6 - Wednesday, October 28, 1987 - North Shore News THE VOICE OF NOHTH AND WEST VANCOUVER y NE i ‘ Publisher Managing Editor Peter Speck Display Advertising 980-0511 Barrett Fisher Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 J Distribution 986-1337 Associate Editor Noel Wright Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an inde, ~adent subufban newspupe: and dualbed under Schedute i Paragrion Ut ot ine beeing Tae Act 15 published cach s/ednesday. Figay and Sunday by North Shore Free Pee Lia ang diitibuted to y door off the North Shore Second Class Maul Registration Humver 3685 Subscriptior News Viewpoint SUNDAY . WEDNESDAY . FRIDAY North and West Vancouver. 125 pet yeat Mailing tates available on tequest. Subrmyaions ate welcome Dut ve 1139 Lonsdale Ave. Rannot accept tesponninity fot unsobcited matenal cluding manuscupts and mctures wich sould be accompanied AVING TO order a meal to be able to enjoy a North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 by a stamped. BOSOS sed envalont. - few drinks in a restaurant is an archaic, unrea- — me SN @.sonable practice that desperately needs chang- Entire contents é. 1987 North Shore Free Press Ltd All rights reserved. 58,489 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) ing. SDA DIVISION British Columbia’s liquor laws need te move into mudern times and not put. drinkers and’ their establishments into convenient pigeonholes that un- fairly dictate consumers’ buying practices. Wisile restaurants sell both food and drink, the law states foud must be sold with liquor. Whereas pubs, which alsuy sell both food and drink, are allowed to serve drinks only. The law is saying, in effect, that to enjoy a drink without food, a patron must enjoy a pub — but not everyone enjoys a pub atmosphere. , Concerns. that restaurants will steal’ pubs’ customers are ridiculous, besed on a lack of thought. Charges of some pub owners that the restaurants will be accorded the same privileges as pubs without the accompanying licensing rigmarole are unfounded as restaurants must also undergo tedious licensing procedures. Should drinkers want to enjoy a few pints of beer, a rousing game of darts and maybe a bag or two of potato chips, they will still go directly to their neighborhood pub, not to a restaurant. Should drinkers want to enjoy a few drinks in a lighter, airier and quieter atmosphere, they will not go to a pub. If they cannot go to a restaurant to enjoy these few drinks, their rights as consumers and the restaurants’ rights to fairly compete in an open, market are curtail- ed. Government should listen to the restaurant in- dustry’s requests to change the rules. Restaurants and consumers are getting the. short pour with this liquor law. G00D MORNING, MINISTRY OF HEATH MAY | HELP YO... Noel Wright NOT TO WORRY, MARY! Your namesake Doug Collins got it all wrong when he prophesied doom and gloom for you and Chuck’ Cook at the next election. British Columbians want cheap cars, cheap clothes, cheap dishwashers and wide-open mar- kets for everything they saw down or dig up. They want all these goodies even slightly more than they want to dump Mulblarney. So Bill Vander Zalm will throw the big red-white-blue Socred machine behind free-traders. Then, all you and Chuck have to do is avoid ever mentioning your leader or. your’ party. B.C.-electors, holding their noses, will vote for free trade. John’s and Ed’s folk will be left wiping Ontario egg off their faces. Could be the same story in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Bourassa’s Quebec and most of the Mari- times. If so, add 10% of Ontarians and Manitobans, and Brian’s back in, You and Chuck could even find yourselves in the cabinet. Sleep well! RIBBON-CUTTING — with “‘Mr. Speaker’; West Van MLA John NEWS photo Terry Petors SAILORS' TEACHER...Retired Pacific Marine Training Institute in- structor Roland Armstrong of North Van with his diploma from the Ca- . nadian Coast Guard for ‘outstanding meritorious sevice.” Reynolds, and Ald. Pat Boname wielding the snippers — took place Friday at the ceremonial opening: of the West Van Cancer Society Unit's bright new office on Clyde. Philip Tulk, president of the B.C. and Yukon Division, gave an up- date on the Society’s fundraising achievements and goals and unit president Norma Sharp foliowed - up with individual thank-you’s to the unit’s many supporters throughcut the community. Among the 50or so guests were Jean Reid, retiring Greater Vancouver District president, her successor Marilyn Clarke, Park Royal manager Hugh Addison and colleague Per Danielsen, and Bill Rossum, g.m. of Stong’s Markets chain. The of- fice at 650 Clyde (Suite #4) is open 10 to 2 Monday through Friday, phone 925-1952. WRAP-UP: Honored at last week's Socred convention with a bouquet of flowers from Premier Bill Vander Zalm wa. the party’s youngest life member. He’s two- year-old Christopher Reynolds, son (you guessed right!) of Speaker-MLA John and Yvonne Reynolds Also honored last week by Vancouver Rotary Club was its former (1959) president Maynard Joiner of West who’s been a Rotarian for a re- cord-breaking 70 years since the age of 22! ... West. Van artist For- rest Johnson records B.C.'s wealth of natural beauty from subtle new perspectives. This weekend she shows her latest works at an open house in her Eagle Harbour home, 5725 Bluebell Drive — 7 to 10 p.m. Friday (Oct.30), 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday ... Back home at Lions Bay from their four-week honeymoon in Bri- tain are Rev. John Robertson, rec- tor of St. Monica's, Horseshoe Bay, and bride Ann (formerly Tolcher) And many happy returns to ‘Mr. Showbiz’? a.k.a. Ivan Ackery — famed promoter of Van | © wednesday world © Hollywood stars during’ his’ 35 years as manager of the Orpheum in its glory days as a movie theatre — who celebrates his 88th birthday Friday (Oct.30). f -WRIGHT OR WRONG: Never worry about. the world coming to an end too abruptly. Even if it did, it would take years: to wind up the paperwork. on NEWS photo Noal Wright NEW PERSPECTIVES ON B.C.’s natural beauty...West Van artist Forrest Johnson. eu 11 pt H Sheougeds cry) NEWS photo Mike Wakelleld CANCER FIGHTERS...(- . Hon. John Reynolds, MLA, unit president Norma Sharp, division president Philip Tulk and Ald. Pat Boname for- mally open West Van Cancer Society Unit's new Clyde Avenue office.