Socred government. it thas ‘undertaken to

.“yeimburse North Vancouver and Port Moody:

| mudslide victims, for damage to their homes

and property. — Jess $500 “deductible” in the
‘case of house contents, cars and Personal
effects...

.. That: means. each of
automatically stands to lose up to $500 this
Christmas. Where damage was confined

solely to furniture, vehicles and personal |

belongings. up to $500, there would
presumably be no recompense at all.

The paltry saving to the government could
be as. little as $10,000 out of a total bill
running into many hundreds of thousands.
Come to think of it, even Scrooge might have

blushed. .

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the

the . ‘victims

‘New York” ‘campaign came |

outof these discussions. but

“what is not So well known is’

that the’ “underlying Strategy
powerful business
mapnates selected to reverse

‘ the horrendous drain on.
‘New York's economy was to

auract and .develop . small
and medium-size in-

| dependent business. _

os Suddenly, leaders of big _
‘business. are. “saying that ..
sound: economic — ~planning
for, their eity

does not

OFF-N-RUNNING, Cap-
ilano MP Ron
Minister of State for Small
Business, wasted no time in
gearing up for his second
election campaign in cight
months following last weck’'s
debacle in Ottawa. The
Clark government lost its
confidence vote on Thur-
sday evening. Barely 24
hours later’ Ron's in-
defatigable riding manager
Gwen Skakum already had
Ron's local campaign office
booked — in Park Royal

South’s Kapilano 100
building on the gallery floor.

Next question is who (if
anyone) the Grits will get to

indestructible Mr.
tington this time? In any
case, it won't be Dave Finlay
who carried the Liberal
banner last May and wound
up nearly 14,000 votes
behind Ron. As a newly
elected West Van alderman,
Dave intends to fulfil his
obligations to the municipal
voters and stay put (it's also
rumored he thought the

budget which brought the, |

Tories down was a pretty
sound one).

North Van-Burnaby MP
Chuck Cook (sensible man!)
is taking a short vacation
over Christmas before
hitting the local campaign
trail later this week, but that
doesn't stop you from calling

‘his North Van constituency

office (986-5381) which has
to be one of the best
organized ‘in the country.
Long after normal office
hours you'll still get through
10 riding secretary Monica

thead offices that will move ~ ir

away at the first sign of

' trouble. :
"The New York Port

Authority put it this way:
“When a smail or medium

size business locates in‘-a-
community, you can be : sure”

it will remain there for a
good length of time. And the

multiplier effect is higher
‘than for any other type of

business activity.”

Overnight, it seemed,

small. became beautiful. ...
Even in New York. And"
_ while ivory tower economic

‘planners ‘are talking
“economies of scale” and

Nelson or sonic other helpful: ;

voice. Meanwhile, ramors
about former B.C. Liberal
leader Gordon Gibson —
whom Chuck defeated seven
months ago by ‘a handy
2,000-plus votes -- have
apparently been set at rest
by a statement from Gor-
don’s office that he definitely
intends to take another
swing at Mr. Cook. The most
interesting rumor up to that
point, incidentally had
suggested Gordon might try
his luck this time against
Ron Huntington in Capilano.
The theory there was that if,
by some miracle, he could
unseat Ron, he'd have the
stature necessary to make a
serious bid for the national
Liberal leadership when the
reluctantly recycled Pierre
finally walks the plank

Then, there's always the
Rhinoceros Party, valiantly
represented at the May
election by Richard the Troll
who won all of 310 votes out
of the 41,000 cast in
Capilano. Compared with
the lunacy that crupted 10
days ago on Parliament Hill,
the R.P. might qualify as a
very sound official o
position. Finally, in this
million midwinter election
nobody wanted, we have
West Van Mayor Derrick
Hamphreys concerned
about being one- alderman
short for the next two
months. Newly elected

Alderman Diana Hutchinson’
, as federal returning officer

for Capilano -- a job that
doesn’t leave any time for
council duties.

in. - this” “country .
Canadian. Federation | of.

Ayatollah’s

‘jobs created. in ‘the |

the small ‘business sector.

_ between 1969'and 1977. were

due to firms with Jess than 20
employees. Pes

A ‘similar study conducted
“the |

‘Independent Business gave
just.abou the same results:
59%-0f allnew. jobs between

- 1971-and_1977-were created”:

ped firms with fewer than 20.

by y Noel Wri ght

Takimg pictures of pain
irees in) Iraq uthais = the

neighbor) can be a tricks
business as North » Van

engineer David Popkin will

tesuls. David. who'd been
eut there Gn ai job, was
mogcently photographing
the local scenery jase prior
fo ying back home lor
Chrsimas when the gen-
darmes descended, grabbing
his camera. passport aad ¢anit
visa. de scems thes ve neo in-
al-MNne a -al-four service m
Irag. x0 David fad to cool
his heels in an hotel tor wo
worrying weeks while they
developed his film and found
showed .... yust pal trees.
Passport returned, he was

finally reanited here fast
week with anxious, wile
Mary.

oes

If you sometimes com-
plain about being ‘frozen
stuff, don’t expect to impress
City Alderman Frank
Marctno. Recalling boyhood
adventures at North Van
Chamber of Commeénce's
Christmas open house, he
told of the time when he fell
through the = ice
Manitoba pond in midwinter
while trying to rescue some
frozen-in ducks. “I ran home
as fast as I could,” he said,
“but it took half an hour
before the kitchen fire
before | could thaw my
frozen clothes enough to get
them off.”

one

HITHER AND YON; if
you want to know how

. Mythology”:

nextdyor |

into a.

’s Now that New York has
moved, -perhaps Canada’s
independent business sector
can expect more concrete.

. action.

“As in so many situations, .
Canada's bureaucrats seem

to move faster once the © -
“YL Americans proffer their seal |

Of ‘approval ona new’ idea, ¢

‘an idea whose time has . -

‘undoubtedly arrived.

women got to be the way

they are (mostly delightful),

you can find out next month —
for a mere twenty-five bucks
at North Shore ¢ Night School,

where Barbara Newton is

giving a course on “Feminine .-
shell be ex-
plaining how it all started
with the image of Woman
painted by the ancient
Greeks in their literature, art
and philosophy — so now,
ladies, you know at last
who's to blame ... A nice
Christmas present for West
Van's Michael Kaye arrived
in the form of the silver.
medal of the Instituje of
Chartered Accountants of
B.C, for winning the second
highest) marks in the
province in the national final
exams — he works for
Thorne Riddell ... Looking .
forward to making the most
of it are ‘Catherine Sill and
Mario

nm Langdale of Sentinel
Secondary, “and Bill
Mclatosh of West. Van

Secondary, who've all been
granted six months leave of
absence starting January 1 ...
A pat on the back to Brian
Stanhope of North Van, just
appointed B.C. manager of
the Insurance Bureau of
Canada ... And finally a
nice, warm gesture by West
Van Constable George
Phillipson who assisted in
providing security for our
profit-sharing - party. He's -
donated the share of the
handout forced on him at the
time to the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation. Many thanks
again, George and WVPD.

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