A6 - Sunday, March 4, 1984 - North Shore News

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he chips are still falling, following

Prime Minister - Trudeau’s dramatic

resignation announcement last
Wednesday, and not all of them are falling on
the heads of the embattled Liberals. Now it’s
finally about to happen, Mr. Trudeau’s retire-
ment won't feave Brian Mulroney and his
Tories entirely unscathed, cither.

It’s arguable, indeed, that the best election
scenario for the PC’s would have been for Mr.
Trudeau to have fed his to the polls just
once more. Such’ was the fear of many Grits
themselves. By stepping down in time for a
late spring leadership convention, Mr.
Trudeau has deftly removed that advantage
from the opposition.

Instead, the Tories now face three and a
half months of political shadow-boxing before
they can take the measure of the new Liberal
leader, who will hardly be a lightweight. For
the public the winner will also benefit, at least
temporarily, from the excitement and
euphoria of the leadership convention — just
as Mr. Mulroney did a year earlier. If, as ex-
pected, the federal election takes place a short
two or three months later, Mr. Trudeau’s suc-
cessor may ride quite a long way on that
momentum alone.

if, in addition, he— or she — is charismatic,
bilingual and with strong credibility in both
the east and the west, Liberal Party fortunes
could improve dramatically between June and

_September. By contrast, it might be the Tories
who looked a litle shopworn at that stage.

Brian will have to watch these possibilities
carefully. Paradoxically, his task has NOT
been made easier by Pierre’s departure.

r. Tom Reid and his friends would

Facts, please!
do themselves and the public a favor

M by explaining their precise concerns

over the new Crown Foreshore Lease, which
at last gives West Van control of its own
shoreline and has unanimous council support.
So far, their vague, unsubstantiated sugges-
tions of dastardly council plots against
homeowners are on a par with the old ques-

tion. about when you stopped beating your
wife.

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NE-STOP shopping
for your complete
evening’s fun comes
to the Times Square mini-
plaza on 16th in West Van
this week. Already m place
there are the liquor store;
Herve’s La Gourmandise for
your snacks and mixers; and
Dean Crhistie’s sinful
chocolate shop. And now,
the shows themselves.

CHERI REE
homecoming to the Square.

---Sweet

Opening Tuesday, sharing
space with Dean’s soft milk
centres, is Sweet Video — the
latest business venture of
West Van _ entrepreneuse,
Ceeri Ree. Pick up your
Kressmann, your canapes,
your chocs and your movie
all in a single swoop.

Cheri is starting out with
over 100 titles, among them
the latest releases, in tapes
for family viewing. They'll
come in both Betamax and
VHS formats. Also available
will be golden oldie movies
dating back to the 1920s and
earlier — including such
classics as Battleship
Potemkin, The Blue Angel
and Grapes of Wrath — sup-
plied through Videola, the
specialty video business
recently taunched by North
Van’s Nastasha Betancor-
Leoa.

Open 10 am. to 9 p.m.
weekdays ae 1 to 5 p.m.
Sundays, Sweet Video will
offer, in addition, VCRs to
rent by the day and by the
weekend.

For Cheri herself, wife of
North Van MLA Angus Ree,
w'’s the second time round at
Times Square. When the
plaza opened in the late 1970s
she was the original owner
operator of the delicatessen,
now La Gourmandise but
then known simply = as
Cheri’s. If history repeats
uself, Sweet Video at the
chocolate shop opposite
won't be short of customers
For armchar shoppers the
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sunday brunch

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by Noel Wright

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Punjabi is the language of
more than 80 million people
living in India and Pakistan
— which makes it an unusual
honor for North Van to be
the home of one of the

here in 1964 and is now a
Canadian citizen, has recent-
ly won a prestigious award
from the Depart-
ment of the Punjab govern-
ment for his outstanding con-
tribution to Punjabi
literature. Two years ago he
had a similar award bestowed
on him by the Punjab

of Punjabi poems, many of
which have aiso been
translated into English, Rus-
sian, Hindi and Gujrati. A
Draycott Road resident, Gur-
charan travels to India this
April to receive his latest
accolade.
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PARAPLEGICS seli a home-ander-the-dome ...

at the end of February.

Bil Oin

(ceatre) with North Shore Optimists president Robertson (1)
and West Van Mayor Derrick Humphreys.

Suite Stakes lottery, launched
last month, has already rais-
ed over $6,000 in ticket sales
for its spinal cord research
project. The exotic prize in
the lottery, which continues
until April 16, is calculated to
make the heart of any sports
fan or business person beat
faster — it’s no tess than the
International Suite at B.C.
Place Stadium. Tickets are
available locally from the
North Shore Optimists Club
and Woodward's, Park
Royal. Don’t miss out on
our chance of a luxury
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rFOLKTALES: Honored with
‘gifts at a lunch the other Fri-

Video, or burn rubber downs day by members of the
Seniors’ Club of North Shore

to Blaine ...

interested in $55-a-head Si.
Patrick’s .dinner-dance Fri-
day, March 16, at the Westin
Bayshore, sponsored by the
insh-Canadian Business &
Professional Assn. Irish-
Canadian guest of ;
Human Resources Mihist
Grace McCarthy,
leprechauns will leap t

hit the bigtime with her local-
ly printed *‘Easy Cookery for
Seniors’’ which appeared in
North Shore bookstores last
ycar — it’s becn snapped up
by Mectheca, the intema.-

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Centre — part of the count.
down to July's World
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couves which will bring ove:
1,000 deicgates here from
every comer of the globe ..
Financial counsellor and
popular radio broadcaua

Alix Geamga talks about

**“Moncy, Taxes and You’’
Tucsday (March 6) a1 7 p.m.
in Lynn Valicy Library — it's
free but pre-register by call
ing 984-0286 And marh
Tucsday on your calcndar,
too, for he special tleed
demer clinic at Carson
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North Van. 10 am to 4 pm.
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