A6 - Sunday, November 18, 1984 - North Shore News sunday brunch Ul solution? Dramatic new canvases featuring Long Beach, the Pacific Coast wilderness p to 20,000 B.C. jobs are reported to b N. / W ° ht areas and the Squamish- be going begging because of overly ry oe rig Whistler mountains **generous’’ Unemployment Insurance payments. This suggests the need for some creative new thinking. dominate the 40th one-man exhibition of West Van's Daniel Izzard, widely regarded as Canada's leading impressionist paint- er. It opens Wednesday at the Harrison Galleries, 2932 Granville in Vancouver North Van’s Ken Farquhar- son, P.Eng., is as handy with his typewriter as with his slide rule (or do they sull use them?). He’s received the Editorial Board Award Many of the unfilled vacancies are ap- parently in the $3.65 minimum wage catego- ry or up to a couple of dollars higher. Tak- ing a random example, a $4.50-per-hour wage works out at $168.75 per week. Ul pays up to $255 per week on insured earnings of $425---which was approximately the average Vancouver weekly wage one year ago. So by accepting a $4.50-per-hour job rather than staying on UI, an average 1983 wage-earner forfeits up to $86 per week. Rightly or wrongly, this makes reluctance to settle for a minimum-paying job at least understandable, especially in the case of a family man with some considerable period of UI benefits still ahead. Why not save taxpayers’ money, now sub- sidizing UI, by revamping the scheme to IN- SURE ITS OWN MAXIMUM during the coverage period? Using, again, the above ex- ample, why not pay the worker taking a $4.50-per-hour job perhaps 10% more than the $86 he loses by getting off the unemployment rolls? This would cut the Ul D> photos submitted THE GIFT OF SIGHT...Mayor Marilyn Baker (1) and INa Jackson display posters by North Shore church children Deardre Cash (St. Clement’s), Amanda Johnson (West Van Baptist), Amy Dalcourt (St. Stephen's) and Craig Holderness (St. Andrews). JOHN MADSEN...no need for money. ON XMAS DAY St. Cle- displays at Park Royal, Use your own precious eyes, ment’s Anglican Church in Capilano and Lynn Valley as you go to buy the grocer- handout by almost 63% with immediate North Van will sponsor an matis during Operation tes, to see what it will do--- benefit to the Treasury. It would provide the “eye camp’’ near India’s Eyesight Awareness Week and call Stuart Spani at UI recipient with a job-hunting incentive and teeming metropolis ot — (Nov 18-25). 988-4996 if you'd lke to self-respect. It would cut unemployment fig- Calcutta. The seeming miracle ot learn even more:.. . fe ge . There, within 24 hours, xmas Day near Calcutta ures, possibly significantly. And it would en- the priceless gift of sight will arises from the fact that the KEEPING ALIVE an art sure that needed, but lower-paid work gets done. Extraordinary problems sometimes call for extraordinary solutions. Macho aroma be restored to between 100 and 200 blind and near-blind people. It’s part of Opera- tion Eyesight, a Canadian Christian chanty which last year funded 60 centres in 17 Third World countries, most common form otf blindness---cataracts, which afflict about 40 millon peo. ple in the world---1s curable Quickly, easily and at sur prisingly small cost. A Third World victim can have the dating back to the 11th cen- tury, and much in demand again today, 1s North Van's Doug Bartlett. For the past eight years he’s been a stain- ed glass craftsman, working out of his Marine Drive shop enabling over 93,000 bhnd operation, post-operative with traditional machines and near-blind to see again, care and glasses for a mere he's collected over that > - Ss. entrepreneur Marshal Bank and (treating another 804,000 $25 Even so, $25 multiphed period, some of them 40 DANIEL IZZARD cap- believes he has found a new market for sight threatening = ail hy 93,000 adds up to nearly years Old) Doug designs and turing the wilderness. f or ; \ ‘ol lik hi ments Here at home, tor the two and a halt million) And manufactures custom leaded Or exo male co opnes Hhke is next sin days. you can see though Operation Evesight glass windows for churches, ‘ Long Haul » an essence of woods and MOss: some delightful posters pets some assistance from restaurants, businesses and, of the Association of Protes he's going after those knights of the road, the painted by North and West the tederal and provincsal maereasimgly, priate tomes sronal Engineers toe the bes: big riy drivers. To date most of the reaction Van children ta show what governments, 1 His company, Crown Class trom his hoped-for Canadian customers has been rather rude, bul maybe Mr. Bank knows macho trucker, a decade or so apo, would ever have dreamed of having his hair styled by a woman what he's doing after all. What in a uniser salon”. Cee ee ee Serr memes Dinyptay Adverilaing 960.0511 north shore | . Classified Advertising 986-6222 news News:vom 985 2131 pe gPaP TE ERASUNET Toray TO TREEPE=yvert Circulation 986 1337 Subscriptia... 985 21351 1139 Lonsdale Avo Norcth Vancouver oo vith 264 Publintor 4 nwa lato PuUblbahe. Editor tin Cthitel Piubve. tateegy Litro. tan veto soated Tae OW iu hoe ve romvonol Otroctue € laosiftod Manay. cote shat baes tee Uae "he ee wo tate re ha ee creduse Chaser Lite oe Tor Prrotogy: fey Managor oot Shore Nows , poe Lore \ aay brvvtee ‘ROE Noth Shere Free Memoe Ftd All tigi comer vod Larelerete Mormber of the D4. 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