om fa 2 on sunshines "85 NEWS photo Mike Waketield TIFFANY Is originally trom Ottawa but would like to move to. California and explore the field of:acting. She enjoys dance music, working out and playing soccer. ~ Self-pub: 7 ishing paves _ way for local writer From page 15 Godwin survived gas attacks and -the trenches, only to quixotically choose the uncertainties of freelance :journalism as a career. : - Before he did at 85, he produced .- some 20 books on subjects as varied cas mysticism, history, agriculture and animal husbandry, criminology ‘and faith healing. No wonder : » George Woodcock, another trans- planted English polymath, felt such ~ a kinship with him that he wrote the sintroduction to the new Godwin * Books edition of The Eternal Forest. - Like George Godwin, -Thomson’s own life has been domi- nated by books and ideas; “I guess I’ve always thought in terms of - books,” he says, wryly referring to a file-drawer of ideas for books he or someone will write. And like Godwin, he's never hesitated to buck the current. “In 1992 he self-published a labor fe Rye ie of love, /talian for the Opera, after getting fed up with academic pub- lishers’.waffling over what he admits is an esoteric, elitist work. With a finely honed sense of niche- marketing, he’s off on a sentimental return to Florence (where he was a ‘scholarship student years ago and _ discovered opera), to promote the. - .. book among foreign students under- going the same experiences as his former self, Now committed to making Godwin Books 4 success, Thomson is actively seeking manuscripts and proposals from authors and promot- ° ing The Eternal Forest ($29.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Both editions have improved on the origi- nal with the addition of historical photographs and extracts’ from Godwin's journal. ~ . Tf your bookstore doesn’t have it, add $3 for postage and write to Godwin Books, P.O. Box 4781, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4A4. traffic tre District staff to A NORTH Vancouver District councillor’s continued fight to establish a rapid transit link to the North Shore Jed to a request for a staff report on the issue at. the May 23 council meeting. NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL By Martin Millerchip Coun, Erie Crist’s motion that .the district adopt an “official posi- | requesting an extension of - | - rapid transit or light rail transit to tion” the North Shore received some sup- port from other council members. But the motion was deferred for “plaaning and engineering com- ments, “This ts our last chance to come to grips with this issue before a decision is made on the Lions Gate Bridge issue,” said Crist while intro- ducing his mation. : Crist maintains that there will be “total gridlock within two or three years at the most’ in the region's road transport system, : “it’s time for leadership and to send out a message that we don’t want this to continue,” said Crist. “W's going to destroy us. It's a killer. It’s a killer health-wise, it's a killer money-wise and it's a killer. livability-wise. : “We have. nothing. to lose. We have everything to gain.” Crist argued that extended bus service to the North Shore as envi- sioned in existing regional plans “will not serve the present. trans- portation crisis since buses use the same road as cars. “We always get hung up on‘ this question of moncy. The truth is that rapid transit is the cheapest possible investment in transportation,” said Crist. . “It’s one tenth of the price that sociely pays to accommodate: the automobile.” Crist compared -Morth Vancouver's © 100,000 cars to Coquitlam’s 70,000... and Richmond’s 90,000 and pointed out that both municipalities are in line q THIS WEEK’S PICKS: fe Forest Gump 2. The Jungle Bock: PAN tA Tatars arth ws MHS Bibi Faasiongl we Be Nike Bro tofess' ao ional sat : Dirty Shame (en) epteccuyre 6. Speechless EN we TY ef ea Tet} 2 The, War: Rs BORE 8. Highlander 3 L1S95 Marine De. Raa ae Wednesday, May 31, 1995 - North Shore News — 24 WDIeS report on rapid transit linkage for rapid (ransit. Coun Janice Harris agreed, “Light rapid transit is being con- sidered in other parts of the Lower Mainland. “Ldon't see why the North Shore should not be part of that planning Strategy. Our Upper Levels is a parking lot every morning,” said Harris. But Coun, Don Bell pointed out that Coquitlain’s commuters join.a clogged route that services other communities as well. Bell and Coun. Pat Monroe also pointed to the development pres- sures thal an easy commute would bring ta the North ‘Shore should major transit improvements be made, “Sf we provide a way to transport _more people, we're facilitating more development. “The North Shore has indicated it doesn’t want a lot of growth,” said Bell. a NORTH VANCOUVER $$ SUZUKI wrarces CG SNL REE NEL ATTENTION} - Tracker, Sunrunner, Geo Metro, Sprint & Firefly owners. 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