6'=-Friday,Septembet 9;' 1988 — North Shore News INSIGHTS Right lane only — Tory hugging ahead ee THE JOE AND MARY SHOW Tuesday evening was stan- ding room only and the two stars had no problem giving their vigorously applauding audience what it wanted. The smell of a second Tory vic- tory. The occasion was the opening of Capilano MP Mary Collins’ cam- paign HQ at 1718 Marine, West Van, with External Affairs Minister Joe Clark as guest of honor. Almost 200 of the faithful, braving the lack of air condition- ing, wedged themselves shoulder to shoulder into the one-time real estate office to consume Prog- ressive Conservative coffee, cook- ies and cake while waiting for the 8:15 p.m. curtain. Mary and Joe entered almost on time — passing a picket outside demanding a start on the Polar 8 icebreaker — and for half an hour Joe pressed the flesh of every individual in the now perspiring throng. Numerous of them clad in ‘Hug a Tory”’ T- shirts. The rest of the show has to rate top marks for professionalism, the image much needed by a ruling party bent on reassuring voters that it knows what it’s doing. Campaign manager Ed Byrd kept PRESSING THE FAITHFUL FLESH...MP Mary Collins and External Affairs Minister Joe Clark call the troops io arms in Capilano. No-fun run THE REAL tragedy of the Steve Fonyo saga is the negative effect it will surely have on future fund-raising ventures. Fonyo, sow a North: Vancouver resident, undoubt- edly began his Journey For Lives run armed with an innocent and sincere belief in his cause. He has been unable, however, to deal with the financial and emo- tional valley that followed the peak he attained when he finished his Journey For Lives marathon in May, 1985. The run raised $10.5 million for cancer research, but it also raised Fonyo’s profile and the glare of media attention since has shed light on the fallible human be- ing behind the hero mystique. Fonyo has always been reluctant to wear the hero’s badge so eagerly bestowed upon him. His problems since have shown why. Fame is a two-edged sword. It cuts through barriers with recognition and adulation, but it also slices deep inio personal privacy and the right to make mistakes out of the public eye. Fonyo has said if he had to do the run over again, he wouldn’t. It is a statement that illustrates the depth of the frustration he has experienced since his laudable achievement, but it is also a statement that illustrates the toll such an undertaking can exact from those ill- equipped to bear the weight of unreal expectations. It will surely make other aspiring heroes think twice about making similar sacrifices. his opening praise for his team to a tidy five minutes. The incumbent candidate took even fewer for an upbeat introduction of her guest. The latter's 15-minute message — starting with fulsome praise of Mary as ‘‘an MP who does everything well’? — concentrated on the Mulroney government’s re- cord, its burial of the bad Liberal past and glowing vision of Canada’s Tory future. Make no mistake, the former ‘nine-month PM”’, as Joe jokes about himself, is now a highly skilled political op- erator. Could this century, one dares to wonder, yet see a ‘Prime Minister Clark I1'’ scquel to 1979? By 9 p.m, the party was over. The hot but happy horde jostled NEWS photo Noel Wrigh yl iF ‘pansy ans Gyan “ab Ne Nan for the door — and fresh air — wiping its brows and breathing fire and slaughter against the forces of evil led by Turner, Broadbent and Joe’s own Yellowhead challenger, Reform Party leader Preston Manning. No silly questions. Everyone firmly ‘‘on side’’. COHO DAYS DIARY: Winners in the Coho Festival art contest, who'll receive their prizes at Saturday evening's Coho Recep- tion in Park Royal South, are West Van's Ross Penhall (first), North Van's Jack Smith (second) and Vancouver’s William Lau (third). Also io be shown at the reception is the excellent video Urban Salm- on — executive producer Mike Nicell — telling what the Coho Festival is really all about for in- ternational TV distribution. Meanwhile, drop over between plates of barbecued salmon to Gwen Seifert’s fundraising art show for Stanley Park Zoo 1-4 p.m. Sunday at Klee Wyck, 200 Keith, West Van. The 25 name ar- tists are each donating a work to be auctioned in aid of the 200 pro- ject. WRAP-UP: Splicing the main brace during their second reunion this weekend at HMCS Discovery in Stanley Park are some 300 war- time soldiers from across Canada who served on HMCS Uganda — the only Canadian cruiser to fire its guns in the South Pacific and NOEL WRIGHT bombard the islands of Japan ... Reviving happy Expo memories, the Roundhouse with its thousands of signature heritage bricks and historic steam Iccomotive 374 is again open to the public — 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily except Morday ... And congrats to former Ross Road Elementary student Kerry Pendleton, a North Shore News carrier, on winning the York House Foundation Scholarship which now puts her in Grade 7 at that classy Vancouver school. ae WRIGHT OR WRONG: Comnpla- cent people have 2 lot in common with water. They follow the casiest course —- downhill. KERRY PENDLETON ...York House choice. 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