 1964), Anne half-circled
the island continent, visiting
Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and
Sydney. From there she flew to
Auckland, New Zealand, to wave
her Maple Leaf flag and sing ‘‘O
Canada” at the Commonwealth
Games.

Island-hopping via Fiji,
Raratonga and Tahiti, she landed
in Los Angeles and headed south
to catch Rio de Janeiro at carnival
time.

And then the grand climax — a
13-week overland camping safari
back to Quito, Ecuador, with 23
fellow travellers in a Bedford
truck. Visiting Brazil's famous
Tguacu Falls and the Chile-Bolivia
salt flats. Skiing at 5,300 metres
outside La Paz. Dodging guerrillas

MARILYN BAKER ... new polit-
ical turf.

Noel

HITHER AND YON

in northern Peru. Exploring the
Inca Trail and the Amazonian
Basin rain forest. Finally (‘the
biggest thrill of all’’) a trip to the
Galapagos Islands.

Now back at her computer with
the Vancouver law firm where
she’s worked for 19 years, Anne
still finds one aspect of her global
adventure hard to believe, ‘‘It was
amazing how easy it all was, and
how friendly locals and other
travellers were to me!”’

The explanation may be as close
as her mirror. And in any case,
the itch in her feet hasn’t yet
disappeared.

Anne’s now eagerly watching
for news of the Tibet border being
opened up!

kaK

TAILPIECES: Nominated unop-
posed Thursday — to nobody’s
surprise —- as Socred candidate in
Lonsdale, District Mayor Marilyn
Baker says she expects a tough
fight against NDPer David
Schreck. She's a six-time winner
municipally. He’s a three-time
loser provincially and federally. ©
But it’s Marilyn who's on new po-
litical turf in a new, untested sw-
ing riding, and she’s smart to ac-
knowledge the odds from the
start... Meanwhile, worried
business types still have time to
register for the detailed three-hour
GST seminar Thursday, Sept. 20,
from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the
North Shore Winter Club, spon-
sored by North Van Chamber of
Commerce. For tickets —
Chamber members $25, non-~
members $35 — call 987-4488
soonest.

rake
WRIGHT OR WRONG: Prob-
lem-solving will be no problem at
all once someone figures how to
unscramble scrambled eggs.

ANNE MARSH ...
how easy!"'

“amazing

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