6 - Sunday, February 10, 1985 - North Shore News Editorial Page. ‘News Viewpoint The ‘PJ’ issue ore community input is needed on the Pauline Johnson arts centre issue. West Van School Board would be ill- advised to rush into a final decision tomorrow. The basic cases for and against using the closed-down school as a home for the visual and performing arts over the next. several years have been aired. But the wishes of the community at large have yet to be fully voiced. That calls for further public discus- sion meetings. In terms of space and location, the PJ building is clearly the best presently available for an arts centre. As to community support, the Arts Council points to its own 1,500 ac- tive members plus the many other West Van residents involved, as spectators and au- diences, in its shows and performances. However, some more specific facts and fig- ures on the latter might help its cause. French immersion, the rival bidder for PJ’s facilities, currently involves less than 400 students. Even with its pianned expan- sion, the program could be accommodated in the closed-down Cedardale school for up to the next three years, and additional vacant classroom space elsewhere in the District is reportedly available. Closer examination of these alternatives is required. . It’s not enough merely to argue that “Pauline Johnson has always been a school’’.. Trustees are elected to manage the schools: in. the community’s best interests, which in the present instance means manag- “ing EMPTY.SCHOOL SPACE in the com- munity’s best interests. They need more time than their arbitrary Feb.t1 deadline allows to establish what these interests really are. ° -: To carry out its community mandate, the ‘Board should pause---and dig. John Quixote e agree, the last thing North Van needs is undercover prostitution. But City Ald. John Braithwaite’s move . te ban future escort: service businesses does smack.a little of Don Quixote tilting at wind- mills. Whatever itappened to the good old tradition of. presuming innocence until guilt is proven—especially when there’s no one so far to accuse? _ Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 . Newsroam 985-2131 Circulation 986-1337 Subscriptions 965-2131 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, 8.C, V7M 2H4 Publisher Peter Speck Marketing Director * Operations Manager Robert Graham Berni Hilliard Advertising Director Circulation Director Dave Jenneson Bill McGown Editor-in-Chief Noel Wright . Dis fay Advertising Manager _— Production Director ike Goodsell . . Chris Johnson Classified Manager Photography Manager Val Stephenson Terry Peters “North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban hewspaper and qualified under Schedule Ii, Part UI, Paragraph Hl of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Entire contents ' 1985 North Shore Free Press Ltd. Ail rights reserved. Subscriptions, North and West Vancouver, $25 per yeat. Mailing rates available on request. No responsibility accepted for unsolicited maternal including _inanuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a slamnped. addressed envelope. Member of the B.C. Press Council 55,770 (average, Wednesday | SDATDIIBION Friday & Sunday) wae CDe THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE OFF TO SOME REAL SUNSHINE ... News publisher Peter Speck (lef) bids ‘‘Aluha” to departing photographer Ellsworta Dickson, an institution at The News for the past 14 years. our famous Page Five feature has a better Te SUNSHINE GIRL you’ve never seen in claim to the title than any of them when it comes to the career of the photographer. Ellsworth Dickson has served The News for 14 of its 16 years, capturing with his camera hundreds of Page Five beauties in addition to his longtime ‘Inquiring Reporter’? column and’ many other photo features, but for some time past he’s been ex- ploring fresh career challenges. So it is that tomorrow morning he boards a plane heading west to a new job where the sun- shine almost never ends. And it’s pretty obvious that a lovely lady called Leilani, who'll be foliowing him in about a month, has had more than a little to do with it. In her own case she'll be following him back home--- to sun-drenched Hawaii where she grew up and where her parents and brothers still live. She arriv- ed in North Van, via California, in 1972 and years later Ellsworth met her when she, too, worked as a staffer at The News. Fourteen mon- ths ago, on a snowy December evening, they were married (each for the second time) in Deep Cove’s tiny St. Simon’s Church, creating incidentally an instant family of four boys: Ellsworth’s Gien and Paul, Leilani’s Joshua and Luke, She’s naturally ecstatic about the move. The kids are becoming equally ex- cited. And for Ellsworth . himself there'll be more than a few touches of ‘‘home’’. He's no stranger to life in the U.S., his parents having spent 14 years in New~ Jersey. He’s been appointed chief photographer of a suburban Honolulu paper called (believe it or not!) The News, And the sunshine he’ll be working with this jtime will be the real thing. | Just goes to show what the tight woman can do for a man, We'll miss you, Ellsworth, as we say ALOHA and .the best of everything to you all... * * * Rie, NEWS photo Stuart Davis GOLDEN GREETING ... Ross Ireland (right) of West Van's Cypress Carving Led. with the handsome new 200Ib cedar sign finished in 23 carat gold leaf which be carved for Lonsdale’s popular watering hole. Left, Queen's Cross co-owner Ron Stinger. NO NEED TO WAIT until May for the Royal Hudson. . Next Saturday and Sunday (Feb.16-17) the West Coast Raiiway Association is runn- ing excursions from North Van to Lillooet over 300 miles of B.C.’s' most spec- tacular scenery, departing at 7 am. and back in North Van at 8:15 p.m. For tickets ($49 including lunch in Lillooet, $20 for children up to 12) call 325-0923. returns, Call 985-7138 to register---free training by Revenue Canada instructors from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.19,. at Delbrock Community Cen- tre may even give you some money-saving tips on filling in your own return! ... Make a date from 1:30 to 4 p.m. next Sunday (Feb.17) to join Ella Parkinson, exec. direc- tor of the North Van Com- munity Arts Council, in North Van's Heritage Day celebrations. Starting at Presentation House, they in- clude a film presentation, walking tour of North Van heritage buildings and tea at Emerald Park Lodge---call 988-6844 for your $5 ticket « Meanwhile, contact Doreen Maruska of the Vancouver Centennial Commission . (687-1886) if you happen now to be a 70- year-old who received a “Coming of Age’’ certificate from Vancouver Mayor Gerry McGeer to mark the City’s Golden Jubilee way back in 1936. They’re organizing a big party for you on Vancouver’s 100th birthday in the summer of 1986 ... You see their work in these pages three times a week and next Wednesday (Feb.13) is your chance to meet the men dehind the shutters when a new exhibit of photos ‘by North Shore News lIensmen Terry Peters, Stuart. Davis, lan Smith and the just departed Ellsworth FAMILIAR FACE to hundreds of aspiring North Shore artists ... Adult Education art instructor Mia Johnson with one of her own paintings in ‘“Tamperings’’, her cur- rent show on display this month at the’ BAU-XI Gallery at 3045 Granvitle in Vancouver. | HONORED with | 25-year service awards at North Van District council’s annual awards banquet fast Tuesday in the Canyon Gardens were Parks Superintendent Dirk Oostindie and his two department colleagues Walter Brooks and George Goodwin, while a special service award was presented to former alderman Jim Ball. Retiring municipal employees also recognized ‘during the same ccremonies were Robert Barnett, Henry Nitchie, Sau Pok Chan, Queenie Rob, Car! Burgher, Alberto Cusano, Carlo Grisostolo, Nick Russo, Nick Luca, John Schaff, Isidoro Ponte, Cy Ellison and Rein Waterberg---best wishes, fellows, for those Golden Years! a SCRATCHPAD: Good at figures and enjoy helping people? Margaret Ramsay of the Nori. Shore Information and .Volunteer Centre is seeking volunteers to assist seniors, handicapped _ per- sons and low-income single parents prepare their cften confusing income (ax Dickson opens 7:30 to 9:30 p.m..at North Van City Hall, West 14th at Lonsdale ... Back Tuesday (Feb.12) from 7 to 9 p.m. at North Van City Library is Paddy Culhane of the Miniature Club of B.C., talking about how to make and: collect miniatures, and demonstrating with such samples as a doll house, 2 general store, a pet shop and other intricate displays ... Lots of fun to George Zawistowski of IWorth Van on his new wheels---the Olds Cutlass Supreme he won late last month playing Super Loto ... Happy holiday to North Van’s Beryl De Pour- cq whose recent Western Express prize was a CP Air travel voucher ... And give from the heart at the special Valentine Day blood donor clinic, 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday (Feb.14) in Capilano Mall near Shoppers Drug Mart. * ve * WRIGHT OR WRONG: The advantage elderly Valentines have is that young ones: know nothing about being old, while they know all about being young.