TRIBUTES poured in this week from friends and col- leagues of North Vancouver community activist. and arts supporter Anne Macdonald, who died Saturday, July 10, at her home after a lengthy illness. She was 63. By Evelyn Jacob News Reporter A> long-serving North Van- couver school trustee who worked tirelessly to make North Van- couver a richer plice to live, Macdonald is remembered as a determined woman who "thought big’ and fought hard for what she believed in, “Anne was extremely astute, determined, believed in the arts, was. a progressive-thinker who believed in education and public recreation,’ sald) North Van- evuver Councillor Ernie Crist. “tt was a pleasure to be around her, because in politics, you often have to rub shoulders with people who have no vision. Anne was one of those people who inspired others and got things done, and she will be sorely missed for precisely those reasons,’’ he said. Macdonald told the News in 1990 that she fived by Eleanor Roosevelt's motto that ‘‘Whatever comes your way, you do your very best, always keeping in mind the needs of others before your own."’ According to friends, she always lived up to that maxim, For three decades she struggled to improve North Vancouver's arts scene. From , her intitial involvement with the Vancouver Arts Council to founding the North Vancouver Community Arts Council in 1969 and then becoming its first presi- dent,. she -believed there was nothing better one could do with one’s spare time than work for the community. ‘““‘Of course you can do it,’ Anne would always say. She never had time for negativity,’’ said Elia Parkinson, executive director of the North Vancouver Community duce, Re Recycle BC RECYCLING HOTLINE 732-9253 ANNE MACDONALD... after a lengthy illness. dles Arts Council and a friend of 20 years. Parkinson remembers Mac- donald as the driving force behind Presentation House's conversion into a community arts centre, and as the person who rushed in and rescued the old St. John's Church at 13th and Keith when it was in danger of being demolished. “When Anne moved the old church down Lonsdale (to Pres- entation House), there were arti- SPECIAL 622% REG. $26.95 with this coupon Expires July 30/93 ® Engine Steam Cleaning * Transmission Services * Differential Services cles in the paper saying how the building was wormy and was go- ing to fall apart. Now the city siys Presentation House will go before it does.”” That same church renamed in her honor, Macdonald's desire to improve her community was not confined to the arts, She was a founding member of the Northlands Golf Course Society and worked on a myriad of community causes, aff of which earned her the Order of B.C. in 1990, the 1990 YWCA Woman of Distinetion Award, the Distinguished Citizens Award from North Vancouver District, and this year, the Canada 125 Medal, Macdonald is predeceased by her father Mickey McDougall and her husband, former North Van- couver City alderman Malcolm Macdonald. 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NORTH VANCOUVER 1226 Marine Drive CANADA'S LARGEST BLIND 8 DRAPERY SPECIALIST! 984-4407 CONTOUR WEST VANCOUVER 925-3655 Ted White, Candidate North Vancouver Telephone: 980-5300 | Herb Grubel, Candidate Capilano-Howe Sound INTROD The present column Is the first in _@ series which we will publish in this space every Wednesday until the . upcoming election, These columns are designed to let the residents of the North Shore know about Reform Party policies on a wide range of issues important to the people of Canada. Today's celumn deals with our backgrounds as candidates and sets out the basic principles underlying Reform Party policies. Herb Grubel has. boen a professor of economics a: simon Fraser University since 1972. Ted White has been trained as an electronics engineer and owned his own business in North Vancouver. Neither of us have ambitions to be career politicians, We were attracted to the Reform Party out of a sense of desperation about the condition of Canada's aconomy, finances and politics. We became candidates because we believe that the Reform Party platform and Preston Manning's writings contain the blueprint for a prosperous, peaceful and united Canada. ; The Reform Party is committed to retuming power to the people and to ending the domination of legislative programs by a small elite of politicians and civil servants surrounding the Prime Minister. To ING THE PARTY AND CANDIDATES achieve this goa! the Party advocates reform of the political system through thé introduction of more free votes in” the House of Commons at the same time that only under rare, specified conditions defeats of government- sponsored bills are interpreted as no- confidence votes requiring an election call. This reform of House procedures can be achieved by simple rule changes. It would enable MPs once more to represent the wishes of their - constituents in the design of policies. The Reform Party also advocates the introduction of recall provisions for MPs, the use of binding referenda and making the Senate an elected, effective and efficient institution. During the debate. over the Charlottetown Accord the Reform Party received much praise for advocating the equality of all Canadians and an end to divisions based on race, ethnic or national origin. In future columns we will elaborate on the basic Reform Party policies and discuss the Party's policies to eliminate the deficit, end the abuses of our crimina! laws, provide tax relief, change immigration policies and others. We welcome vour questions and comments and invite you to join the Party to receive more dotalied information. .