40 ~ Wodnesday, May 28, 1997 ~ North Shore Nows

‘African experience brought perspective

NDP candidate

has Scottish roots
By lan Noble and Jolanda Waskito

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News Reparters

A tip to Slerta Leone helped
shape the views ofa young
man raised by staunchly con
servative parents in the
Scottish county of Fife,

That young iman, Clark Banks, is
how 63 and running for the New
Demoerats in the West Vancouver.
Sunshine Coast riding.

Hanks said the Attica country: is

me where he first saw an area completely

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Tuesday evening of cach
month at Lions Gate Hospital
w-~gein North Vancouver, Anyone
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MEMBERS SOUGHT:
The Sons of — Norway,
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populated: by only the
rich and the poor,

‘The native Attigans, he
adi, Were tasec as shaves it
the iran are Mts, :

“Ui is what can §

Happen to peuple iF cor
porations wo too far” he
said, * And | thdith that's
what they are on iivir
way Lo righe now.”

‘Wefore leaving for tive years at sed
al the age of 15, the Sirathiiglo-
bort Banks lived in Fife, whieh bor:
Hers the beer known county of

Halintairgl,

Ditring his time at sea, Hanks trav:
efled around the world Nt hoat three
or four times,

CL

He then took atele
phone techniehin
course in Scotland
before hooking up
with a company to the
lield,

Drurtig that lime he
met Aileen, wha had
lived i Canada since
she owas two but
returned te) Seotlind

AUT? te goto hairdressing school,

He came to Canada with Aileen
under the sponsorship of WC. Fel in
1960,

Rut while visiting his in-laws in
Porvell River, he was offered a jabs hy
MacMillan Bloedet at twice the
wages the telephone company was

te ae naenirg yet agony
Eh

meresy sen EMTS UT In

willing. to pay,

“His beguitt Banks's 260 vanes at
the pulp mil, an interlude inter
ed by four years inthe Fraser Canyon
ed ds a reshnurateuty apd tow Wick
And service shition operator,

The Powell River resident enjoys
fishing with his wite, Pfe's built anew
Hovtse andl does tittle gardening,

“li scriticls like [iv recived: but
Pivot, said the father of two sons,
wow dyed 28 and 29,

Hanks was alsa d hockey ane hase
(all caach,

“love my hockey."

CLARK Banks, NDP candidate

for West Vancouver-Sunshine
Coast.

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