’ cabinet “minister

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VOICE OF ‘THE PEOPLE?
We'll have to wait, until,
polling day (May 31) to find

out how. many North Van-'
Seymour voters agree with.

the 207-odd Socred stalwarts
who - enthusiastically chose
Jack Davis as their candidate
again at Wednesday’s nomi-
nating meeting. The two
other very presentable con-
tenders—former Alberta
Anders
Aalorg and North Van City
ex-alderman Stella JoDean—
never got off the ground.

Davis, of course, had the
inside track as far as

‘knowledge of the riding

goes, having been its MLA
for nearly three years until
resigning last fall as a result
of his brush with the law

- (although he has consistently

BC.

claimed he did nothing
morally wrong). The aiterna-
tives for North Van-Seymour
voters, come May 31, are two
Joys and one brave Grit: the
Conservative ‘candidate is
‘Tory leader Vic
Stephens’ whiz-girl Joy

‘Gilmore, facing, in the other

corner, NDP candidate Joy
Langan. And 8B.C.’s new
Liberal leader Jev Tothill has
also chosen to try giant-
killing “ the Socreds_ in

Seymour rather than opting.

for the safer Liberal riding of
North Van-Capilano,
until January by his pre-
decessor, Gordon Gibson.

With a menu of political
Savvy, .claims of morality,
opposing Joys and naked

‘ courage to choose from, it

should be an interesting ©

‘byelection for the good
citizens of North-Van
Seymour...
“seen -
Over in North Van-

Capilano North Van District
Mayor Don Bell was. still
making up his mind Friday
whether to run for the Socred
nomination in that riding,
where three other somewhat
less well-known contenders
have already thrown their
hats into the ring. His
Worship has indicated he'll
decide finally this coming
week...

Meanwhile, on the federal
election scene, former
Burnaby alderman Russell
Hicks has been named NDP
candidate in North Van-

held -

' new twist to

Burnaby, running against
Tory Chuck Cook and (almost
certainly) former B.C:
Liberal leader Gordon Gibson
«..and North Van tax wizard
David Ingram, who lost the
Conservative nomination

there to Cook, may now try

for the Tory nod in Van-
couver Centre, where nom-
inated candidate Pat Carney
has withdrawn because of
the waiting strain on her
purse. If David makes it,
he’ll be up against Liberal
Art Phillips, former mayor of
Vancouver.

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Your humble scribe has
been consigned to the
doghouse by West Van
readers Francis and Elizabeth
Barthropp. They take excep-
tion to my ‘‘storm-in-a-
teacup"’ description of the
fuss made by another colum-

nist over that picture of a dog ©

chasing a jogger in the
official West Van Municipal

News. ‘‘Prejudiced and
grossly exaggerated...
brainwash’”’ ji how the
Barthropps describe the

picture, which WVMN editor
Louise Spratley freely admit-
ted was ‘‘staged’”’ in order to
illustrate a point about
municipal dog control. Their
lengthy letter of condem-
nation (copy to Mayor
Derrick Humphreys] gives a
the saying
‘*Every picture is worth a

thousand words’’...

se
North Van Cancer
Campaign secretary Joy

Shakespeare is literally going
up in the air about the
continuing shortage of volun-
teer door-knackers in certain
parts of North Van for the
fund-drive month beginning
April 2. She'll be talking
about the campaign around 7
to 8 a.m. next Friday
morning (March 30)—from
the CJOR traffic helicopter
bobbing around high over
the Lions Gate Bridge. More
helpers, Joy tells me, are

- particularly needed east of

Upper Lonsdale. if you can
spare an hour to call on your
neighbors there, phone her
at 986-2421 or 986-2113.

~Way’S Volunteer

A salute to Ellen Boudreau
-of North Vancouver, nomi-
nated as March Volunteer of
the Month by the United

- Action
Centre. For the . past. five
years she has been a
volunteer tutor“under North
Van’s Special Education
Program for. children who—
despite their normal intelli-.
gence—have difficulties in
learning to read by the usual
classroom methods.
spends 20 hours a week at it,
as well as raising three
children of her own and also
finding time to be a student
herself at Cap College.
That’s what I call organi-
zation!

eet

The North Van Melody
Macs, who brighten life for
extended care patients in
hospitals and other shut-ins
with singing. and entertain-
ment concerts have lost their
pianist, due to illness, and
urgently ‘need a replacement
in order to continue their
good work. If you’re qualified
and would like to help—or

‘known someone who is and

would—Ernest McLoughlin
would love to hear from you
at 985-5201.

et

Stepping up: Madeleine
Williams, elected chairman
of West Van’s Friends of the
_ Library Society in succession
to Jack Adams...stepping
down: North Van teachers
Owen Forsyth (Argyle) and
Robert Laidlaw (Hamilton),
retiring this June after 18
and 14 years service respect-
ively..tstépping in: Human

. Resources Minister Grace

McCarthy who will talk to
this Wednesday’s lunch
meeting of the North Shore
Safety Council at the Canyon
Gardens on traffic safety
(the amazing Grace is also
minister responsible for
ICBC).

ee

WRIGHT OR WRONG: If
you want to launch big ships.
you have to go where the
water is deep.

She

~ nomination tactic

A potential candidate in
the May 31 provincial by-
election in North Vancouver-
Capilano has hit out at
nomination-by-salesman-
ship.

Dr. Keith Winter, one of
the three present contenders
for the Social Credit nomina-
tion in that riding says it has
become common practice in

B.C. for candidates to win

pary nominations. by. selling
new memberships. He
charges that they strive to

pack the meeting with a
block of 200° "committed *

votes.

“This i is the worst wily to
elect a candidate,’’ declares

‘Winter. ‘lt is.no service to-
‘the public to be offered

someone who has not addres-

_ sed himself to the concrete

concerns of the community.”’

Candidates he maintains,
should, be elected on their
involvement ‘in the comm-

_unity and their ability to

handle difficult, social and
economic problems. not their
door-to-door sales record of
new party memberships.

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nomination is to sell as many ~

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Consequently, he says, the -

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stop to identify the main
concerns in the community.

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