6 - Sunday, July 21, 1991 - North Shore News a a WOW! 1 LOVE THs NANTIG RIP CEN Ss is . 5) aa Vs bpaw) NEWS VIEWPOINT Youthless decision ORTH Vancouver City Councii’s rejection of a youth dance club proposal for the Marine Drive area exhibits blinkered visions and anti-youth sentiments. While councils in West and North Van- couver Districts have taken positive steps in establishing youth centres ia their municipalities, North Vancouver City Council has chosen to heed the concerns of a@ few Marine Drive businesses at the ex- pense of the municipality's youth. When issues of youth violence were raised last year in a series of News articles, council members mounted soap boxes and led the charge for more youth facilities. But when push comes to shove and business voices are raised, soap boxes are quickly vacated and charges quickly aban- doned. According to the proposal from Sanctu- ary Investments Ltd., the alcohol-free youth dance club would have been located in the 700-block of Marine Drive, far from any residential areas; it would have been policed by club security both inside and oul; and it would have provided a facility for local youth that would have come at no cost to local taxpayers. But area car dealerships raised the spec- tre of teens loitering on Marine Drive and frightening the good folk of North Van- couver City. Most of those objecting to the club agreed that the facility was needed, but not on Marine Drive. Whe! the argument boils down to is that city teenagers are expected to be neither seen nor heard. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “1 do hope she (Collins) doesn’t make decisions while she’s upside down.”’ Victor Warren, on Capilano- Howe Sound MP Mary Collins, after Collins sent Warren’s daugh- ter a congratulatory certificate printed upside down. “But politicians have a choice too — they can either bow out, die in office, or be voted out. Not enough of us bow out gracefully.’’ Lions Bay Mayor Gordon Prescott, on politics and politi- cians. Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptroller Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart . Doug Foot “The reality is that some people are just not able to live here.”’ North Vancouver District Ald. Joan Gadsby, on illegal suites and the high cost of living on the North Shore. “They should apologize for what they’re doing to Howe Sound.”* Terry Jacks of Environmental Watch, responding to calls from Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Ltd. for the environment group to apologize for statements made in a leaflet claiming that pulp mills are still pumping high levels of pollution into Howe Sound. Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution Subscnpticns Administration ** it’s easy to be influenced by high technology. But there's nothing like using acoustic in- struments; it's like the difference between using a microwave and a fire outside — if you use tradi- tional ways, it tastes good.”’ South African musician Themba Tana, on high technology versus basics in the world of music. “There's nothing more pathetic than those creeps that use those parking spots for the disabled.’’ West Vancouver Ald. 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All rights reserved The G-7 club must not risk Gorby failing THE AWFUL bind that socialism can get you into (Hi there, Bob Rae and Mike Harcourt!) is speiied out by the problems Mikhail Gorbachev is left to face after last week’s G-7 summit in London. He returned home with offers of ‘technical assistance,”’ associate membership in the In- ternational Monetary Fund and World Bank, and lots of good wishes. But, as expected, with vir- tually NO CASH yet to relieve the Soviet Union's desperate food crisis and economic chaos. Before digging into their wallets the Big Seven wanted more proof that the Russians are in earnest about embracing free enterprise. They may have to wait quite a time. What Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and other reformers are battling is the devastating 70-year MENTAL legacy of a rigidly state-controlled socialist economy. As in the story of the Soviet economic planner who recently asked a visiting western counter- part in all seriousness: ** Who sets the prices in a free market economy?" Or the case of the three brighter Moscow lads, cach standing in a separate long line-up for bread, butter and eggs. They then sell all three items packaged together at a small profit. For this modest ex- ercise in free enterprise they are still jailed as ‘‘profiteers.’’ Then there's the Canadian in- dustriatist involved in a Siberian oil joint venture whose simplest request to government winds its way for months through 29 dif- ferent bureaucracies. Told the operation can't continue without a decision, the official asks him: “Why not?” But ic's not just bureaucrats. TON LINSSEN... from Bergen Op Zoom with love. RON MERRITT... West Van's new Rotary chieftain. Noel HITHER AND YON Top economic aides of Gorbachev have pointed to a similar mindset in much of the gencral popula- tion. Long sheltered by the dead hand of centralized planning from having to think or strive for themselves, many Russians simply don’t yet begin to grasp the im- plications of a free market. “And,” adds one Soviet economist who does, ‘they're ter- rified of competition.’’ Anyone thinking this disastrous, entrenched socialist system can be paintessly replaced overnight is dreaming in technicolor. If the G-7 leaders know what’s good for us all, they'll stand ready anytime to loosen the purse strings rather than see Gorbachev destroyed by the dangerous job ahead of him for months, even years, to come, Small wonder he omitted, while in London, to pay his respects to the man buried in Highgate Cem- etery — gravesite of Karl Marx! WRAP-UP: Latest Centennial gift to North Vancouver District is a commemorative coin from the 700-year-old Dutch city of Bergen Op Zoom, burial site for the Ca- nadians who died freeing the city and southwest Holland in the Se- cond World War. Visiting Bergen Op Zoom council member Ton Linssen presented it July 11 to Mayor Murray Dykeman ... North Van seniors who are socially isolated, lonely, frail or partially impaired and doa’t attend seniors’ centres will be the beneficiaries of a $3,180 grant from Nerth Van City to the Capilano Community Services Society’s ‘Seniors’ Hub’’ outreach program ... Incoming 1991-92 president of West Van Rotary Club, elected at the Club’s a.g.m, last month, is West Van stockbroker Ron Merritt ... And an artist who regards fun as an important part of art is North Van's Drew Burnham, whose “*playful’’ watercolor works are currently on display at North Van City Hall Gallery, 141 West 14th. WRIGHT OR WRONG: The im- possible is something nobody can do until somebody does. nT TE