NEWS photo Neil Lucente ARMY, NAVY and air force veterans pay tribute to Canadians killed in combat at Sunday’s Remembrance Day ceremonies in West Vancouver Memorial Park. NEWS VIEWPOINT Vote small HE IMPORTANCE of municipal elections is often obscured by apathy on the part of municipal residents. And while that apathy is hard to excuse it is not difficult to understand. The explanation is simple: glamor. Big- ger, in the public’s mind, remains better. And bigger governments at higher levels to be more are traditionally perceived glamorous. After all, they spend more taxpayers’ money, arc more aloof and harder to un- derstand and get more play in major possess more mystique and are beheld with a kind of media. They therefore perverse public awe. Municipal governments, on the other hand, only arrange for such mundane day-to-day services as removing your gar- bage, rezoning your neighborhood, ap- proving commercial and industrial devel- opments in your area, policing your streets and putting out your fires. In short: the little things — but the little things that make a big difference in your day-to-day life. So if you have any interest in the little would best the municipal will make the things, read the candidates’ bieg-aphies in today’s North Shore News, devide who represent you in your municipality and make a point of voting in elections this Saturday. It North Shore a better place to live for you and your neighbors. LETTER OF THE DAY Candidate slams municipal slates Open letter to the directors of the West Vancouver Citizens for Good Government (WVCGG): Thank you for offering me the opportunity to speak at your meeting of Oct. 23. However, 1 have to inform you that after careful consideration [{ have made the decision not to seck the formal endorsation of the WVCGG. I had the benefit of endorsation by your forerunner, the West Vancouver Electors Association, when 1 first ran for office and again in 1979 and was grateful on both occasions. However, today it seems evident that local elections can no longer be expected to be non-partisan in Publisher Associate Editor envelope Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director Linuz Stewart North Share News, founded in +949 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualiting under Scnedule 134, Paragraph Ii! of the Excise Tas Act, is published each Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free 4 Press Lid and disttibuted to every doot on ine Noth =. V7M 2H4 Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 Subse nptions North and Wes! Vancouver, $25 per year Eri as Maing tates avadabie om request Submissions are welcame but we cannol accept responsibility tor tiday unday) UNsohcited matenal including manuscupts and prctures 2 = which shouid be accompanied by a stamped, addressed . nature. In fact, partisan infighting of the most offensive and undemocratic kind may be becom- ing the new norm. My two foremost concerns about the process by which can- didates are endorsed by the WVCGG are firstly, that the criteria by which they are judged by the directors are not revealed and, secondly, that there is nothing to prevent the member- ship being stacked. The advantage demonstrated in the past of being backed by the WVCGG_ invites this, in fact. The vote can then be swayed by people whose minds are already made up, who attend not to fisten thoughtfully but to give Tell VOICE OF MONTH AND WEST MAR COULEN, SUNDAY © WEDNESDA eas Fax 1139 Lonsdale Avenue. North Vancouver, B.C. 59,170 (average, Wednesday SDA DIVISION Display Advertising north shore: Classitied Advertising 986-6222 - y “eT . Newsroam 985-2131 news Distribution 986-1337 a f Subsenptions 986-1337 Nosth Shore owned and managed partisan support to their particular cause and candidates. It has been pointed out before that it is not necessary to endorse a Slate, approving some and rejec- ting others, in order to meet your stated aim of finding and support- ing good candidates for office. } support your aims but not the pre-selection process and at the tisk of losing your goodwill, 1 decline to be part of it. I seek the support of the membership as individual citizens and voters of West Vancouver but do not seck the endorsement of the WVCGG. Lilian Thiersch West Vancouver 980-0511 985-3227 MEMBER x @ Entire contents © 1990 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Mayor battles still remain anyone’s guess WHAT ABOUT mayors and school trustees in Saturday's elections? With the fatter, let’s finish the a'phabet game we played with aldermanic candidates to avoid missing hidden gold among I-to-Z names. Here’s the order in which school board candidates (* denotes a woman) will appear on each baliot — followed by Wright's alphabetical Up-sheet on where to dig for worthwhile in- formation. North Van City (3): DUNGEY, *HACKETT, "JESSUP, JOE. This one is easy. If vou’re happy with them, stick to the incumbents — D and the two Js. If not, fire one and replace with H. North Van District (4): ALBRECHT, BELL, CAR- RUTHERS, HAFFENDEN, *HEAL, KADERALI, *MACDONALD, *VALKLEY, WALTON, WOODWARD. Seek out one gold nugget apiece in the A-to-Hs, the K-Ms and the Ws. For the fourth, look at EITHER another A-to-H OR another W. West Van (5): BRADSHAW, *CLARK, *FERGUSON, *FURK, HOWARD, NELSON, SINCLAIR, STEPHENS, STEVENSON. Four of the B- to-Hs cuuld serve you well. Seek your fifth pick among the N-to- Ss. eee CHOOSING an heir to widely popular Mayor Marilyn Baker may be quite a problem for many North Van District voters. Their choice is between a pharmacist, a realtor, an economist and a 1960s vintage ex-alderman. The frent-running first three resemble peas in a pod in terms of their civic experience. Joan Gadsby, 50, Murray Dykeman, 55, Craig Clark, 45, have served 10, eight and seven years respectively as aldermen. In 1988 Gadsby topped the poll with Dykeman second and Clark fourth. Gadsby, Dykeman and the ‘*protest’’ candidate, lawyer Peter Faminow, 73, all stress controlled growth and respect for tax dollars. Dykeman also wants more youth services. Clark — who promises to quit selling North Van real estate — is high on the environment and lays claim to strong chairman- mediator skills. Something for everyone, in fact. Environmentalists (developers, too, one supposes) have their man in the eco-conscious realtor. Businesses could be very happy with an economist in charge. The simple peasants may figure a pharmacist would be the best for their health. Last chance to decide by gazing into candidates’ eyes come Thurs- day, Nov. 15, at 8:30 p.m. on Shaw TV Cable 4. eee BRICE MacDougall ... non- political image a help? Noel Wright . er ee HITHER AND YON PERSONALITIES dominate the West Van mayoralty battle — spiced with the hot issue of the Cypress Ridge golf course endors- ed by the retiring council. Specifically affected is Mark Sager, 32, so far seen as the front-runner. A total of 10 years on council and school board plus a lengthy list of other community offices put him far ahead in local government experience. But his identification with the golf course project could be costly in light of the opposition’s apparent strength. His maverick council rival — one-term Carol Ann Reynolds, 40-ish -— can boast of opposing her fellow aldermen on various other controversial measures, in- cluding the Twin Towers, and could draw some of the increas- ingly visible protest vote. Two years ago that vote — 26 per cent of the total poll — went to the sole mayoralty challenger, Bert Fleming. At 67, he’s running again this time with a renewed demand for ‘‘new people we can trust.”” Meanwhile, the candidate who has never before sought public of- fice is showing surprising strength. Chartered accountant Brice Mac- Dougall, 62, offers skilled finan- cial management, concern for the environment, youth and seniors’ housing, plus ‘‘town meetings.”” Together with his squeaky clean non-political image, that platform could produce a major four-way split in the vote — now the big- gest threat to Sager. In Tiddlycove, as the saying goes, it’s definitely not over ‘‘until the fat lady has sung!”’ eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: To get into trouble fast, try being right at the wrong time. MARK Sager ... major four-way split the threat.