duly 29 , the wedding day of Prince. + Charles ea Sitlonal holiday . tio f taking | time ‘public ‘events might be nada is a: ‘bit short on e plenty” en oe pccasions for celebration. F sunday . north shore 1139 Lonsdale Ave , ‘ North Vancouver, B.C V7M 2H4 (604) 985-2131 ‘NEWS ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION 985-2131 ° 080-0611 986-6222 986-1337 oN, ‘Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-In-Chief Advertising Director Robert: ‘Graham “Noel Wright | Eric Cardwell - General Manager Creative Production Administration Director Rick Stonehouse Berni Hilliard - Tim Francis Faye McCrae Managing Editor News Editor Photography Andy Fraser - Chris Loyd Ellsworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Circulation Director . Barbara Keen | Brian A, Ellia North Shore News, founded in. 1060 as an independent communi- y Newspaper and qualified under Schedule fil, Part Ill, Paragraph iil of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday and Sunday, by North Shore Free Preas Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Clase Mail Registration Number 3886 Subscriptions $20 per year, Entire contenta © 1981 North Shore Free Press Lid. Al rights reserved. No responsibility accepted for unsolicited material, including manuecripta’ and pictures,. which should be accompanied by 4 stamped, addressed return envelope. - VERIFIED CIRCULATION: 80,870 Wednesday, 49,013 Sunday cS se & THIS PAPER 18 RECYCLABLE _ one, and; a little further on, - | (c) 1981 Suburban Features ‘Wimple-Tucker’s - ‘Loophole Tackers.Are: People, Too, reads another. ROYAL BONUS: Flight delays during trips abroad are normally nothing but a pain in the you-know-where. But in the case of Janet Pavlik, the Deep Cove tour operator, the hang-up paid off in spades during a recent business visit to Britain. Because of her postponed departure she met The Queen when her Majesty visited the headquarters of the Royal Overseas League in London where Janet was staying. Incidentally, Janet is so high on the ROL (of which she has become a corresponding secretary) that she’s booking her Britain-bound clients in there. At Overacas House, located betweon Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus, the League operates a kind of club-cum-hotel with comfortable bed-and-bath accommodation and dining facilities — all at “most reasonable prices”, she says, though apparently you have to. deal with cither Mrs. Pavlik or the Queen to enjoy them. That's fair enough, Britain being forever Britain, and you don’t have to guess twice about the highlight of Janct’s 1981 tour program: ' and, ‘forego the exhilara having both ears. tornoff by ringing immediate arbitration if ev aay sessions. down. at the: consequently; tion of 2 down. a any doing any work: Tempers..coul flare violence: ensue This. settled. Clearly « a case, I saw. one. neighbou: nod - pub and: } shaking fists, about their | 1: ears. couple of the _more ‘in- _ temperate ones. Get ‘them to The Royal Wedding Tour, naturally, July 19 to August 9. Start polishing your coronets... - eon Blood money isn’t going to happen here. after all, you may be. glad to know. Provincial and federal health ministers are sticking to their . plan (reported in this column last month) ‘to have plasma processed by three com- mercial labs. But Dave Catton, president of the B,C, /Yukon: Red Cross, received a categorical assurance the other week from, health Minister Jim Nielsen that “under no circumstances” would blood be allowed to be bought or sold, and that the Red Cross voluntary blood donor system would remain intact. Following oxposure of the issuc in The News and other media, Nielsen was | ap- parently bombarded with letters protesting the con- cept of $20-a-bottle blood. Although initially mad at the Red Cross for “turning on the publicity tap”, it seems he got the measago. Do newcomers to West Van know one of the most Amportant things about that anachronistic community? by. "such 2 actions must. . . 4 cols 7 management? Taken ‘the \ Vancouver craven way out and bribe" Perhaps I could. egg ona Jaywalking there is legal. Which brings a message. from News publisher Peter Speck (himself a dedicated jaywalker everywhere). Will those unfamiliar with West Van's high regard for civil liberties, he says, kindly take their big lead foot off the gas pedal when they see a little old lady meandering across Marine between in- tersections. She's exercising her rights — and we want to keop her alive to doso. * Retiring shiortly with her husband. to Saltspring Island is Doreen Wakely, president for another 24 hours of the Save Howe Sound Society which fights nasty schemes like open mining on Gambier, a coalport at Squamish and an LNG plant at Britannia, The society holds its second annual meoting tomorrow (Monday, March 16) at 8 p.m. in Eagle Harbour School. If you're interested in holding the industrial vandals at bay, get along there and sign UP oa UPWARD, ONWARD: Daon Development Cor- poration’s senior v.p. and head money man, Mac Camphell of North Van, was one delegate who returned newspaper.) next. Wednesday. to. _ Anne MacDonald. from the recent convention | in Ottawa -witt no’ complaints —: the’ elected him as the. party national vice-president. f the Pacific Region .., two. other North _Vannen Sharpe, Education Minister’ Bria Smith to the 16-me committee in | charge::¢ International Year of Disabled activities in B. Congratulations, while we' about it, to West” Vi Herbert Hoyles, named th to the executl American Management. ... ‘the : again, please, for Peggy Pi Brooke, tireless | director .of. the North Chamber of Commerce, of her election to the board ol the Southwest B.C. Tourist ‘Association ... Hope'H Preston saw no black ca her March 13 Ody which fell this year on Frids: Which reminds us, finally, wish many. happy returtli ‘special | North: “Van , 1adi If the grass looks greener? the other side of the fet make sure first that it artificialturf. =.