6 - Wednesday, July 20, £988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS Better not mess around — they forget too fast! WILL THERE BE A FALL ELECTIGN or must we wait until next spring? Kemembering the public’s short attention span when it comes to thank-you's, don’t rule out a September vote just yet. In case you hadn’t noticed, the goodies were positively raining down last month on MP Mary Collins’s enlarged constituency of Canilano~Howe Sound. The 60- member West Van Seniors Centre choir got $3,065 from the federal New Horizons program. !mproved postal service for Whistler is going ahead after some energetic arm- twisting of Canada Post by Mary and her neighboring MP, Lorne Greenaway (Cariboo-Chilcotin). Under Ottawa's job creaticn pro- gram the North Shore Information and Volunteer Centre received $26,554; the North Shore Associa- tion for the Physically Handi- capped $31,296; and Presentation House $47,417 for re-roofing, re- painting and replastering. Meanwhile, North Van School Board was given $20,432 towards the cost of its summer Work Ori- entation Program (WOW}) for smartening up would-be high schoo! dropouts. The Federation of Mountain Clubs of B.C. got $26,554 for the specific purpose of improving North Shore hiking trails. And Maritime Agencies of West Van won 2 $749,889 federal government contract to transport canola oil to Peru for the Cana- dian International Development Agency. Mary’s weekly (sometimes twice weekly) announcements during June add up to a tidy $155,318 in handouts for good works on the North Shore, plus the three- quarters of a million canola shipp- ing job and a decent post office at last for Whistler — all within a single month. The only question being whether the notoriously ungrateful peasants would still remember this largess next March. Or has Brian already decided they’re not going to have to wait that long to thank him and Mary? een LOCAL BOY DEPT.: The astronomer who recently achieved world fame for a sensational new cosmic discovery is another ‘‘one of us.”’ Brent Tully, 45,— who with colleague Jonathan Bland at Hawaii's Mauna Kea Observatory discovered those gassy ‘‘winds’’ roaring out of a nearby exploding galaxy — was raised in West Van, attending Pauline Johnson and West Van High before going on to UBC and later a doctorate from the University of Maryland. His parents, Munro and Margaret Tul- ly, still live on Bellevue in West Van, which has been their home since 1947, and despite his 12 years working in Hawaii Brent remains a Canadian citizen. ee 6 SCRATCHPAD: Interesting guests at the Reform Party's “Mexican Fiesta’ garden party Saturday in North Van included Margaret Davis and Doug Collins with wife Betty. B.C. Energy Minister Jack Davis's lady made it clear she wasn’t there simply to en- joy the burritos. And colleague Doug — who regularly eats a cou- real, Chuck and wiary! ... Many happy retirement years to Edge- mont’s longtine Dr. Doolittle — popular veterinarian and staunch Kiwanian Ernie Earnshaw — who laid aside his scalpel last month ... Congrats and warm wishes today, July 20, to North Van's Arthuc and Anne Cragg who are celebrating their record-breaking (for these parts) 76th anniversary .. Tomorrow, July 21, the same again to youngsters Les and Nellic NokEL IGHT WR Hunter of North Van on their Sist .. Also tomorrow, in the junior class, anniversary grectings to North Van’s Don and Helen Preston ... And happy birthday to North Van Kiwanian Terry . Rutledge. WRIGHT OR WRONG: The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. ple of grilled politicians for breakfast — was smiling happily at everyone like a dad whose kids have brought home good report cards. These upbeat Reformers look and sound as if they’re for “Photo submitted NORTH SHORE GOODIES...Capilano MP Mary Collins and her recent guest here, Finance Minister Michaet Wilson (extreme left), chat with (1-r) Expo lands architect /Rick Hulbert and lawyer Allen Lacroix of West Van. NEWS photo Nell Lucente HAPPY CHORE...Dundarave Business Association president , ‘Duncan Watt waters newly installed planters on the period lamps along ‘the 2400 block Marine —' part of the village’s current beautification project. EST VANCOUVER Council’s motto of ‘less development is more’ above the Upper y ¥Y Levels Highway is commendable. Council received Ancore International’s latest pro- posal for development on Cypress Bowl Road with lit- tie enthusiasm last week. After four years of haggling with Ancore, council finally approved three clusiers of apartment buildings on the Hollyburn Mountain site only last year. Council reluctantly gave | the green light to the pro- ject after Ancore whittled down the number of units in the development and guaranteed ample green space. Now Ancore wants to scrap the approved plan for a revamped development. This scheme includes four, less-dense apartment buildings and 14 townhouses. This plan will reduce the green space which clinched the deal in the first place. Many West Vancouverites believe that there should be NO further development above the Upper Levels Highway. Many more believe that development — if it is necessary in the area — should be kept to a mini- mum with as little environmental damage as possible. There is no need to revamp :this development. An- core International should be content with what they have and stop wasting council and municipal staff's time with new proposals, 280-0511 988-6222 985-2131 866-1337 986-1337 985-3227 988-NEWS Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions Fax News Tips Peter Speck Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director .Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualitied under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act, 1s published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distubuted to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 V7M 2H4 Sunscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 pet year, 59,170 (average, Wednesday Maing rates avaiabie on request. 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