‘a «? |Doug Collins @ get this straight @ IT IS nice to know that Cherie Geauvreau will be able to complete her book Dinner at the Rooster Tail. With a little help from the taxpayer, you know. ] have never met Cherie. Had never heard of her, even. But there was a news item in the Gulf Islands Driftwood the other day that introduced me to her and her heartwarming story. The Canada Council has given the grateful Ms. Geauvreau $10,000. Which means, one gathers, that her important work on the Windsor-Detroit area will | soon be available to a yearning Canadian public. If she can find a publisher, that is, which isn’t quite certain right now. You may not think that what has gone on in the Windsor- Detroit area is of any great in- terest to the inhabitants of the West Coast, or the East Coast, or indeed to anyone except those who are unfortunate enough to live in the Windsor-Detroit area. If you think that, though, it on- ly goes to show that you are narrow-minded. So let us give thanks that the Canada Council is looking after broader minds. Cherie, currently nesting on Saltspring, told the Driftwood that she grew up in the Windsor- Detroit area and that Dinner at the Rooster Tail is a series of vignettes and poetry about that region between the years 1945 and } 1968. She assured the reporter, too, that those were very in- teresting years for the Windsor- Detroit area. I should hope so! I would ob- ject to our having to pay 10,000 bucks on uninteresting years. But lots of things were happening then, she says. Cherie tells us, too, that you really have to “focus’’ on what you do if yc. cre after money from the Canada Council. ‘*You just can’t say ‘I'd like to write a book and could you give me some money.’ ’’ On the other hand, she says, “‘They’re n-: too stringent.”’ Glad to hear it. I think I'll start focusing right away. The Canada Council is bound to be sym- pathetic to a deserving bloke like me. And if I get $10,000 1 might even move to Saitspring. xk wk I don’t suppose you go tc bed at night worrying about how the radio stations are doing in a market that becomes more com- petitive by the year, if not the minute, but the departure of Dave Barrett from CJOR inspired me to take a look at who is up and who down. It may surprise you to learn that, province-wide, the station with the largest audience isn’t CKNW. It’s the CBC’s little old CBU, which at 8 a.m. has just § over 100,000 listeners compared with ‘‘top dog”? ’NW’s 86,700. That ir due, in part, to CBU’s Co-op opposed A PLANNED cooperative housing complex in the 800 block of Tobruck Avenue is one step.away from final approval even though some area residents oppose the plan. “The neighborhood is going to become more run down,’’ John Rich told North Vancouver City Council ‘Monday. ‘(The plan) doesn’t conform to guidelines.’’ Rich, a lawyer acting on behalf of three property owners near the new complex, said the 29-unit proposal spells the ‘‘deterioration of the neighborhood.”’ But project architect Tom Mor- ton was unaware the complex fail- ed to meet the city’s Hamilton-Fell By STEPHEN BARRINGTON News Reporter development guidelines restricting building in the area. City planner Richard White said the development guidelines were not cast in stone. ‘‘i’ve heard nothing from the planning department,”’ said Morton. See Council having booster stations in the far places. Still, ‘NW reaches most places on the coast and Vancouver Island where more than six people congregate, so those numbers can't all be ascribed to network facilities. The CBC does well even in the local market, racking up 43,800 at 8 a.m. and so coming second to NW’s 77,300. CKLG is third at that time with 33,400, and CFOX- FM fourth with 29,800. I find it painful to listen to the squeaky female voices that pro- liferate on CBC, but find myself overruled by Gray Eyes. My con- solation is that I don't have to listen 10 the gabble-gabble ads, CBC radio having no adver- tisements apart from the odd public service message. If | want ads, I’ll read the paper. (I say that even though I lived in sin with commercial radio for some years, ungrateful dog that I am.) Radio is competitive? That was an understatement. There are 13 radio stations in this area, all hustling for business. The newest one is CJJR, sister to CJOR. Alas, it came on the air with a big splash and is still trying to make the shore. But the biggest joke in radio has to be the CBC’s French-language station, CBUF-FM, which has 700 people tuning in at 8 a.m. That’s its top audience for the day. Bet- ween 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. it averages a big 475, and for much of the rest of the day no one is listening. Millions of dollars could be sav- ed by wiping out French radio and TV in the West, the TV audience not being much bigger than the radio one. But the politicians and other lunatics would never hear of it. ‘We're a French country, you know. Brian Baloney said so. 9 - Friday, January 9, 1987 - North Shore News Chairman elected THE NORTH Vancouver Recre- ation Commission announced the re-election of commissioner Wayne Shulstad as chairman for his third year. 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