A6-Sunday News, October 5, 1980 editorial page PSAC fall guys? “Here we go again” must be the reaction of long-suffering Canadians as the first-ever strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada shuts down the mail once more and threatens all other Federal government services. Work stoppages in the public sector can have an immediate and hurtful effect on millions of non-involved citizens. In prin- ciple, at least, they are akin to hijacking or hostage-taking, with innocent bystanders held to ransom. Nevertheless, the PSAC strikers may command a good deal more public sympathy than usual on these occasions. As the front- line troops in most federal government operations, they are pretty obviously un- derpaid in the context of these inflationary times. The average PSAC wage is $12,815 a year - - $246 a week compared to today’s average industrial pay packet of around $320 a week. Hitherto the least militant of the public service unions -- possibly because so many of them are women -- the clerks have fallen significantly behind corresponding job wages in both the private sector and other public sector branches such as the postal workers. The “final” government offer rejected by the clerks would still leave them, on the average, up to $50 a week below going rates for similar work elsewhere in the first year of the contract. So we can't help feeling they have a legitimate grievance. Neither can we avoid the suspicion that PSAC members are being made the fall guys by a panic-stricken Treasury Board -- desperate to do something about the $14 billion budget deficit run up by Ottawa's wild spenders over the past decade. Home truths A new North Van District bylaw forbids the disposal of “toxic waste” — anything from explosives and petroleum products to tree branches and hog fuel — on the Premier Street dump which serves the whole North Shore. North Shore householders simply have to stockpile such garbage. It could be the best thing that's ever happened to bring environmental truths close to home. sunday news north shore news 6139 Lonsdale Ave North Vane ouver H ( VIM 2H4 (604) 985-2131 NEWS ADVERTISING CLASSIFIFEO CIREULATION 985-2131 980-0511 986-6222 986-1337 Publisher Peter opech Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noel Wrigptit bre Cardwell Classified Manage: Creative Production & Office Administrator Director Hck Stonehouse Bern Hithard Tarn Franc is faye Me Cree Managing Editor News Editor Photography Andy braner C.nnis thoy ft Weswveoetty Cte bh tse or Accounting Supervisor Chere toanr as Meret North Shore Nows bouedeo VOU as an milenpercderit cen cae Uy Cran ww sep nang vere carved Cyeacatifiesct carscdere “oe Frerctiates WE beat Wt Oana aget tt thre bomcate Tae Act in jutlintied eat We dneniay and omy toy Neoett Satire Pee bree bb cred Siete ocstand te ety Meme we thie Nereis Ssbacor es “rere cared CO Var Marat basa gieste eaten ee Nocarratives: ses’ Preatotee copeteceen Bl) poem vere briteees oc ae cg erate Lr Preve Brersm ttl AM ight eters vast Nc eNpoesabihty Soaspetes ho tease mone te We ervemb veg ten Capel teed gate Peat ts whine tf ot » rehearvagverc] ceeded eve mercd oe Vase are verte pie VE HERE © CIRCULATION 50,870 Wedoenday 49 BIB aday oe 4 SNL THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE One young man — 200 others By ESTHER McILVEEN On the bus from West Van to UBC I overheard two elderly ladies exchanging views on Terry Fox. “He's opened the hearts of many,” remarked one with a Scottish accent. The next morning I read in the North Shore News of 200 youths, probably the same age as Terry, who had closed the hearts of many with chagrin and outrage by their destructiveness at a recent house party. I wondered how many miles Terry would have had to run with his artificial leg to raise the $3,000 - $5,000 wasted in damages, not to mention the physical and emotional injuries. I reflected how one youth struck with a debilitating iliness had _ utilized his limited strength to spark an entire country with benevolence and _ inspire them to work together for a worthy cause — while 200 youths, with excess energy and healthy limbs indulged themselves, terrorizing a neighborhood, assaulting police officers with their afimal behaviour. I thought of the potential COLOR YOUR WORLD: Remember the craze a few years ago for colorful street art by amateur (and some not-so-amateur) artists on panels surrounding = con- struction jobs? It brightened up the drab scene so much better than the conventional blah industrial paint. News publisher Peter Speck brought back an intnguing new twist on the idea from a recent tnp to Cincinnati where the city buses are decorated in similar fashion One he saw was painted to represent a Rolls Royce, others” were camouflaged as antique dump trucks. Model I roadsters and = what-have Now there's a happy thought for perking up the presently drooping image of our new Urban Authonty Why not get color on to our roads you Transit and develop personahtics for our costly transit vehicles? Stop calling uo osamply the 407 bus chnsten it. instead, ‘Pmpress of Boule vard” hhe a the Grand and deck i out cruise liner Give LITA And tounsts some thing really to wnite home about cee slarving artists some (ats all the moncy ours) give Bnosh Properties ress dents arc going to have to want a htthe longer for the neal assac of Chea neighbor hood news sheet “Lally Ho bdior Wt Ray. forme: president of the BP and Arca Homeowncem Assontation is just lately back home from lions Crate Hospital con “man power” of these 200 — protecting the vulnerable in the neighborhood, assisting the police to ensure law and order, befriending those in prison instead of tearing the place apart, championing causes (such as seeking to raise funds for the new Hospice that the Lions Gate Hospital is struggling to build). Law enforcement and psychiatric counselling are good but will only touch surface synmptoms. The ee 8 significant changes will come from an inside job — the heart — where attitudes and actions will be radically changed. God has blessed this area with unusual heauty and great material wealth; but arrogance, greed, isolation and roots of bitterness are showing — and they are showing in our most valuable ' possessioms, our YOUTH. Perhaps we as parents hold a vital key. Solomon known for his sunday brunch - by Noel Wright valescing from a heart at- tack. A glutton for work (one of his many qualifications as PR honcho for Jim Patton), Wilf has also had to postpone a scheduled speech to the West Van Rotary Club this month with films of his recent visit to China Meanwhile. daughters Robin and Leeann are spinning the gospel records for him on the 15-year-old Sunday night “Wilf Ray Show” on CJOR If get well cards are cf fective in proportion to ther size, Wilf should soon be bouncing back better than new The full color card Ulustrated above. sentto him in hospital by ftmends at Scaboard Advertising measures a spectacular 17 by 20 inches It depicts Wilf rated as one of Canada’s top audtovisual soll which experts hard at work in bed says tall RLECTIONITIS:, North Van distri ( Alderman Mary Segal (dont forget her 2 4 pm coffee party this Sunday) afternoon at 679 Blucridge you District types ) has confirmed she'll be running for ore clecthon neat month That makes a full tase oof all four oan cumbeots cotered ain the Dastrict race the others being Mayor Don Bell ptus Aldermen Peter Powell and Jim Ball, Phe same situation is expected ino West Van with Mayor Derrick Humphreys, Aldermen Don Lanskefl, Bob Hicks and John Humphries ail bidding tora further term The only problem with these full slates of in- cumbents, says North Van District Alderman Ernie Crist (who won't have to face the problem personally until 1981) is that they tend to scare off outsider can- didates. As a result, diffenng viewpoints on key issues may Hever get thoroughly thra- shed out dunng the cam paign They = also serve democracy who only stand to lose. declares Erme - who had = plenty of cx penence of that kind of service before he finally topped the aldermani poll last year Top Shoppers’ Drug Mart ad man in the west. Greg Harmeson, 1s still wondering whether it was a subtle form of head office putdown when the firm's national HO in Toronto recently Mew out a discarded boardroom table for its new westerm office in Park Royals Kapilano 100 tower On arnval the thing was found to be too large to move up to the sixth floor eather by the clevator or the stairway After some cor porate head scratching they finally bit on the only other solution and thats how at " 3) oan the morning the huge bunk of furniture came to be lifted outside the building on the window washing scaffold Was Toronty trying gently to tell the westits sali not as tig as Ve Chanks itis ” SHOR I TAKES, beginning with special greetings from all deat . wisdom in dealing with people and governing a nation, received these words from God: “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (Esther Meliveen is 4a freelance writer living in Horseshoe Bay.) KING-SIZE “get well” card, 17 by 20 inches, received by Wilf Ray during recent hospitalization. See Branch story below. yourselfers to Bob Jones and Fred Nicol, Russ and Dorh Nenson, Jim Simpson, Glen and Dents Mari, and Adrian Van Der Lefj; the link (sorry about this, readers!) is that they collectively run the North Shore's five Link hardware stores and are celebrating the company's 25th anniversary this fall Bob and Fred, incidentally, have operated Pearson's on Lonsdale since 1946 — 10 years before the western chain of dealer-owned outlets was born Stepping down after a busy year as president of the PR Socicty of BC 1s West Van's Marilyn Chilvers. Shes succeeded by Alcan PR boss Les Holroyd of Vancouver North Shore Legion branches have launched a fund dnve to buy a special wheelchair (sale bus for Lions Hospital's aged and physically handicapped patents, if you'd hke to help bring in the dollars, call Bob Pappim at the North Van Legion (988)3712) And stand by for National [a Week which starts neat Friday (Oct) 12) Aan Ferries of the West Van SPEC vironment says there'll be all hinds of displays in) Park Royal to encourage us to clean up our act) Shell abso be glad to hear from anyone with thei her numbers ideas of own of help to offer Y21 7950 WRIGHT OR WRONG, The difference between o luxury and ai necessity 5 merely a matter of how badly you want