6 - briday, Junuary 29, 1988 0 North Shore News INSIGHTS Will NV man put damper on Olympic ski champs? WATCH OUT CALGARY! North Van ‘‘rainmaker" Doug Pederson is at it again. If he’s thwarted, he may hex the Winter Olympics by removing the already meagre snow on your downhill ski site. “sacred significance’? — and that same year his sister found the c- cand rock not too far from the site of the First. Now he wants the rocks exhib- A 39-year-old computer pro- grammer and self-taught shaman, Doug hit the headlines in July (986 after nearly a month of rain had plagued Expo. He claimed to have brought on the downpour because Expo cefused to exhibit two Indian medicine rocks he possesses. Expo Commissioner Patrick Reid finally relented. The rocks went on display. The rain miraculously on the world fair until it ended in October. Doug. who has some part-Indian rctatives and feels a strong at- tachment to the native people, found the first of the unusually. shaped rocks 16 years ago while crushing gravel near White Court, Alberta. It popped out of the crusher whole, landing 30 feet away, Eleven years later, attending ited during the Olympics in the native artifacts show, The Spirit Sings, at Calgary's Glenbow Museum, but to date the muscum brass has replied ‘‘no way!"* if they don't change their minds pronto, Doug says he'll perform a “Chinook Dance’’ next week to melt what little of the white stuff has so far fallen on Mount Allan. Glenbow Museum's p.r, manager Jobn Giichrist says there isn’t resented. On behalf of thern all, retired judge Alfred Watts thanked the Anniversary Committee. Meanwhile, Shaw Cable TV is producing a special on the Achiever program — stay tuned for details. POSTCRIPTS: Over 250 business and community types turned out Tuesday for 7:30 a.m. coffee and stopped and the sun shone brightly yey a psychic fair, h t had THREATENING TO RAIN on the Olympic ski slopes...self-proclaimed shaman Doug Pederson of North Van with one of his magic Indian rocks. Health howl ORTH SHORE councils cannot afford further PNititetne os what action to take over the ine- - quities of provincial funding for the North Shore Union Board of Health’s preventive programs budget. . Motions made Monday night st all three council meetings threatening municipal withdrawal from the NSUBH’s funding formula by July 1 should have been made years ago. North Vancouver City aldermen fearing the motion is too strong should realize that the provincial funding inequity, which has the North Shore receiving a frac- tion of the provincial money that other municipal health boards receive, has been thus for the past 20 years. - With the withdrawal of West Varcouver’s School District 45 from NSUBH funding and the possibility of North Vancouver’s School District 44 following suit, local public health care, already operating from substandard facilities, is headed for a major financial crisis. 7 . Continued nervous foot-dragging in the guise of local political prudence will only encourage continued provincial foot-dragging in the. redress. of what is 2 glaring inequity. : Because the NSUBH, unlike its Lower Mainland counterparts, is affixed to ro single municipality, its four remaining funding members each shoulder partial responsibilities for its overall welfare. ; But the only way to raise the furor needed to penetrate provincial ears is to adopt a loud united North Shore front that can no longer be ignored, as it has been for the past 20 years. Danish at the Cap Mall launch of North Shore Tourism’s 1988 pro- gram. On a cool January morn, with ideas galore a-popping, that adds up to real enthusiasm for at last putting the North Shore firmly on the tourist map ... Elected to the board of directors of Canadian Crossroads Internationa! is Wayne Robertson of North Van — for several] years an active member of CCI which sends volunteers to work on projects in Third World enough of it there to worry about anyhow, and that Doug isa charlatan. Expo Commissioner Reid didn’t take any such chances and Expo was rewarded with three sunny closing months. So if Doug goes ahead next week with his threat, keep a sharp cye on the Olympics weather across the Rockies. Icinay be originating in North Van! THE HUMOROUS IRONY of one presentation wasn't lost on the 200-odd participants at Tuesday evening’s reception honoring Tid- dlycove’s 75 “‘Achievers’*. Named among West Van's worthiest in commemoration of the municipali- ty’s 75th Anniversary Year was Jotin James Munro, a.k.a. tougl- talking IWA boss Jack Munro, who received his award with con- gratulations from his old sparring partner of bygone days on the op- posite side of the bargaining table — Mayor Don Lanskail, former head of Forest Industrial Rela- tions. Most of the 50 living Achievers appeared in person to collect their certificates and most of the re- mainder, living or dead, were rep- © friday focus oe countries and brings Third World volunteers to Canada for a reciprocal experience ... Well worth a visit is the “ATHLETES: Photographs 1860-1986"* exhibiti- On now showing at Presentation House until Feb.28 — with its complement of local and personal “*sporting'' photos contributed by North Shore residents ... And if you were ever a student, parent or teacher at McPherson Park Junior Secondary ia Burnaby, mark April 21-23 in red on your calendar. Those are the dates of a big reu- nion party prior to the closing of the school in June after 37 years — featuring tours, displays, memorabilia, a student talent showcase and athictic contests. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Some people will diet on any kind of food they can lay their hands on. 2EWS photo Nell Lucente INTO THE LIONS' DEN,,.Capilano MP Mary Collins (centre), braving a tour of the North Shore News, chats with managing editor Barrett Fisker (right) and photographer Mike Wakefield. Publisher ... Peter Speck Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Directer . Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph tl of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. 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