62 Suiiday; October 4. 1987 = North Shore News THE VOICE OF NORTH ANDO WEST VANCOUVER y iy ol f Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Peter Speck Barrett Fisher Noel Wright Linda Stewart mer asd qurnhed under Scnedule [i inday Dy Nortn Snore Free Prev “ravon Hutter SBES Suoscuptions Subrmesions are welcome put ve Cd Mates IO gyn MANLELID'S ANE PRCIUTES etch SHOUTS DE aC COMpAnd News Viewpoint Post praise HANGES TO Canada’s postal service are long overdue. Canada’s postal service remains the laughing stock of the world, and with its poor service record, high costs and lack of consumer confidence, mailing a letter is often akin to playing pin the tail on the donkey — hit or miss. For its attempt to reduce its costs and bring service ‘up to an acceptable level by franchising out some operations, Canada Post Corp. gets accolades. Canada Post is finally moving with the times. Trying to wrestle a huge deficit into a manageable sum, the corporation has brought in a number of new measures designed to increase public confidence and streamline most of the system. But the inside postal workers, the ones who process the mail for delivery, are fighting many of the cor- poration’s moves to operate in an efficient, business- like manner. As always, union leaders are battling new moves over what they claim is job security for their members. If the postal workers do not want to lose their jobs, they too should operate in a professional, business-like manner, keeping the overall success of the system in mind. { ' Canadian postal workers should be embarrassed when they see their American neighbors’ mail system, which covers a larger population, costs Jess and delivers on time. Efforts to make the postal system something that will stand scrutiny when compared against other _ Systems in the world should be met with cooperation, instead of attempts to thwart these much-needed moves to improve the country’s mail service. SUNDAY - WEDNESDAY + FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, 8.C. V7M 2H4 SDA DIVISION Entire contents © 1987 North Shore Free Press Lid All nghts reserved. 58,489 (average. Wednescay Frdaay & Sunday) gs NEWS photo Tom Burley “FEELING COOLER?”...children at Maplewood Farm pet Angora goat which has just lost its coat‘to expert sheep shearer Martin Lubben (left). New lifestyles threaten , the single-family zone Noel Wright @ Sun ay runch @ SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES are come and mom at home with the ‘RENO NORTH”? comes close to’ ah ie . / struggling to stem a rising tide — with as much hope of succeeding as King Canute had. The sanctity of the single-family neighborhood is the battle cry in North Van District on the ‘‘illegal suites’? issue. It resounds in West Van in the current fights against a subsidized seniors housing project at 19th and Esquimalt, and luxury condos at Fisherman’s Cove. But facts of life are ignored. Single-family. zoning was based on a younger 1940s society with stable marriages, a post-war baby boom, dad earning the family in- kids. The 1980s find seniors nudg- ing towards 20 per cent of the population, childless Yuppie cou- ples opting for condos, and easy divorce swelling the ranks of work- ing single ;arents with no hope of home-buying — all of them the wave of the future with housing needs just as real as those of 40 years ago. The once sacred single- family neighborhood may still win the odd skirmish against these new lifestyles. But in the long term, sad though it may be, it has already fost the war. FROM EXCISE TO EXHIBITS...Milada and Michael Dohnalek dispiay samples of arts and crafts offered at their new gallery in the historic Britannia Beach customs house. home the weekend of Oct. 17-19 in the form of the Whistler Village: Festival, especially designed for seniors. First of its kind in B.C., the three-day event features Reno-style casino gambling - blackjack, roulette and wheel of fortune — $1,000 jackpot bingo, dancing to the 1940s big band sound, a beer garden, a Saturday night gala costume party and live entertainment galore. ? Emcee for the weekend is Herb Capozzi with BCTV’s Teny Par- sons and Nancy Greene Raine as special guests. Afl proceeds will go to the /Royal Canadian Legion Benevolent Fund and the Whistler Volunteer Fire Department. For as little as $93 seniors get bused from the North Shore and back, deluxe accommodation and two tours, plus special dining prices. For fur- ther details contact North Shore Neighborhood House (987-8138) or West Van Seniors Activity Cen- tre (926-4375). The footnote to the party, of course, is that Whistler aspires to become a permanent ‘‘Reno North’? and wants to demonstrate how well it could perform. With the real Reno hitherto a favorite ‘destination of seniors — but also with air fares and the U.S. dollar being what they are — the Whistler Festival looks like a doubly wor- thwhile cause to support! se ¥ CLOSING DATE to apply for the world’s most prestigious interna- tional scholarship is Oct. 23 and you’d better be good! In all of Canada only !1 Rhodes Scholars — aged 18-24, unmarried and preferably third or fourth-year university — will be selected for 1988 by personal interview (no written exam) and will get around $21,000 a year for up to three years at Oxford University. Since 1904 some 600 Canadians have qualified, many like energy minister and North Van MLA Jack Davis returning to distinguished public careers, and more recently the North Shore can also boast of West Van student Daniel Pro- mislow, chosen as B.C. Rhodes Scholar for 1986. Call lawyer Peter Fairey, B.C. secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, at 669-2611 for application details. se * WRAP-UP: Donations of your no-longer-wanteds are urgently needed by the North Van SPCA for its Oct. 25 garage sale to raise funds that will help pets in its ’ keeping to be adopted instead of being put to sleep (feeding, in- oculating, spaying and neutering cost money). If you can help, call SPCA volunteer Laurie Keller (926-8722) about collection ... And many happy returns of tomorrow (Oct.5) to Batchelor Bay birthday girl Cheri Ree. ae WRIGHT OR WRONG: Then there was the man who took to eating his dessert first because, as he said, ‘‘you never know nowa- days what's going to happen NEWS photo Neil Lucente “ALL TOGETHER NOW!”’...instructor Maureen Hood (centre) teaches Lizzie and Virginia Cullens, Julie Paterson and Glenda McDonald some Scottish country dance steps at Deibrook Community Hail.