6 - Sunday, February 16, 1986 - North Shore News THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER —eie Ty a 4 SunoAY WEDNESDAY eae 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 56,245 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) MEET A PIONEER of a different kind — an immigrant from Teronto who’s lived in North Van for only seven short years. Kathy Schmidt's pioneering has been in the rapidly mushrooming cottage industry of bed-and-break- fast ~- B&B — the tight-budget tourist’s answer to $100 hotel rooms. Like so many other new concepts, B&B started in San Francisco in the late 1970s. On settling here in 1979 Kathy and her husband decided it was an idea whose moment had ar- rived. They bought a vintage 76-year-old house, the former fami- ly home of North Van's Paine Hard- ware family at 217 East Keith, and launched their B&B operation, believed to be a first locally, in 1981. Since then the business has thrived and in this Expo year Kathy — an exuberant, outgoing lady — is already booked almost solid from April through August. The soundly preserved old house abounds in ‘“‘heritage’’ trappings. Stained glass windows and a living room full of conversation-piece an- tiques. A brass fireplace in the down- stairs bathroom, once the butler’s anteroom. Upstairs, a_ bridal chamber with white lace drapes round the bed and a bedroom-size bathroom containing a stately Roman bath. Kids and smokers welcome, but not pets. All this, plus full ‘‘flexible-time’’ breakfasts for (currently) $30 a night single, $40 Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Nevisroom 985-2101 Circulation 986-1397 Subscriptions 966-1337 North Shore News, * Hd Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Operations Manager Advartising Director Peter Speck Noel Wright Nuncy Weatheney Bernt Hitiaid Linda Stewart Entire contents ©: 1986 North Share Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved, UNSCATHED B&B VETERAN...an Edwardian wel- come at “217°? from cottage in- dustry pioneer Kathy Schmidt, can Noel Wright ® sunday brunch ® double. Kathy appears to enjoy every minute of it and she’s good news, too, for the hundreds now scrambl- ing on to Expo’s B&B bandwagan. You'd think such a veteran might have at least a few grim warnings for amateurs about the hazards of the game, but eitherShe’s been lucky or B&B types are a remarkably well behaved bunch. . Unscathed after five years, she couldn’t recall a single bad incident — her one gripe being people who forget to hand back the house key. * xk * CALLING all local citizen band radio hams for help in lifesaving werk is the North Shore Station of the B.C. Lifeboat Society. They're setting up a division of unpaid volunteer radio monitors to pick up distress calls and alert lifeboat crews and other search and rescue agencies. If you have a citizen band radio or scanner, and can communicate and receive within areas adjacent to the North Shore, Alec McPherson would be mighty grateful to hear from you soon at 921-9197. x &* * HITHER AND YON: Bumper tur- nout of over 160 guests headed by Mayor Jack Loucks and wife Olive made last Saturday’s annual concert of the Dogwood Chapter of Sweet Adelines in North Van Ree Centre one of the most sticcessful yet. Chairing the lively show was West LETTER OF THE DAY Dear Editor: I live in Snug Cove on Bowen Island, and I was upset to hear that the new marina owner, Rondy Dike of Seattle, was proposing t:. expand his marina to fill the rest of the water at the head of the cove. I am totally against any expan- sion of the marina into the waters ia of Lot $159. No compromise. The present proposal by Mr. Dike is too large for the Snug Cove area; it would destroy the rural character of the cove. I don’t need an en- vironmental study to show me that the water quality of the Cove would be greatly affected. An expanded marina would also obstruct the view from the cove. It is bad enough now with two large Van's Jo Webster with Daphne Donaldson as chorus director ... Richer by $16,500 is the Muscular Dystrophy Association, thanks to North Van firefighters who raised the money through their 1985 cam- News Viewpoint. ~ Lost voters Democratic elections are only as sound as the voter lists on which they’re based. That’s one lesson, among numerous others, to emerge from the current Philip- pines election farce. A Victoria MLA, New Democrat Gordon Hanson, is now asking why as many as half a million eligible B.C. voters are missing from the recent enumeration carried out by the Socred government. His math suggests that it’s a good question. Mr. Hanson says the government’s own 1985 estimates put the B.C. population aged 19 and older at more than 2.1 million. Yet the number of people on the new voter list totals less than 1.6 million. Between 1982 and 1985, he claims, the B.C. popula- tion increased by about 100,000, ‘‘but the 1985 enumeration fist as 15,000 fewer eligible vcters than the 1982 enumeration” (the actual figures are 1,575,623 in 1982 compared to 1,560,174 in 1985). The government itself has noted that a considerable number of people were not at home during the 1985 enumeration, but this excuse seems hardly good enough in view of the vital importance of the voter list. It’s difficult to believe that voters temporarily absent when the enumerator called could alone account for the huge difference between the eligible population and those actually on the list. In any case, if temporary absentees emerged as a significant problem, why wasn’t more time allowed for repeat call-backs? ’ A fresh enumeration this year would be costly but it may be imperative. If Mr. Hanson’s numbers are cor- rect, the disenfranchisement of one quarter of B.C.’s eligible voters could be even costlier for the democratic process. paign Meanwhile, Lionsgate Rotary Club president Bill Schloss had a nice little gift for North Van Mountie Cpl. Don Jette at a recent Rotary dinner —- 2 $500 cheque to purchase equipment for the RCMP’s ¢ NEWS photo Torry Peters MONEY FOR M.D....City firefighter Deug Potter (1) and District firefighter Rick Souter present Frank Murphy with cheques for $16,500 raised in-their 1985 Muscular Dystrophy campaign. before boathouses in the marina. His plan also goes against many of the pro- visions of the Official Community Plan. The community plan was drawn up for controlled, healthy growth to prevent things like this benign tumor of a marina from turning into a cancerous growth. Last summer I noticed that some people had late night parties on -their boats. I expect that the par- ties would be louder and more fre- quent if there were three times as many boats in the marina as there are now. 1 support the GVRD foreshore lease proposal to restore the pro- menade and beach area for recre- ational use of the public from the Snug Cove picnic area, | use the beach at the head of Snug Cove for water access to kayak and [ use me ee re me me em o bicycle identification program aim- ed at reducing -thefts ... For $39 (children $20) railway buffs can join next Saturday afternoon’s scenic rail excursion to Boston Bar, sponsored by the West Coast Railway Associa- tion — call A. Preddy, 943-9423, for details ... All former students and staff of the little red schoolhouse at Cornwail and Cypress in Vancouver (more than a few now on the North Shore) are invited to the 75th an- hiversary gala reunion of Henry Hudson Elementary, March 26 from 7 to 10:30 p.m. — call 929-1185 by day or 277-6511 evenings to pre- register ... For seniors battling with income tax returns help is at hand this week in North Van with free fec- tures on ‘The Income Tax Puzzte’’ _ by counsellors Joyce Schmalz and Joan Blair at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Neighbourhood House, 225 East 2nd, and by Taylor Stoess, C.A., at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East 22nd .:. And ifa Montessori education for your kids appeals, call Loreen) Malach (926-4151) or Irene Nemeth (926-0942) who are working to establish a Montessori elementary school on the North Shore by September. kt * * WRIGHT OR WRONG: As the jog- ger said on his 100th birthday, ‘If - Ud known | was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.” the calm, safe and open water of Lot 5159 to teach beginners how to kayak. I moved to Bowen Island for the rural atmosphere and I resent developers trying to turn this at- mosphere into suburbia much be- fore its time. F. Clowater Bowen [stand