larper focus The vociferous, sometimes hysterical pro- tests from Operation Solidarity against B.C.'s new human rights legislation suggest a good many of the protesters think with their lungs rather than their heads. A main thrust of the new Human Rights Act, which replaces the former Human Rights Code, is to cut through red tape and enable the government to move much more quickly on SERIOUS AND GENUINE cases. A significant example of this intent is the in- clusion in the act, for the first time, of pro- tection for the physically and mentally han- dicapped — an area not covered under the former code. - Solidarity’s claim that the Human Rights Council created by the new act will have no enforcement powers is nonsense. The coun- cil’s predecessor, the Human Rights Branch, also had no enforcement powers. Those powers are exercised by Boards of Inquiry, which will continue, as hitherto, to ad- jedicate in appropriate cases, order com- pliance with the act and set compensation for injured parties. Im order to concentrate on legitimate human rights violations the new act aims to cut down on frivolous and nuisance cases — such as the name under which an ethnic mer- chant sells perogies or “men only” playing periods at golf courses. Legal definitions have been clarified and no longer will mere “hurt feelings” be automatically sufficient to waste endless public time and money. -By focusing more sharply on vital issues often swamped in the past by nuisance cases, the new act promises a stronger defence of TRUE human rights than its forerunner. Snow job Russians are reportedly. making jokes about a new Soviet civil defence handbook. Advising people not to worry about The Bomb (unless it drops on their head), the book claims improvised shelters made of compacted snow will cut radiation by half. It's nice, at last, to get a laugh out of such a heavy subject. Hopefully, Ivan will laugh loud and long enough to send his civil defence experts back to the drawing board. VOOR WROEE OF SORT H ath WEY VancOuveEn sunday. 00 news north shore new 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, 8.C. V7M 244 ‘ Display Advertising ' Classified Advertising Newsroom 'Circutation 080-0511 985-2131 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noel Wright Tim Francis Personnel Dizector Classified Director Circulation Director Mrs. Berni Hifiard isabelle Jennings Brian A Ellis Production Director Office Manager Photography Managor Chris Johnson Donna Grandy Terry Peters North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent community newspaper and qualified under Schedule Ill Part | Paragraph Ili of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore Free Prean Lid and distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mall Registration Number 3865 Entire contents © 9982 North Shore Free Presse Ltd. All rights reserved. Subscriptions, North and West Vancouver $26 per year Mailing rates availiable on request No responsibility accepted tor unsolicited matenal including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelopes $4,700 (average Wednesday & Sunday) SDA ONAN “i betty , ey sm & THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE 986-6222 986-1337 SUMMER FUN doesn't have to come to a grinding halt at midnight on Labor Day, they figured. So the organizers of West Van’s fourth annual Coho Festival decided, this year, to put it back to the following weekend, Sept. 8- 11. That way, say Mike Nicell and Per Danielsen, co- chairmen of the popular late-season event sponsored by the West Van Chamber of Commerce, everyone will be back from vacation or the cottage, which should boost attendance even higher than at the earlier festivals. “It keeps the summer going a little longer,” Mike adds, “and we think people like that idea, once Labor Day is ~ over.” The three-day warm-up at Park Royal again brings displays, demonstrations, entertainment and children’s activities, including coloring and fishing contests. Then, on Sunday (Sept. 11), the festivities move to Ambleside Park for 10 hours of non-stop fun and games, including the famous salmon barbecue. This year also br- ings two big new highlights: visits to the Capilano salmon hatchery via the “Coho Trail”, with shuttle bus ser- vice for those who prefer wheels to walking; and a sale of top-quality canned sockeye at a bargain price, all proceeds to go to North Shore salmon enhancement projects. _ And much, much more - as the ad-men say. Stay tun- ed next week ... eon The woman who painless- ly transforms mates _in- capable of soft-boiling an egg into gourmet chefs has put it all into a book (for women, too). In big, bold print cach recipe takes up a single page, with the in- structions in simple By DOUG CHRISTIE Leader of the Western Canada Concept Party of B.C. THE RESTRAINT program of Bill Bennett comes as a major shock to the so-far limitless power of govern- ment workers unions. Ever increasing wages, reducing work loads, more holidays, more staff, more programs, and more “social concern” are becoming a thing of the past. The response of the B.C. Federation of Labour and its strongest member the BC.GE.U. 1s predic: table and selfish They are unable to face the same facts of life as the rest of us in the private sector Governments simply can- not be big brother better than the individual Social justice, concern for the poor, and activity for the handicapped cannot be done by government as well as it can by families and in. dividuals in society Bureau. cracy has grown (to. un- manageable proportions as we ask government to take sunday brunch ee by Noel Wright MEMORIES of their native Holland are kept alive for "NEWS photo Terry Peters Jacob Birza and his wife (above) by the windmill he built on their proj at 1850 MacGowan, North Van. roperty They've lived in North Van for 28 years. language. This Wednesday, Aug. 31, Eleanor Godley, the Kitchen Ranger of the News food pages, will be showing her book on CK VU- TV's 10 a.m. “Vancouver Morning” show. And next Saturday, Sept. 3, she'll autograph your copy between 2 and 3 p.m. in Woodward's bookstore, Park Royal North. Later this month, inciden- tally, Eleanor takes her show on the road, offering her popular Cookery for Senior men course at vanous Lower Mainland centres and later in the rest of B.C. — thanks to New Horizons, the Health over our individual respon- sibilities. Now we realize we can’t pay government as much as the bureaucracy demands. The government has grown into an cnormous arrogant force which is a burden on the backs of the people who pay the taxcs. Those insulated, secure and largely overpaid governemnt workers don't want to face the reality of reduced cxpec- tations and reduced bureau- cracy. The Premier's claim is quite right that restraint was an issue in the election cam- paign. The individual voters affirmed his position in that regard I must recognize therefore that the govern- ment of British Columbia has a mandate to impose restraint and | do. I support the government's position on restraint, The major regret however which I have in this present situation is that the govern- ment docs not restrain the real drain of our wealth, the government in Ottawa. The Premier did mot have a man- date to agree with the Trudeau Constitution with and Welfare Canada pro- gram devoted to the well- being of older citizens. ee Lace up the Adidas, grab the kids and hotfoot it over to Lonsdale Quay where Family Fitness Day is in full swing ‘til 4:30 this after- noon. Mass fitness classes every hour. Chit-chat with Lions and Canadians players. Shape up for fall at this final “Summerfest °83” — and don’t blow it all at the hotdog stands ... FOLKTALES: Turn-off-the- noise crusader John Beltz of West Van, chairman of the “Right to Quict” Society, has Separatist view of restraint its entrenched equalization. If the Province of B.C. did not have to equalize (that is, pay Ottawa to bribe the East) the Premier would save more than the entire restraint program upon which he is now embarked. Bilingualism, castern § han- douts, the Canadair ripoff, the bankruptcy of the Canada pension plan through loans to Ontario,the National Energy policy and tariffs to protect Ontario and Quebec industry — all this robs the peoplo of B.C. I give the Socreds this much: restraint of B.C. government workers is part of the solution, but let's restrain Ottawa too. Let's stop equalization payments until wo have 5% unemployed or even un- employment as low as any of the provinces we are equaliz- ing with, The NDP was secking to make more work. They said that more government workers is the answer. Hire moro and tax the rich to pay. Who is rich? Who can afford t ‘expanded his campaign with letters to all major depart- ment stores and super- markets — calling on them to tone down the loud, stri- dent rock which has steadily been replacing their earlier soft background Muzak ... ‘North Van PR man and bridge whiz Alan Hassell has just published the book millions of bginners, duffers and occasional players have longed for: “Beginner’s Bridge’ ($2.95 at Wood- ward’s) gives 777 specific bids in easy-to-follow chart form that you can have open beside you on the bridge table ... Busiest lady in North Van during the com-. ing two months is Dorothy Penman, admin manager of the provincial court and deeply involved in comple- |. tion of the new North Van courthouse complex opening Dec. 1. Meanwhile, daughter Dyanne is marrying RCMP Const. Peter Sharp Sept. 16; son Barrie (a North Van firefighter) hitches with West Van's Bernadette Kellof Sept. 24; and Dorothy herself leaves Oct. 8 on a 23- day trip to China and Japan .. “This fall, as our debt begins to reduce and our earnings to rise, the people who have given us their money ... willl be able to see their ship coming in.” That was the happy message for BCRIC shareholders from West Van's David Petit- pierre, BCRIC’s assistant secretary, in a speech last Monday to West Van Kiwanis ... and the same evening found North Van's “Mr. Heritage”, interior designer Jack Watts, greeting UBC’s first-year ar- chitecture students who camped out all last week in Lower Lonsdale studying the City’s history, heritage and downtown revitalization. It figures. Jack himself was a UBC architecture student in the early 1950s. WRIGHT OR WRONG: It’s odd how so many people hope for a long life but hate growing old in order to achieve it. The NDP now have only one reaction. They get their union bully boys to raise a huge throng of protesters. They ridiculed the Western Canada Concept's desires for referendum, initiative and recall as did the Socred party in the last election. Our par- ty was the only party who would give the voters a referendum to recall an M.L.A. if 15% of electors signed a petition for a recall. That would mean, as the politicians could fire the civil servants, the people could fire the politicans. Now the NDP are resor- ting to a form of mob rule. Whoever can get most peo- ple into the streets to make the most noise will make the laws. That is what happens when you don't have referendum, initiative and recall. Referendum, initiative and recall js the only way for ople to become responsi- Me, thinking and active political participants in their destiny, rather than the emo- tionally manipulated pawns we are today.