6 - Friday, Murch 25, 198% - North Shore News Klaus’s prob! nicke em is our probi “T AM MAD AND BITTER and refuse to believe this is the way the North Shore community reacts to our efforts to help others.”’ That’s Klaus Bange talking — and with good reason, Klaus belongs to Lions Gate Rotary. It's presently participating in Rotary’s global fund -raising campaign aimed at stamping out polio and other contagious diseases worldwide by A.D. 2000. Thcy’ve put tin cans in stores all over the Lower Mainland to collect spare change. Immunization costs 12 cents per child. Klaus reports that five of his seven cans were stolen as soon as they contained some money — the last one even being tied to the cash register of a local bakery, The Some people, says Kiaus, may exclaim “This is nothing — kids will be kids’*. But he himself feels i's WE who've failed — parents, teachers and peers alike — to show such kids the difference between right and wrong. We could, of course, solve Klaus’s immediate problem with a modest donation to Lions Gate Rotary, c/o Lonsdale Quay Hotel, North Van V7M 3K7. But that still leaves us to solve the teaching problem that caused Klaus’s pro- blem. saleslady, he says, told hima two-boy team did it, one using diversion tactics while the other untied the can. At an average of $20 cach his five stolen cans would have paid to immunize and maybe save the lives of 835 children. POSTSCRIPTS: Latest members of the North Shore ‘‘ Diamond Club’’, retired North Van School District employee Guy Lawrence Photo ont mitted CARING CADETS. .first aid class of 6 Field Engineer Corps learns how to cope with an accident victim. Job justice T IS becoming increasingly evident that the employment bonanza originally forecast to arrive aboard the $350 million Polar Class 8 icebreaker for Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc.’s North Vancouver tradesmen will instead sail on to the company’s Vic- toria yard. . Such a course would be extremely unfair. Though Versatile’s Victoria yard is entitled to a good portion of the icebreaker’s construction, its North Vancouver counterpart deserves as much, if not more, . Tt was the company’s North Vancouver workers and their union leaders who lobbied most tenaciously for the contract. - And it was the mayors of North Vancouver City and District who joined with Versatile and its workers in forming the Greater Vancouver Coalition on Ship- building to lobby in a single, united effort for the vital West Coast shipbuilding contract. It wili be the height of injustice if the benefits of that lobbying are reaped largely on Vancouver Island. " .The solidarity with which the two North Shore municipalities and their shipbuilding communities pur- sued the Polar 8 is ample evidence of how important the industry has traditionally been to the development and well-being of the North Shore. That well-being will be seriously affected by any ‘erosion of Veysatile’s North Vancouver yard as a _ shipbuilding facility. INSIGHTS i-"in-cime em and wife Helen chalk up their 60th anniversary tomorrow, March 26. Marricd in St. Andrew's Church and North Van residents ever since, they'll be joined in the ecle- bration by family members — three children, 10 grandchildren and 13 ‘‘greats*' — from as far afield as Ontario ... Congrats to West Van Legionnaire John Peat- man, honored by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs by being chosen as a representative on the 35-year Korean War reunion pilgrimage. The tour will take him to the Commonwealth Cemetery in Yokohama, the Korean Cenotaph in Scoul, the Canadian Memorial in Nacchon, the Commonwealth Memorial in Kapyong, the UN Cemetery in Pusan and to Pan- munjom where the armistice was signed ... Apologies to Alistair Cook, host of Channel 9's “Masterpiece Theatre'’ — whose hame got scrambled in last Fri- day's column item about the CBC show “Chasing Rainbows" and came out as ‘Alistair Maclean’’! ... North Van's 6 Field Engineer Cadets, commanded by Capt, Brian Seward, should be handy lads and lasses to have around in au emergency. Realism marked their recent first aid course at the Forbes Armoury conducted by Bob Norman and Bruce Eagles — which included a wrecked car, “unconscious accident victims" and the fire Department arriving with Jaws of Life equipment... Still “lost in the wilderness’’, reports event chairman Burry Meade, are more than 150 of the Burnaby South Senior Secondary Class of °68, which is staging a two-day reunion May 20-21. If you're one of them, come out of the bushes und learn all about it by calling 430-4337, 273-8559 or 434-7697 .., Elizabeth Shepherd, North Shofe supervisor of this wae Publisher ..- Peter Speck Managing Editor... 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