A6 - Sunday, December 11, 1983 - North Shore News One-party rule? No doubt Premier Bennett has his own good reasons for refusing to recall the Legislature until next year. But whatever they may be, they are certainly not contributing to the preservation of Parliamentary democracy in this province. The October adjournment of the legislature possibly had some smail, temporary merit. As the Nov. 1 confrontation with the Govern- ment Employees Union and Solidarity loom- ed, the pause at least emphasized the cabinet’s readiness to consult before proceeding further with its controversial restraint legislation. However, the shutdown of the elected chamber also completed the political neuter- ing of the official opposition, on whose active presence the working of our parliamentary system depends. Deprived of its natural forum and unwilling to be reduced to just one more group demonstrating on the sidewalks, the NDP’s voice has been effectively silenced. As a result, Solidarity has been elevated to the status of a non-elected, extra- parliamentary ‘‘opposition’’. The government is now conducting B.C.’s business by direct negotiation with a handful of labor warlords and a street mob — instead of with the 22 elected opposition MLAs who won 45 per cent of the popular vote last May. Meanwhile the bulk of the spending estimates for the current $8 billion budget have still to be debated. The House should have been. reconvened last month for that urgent task alone. __ Mr. Bennett’s continued delay may be smart political strategy for the Socreds. But let’s hope it does not include the concept of “‘single-party democracy’”’. Out of time Who can blame the beleaguered Liberals for playing Santa Claus in a Throne Speech less than three weeks before Christmas? If promises could be gift-wrapped and delivered in time, every stocking in Canada would be bulging with goodies by Dec. 25, 1984. But alas, there IS a difference between the Grits and Santa. The latter Christmas. will stil be around next (ees COECE OF NUTR Ap WEY VasCOUvER sunday north shore news 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, 8 C V7M 2H4 Publisher Peter Spec k Edltor-in-Chiet Noel Wright Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Circutation Subscriptions Associate Publisher Roben Graham Tarn Fe eames Personnel Director Classified Olrecto: Circulation Olrector Born Hithard tsabetie Jennings itt Me Grown Production Director Ottice Manager Circa Johnson Donna Grandy Terry Peters North Ghore News, founded tn 1969 as an ependont oOnmmmultly ReEwapape: and qualified under Schedute UW) Pad i Paragraph il of (ye tacise Tan Act ta pubtished cach Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore broe Press Lid and distutnsted to every Good an the Noch Shore Second (lass Mall Hegistiaton Number 1655 Entire contents 106) North Ghore Free Prees itd All rights reserved Sutacliptions North and West Vancouver $24 pe: yea: Mani (aten evatiadte On feces! Neo Fenpmorinitoitity oa Cepstendd tes soem ple ited nate cat CDS LOW Vrarnime sigalg merved gree tieceen whi Fowl Con ac achivosnod ovo ape Member of the 8 C Press Council e Sh am CORTE Ore yparrend try a niarty pens 84 TOO average Woelkronday A Saarnday THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE 980-0511 986-6222 985.2131 986-1337 980-7081 Advertising Director Photography Manager WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1983 is not an individual but a complete team, according to the lady in question. In a letter thanking the Vancouver (North Shore) Business and Professional Women’s Club for its recent WOTY award to her, West Van’s Dr. Martene Hunter writes: **l would like, however, to spread the plaudits around a little bit. My office is run by three exceptional people — my nurse, Mrs. Nancy Nan- son, my receptionist, Mrs. Leslie Curtis, and my ac- counts manager, Mrs. Boo Barker. Without them ! could never get through the day. | get terrific assistance with the endless paper- work and attention to detail that involves from Miss Jamie Reid. And how can | express the contribution and support that my husband, Redner Jones, makes in his role — which he undertakes with gusto — of ‘house-hus- band’? (To be honest, the best that I can say about his housekeeping is ‘mediocre’ — and that’s being generous — but his cooking! — WOW. It is so nice to get home each evening to an ab- solutely scrumptious meal. | just wish he wouldn’t get so snarky simply because it’s twenty to nine p.m.) ‘“‘My kids, both Hunters and Joneses, have always ac- cepted their mother’s pre- occupations with aplomb and tactful understanding. Last but certainly not least, there will always be a very special place in my heart for my first sunday brunch by Noel Wright husband, John Hunter, and my parents. When things were bleak, they were the ones who always said, ‘Go for it. You can do it.’ The Award should go not just to me, but to all these special people.’’ NEWS photo lan Smith SHARING THE HONOR . -. Woman of the Year Dr. Marlene Hunter. Gracious thoughts that tell you a lot about the reasons why Dr. Hunter was honored oe 8 That Indian ‘‘talking suck’’ which Mayor Derrick Humphreys held when open- ing last week's inaugural meeting of West Van council was a gift 1! years ago to Alderman Derrick Hum- phreys from Chief Simon Baker of the Squamish Band. A nice touch of symbolism, maybe. The tradition at In- dian get-togethers is that only the person with the talking stick is allowed to talk ... e*e 8 HITHER AND YON: Twenty-three years of Carol NEWS photo Terry Peters “MY TURN TO SPEAK’’ ... Mayor Derrick Hum- phreys with Talking Stick. Ships and in ali that time their moving spirit — Van- couver Parks Board Commis- sioner George Wainborn, chairman of the Carol Ship Parade — has never seen them from the shore. As with every parade since 1960, he’ll be aboard once more when the colorful flotilla of nearly $0 lighted vessels cruises past North Van next Saturday evening, West Van next Sun- day evening shame- making statistic from United Way chairman Dave Catton of West Van, still looking for over a million to reach this year’s $9.7 million goal: in many Canadian cities one person in two gives to the UW; in the Lower Mainland only one in six — grab your cheque book ... Elected presi- dent and vice-president res- pectively of the brand-new North Van Parents Council on Education were Lynne Bogardus and Norman Far- rell. The umbrella organiza- tion, representing parent groups at North Van schools, was launched at a Ross Road School meeting last Tuesday ... West Van Alderman Don Griffiths was handed a warm potato that could get hotter at last week’s inaugural coun- cil meeting — to his areas of special responsibility has been added ‘‘Ambleside Improvement’’, which in- cludes the controversial topic of waterfront development ... Preparing for a special party is Thomas Templeton, a resident in the North Van Kiwanis Home. He retired as a painter-foreman at Burrard Yarrows at the age of 71, continued working on his own for the next 23 years, sull buys and cooks his own food, and this Wednesday will celebrate his 100th birth- day ... Also celebrating — with carefree Christmas shopping and a planned trip to Mexico — is North Van’s Lise Haile-Ross who scratch- ed the Match 3 lottery ticket her husband bought her the other week and became an in- stant $10,000 prize-winner ... ees ¢ WRIGHT OR WRONG: Why confuse yourself with other people’s facts that don’t fit your argument when you can manufacture your own that fit perfectly? Stress ‘wellness’, not illness ROUGHLY EIGHTY PERCENT of the people who consult doctors do not feel well — but have no obvious organic disease! By RUSS KISBY What's wrong? Complaints vary) from lassitude to insomnia, from a general sense of being “down to loss of appetite to the hist is long and vexing I'm not suggesting these people aren't tll - suspect what they feefis both unsettl ing and painful But, | also suspect’ chat they themscives can do a great deal to make themscives feel better And, in fact, a growing community both in side and outside the tradh tional medicine world is com ing to see that the primary focus of medicine should change from treating discascs to encouraging ‘‘wellncss"" that highly desirable state of physical, emotional and spiritual fitness the movement 1s called “holtstac’’ medicine It secks (Oo understand and treat the whole individual in the con text of his culture, family and community HMolsts medicine views health as a positive condition not just the absence of itiness. At its most sincere, holistic medicine docs. not compcte with traditional medicine; in- stead, it builds’ on and around it. The holistic physi- cian would never hesitate to use the techniques of tradi- uonal medicine where called for He does, however, look for techniques that permit § the “patient’’ to look after himself — cither to bring back into play his body’s own immune system or, preferably, to avotd an tliness in the first place cf vt}. ne wer Qe my ee a nn ee (This represents a dramatic shift in medicine emphasis. Now, less than 1% of na- tional health expenditures deal with preventive medicine.) Then Health Minister Marc Lalonde inadvertently legitimized many of these preventive holistic concerns with his 1975 report to the nation titled ‘‘A New Perspective on The Health of Canadians" Thé document pointed out that much of what we suffer from, we do to oursclves and could avoid with certain behaviour changes no smok ing, tess drinking, better dict and PARTICIPaction'’s specialty, regular physical excrcise Holistic practithnoner James S. Gordon, M.D., has writ. ten; “‘Holistic practitioners use a variety of exercises from a number of different traditions to improve cardio- pulmonary functions, muscle tone and emotional stability ...perhaps jogging for the fearful asthmatic and tai chi for the awkward young woman or unbending old man "’ As for holistic medicine's attempts to mobilize the body's own discase defence system with non-traditional techniques, PARTICI#Pact- ion cannot cxpertly offer an opimon Whether such health pro. mouon straicgies as Rolfing (a hands-on = strategy that *“*redirects’’ cnergy) or Shiat su Massage (needic-less acu- puncture) of naturopathy have significant benefits might remain to be seen. However, PARTICIPact. ton docs endorse the philo- sophy that cvery individual must take active responsibil. ity for his own well-being -- and that includes his body, his mind and his planct. (Russ Kisby is President of PARTICIPaction, the Carta dian mouvement for personal fitness.)