6 ~ Sanday, April 23, 1989 ~ North Shore News

INSIGHTS

“The remembrance of
old friendship...’

BORDER-HOPPING KIWANIANS from both sides of the
line are observing the signing of the Rush-Bagot Treaty this
week. The what-whai treaty, you ask?

We’re talking about the docu-
ment dated April 18, 1817, which
led to the disarmament of the
Great Lakes and the removal of
fortifications along the entire
5,000-mile Canada-U.S. frontier.
And the annual Canada-U.S.
Goodwill Week marking the event
—~ this year April 23-29 — is very
much a Kiwanis invention.

It was sparked by Warren Har-
ding, in 1923 the first U.S. presi-
dent to visit Canada and himself a
Kiwanian. He spoke here in
Stanley Park on the friendship be-
tween the two countries and after
his death Canadian and U.S.
Kiwanians commemorated the oc-

casion by erecting in the Park the
Harding Goodwill Memorial.
Some 10 years later they began
building over 30 Kiwanis ‘‘peace
markers,’ all but two (on Mount
Eisenhower and in Washington,
D.C.) now located at main
Canada-U.S. ports of entry and
bearing the following inscription:

“This unfortified Boundary
Line between the Dominion of
Canada and the United States of
America should quicken the
remembrance of more than a cen-
tury of old friendship between
these two countries — a lesson of
peace to all nations.””

So last Tuesday brought a visit

Photo submitted

OH BROTHER!...North Van Big Brothers (left to right) David Queen
and Robert Food with their Little Brothers John and Rodney at recent
Disney characters breakfast — see column item.

Wake up, Victoria!

by Tacoma Kiwanians to the North -

Van Kiwanis Club. North Van will
reciprocate this Wednesday by
busing a posse of THEIR members
to present a goodwill tree to the
mayor of Edmonds, Wash. — ac-
companied by members of the
West Van Kiwanis. Meanwhile, at
10 a.m. Tuesday, April 25, David
Fitzgerald of the U.S. Consulate
will be guest speaker at the West
Van Kiwanis Club of Capilano.
And al! along the 49th parallel
there'll be similar Kiwanian get-
togethers.

But it’s more than just a Kiwanis
party, of course. [It’s a celebration
for EVERY North American —
because sharing that undefended
§,000-mile border for 172 years is
one thing about us that the rest of
the world envies most.

aan

WHAT, NO RED ROSE in your
lapel today? — And YOU an ex-
Brit! Did you forget that this was
the day in A.D. 303 (says the
legend) when poor dragon-slaying,
damsel-saving George had his head
chopped off for checking the
Roman Emperor Diocletian? A
fate which qualified him, 1,000
years later, to get his permanent
job in Merry England. Speaking of
which, surely you haven't also
forgotten that April 23 is Will
Shakespeare's birthday (1564), as
well as the day he died (1616)?

Ever heard of an Irishman who
forgot the shamrock on March 17?
Or a haggis-less Scot on Burns
night?

Happy St. George’s Day just the
same — even to FORGETFUL
ex-Brits!

eat

TAILPIECES: In town this

Thursday, April 27, is Reform
Party leader Preston Manning,

guest speaker at the a.g.m. of the
Capilano-Howe Sound RP
Association at 7:30 p.m. in St.
David's United Church, West Van
— everyone welcome, but only
card-carriers can vote ... Congrats
to SFU chemistry students Erika
Plettner of North Van and Patricia
Wrean of West Van, winners of
$850 Natural Science and
Engineering Research Council
awards ... At the same SFU cere-
mony North Van’s Gregory Peters
received the Webber Co-op Book
prize for outstanding work on stu-
dent job-training ... More ‘Big
Brothers,’’ willing to give a few

hours a week as friends and role
medels for youngsters from homes
without adult males, are needed on
the North Shore — call Dave
Fraser, 988-7115, if you’d like to
help Anniversary greetings
tomorrow, April 24, to West Van’s
Roger and Agnes Gauthier, ‘‘still
hale and hearty’’ as they celebrate
their 54th ... And likewise tomor-
row, happy birthday to North
Van’s Jeff Adams.

get
WRIGHT OR WRONG: Com-
pared to optimists, pessimists en-
joy one big advantage. They are
always getting pleasant surprises.

Photo subinitted

SFU ACHIEVERS...West Van student Patricia Wrean (right) is con-
gratulated by SFU chemistry cheirman Cam Ochlschiagger on winning
NSERC research award. She’s one of several recent North Shore prize-

winners on the Burnaby campus.

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AWRIGHT YOU
GUYS! WEREHERE |
TOINSPECT YOUR... |

} OLITICIANS LOVE to talk about the en-
vironment.
But as they croon about the uncertain state of

our planet, they push the globe even further into en-
vironmental peril.

That seems to be the case with the provincial gov-
ernment’s latest proposal to build a natural gas
pipeline from Vancouver to Vancouver Island.

The nonsensical scheme to construct 2 533-kilometre
pipeline through the Coquitlam watershed, the purest
and largest single source of the Lower Mainland’s
drinking water, has been unanimously opposed by 18
mayors.

Victoria, however, is blindly znxious to go through
with the project this summer, despite obvious risks.

Even the company hired to build the pipeline,
Pacific Coast Energy Corp., has admitted that runoff
during construction will cloud our precious water with
muddy sludge.

That means Coquitlam Lake would have to be clos-
ed down during the summer morihs, and to the
creater Vancouver Regional District, that is unaccep-
table.

Accidents do happen. The possibility of a leak may
be slim, but is real nonetheless. To leave our drinking
water vulnerable to these risks is downright foolish.

The only one who would benefit from such a plan is
the company.

As the government scrambles for a better method to
transport lethal chemicals, it inadvertently sets up
another potentially disasterous situation. Victoria
should wake up to the consequences of such a plan. It
should put the pipeline somewhere else.

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