S

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

Creative anachronism

ALASTAIR the Eastern Traveller took in the the festivities at Waterfront Park Aug.
30. The Society for Creative Anachronism’s Barony of Lions Gate gathered for an
afternoon of spectacle and pageantry from the Middle Ages.

~-Adverusement—

HOWARD'S PIANOS CELEBRATES
20 GRAND YEARS IN BUSINESS

Thirty years ago an 82 year
old Dutch man lost his
driver's license.

That single event is the
reason Howard McMahon
ts celebrating the 20th
anniversary of West Van-
couver's highly successful
Howard's Pianos. “I was a
music student at the
Quebec Conservatory at

the time and I was very

fussy about keeping my

piano tuned,”

says Howard. The

tuner, Mr. Harry

Van Rantwyk, needed

a driver and Howard

needed to conserve funds.

Thus a relationship that

ultimately saw Howard

open his popular North

Shore business in 1977

began. “I learned to tune

and repair pianos over the

two years [ drove hin
around,” says Howard.

“When he retired, he gave
me a lot of his customers
and | just kept continuing
from there.”

And after all these years,
is this piano afficionado

getting bored? “f have
never tired of i

“] go all over the
buying pianos. At one
time I even owned the
second oldest Steinway in
existence. It was a spec-
tacular find!”

Actually, there are a few
other people responsibice
for Howard's Pianos suc-
cess and Howard would
like to extend b ppreci-
ation. “I weuld like to say
a big thank you to the
community and all the
music teachers, registered
and unregistered, who
have supported me
throughout. the years. I
couldn't have done it with-
out them!”

PIANO SALE

‘The annual Howards Pianos “Back to Piano Lesson Sale” is underway now.
Over 60 new and conditioned uprights, grand and digital pianos with

. SAVINGS OF UP TO 40%

shop early
while selection
is at its best,

Rescuer injured in
Mt. Seymour resc

Robert Galster _
News Reporte

robert@nsnews.com

A rescue near Mount
Seymour last weekend
has cost the North
Shore Rescue Team
(NSRT) one of its mem-
bers.

Vike Flom. wha has be
on the squad tor 1 wear.
ong oof the three rescé
responding to a call ot an
iyured hiker

“We were tromping out te
get tothe subjyeut. and T hast
cally ust nipped and oisted
my ankle.” said Elvom. “PE was
trving to vet back on my feet
and P coulda’,

The injury was more serous
than initially anticipated and
comequenth — Elbom had

oats ante

Mee ae

savitchicd) trou her rade eres

voce to thar at vicim
Ae pei
etoany ke #7

Htrathy say
shortly

cab to spend rhe

erca while a third

. soup hiked our

tosummon Belp tor tes fallen

comrade. Phe NSRP was catied

moana reqacsted a heheoprer

rescue tor the tint bght of the
nevt d sar the area.

three member team

including hisom had set out to

locate the couple and were

halttan-hour’s hike away when

the mishap occurred
North Shore Rescue Team

member Pim Jomes wer
to docate the due while Stan
Soveat the chird tant member
present, staved: behind with
Heo ann, th !
and sompanian ow
iby Jones. Meanwhile

Flom d Soveat made their
was toward a clearey that
would accommodate a heli-
copter rescue Jones and. the
two tikers made their wav to
the same sieanmg where they

aited the heliopter iogeth-
er

The injured
Ehom were later t
the Mount nour pari
jot where they were transterred
inte an ambulance and whisked
to Lions Gate Hospital. Both
are reportedly in good con
non though OM ned
orthey die surgery. Her recov:

y is expected to take three
months,

hiker and