Pub r HERE IS a2 simpie explanation as T to why North Vancouver District Council recently approved the pro- posal to build a pub in the Maplewood in- dustrial srea: there are no residential voters living there. Council voted 4-3 on May 25 to allow construction of the pub despite the con- cerns from crea industries that the facility could introduce alcohol into work places that are dangerous enough for the fully sober and the fully alert. The Maplewood area is home to businesses that produce chemicals, repair ships, load logs, process waste, mix con- crete and make ships’ propellers. It is also split by a busy industrial railway. The 6S-seat, two-storey Mapiewood Family values a natural ally of sex equality THE FEMS sometimes get a bit confused. Among those slapping your scribe’s wrist for endorsing U.S. veepee Dan Quayle’s blast last week against TV ‘‘single mom’? Murphy Brown was reader Monika Nerger. VIEWPOINT — rub Neighborhood Pub will service the area with what its proponents have promised will be a quality lunch and light meal fare that will surely be welcomed by area workers. But 2ccompanying the food will be the drink and the temptation to imbibe during lunch hour or other breaks. . For most people, 2 drink during lunch will not appreciably affect what they do after lunch; for some it will. And for those io the latter category the result raises serious safety concerns for them and their fellow workers. Bat the Maplewood industrial estate is not a residential area. It is therefore a good place for politicians te make a con- troversiz] pub decision because it is safe from residential voter backlash, but it is not a good place for a neighborhood pub. ‘LETTER OF THE DAY Promote cultural peace and harmony Dear Editor: The Trinidad and Tobago Cul- tural Society of B.C., as well as those of the Caribbean and other Bleck communities, were alarmed and shocked by Doug Collins’ May 13 column. We feel that you owe the Black community, and in particular the Trinidad and Tobago Cultural Society of B.C., a definite state- ment of policy regarding the con- tent and general flavor of Collins’ article. For the past four years the ‘Publisher Associate Editor Comptroller .. .Peter Speck Managing Editor .. Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director .. Linda Stewart Doug Foot Trinidad and Tobago Cultural Society of B.C. has hosted the very successful Caribbean Day Festival in this community, to promote multiculturalism and to create understanding between people of different cuhural backgrounds. Your newspaper should show the ‘other side’’ of the coin by making your readership aware of the work that we have been doing in your community, in order to allay the fears and negative pro- paganda perpetrated by individu- als of Collins’ ilk. Display Advertising 980-0517 Real Estate Advenising 985-6962 Classitied Advestisirg 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an foes cece a8 smerre are wirs# wencmmnimn independent suburban newspape: $ and quaified SS under Schedule 113, Paragraph Il of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. fest Vancouver, $25 per year. 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Ms. Nerger cites an old Burt Reynolds movie, Paternity, in which an unwed 40-year-old male wants to raise a child on his own, so he hires a surrogate mother to do the preliminary biological chores, Nobody condemned Burt, she says, so dumping on Murphy is a double standard. Another blow to women’s equality by ar- rogant males. Sorry, ma’am, but you seem to have started out reading the wrong script — certainly not Dan’s or mine. Attacking single mothers makes about as much sense as attacking paraplegics. Like the latter, the great major- ity of the former are victims — whether of marital break-up, runaway mates, poverty-driven street life or simple folly. Few actually CHOOSE that condition and, given their often daunting problems, it says a lot about mother Jove that. so many cope for their kids and themselves as well as they do. What Dan Quayle attacked in Murphy Brown was NOT single moms but the show’s portrayal of single mom-hood as an heroic and desirable goal — thus creating a TV role mode! that lets irrespon- sible males off the hook. No need for runaway sex partners to pay for their masculine fun, is the message, because single moms WANT it that way. Doesn’t this concept, by destroying the family values of SHARED parental responsibility, destroy women’s equality as weil, Monika? And if not, how come your own letter ended with the same thought? LAST YEAR saw the death of one of Canads‘s — and the North Shore's — most outstandingly well-rounded public servants. And now comes a further valuable memory of him for North Shore high school students. Jack Davis represented their parents and grandparents for 30 years as MP, MLA and cabinet minister at both levels. A Rhodes Scholar with five degrees (in- cluding PhD), Oxford ‘‘triple blue’’ for athletics, member of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, Canada’s 1975 Engineer of the Year, author, Privy Councillor to the Queen and the English-speak- ing word’s first environment id HITHER AND YON rninister — he personified the pursuit of excellence in everything he undertook. In today’s vernacular he was truly a modern Renaissance mas. This spring brings a new $3,500 Jack Davis Scholarship to be awarded annualiy to the North Shore high school grad bound for - UBC who best shows the ability to follow Jack’s all-around example — academically, athletically, in leadership, cultura! interests and public service aspirations. A big challenge honoring a big . life. Applications close June 30 and forms are available by cailing 988-7320. DISTINGUISHED birthday trio today, June 5, begins with a 100-candie salute to Kiwanis Lynn Manor’s Rose Allen — stepping inte her second century ‘‘in wonderful form” ... Then, many happy returns of the day to jour- nalistic legend Bruce Hutchison at 91 ... The same again to Mr. Canada, aka Joe Clerk, who’s 53 ... And tomorrow, June 6, greet new West Varn members of the “Golden 50 Club,” Frask and Jean Rassell — Frank a retired partner of Toby, Russell, Buckwell architects whose monu- ments can be found all over Tid- dleyvove. WRIGHT OR WRONG — Exec- utive Survival Law No.1: Memos - are written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. < NEWS photo hike Wakefield CHECKING CRIME prevention and seniors’ safety guide books donated by the Howe Sound Lions for police community pro- gram...Club president Fred Van Aggelen (left) and treasurer Bob Sellers with Const. Jim Almas (centre).