6 - Sunday, May 24, 1992 - North Shore News a INSIGHTS No DEAR , THE POPE ISN'T INTOWN ... | -THINKE THE S 1D - VANDER. ZALM TRIAL [3S ABouT TS GET UNDERWAY. VIEWPOINT Pub snub HE PROPOSAL to build a neighborhood pub in North Var- couver District’s Maplewood indus- trial area south of the Dolarton Highway has more potential negatives than posi- tives. Proponents of the Maplewood Neighborhood Pub say the establishment -at 1970 Spicer Rd. would provide the area with a ‘“‘quality lunch and light meal expe- rience.”’ But area business owners, particularly the owners of businesses involved in heavier area industrics such as_ ship- building, are concerned that workers might indulge in more than just a ‘‘light meai’’ experience. As Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. manager Malcolm McLaren told the May 12 public hearing into the pub proposal, his com- pany was not concerned with excessive employee drinking, it was concerned ‘‘with drinking”’ period. Apart from being Incated next to an ac- tive railway, the proposed pub would be in the same area as a chlorine plant, a log storage dump, the North Shore Waste Transfer Station and an asphalt plant. The addition of alcoho! to an equation that work is ifl-advised. And while the Maplewood pub would be located well away from residential neighborhoods that might not appreciate the noise created by a pub, it would be located weil away from any neighborhood at all, thereby increasing the likelihood of patrons drinking and driving. Pub patrons also might not ap- preciate the noise created by surrounding industry. In short, a pub and an industrial area would make poor neighbors. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “We don't ‘do lunch.’ We've been here for 25 years, and no one has died from starvation.” Ltd. boss Emimie Leung, on her decision to move to Canada. Gunther Wahl, after hikers discovered a cat ‘Shangri-La’ built in West Vancouver moun- includes such inherently dangerous . Malcolm McLaren, a manager at Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., on a Proposal to build a neighborhood pub in an industrial area near the North Vancouver shipyard. “This country truly provided me with all the things that I wanted: equality, justice, democracy. Just imagine if I'd ended up in California or New York — I'd be a nasty person." International Paper Industries Publisher Peter Speck “YT think they should be more un- derstanding of the situation. Maybe we should cut all the workers in their offices (Ministry of Social Services) down to $800." West Vancouver cerebral palsy sufferer Bill Oin, on having his government assistance income cut because he sells greeting cards. “There are a few bizarre people up there.”* West Vancouver Staff Sgt. Display Advertising 980-0511 Distribution tainside wilderness by a transient cat lover, “Like the rest of his party, Mr. Schreck worships at the altar of political correctness. Cir- cumstances being what they are, I plan to stay politically incorrect.’’ North Shore News columnist Doug Collins, on North Van- couver-Lonsdale MLA David Schreck's criticism of Collins in the provincial legislature. 986-1237 & Managing Editor .. . Timothy Renshaw Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director . . .Linda Stewart Comptroller Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and quaiified under Schedule 111, Paragraph il of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions Norlh and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates availabie on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, adaressed envelope. Newsroom V7M 2H4 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Ciassified Advertising 986-6222 Fax Subscriptions 986-1337 Printed on 985-3227 H 10% recycled Administration 985-2131 newsprint North Shore manageo 985-2131 Tea YONCE OF MOET AAD WET ANCOUVER SUNOAY « WEDNESDAY + FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, 8.C. SDA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Dan sees unwed mom as victim, not a heroine TEN MONTHS 2¢o your scribe suggested that Danforth Quayle, the semi-visibie U.S. Vice-President, may be a ood deal brightes than his lampooners ever let you know. Mov comes some fresh evidence. : For the secoad time since last fall Dan the Veep — whose words the world doesn’t normally hang on — is in hot water with all Po- litically Correct Thinkers. His of- fence: telling it like it is about nasty big probiems that assembly-line politicians show no sign of solving. . In August 1991 he accused U.S. lawyers (70% of the entire world’s” species and one to every 360 peo- ple as against one to every 9,600 in Japan) of damaging the U.S. economy with 18 million new | lawsuits per year, All that huge energy and talent, he pointed out, robbed the nation of productive effort that could benefit society infinitely more than reckless litigation. If his American Bar Association hosts at the time were not amused by his speech, it was nothing to the uproar that erupted last week when Dan blamed the Los Angeles riots on the breakup of the Amer- ican family and took aim at its symbo! — unwed single mothers. His target was the CBS show Murphy Brown in which Candice Bergen, playing the unwed mom, gave birth to a baby boy. ‘‘Bear- ing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong,’’ said Dan, married with three kids. Bir- ths out of wedlock mock ‘‘the importance of fathers,"* he in- sisted. Outraged shrieks from feminists, professional protesters, blacks, civil libertarians of all colors and, of course, Democrats, left poor embattled George Bush muinabling weakly about “strengthening families’’ as he ran for cover. Dan himself, however, remained cheerfully unrepentant. “*} wouldn't change a word said,’’ he declared. And why should he? After all, he didn’t condemn al! unwed single moms out of hand — but simply the TV depiction of them as heroines (and thus role models) instead of the victims they really are. The reasons for their numbers are legion and often the woman or teenager herself is far from being wholly to blame. Poverty, split-up parents, discipline-less schools, drugs, booze and the endless other symptoms of a permissive, ‘“feel good”’ society guided by the spiritual values of the shopping mal! —- they all contribute. As does a heavy daily dose of self- DAN QUAYLE... tackling one of society's repair jobs. Noei 4 HITHER AND YON indulgence and violence purveyed via TV. . Yet today there's also growing recognition that a society which produces so many such victims — not to mention all its others — needs some urgent repair work . before it destroys itself and the planet. Dan deserves bouquets, not brickbats, for getting out his tools! DATELINES: Beneficiary of the fundraising *‘Evening In Vienna’ dinner, dance and auction hosted by CBC’s Phil Reimer next Fri- day, May 29, at the International Plaza will be the North Van Youth Band — for tickets ($36) call 984-9975, 980-6633 cr 987- 4846 ... West Van Legion puts on another of its popular dispiays — this one devoted to ‘‘Women In The Armed Forces” — at the Ferry. Building, opening Tuesday, May 26 until May 31... Also from May 26 to May 29 Robert Gordy’s ‘‘Moon Lake”’ operetta for children plays at the Centen- nial Theatre 7:30 p.m. nightly with a matinee May 29 — tickets at the box office, 984-4484 ... And (again!) on Tuesday, May 26, happy birthday to our captain on ~ the spaceship North Shore News, publisher Peter Speck. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Folks always busy learning the tricks of the trade often forget to learn the trade itself. PHIL REIMER... bringing the Biue Danube to North Van.