6 - Sunday, June 22,°1986 — North Stioré News Thin and attractive Ne= Yan District council is taking the wise course for the future by inviting its. Advisory Design Panel and Advisory Planning Commis- Sion to come up with guideline recommendations for the development of ‘‘thin’’ lots. THE VOICE OF NOMTH ANO WEST VANCOUVER Display Advertising 980.0511 Publisher. ... . Peier Speck Classified Advertising 986-6222 Editor-in-Chiel..... ....... Noel Wright Newsroom 985. News Edit i Cireulation 9881337 ens (| . Barrett Fisher Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director. . . Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an mdenendeni suburban newspapet ang qualtied under Schedule til, Paragraph It of the Excise Tax Act, 1s published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore cree Press Lid and disttbuted to evety door oF the North Share Second Ctass Mai Raystratron Humber 3885. Supsczphons North and West Vancouver, $25 per yeut Mailing tates avaiable on request. Submissrons are welcome but wo cannet accept tesponsibility for unsobtiied material inciuding manuscripts arg pictutes which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope SUNDAY WEONESDAY + FRIDAY 4133 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, 8.C. V7M 2H4 Entire contents © 1986 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. $7,656 {average, Wednesday ry Friday & Sunday) SG DIVISION At the same time, today’s.society. | ’ onstrated just the contrary. , If Distriet’s design and . work: weil, ° ; KEEP, BUSY, LIKE PEOPLE — that’s. the. recipe. for fighting the years. from a remarkable senior .. North Shore lady. » West Van’s Dorothy Whyte has just been honored by the Canadian Paraplegic -Association for: her dedicated service as matron of the G.F. ‘Strong ‘Rehabilitation Centre from its opening in 1949 until her retirement in 1962. But those.were - only 13 °:years outjof an action- - packed. life. now moving. towards the century mark, a brief spell as secretary to H.R. MacMillan) pursuing a love affair with CP hotels (‘I was too busy to’ get married,’ she says). From 1920 she worked successively ‘at the Banff “Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise, the Empress in’ Vic-. toria, then back for 11 years to. the Banff Springs — always in the res- DOROTHY WHYTE ... recipe for the years. . Dear. Editor: : Dear God, preserve us! Now, we are to have our already gassed, bleached, dyed, waxed, sugar- | coated foods blasted into eternity by irradiation. This process affects the vitamin, amino acid, protein, carbohydrate, nucleic acid, and enzyme content of the food. Highly unstable chemical, com- pounds, known as free radicals, Born in Seattle and raised in the - Yukon, she spent the first 18 years” of her working career (aside from. * In rejecting a staff planning report which proposed no immediate action, council has given notice that it aims to obtain some aesthetic control over what is built on 33ft. infill parcels of land dotted around existing neighborhoods of larger residential lots. In particular, it wants to halt the spread of unlovely and unloved **Wancouver Speciais’’ with their potentially depressing _ effect on neighborhood property values. property-owners in affected ‘neighborhcods must, recognize thal thin lots are here to y Stay, The extent io which they: change the character of ‘streets and avenues reflects corresponding, changes in Given current land prices, ‘the 33ft. parcel represents: q the only hope many. young families have- of :buying their first home. At the other end of the age seale such lots can also offer a welcome retirement solution for “empty. nest”? couples whose former family. homes have become too big for their needs,‘ but who still prefer a house to an apartment. Nor need thic-lot housing be an eyesore—many imaginative and attrac-: tive ir.aer-city: developments. of recent years have dem- planning advisers do their - thin-lot “homes—so (far . from being blights—can become assets to the neighborhood. ervations, information and PR areas, and meeting many of the world’s celebrities, from Ginger Rogers to the King of Siam, along the way. In 1939 she came to Van- couver as manager of the exclusive Georgian Club for women, moving ‘10 years later to the newly founded 'G.F: Strong Centre. On retiring she returned for sev- eral years to her beloved Banff be- -. fore settling in West Van, where ‘her uncle Albert Whyte, a 1914-15 council: member, had_ given his name to Whytecliff. Here she’s been active in seniors’ affairs and today, at 93, happily cultivates her considerable talent for painting. Trimly grvomed,her . movements quick and agile, her voice strong and her mind razor-sharp, she could pass for 20 years younger — and well preserved.at that. ! The Dorothy Whyte recipe clear- y works..... ; ee? aa GRAHAM REID ... new boss at the Chamber. LETTER. OF THE DAY Food rads a game of R are “created in irradiated food. In . some corners of the health care world, free radicals are considered to be the precursors to cancer. There will also be the possibility that micro-organisms can mutate to create much hardier species. Cobalt 60 and Cesium 137, both by-products of the nuclear in- : dustry, are used to irratiate food. : NEWS photo Tom Burley “NOT Too BAD T ALL!” «.. eagie-syed ‘Colonel Malcolm ‘Sutherland-Brown, DSO, CD (second from left) conducts the cerenionial Annual Anspection of 6 Field Engineer. Squadron Thursday evening at North Van’s Forbes Armoury. After a distinguished war record. ‘and peacetime career he was'named Colonel Comme>dant of ‘the Canadian Military Engineers four years ago. . YOUNG ARTISTS. from 52 na- tions. earning international recog- nition this summer. include: West Van teenagers David “Rawlings, Lianue Carley, Jasmine Tun- chbilek and Suzanne Thon (all of Sentine}), (Prince of Wales). Their. works, depicting the EXPO themes of transportation and communica- tion, are among those on display until September 30 in the Interna- tional Young Art exhibition at the ‘Emily Carr College of Art on Granville Island. * ae SCRATCHPAD: ‘Backing Grace McCarthy in her bid for the Socred crown at the upcoming Whistler _‘eadership convention is one of Canada’s more famous political : slogan-writers. Latest gem (watch for the bumper stickers) from West Van’s Frank Bernard, the man who invented ‘‘Follow John!’ for the 1957 Diefenbaker campaign, is another classic two-worder: ‘*‘Say Grave!”’.... Still on the election beat (for those who weren’t listen- ing), the West Van mayoralty race ‘this November already has one declared candidate: incumbent Mayor Derrick Humplireys, runn- ing for a fifth term which could see him presiding over Tiddlycove’s 75th anniversary bash next year . Congrats ta ICBC's top lawyer Graham Reid, installed Thursday by Mayor Marilyn Baker as 1986- A rad is a measure of absorbed radiation. Approximately 500 rads is a lethal dose for humans over a short period of time. 100,000 rads is the proposed guideline for the irradiation of most foods by the United States government. The Canadian government figures are ’ not available at the present time. . Food processors would prefer to have irradiation of food changed Noel Wright @ Sunday brunch @ . and. Alexa’ -McLaren’ " “BIKES” - 87 president of the North Van Chamber of Commerce, along with president-elect Jim Wright, -veepee Ernie Sarsfieid and treasurer Glenn Tamasi,... Dele- gates at the recent Christian Science annual meeting in Boston, Mass., included North Van’s Jear Leavoy ard West Van’s Marjorie Jewett ... Escorting 60 Silver Har- bour seniors on their traditional. = * Royal Hudson trip to Squamish Thursday were North Van- , Capilano MLA Angus Ree, who arranged the outing; and wife Cheri ... Dinner and entertainment party takes place tonight at Lynn Valley’s Mount Olivet Lutheran Church to honor Pastor Eari Lewis, due to retire after 14 years there but still soldiering on until his replacement arrives. Originally from Regina, he and. wife Norma will continue to live in West: Van . And mark your calendar for the special blood donor clinic Thurs- day (June 26),. 2-8 p.m., at West Van Rec Centre, co-sponsored by ‘the West Van Legion. eG ‘ eee WRIGHT OR’ WRONG: Ra- tionalization is the mental tech- nique that allows you to be unfair to others without feeling guilty. ww felt pen drawing by Jasmine Tunchbitek, 16, one o five entries by West Van teenagers chosen for the International Young Art Exhibition featuring EXPO-theme works from 52 countries. ussian roulette from that.of an additive to that of ‘a process, thus ‘climinating the re- quirement of listing it on the food label. Money talks and the federal goverument will probably’ comply with their wishes if we, the con- sumer, don't gird ourselves to do battle. If the readers of this letter don’t relish the idea of playing Russian roulette with their health or do not wish to spawn malformed off- spring, | would urge them to write to the Honourable Jack Epp, Minister of National Health & Welfare, House of Commons, Ot- tawa, Ontario, KIA OA6 and let him know, in no uncertain terms, that we are dead set against such lunacy. Eileen Scott West Vancouver