6 - Sunday, July 2, 1989 - North Shore News INSIGHTS Rotarians put ona quacking good show! THOSE BUCKS FROM DUCKS — remember the 1989 Great Capilano River Duck Race last February, organized by North Van Rotary? — are bringing a lot of happy smiles to the faces of charity and community service volunteers. The race netted over $68,000. At the North Van Rotary Club's re- cent ‘‘Duck Race Donations’’ din- ner they presented cheques totall- ing $42,000 to various good causes, many North Shore based, bringing donations so far to $53,000. They’re still working on remaining requests out of the more than 50 submitted and hope to complete the handouts very short- BUCKS-FROM-DUCKS SMILES.. (left to right, standing) Gerdon Dagiish, NV Rotary; May Cheng, Metro ly. Among the smiling faces to date (with reasons in brackets) are those at the B.C. Heart Foundation ($10,500), Emily Murphy Transi- tion House ($10,000), North Shore Neighbourhood House ($10,000), the Maplewood Flats Project ($5,000), the North Shore Rescue Team ($3,000), Deep Cove Com- rounity Centre ($3,000), North Shore Family Support Services ($2,200), Kidfinders ($1,500), Vancouver Food Bank ($1,250), Variety Club ($1,050) and Meals On Wheels ($1,000). There were 10 winners and — give or take the odd duck mislaid or miscounted — 29,990 ‘‘losers'* in February's race. But all of the latter can now have the nice warm feeling they deserve about their five-buck contributions to the quacking good show put on by North Van Rotary Club! nt I WASN'T INVITED to yester- day’s wedding in L.A. of The Nice Photo cubmitted Press; Richard Sharp, NV Rotary president; Heather Roberts, B.C. Heart Foundation; David Gibbs, Emiy Murphy House; (seated) Don Retherford, Neighbourhood House; Jean Rumohr, Meals on Wheels; Paul Whitehouse, Food Bank; Vicky Troup, Cap College; Doug Querns, N. Shore Rescue Team. EST The sroposed bylaw doesn’t say you can’t build a big house — you just have to buy a larger property to do it on. Much as we may be offended by a neighbor’s deci- sion to baild an octagonal home, paint it bright pink or front i¢ with plaster lions and pineapples, most of us realize that there would be a terrible threat to personal freedoms and expression in allowing a community or a ‘‘design’’ panel of architects to have a say in whether or not a neighbor can build a house to individual design specifications. But we should have a say in how close the next house is to our property line and how high it looms over us. Reducing housing bulk will have the added benefit of assisting owners in preserving more trees on their properties — another one of the sensible priorities be- ‘ing built into the proposed new bylaw. And the more trees there are, the less we'll have to see of the neighbor’s idea of good architecture. Control house size Varcouver’s proposed housing size controls are far more desirable than sug- gested controls on house design. To impose design controls on homebuilders would be far more of an infringement on individual freedoms than to impose stricter regulations fer house size rela- tive to the size of the yard or to increase the necessary distance between a house and a neighbor’s property Girl Next Door, whose mom and dad still live in West Van’s upscale Cedardale. But no hard feelings. The groom knows so many people that paring the guest list down to about 400 gave them a tough enough job, as it was — and I gather they had quite a ball. The 26-year-old bride was radiant (as expected) in a traditional off-white gown. Her 63-year-old groom wore an equally traditional tux. They tied the knot in the mansion that serves as his business premises and the reception turned into an all- night party under a tent made from 15,000 yards of white satin twill and decorated with 10,000 white roses. But then you don’t pennypinch when you’re making history —— and the celebration cer- tainly gave the local economy a nice shot in the arm. So best wishes for many happy years ahead from all of us back here on the farm to the 1981 West Van Secondary grad Kimberley Conrad and her groom — who for decades forbade the word ‘‘mar- riage’ even to be spoken in his presence: Hugh Hefner, the Playboy emperor now in complete- ly new clothes! see TAILPIECES: A big thank-you from Margaret Kelly, director of North Van’s Margaret Fulton Cen- tre to Norman Ralston of Bur- naby, inventor and manufacturer of the Able Walker, a shopping- cart type of walker that can restore mobility to those whose legs aren’t what they used to be. Her Centre has just received one — part of a total donaticn by Norman of 101 ALITTLE WATER CLEARS US OF THlo DEED... Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Peter Speck Barrett Fisher .Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded tn 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualilied under Schedule 111, Paragraph il of ite Excise Tas Act. ts published each Wednesday, Fiday and Sunday by North Store Free Press Lia and disttibuted to every door ou ine North Shore Second Class Mail Regestration Number 3885 Subscnptians Narn and West Vancouver, $25 per year Mating rates available on request Submissions are welcome dul we cannot accept responsibility for KIMBERLEY Conrad and groom...making bridal history. walkers (value more than $23,000) to member organizations of the Home Support Association... Chosen among 52 top high school students from across Canada for this summer's prestigious UBC Shad Vailey program or techno- logy and research are West Van’s Mare Steffane Wensauer and Feyrouz Damji... Cap College’s Dr. Alan Gilchrist has been awarded one of four new SFU summer fellowships enabling community college faculty to col- laborate with university faculty on science teaching material... And her innovative promotion of recycling through coffee parties and media presentations has won West Van’s Andrea Miller a 1989 GVRD Recycling Award. wat WRIGHT OR WRONG: Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young (thanks, Fred Astaire!). NLA BO"'"'"“%G_”_ a 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, 8.C V7M 2H4 59,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) unsolicte?d thatenal inctuding manuscapls ang pictures es whicn should be accomparved by a stamped, addressed enveioga: SDA DIVISION Entire contents © 1989 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Sete Subscriptions 986-1337 ax .! MEMBER G North Shore owned and managed .