& — Friday, September 12, 1997 — North Shore News

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__ VIEWPOINT

volunteer North Shore

Health Region board is made

up of well-known former local

politicians, experts in the health field,

and a new Canadian. But none is elect-
ed. And that is a hage problem.

The NDP’s “closer to home” health
regionalization plan was supposed to
deliver decision-making power to local
‘people. Now that deep sift have devel-

oped between the unelected board and
its hand-picked administrator, Inge
 Schamborzki,.on one hand: and Lions
Gate.Hospital doctors and. employees
on the other, let’s recap the influence
you've had in board decisions.
«° Have you personally supported the
“appointment of any of the 15 board
:”\amembers? Neither have we. Do you
es 16 even three of the 15 are? We
nly becat se we Have a list. Do
} importance each of the

board members, or any of them,
attaches to acute care? Community
health? Neither do we.

So, are the voices of the average Joe
being heard on the board? No.

The NDP, which appointed the
board members, is at the heart of the
problem. B.C.’s ruling party nixed
elections for board members.

Now the top health dogs in the
region are all barking up different
trees. But with the responsibility vacu-
um on the board, the urgency to reach
a compromise is lacking.

The $166-million-a-year health
region board should have fewer mem-
bers. They should be elected and paid.
And they should shoulder the respon-
sibility for their. decisions.

Then decisions might reflect the will
of the residents, not that of Victoria-
appointed volunteers.

. TEACHERS used to ask their
pupils after vacation: What did
you do last summer?

I wish someone would ask me: What

did you do in the summer,

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Daddy?

Since it is unlikely any-
one will, 1am going to tell
you, whether asked or not.
4 I took my three 12),

ren — the Biggest
the Middlest (cight) an
the Littlest (seven) — to
my homeland, southern
Ontario, for eight or nine

ys.
My wife was on holiday
too — from us.
Here I note that rhere i is a well-worn,
if not threadbare, if not worn-out writing

. formula that casts children as causing

problems if not mayhem while the parents
trusgle along in their wake — affection-
ately ravely, with a forced smile, but
sometimes wistfully yearning for the vaca-
tion (or the life) they aren’t having, and
can’t have.
Today I’m not going to touch that
writers’ gimmick with a 10-foot meta hor.
I delighted i in travelling with m
dren. They're fun, interested, and interest-

_ ing. I’ve spent cnough nights alone in

stock-issue hotel rooms for a lifetime.
i some advice. Bring moncy. Lots
it.

Ontario’s economy has tuned around.
Re visitors can testify as to the tum.
Prices have lifted off for accommodation
in big-volume places like ale ren ago ~
begging for business a couple of
with big discounts and specials. (

Sales & Masieing Decor Publisher

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5 FOR BC]

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irs worKine! lM.

or praise, the Casino there, a monstrous
success.) :

Speaking of monsters, com
the various House of Horrors any
name on cheerful tesque Clifton

ed with

, which charge a Jot '

for a tittle, the famous
es of the Mist ride is a
and a bargain at
$27 (all prices are for the
four of us). So is Jim
Pattison-owned Ripley’s
Believe It Or Not, $21.
We've stayed at the
Holiday Inn-by-the-Falls
(which, for tangled rea-
sons, is not part of the
Holiday Inn chain). Last.
year the high-scason price for a double in’
the AAA- book was $90-$160; this
year, $$ $95-$185.
big difference is in the off-seascn |

joy (a modest lunch ‘an r
reat accommodation bai

Holiday Inn Express. at the ¢

Hamilton, at the Qu Elizabe

low: r Rone $52-$80 to $55-$125. In July.

we paid $113.50, snuggled into two
unqueenly beds. It’s a so-so place, except
outdoor and indoor pools, loved
or the children, and an excellent location
within walking distance of the falls. (Also
fine thin-crust pizza at the adjoining Mr.
Coco's.)

Even the Denny’s across the road .
doesn’t offer those widely advertised bar-
gain breakfasts: Bill for the four was an
outrageous $55.68.

But outrage has become napa
Especially when your ones uate
from the Kids’ Meal to adult ones. Bring
along a couple of old friends and dinner
at the Old Spaghetti Factory on Toronto’s
Esplanade reaches $107 includin Sp. At
East Side Mario’s, a good-fun I
restaurant chain that we love (especially

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tle Mount § Hani

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