6 - Friday. duly 3. 1987 - North Shore News News Viewpoint O, Canada! he concept of Canada has become a popular one fo pour the flat beer of disdain upon. Canadians are so close to the bull moose roar from below the 49th parallel that they must wear ear- plugs and bum aloud to themselves the praises of Canada if they are to retain their Canadian identity and remember what Canada is. Many have given up. The effort to remain a true Canadian in the face of the roar from below and the whine from within has, for some, been abandoned. The chant increases daily to give up the pretence of unity or identity and separate into regions of local concern or embrace our brethren States as fellow Americans. from the United So it is heartening to sit on a hot July 1 afternoon ana be immersed in enthusiastic celebration of things Canadian and to see that the celebration still extends across the vastness of Canada. Canadians have been told for so long that we are a country of bland second-raters whose culture is bor- rowed and boring that most now believe it. Bat at a youthful 120, Canada is on the verge of greainess. Is detractors look upon the immensity of ifs size and resource wealth and lick aging lips. Like any other country, Canada has its second-raters and buffoons, but unlike any other it is a land of brilliance and subdued spirit with one of the earth’s last frontiers of true wilderness. Above all, it is a land of limitless potential that must not be sacrificed to the blinkered and short-sighted vi- sions of the few. Shaping up the ith and beauty way heal TWENTY YEARS AGO — when the rare street jogger risked arrest as a fleeing robber and a health spa was a place in Baden Baden where you drank funny-tasting water — the women's League of Health and Beatty arrived on the North Shore. Established many years earlier in Britain, the League provides «a program of eurythmic exercises to music, designed to tone up all fe- male body muscles with gentle, graceful routines somewhat akin to those of the ballet dancer. It was launched here originally and con- ducted for five years by a petite H&B crusader from North Van called Heather Elliott who held her weekly classes in St. David's church hall in West Van, My wife at that time was an enthusiastic meniber and, watching Heather's disciples in action on several occa- sions, | saw her point. Then, in 1972, the feotard brigade was taken over by its present instruc- tor, Lily Fisher of West Van, and now does its ladytike workouts weekly at St. Andrews’s and St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, 27th and Chesterfield in North Van. Which also tells you, of course, that it’s a non-profit PAT ON THE BACK...delivered to Ree Commission chairman Wayne organizadon, Last week the ladies celebrated 20 years of H&B in these parts with a ernise and lunch for some 80 Leaguers aboard the S.S. Beaver. Affordable female fitness with fun is the name of their game and if you'd tike to know more about it, call Lily at 926-5185, oak TOTAL DONATION by West Van to the Rick Hansen *'Man in Motion” fund topped nine grand, reports Alderman Pat Boname, coordinator for the project. The May 9-10 fundraising weekend itself raised $4,787 from Seawalk strutters, Walkathon entrants’ pledges, Westeot and Irwin Park Schools, and = private donors. Later, a further $4,325 — in- ciuding gifts from the two Ree Centres, the Seniors’ Centre, West Van Tennis Club and the Raiders Soccer Club — was forwarded to Rick's bagfolk through Municipal Hall. Winner in the under-50 category of the Walkathon, co-sponsored by the North Shore News and Ambleside-Tiddlyeove Lions Club, was Susie Bolwell, whose pledges were doubled by her photo submitted Schulstad ()) by BCRPA past president Gary Young. TH VOC SUNDAY » WEDNESDAY © FstlAy 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 58.489 AND WEAPONS employer, Seaspan of North Van. Irene Balden, a veteran pioneer tunner, tied with fitness buff and Litthe Theatre actress Phoebe Cleverly in the over-40 cliss — all three receiving year passes for the Aquatic Centre or equivalent, eee HERITAGE’ as knowe throughout the North Shore, interior designer Jack Watts, has been elected president of the Heritage Society of B.C. at ils recent annual meeting in Nanaimo. For the past 10 years he's worked hard to establish a heritage policy (now making prog- ress) for all three North Shore municipalities — first by founding the North Shore Heritage Advisory Committee, then, fast) year, the North Shore Heritage Committee under the North Van Community Arts Council. The Heritage Society of B.C. is an umbrella group of some 150 heritage organizations all aver the provinge and Jack will be representing B.C. this fatl at the conference of the Heritage Canada Foundation in Quebee City. Among the latter's goals, by the way, is an additional statutory holiday, to be called “Heritage Dav’, on the whird Monday of February. Don't forget to include that one too, Jack, on vour “push hard’ list! he's “MR, CONGRATS ALSO to the first recipient of the new ‘Volunteer Pat on the Back" award presented by the B.C. Reereation and Parks Association, He's Wayne Schalstad, chairman of North Van Recreation Commission for the past three years, a commissioner since 1982 and known for many other years of community service, particularly to local soccer. ate WRIGHT OR WRONG: Bruce Feirstein's theory is chat the griss is greener on the other side of the fence because they spend more money on fertilizer. Display Advertising 980-0511 Classilied Advertising 986-4222 Newsroom Distrbution Subscriptions Matte Shore hems * 985-2131 986.1337 986.1337 ——e Fuslisher: Spece Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Advertising Director Singht Bareet Prsber Fotve contents 1987 Narth Shore Free Prass Lia All nghts reserved Noel Wright ® friday focus ® NEWS phato Neil Lucente PITCHING HARD...Vancouver Canadians pitcher Stan Farsler at Lonsdale Quay last weekend with fellow team) members, selling sutographed hardballs, pennants and tickets (o raise funds for Babe Ruth Baseball,