| iY i s ° ih poate Eis rot soseseset nt OC L LL, OK. THIS MORNRIG AT 8:45. SHES ATA PANCAKE SNE TOSSIN ORILAIA, AT NOON SHES HOG-CALLING AT A FALL FAR IN ANTIGONISH. A SQUARE DANCE AND @QUIING BEE IN SASKATOON AT 2:15, OH YEAH, AND SHETL BE HENS GRONDHOBS ATA PAIKA RALLY IN EAST yuna YOU ONLD TRY HER AT THE ~ SOFTBAL TNBNNTENT IN HIGH RIERA... “NEWS VIEWPOINT 0} home to the North Shore. Its prize, and by association, the North Shore’s prize, is the coveted President’s ‘Cup, awarded each year to the best: Senior _ B team in Canada. The local team won the cup ina thrilling 10-9 win over the Edmonton Miners on Monday night before a Lonsdale recreation arena packed with rabid focal lacrosse fans. It was a great victory for local lacrosse and its fans, a great victory for the North ietown cha ELCOME TO the North Shore, the new home of champions. re ae The . North Shore . Senior B lacrosse team is the latest athletic ‘ organization to bring a major national title Indians ps Shore Indians and a great boost for the Norih Shore’s sporting prowess. The Indians’ victory follows Lynn Valley Little League's triumph last month in the national Little League championship in Saint John, New Brunswick. Though they were edged out of the Littie League World Series final following a . heartbreaking final-inning Joss to a team from the Far East, the local squad achieved what no other’ North Shore Little League baseball team has achieved for decades. Victories in sports help reflect the char- acter and spirit of a local community. © . The North Shore has much to be proud of in both areas. LETTER OF THE DAY More recognition needed for sacrifice : “and frame building on 23rd Street; “co, entering a shabby foyer | searched 1 read i in the Aug 25 issue of the’ Dear Editor: North Shore News North Van- couver;.council’s : recommendation of a’ proposal to name a mountain after Dan Culver,’ the young North Shore resident'who recently fell to his death on descending K2 in July this year. 1 compliment council for this very worthy consideration. There is another matter that has bothered me for years. . Recently 1. wanted to find the names of those young men from the North Shore with many whom I went to school, who were killed in the 1939-45 war. I went to the 48-year-old stucco Publisher / Managing Editor « ... ... Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw and found a bronze plaque in a / dark niche. There on this plaque were a 133 names (no service, no rank, no age, no date of death). . I came away with a feeling of despondency thinking of those young men I knew over 50 years ago who were so full of life and now lie somewhere far from home. Surely we can give a better rec- ognition of their great sacrifice, One suggestion would be to name a mountain or peak on the North Shore ‘‘Memorial Moun- tain,’? and erect a memorial with suitable plaques describing what Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Distrioution Subscriptions 986-1337 each person contributed during his life. Last year 1 was in Belgium and visited a-war grave cemetery. Walking among those hundreds of tombstones and reading the names inscribed was very heart- rending when I realized: the average age was around 22 years. I was at our cenotaph in Victory Park; there is in bronze a notice: ‘*1939-1945 to all those who died.” Would it reallycost that much to personalize this memorial each person’s name, service, rank and date of death? Robert F. Harrison West Vancouver & This newspaper 986-1337 with | IF | WERE a card-carrying B.C. Liberal (which mercifully for all concerned I’m not), there are three reasons why I'd vote for Gordon Gibson in tomorrow’s leadership ri race. Firstly, I'd figure that his background in that line of work is much broader and deeper than those of his two main rivals. He mastered the Ottawa scene in the early 1970s as an assistant to Trudeau, 11 the later 1970s he carried the Liberal banner for four years in the B.C. Legislature.’ During the long Liberal winter of the 1980s in B.C. he kept his _ finger firmly on the pulse of B.C. life as a businessman, pelitical commentator and national colum- nist. As son of the famed “bull of - the woods,”’ the late MLA Gor- don Gibson Sr., he was weaned on B.C. politics. And in 1981 he proved to be no puppet of Ottawa — an issue of frequent concern to B.C. voters — when he broke openly with the federal Liberals over Trudeau’s handling of the Constitution. Secondly, Gibson’s personality — a reassuring mix of experience, integrity and conviction, leavened (praise heaven!) with humor/— - would strike me as best suited of the three of. them to the job at hand. That job being to weld B.C. Grits together into a cohesive ¢ party with true representation in all parts of the province. ! Gordon Wilson, despite many admirable qualities and a'remark- able 1991 achievement, has sadly ° proven too abrasive and arrogant ever to build a loyal, smoothly working team, free from internal feuding. Gordon Campbell, thie ar- chetypical yuppy, is a smooth, ef- ficient political operator. But as a Liberal surveying the political wasteland all around; 1’d have to ask myself whether yet another smooth, efficient political operator is really what my party now needs. Especially one richly funded by -shadowy donors. he refuses to name who, for all I know, could © hold IOUs yet fo be presented. Finally, I’d be unhappy about the almost exclusive concentration: of Campbell’s constituency in ~ Greater Vancouver. In the Interior: his image as a big-city slicker backed by Howe Street hardly seems the best way to build party membership and voter support province-wide. HITHER AND YON Nor does his record as Bigtown’s mayor. Mike Harcourt” has amply proved how little that office fits one for premier. The. idea of two Vancouver ex-mayors . in a row running B.C. is hard on,’ ” the stomach. Picking leaders is always tricky work. But Gordon Gibson has been around the biock, is - respected by political friends and: foes alike and carries no soiled political baggage. He’s the one sane choice. ay Even I, anon-Liberal, could be» comfortable with him as premier. eos SCRATCHPAD: Honored late last month at a luncheon hosted by City and District councils was RCMP Const. Marty Biais, prior to leaving for Haiti to participate in‘a UN peacekeeping mission y..0.).' Watch for North Shore Heritage Weekend coming up Sept. 17-19 . with special features at Gertrude \ Lawson House in West Van, North Shore Museums and Ar- chives, walking tours and other |. nostalgia — call 987-7529 for info ... And Hillside Class of ’83 is. preparing for its 10-year reunion Oct. 1-2 — details from Roz, . 926-4701, or Paul, 737-8422. eee. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Nothing . keeps your feet on the ground: better than carrying a little re- sponsibility on your shoulders. © Fax 965-3227 | contains Administration 985-2131 BP€a fecyclec hore - Notin Shore managed MEMBER ———~ Associate Editor. Sales & Marketing Director Linda Stewart Comptroller Doug Foot North Shora News, founded in 1969 js an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Aci, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday’ by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. 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