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- The things:they’ve done to

our: language recently are
enough | Me ‘make’ every
Anglo-Saxon word-master —

, from Shakespeare to Winston

-the

: Churchill. — spin in. his

" prave. ‘‘They’’: being assort- -

ed crusader groups of all
persuasions, from Women’s
Lib to the Metric ‘Com-
mission... ,

The other day I noticed for
first. time a road
construction sign warning
me of **Flagperson Ahead”’.
If they must be so fussy, why
not have two.interchangeable
signs — ‘‘
and
Imagine’ how soothing’ the
latter would be for the male

chauvinist driver fuming in .

the traffic back-up.

e

‘The same afternoon I
happened to glance at the
tulers in the stationery
section of the local drug-
store, all of them gtaduated.
in centimetres alone. I
suddenly realized that inches
and feet had been officially
cut out of my life for ever.
For a moment I had the same
feeling one gets on hearing
of the death of an old, old
friend.

Then, just to make it
doubly official, there was the
news handout that landed on

- my desk next morning from

Sandy .McArthur who, in
case you didn’t know, is
chairman of Metric Commis-

hit WV?

West Vancouver's rec-
reation manager got the
green light Monday to

purchase roller skates and
convert the Municipal Ice
Arena for roller skating
between April 15 and August
15 each year.

F. Kurucz, told council he
needs no more than $10,000
for the project.

He said the ice arena is
under-utilized in the summer
and a renaissance of roller
skating is being seen in the
United States.

With all those. new “roller
skates, can disco skating be
far behind?

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CORRECTION

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News,Wednesday
February 28, Page 51
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for any inconvenience this
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es ‘Canada: He pointed out
that ‘‘mileage’’, ‘‘yardage’’ ~
and

“Flag ee ee "members of the community

_and shaker who did so much

. tion, @ most st palatable affair,
Tm told .

“‘footage’’ had now
become obsolete words in
Canada and suggested that.

3 *.
A memo from our circula-

they be replaced with” ‘tion department indicates tha
‘‘kilometrage”’ and. the News’ volunteer sub-
““metrage’’ —- because, he ~ scription program is touching

reasoned those were ‘the
words used in the French
language. A strange kind of
logic, especially from a man
with a name like Sandy
‘McArthur. It doesn’t make
28.35 grams of sense tome! 247 new. reader-sponsors: —
oo ; an average of about 12 | an
*** hour. .

alot of responsive chords out
there in Readerland. In just
21 hours of phoning, spread
over the past seven days, it
seems. our pretty circulation

-

With distinguished male Who says ;
tead - newspapers, when
there’s somebody happy to
pay for ‘one like the. News
every five minutes?

it’s easy — but how do you
roast a lady?

’ To find out, we'll have to -.
wait until April 6. That’s the
date set for a roast of lively _.
Anne MacDonald, the mover

P's

Congratulations to West
Van’s Bruce Mortis on being
named to top job: with the
“job-finders.
accountant Morris, who is
owner of Robert Half of
Vancouver Limited, was

to bring North | Van’s
Presentation Hous into
being. For details call Ellen
Parkinson at P.H. (986-1351).

adindindl the A.P.P.A.C. — for those

who like these things spelled
out, the Association of
Professional Placement
Agencies and Consultants.

His taste buds are taking |
him a long way — Murray
sHeath of West Vancouver,
that is. He tied for first place
recently at the annual wine-
tasting competition held by
the Opimian Society of B.C.
(dictionary, anyone?) in the
Hotel Georgia. In late April
he’ll be off to Toronto to take
part in the national competi-

set

_in Comox. Actually,

Jennifer Colpitts --
Carrier of the Week

We have almost as many girts as boys delivering the News
and Jennifer has been singled out by her Zone Manager as
one of our best. She has had a News paper route on both
Sundays and Wednesdays for about a year-and-a-hall Jen-
nifer is 11 years old and is a grade 6 student at win Park
School in West Vancouver

Jenniter is quite a sportswoman She's currently taking
Skiing lessons and 1s already active in badminton, soccer.
grass hockey, basketball, volleyball, and = cross-country
running. Her full sports schedule explains why Jennifer's
brother lan sometimes hetps with her paper route.

Maybe you'll take lan to the movies, Jennifér We're sending
you Famous Players Gift Certificates in appreciation of the
good job you're doing for the News,

Circulation 9866-1337
1139 Lonsdale Ave.,
North Vancouver

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north shore

news

“former North Van — high
'. school ~ graduate,

‘fall for: de-
the: May 31 . byelection, conviction’ last :
 yesides at the moment in> frauding the government ‘on

Duncan. airline « tickets. Apparently

gal welcomed no less than

. ber’s elections ——. former

one or other of the four

Chartered ¢

recently elected president of - Vanner

Apologies to B.C.’s new
Liberal leader Jev Tothill for
describing him in'a recent
BRUNCH as presently living
the

Socred Jack Davis i is serious:
ly considering a hid to regain
his “Seymour ‘seat, from.
which he. resigned - -after’ his.

_who is”
widely expected to run in the
North Van-Capilano riding at

there’s: nothing to debar.a
convicted MLA from running ’:
_ again as soon as his sentence __
* (in Davis’ case a two-month .
suspended sentence) has.—
been ‘served. te.

Apologies to Comox, too,
for apologizing to Tothill.

‘#*#

There are consolations
about not being mayor.
While West Van’s. Mayor

In the éther corner don’t 37107.
Derrick Humphreys: spends see r 3710 (Series 11);

overlook West Vanner Tom (Series™ 09),

this spring wrestling with the’ -Reid. for seven years mayor-— 15), 66201 Seri es 18
budget, the Capilano link ‘to - of North Van City, which he *: 3
the Upper Levels, tree-

left in sound financial shape:

For the moment Tom main-. .
tains a sphinx-like” ‘silence’
‘between his handsome side-
‘burns, butt ardly a secret... -
that he’s of considerable. -
interést to Socreds in search ~.

topping, ‘garbage recycling
and dog control, the man
who ran him a close race for .
the top spot at last Novem-

_.because
every child
has the

alderman John Dowling,

with wif = will be of a Winner — particularly, .. Telala
nha _for °. a dream perhaps to some who have ©. right to
nee doubts about an encore for «. smile

Davis at this point.

- So many hopefuls are’
presently popping up for
nomination as candidates of

‘Maybe it’s pure coinci-
dence that :-Tom’s wife Jean —
Reid has just been’ elected -..:.
president of the West Van .-

1979
International Year

parties contesting North . ;
Van’s. two May 31. by- Anattiary. Credit Ladies, m of the Child
elections that it’s getting 7

hard to keep track of them. ae8

The latest to emerge is North
Dennis

who'll seek the Tory nod at a

March 12 nomination meet-
ing. He’s with Richardson.
Securities and is president,

I'm told, of ‘the Vancouver
branch of the Investment
Dealers -Association. Mean-
while .

WRIGHT OR WRONG: As-:
McLandburgh Wilson said—
the optimist sees the dough-
nut, butthe pessimist sees
the hole.

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