ee mete ee . cpenday, D December .16, 1981 - North Shore News. y RECENTLY, I read a new theory about evolution which suggests, that a species of intelligent lizards hada head-start Dale Russell, a Canadian researcher working at UCLA, claims that dinosaurs began to evolve in the direction of higher con- sciousness more than 65 million years ago. If things had gone well for them, the lizards could easily have reached the stage of using clubs to bash cach other's brains long before the apes caught on. The implications are enough to chill the blood. Instead of having monkeys for ancestors, the dominant FROM PAGE A1 couver City. Wide open shopping was approved there during the first City council meeting after the referendum. Mayor Don Bell was the only District council member Monday to admit the City decision affected his’ vote for wide open shopping. Bell said he'd rather have supported home im- provement stores being open Sundays, with another referendum on wide open shopping next year. But the City’s decision meant that District stores should also have the option to open on Sundays, to remain com- petitive. “There is the problem of competitiveness when the borders aren't geographic but political,” said Bell. West Vancouver didn't put the question to its voters, so only a few types of businesses, such as restaurants and convenience stores, can open on Sundays and holidays in that municipality. Aldermen Peter Powcll and Marilyn Baker = said Sunday ts a special day, with special meaning to a lot of people. Passing the bylaw would help destroy that meaning. Od aSSISTANCE ACCOUNTING SERVICES WE PROVIDE monttity cuasterty yearty bookkeeping © ftinanctal statomeonts * corporate and personal lax coturns statt tasting, systema design and set up © ata reasonatite price 116-255 Woast ist St North Vancouver 984-9155 on mankind in the distant past. creatures on. this planet today would trace their lineage back to an egg lying in the sand. . Instead of humanoid bipeds running the show, there'd be “dinosauroid’ bipeds with green skin,scales and luminous yellow eyes with an iris that opens and closes like a lens. You'd be able to recognize them easily enough: “Green man speaks with forked tongue, kemo sabe.” But there was some kind of cataclysm which but: “You don’t hold a plebiscite and then ignore what comes from it,” said Powell. He voted against both wide open and home im- provement store shopping in the referendum, he said, but felt he had to support the bylaw, after it was endorsed by a majority of voters. Alderman Mary Segal said council must respond to the electorate, no matter what they decide. lt was better to go with the wide open shopping than the home improvement stores anyway, she added, because if just those stores were added to the list of stores that could open, then other businesses would demand the same privilege. Peace and quiet on Sunday mornings were on Alderman Ernie Crist’s mind during the debate. Sunday shopping was the thin edge of the wedge. and soon “the Sunday to all intents and purposes will be abolished.” said Crnst. There will be no more ‘lanet of the lizards? eliminated the dinosaurs and their more highly evolved relatives, although even as late as four billion years ago, one advanced lizard, the stenochyosaurus, survived. He had thumbs, stood on two legs, enjoyed binocular vision, and had a relatively large brain. Abstractly, what. dif- ference would it make if the lizards had gone on to build the neutron bomb instead of the descendants of the apes? It is quite possible, of course, that lizards might have built a superior society — a deeper, wiser civilization lacking the quiet Sunday mornings because of neighbors starting up cars as they go to work, he warned. “But it is irresponsible and hypocritical to ask the public what they want and then to say “You can't have it.” He was voting for the wide open option, but very reluctantly, he told council. Only Alderman Jim Ball whole-heartedly endorsed Sunday shopping, because, he said, he favored free enterprise. If stores find it uneconomical to open on a Sunday they can close up again, he said. Alderman John Lakes, a candidate in the November 21 election, said he was disgusted that 123) more people voted on the Sunday shopping issue than voted for council members. 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It wasn’t “my” iguana, really. I was just its custodian for a few months of its life. No one knew whether the creature wa a mate or female, so we called it “Fido”. Fido’s main claim to fame was the fact that he/she was the first iguana, so far as I know, to travel by boat out to the middle of the Pacific, and return. Fido was a vegetarian, although slow-moving in- sects didn’t last long in the little two-and-a-half foot wonder's presence. When Fido and I went for a walk, it was I who did the work. Fido liked to perch on my head, clinging to my hair, surveying the world with an air of utter in- difference. It was impossible to avoid the feeling that Fido was just plain bored with everything. At best, would have to be described as condescending. Although, equally, it could have been beatific. I discovered after a few weeks of travelling with Fido that the lizard had a distinct talent for changing skin color according to changes in my moods. Anger: would cause the little dragon to turn purple. Mediation would encourage a blue tone. his/her attidude — ‘and a Peaceful ~§ ‘to all District Residents and readers «. of the North Shore - News— Hysteria produced a yellowish tint. Drunkenness could lead to a technicolor display. Obviously, the iguana could. “plug in” to my. emotions in some mysterious way. To be truthful, [I'm ~not sure that ail the intelligent lizards really were wiped out. 7 It’s a shame that the world fell, by default, into the hands of hairless apes. With the lizards, things would have been more laid-back. Much more simple. New Year - Ernie Crist } and Family countdown to Christmas only 7 shopping days left - spend one with us! 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