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efficiency

announced it: will be

culling back its postal services in North Van-
couver District. Residents locating in aew cesi-
dential developments within the district will not receive

home postal delivers,

but will rather have to visit a

community mailbox to pick up their fetters and bills.
According to Canada Past president and chief exec-
utive officer Donald Lander, home delivery will be u
thing of the past to new housing developments across
Canada. Lander refers to this new system of cutting

government expense as
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method.”*

‘convenient
’ He says letter carrier

und cost-effec-
vervice is “the most costly

Weil it's no wonder. Canada Post paid a sum of

$2.21 billion in

salaries for its fiscal

1985-86 vear, a

total which accounts for 75 per cent of the corpora-

tion’s total expenses.

It seems Canada Post has its priorities screwed up.
Instead of paying its letter carriers $32,000 a year,
which comes straight out of ihe taxpayers’ pockets,
plus commissiens for flyer delivery, which is highway
robbery to private enterprisers, the government-run
corporation should channel money into improving its

already Inx service.

A Post Office carrier is paid the same wage as a
skilled nurse or computer programmer to get some ex-
ercise and a suntan, and he needs no previous training
or education to qualify for this salary.

Come on, Canada Post. We work for our money.
Why don’t you make our money work for us?

PRINCES AND PIANOS may not
yet top your priorities Fst but for
nearly 1,000 Vancouverites, in-
cluding a generous North Shore
contingent, they moved up quite
fast Monday evening.

The occasion was the finale to
Spain Day at Expo, a genteel piano
recital which packed the Hotel
Vancouver’s huge Pacific
Ballroom with tuxedos and formal
gowns, followed by 4 royal recep-
tion. No razz-matazz North
American showmanship (they
didn’t even introduce the pianist,
she just walked on and got to
work). But a lot of class, Spanish

style.

Alicia de Latrocha may not yet
be a household name in this neck
of the woods but that’s our loss so
far, rather than hers. In her native
Spain she’s the unchallenged
“numero una’’ on the ivories and
it doesn’t take long to knew why.
For 45 minutes her fingers
transformed the big grand on the
ballroom stage into a living being,
and more — alternately making it
sing with the purest of voices, then
producing from it almost the
strength and range of a full or-
chestra. I could listen to her a lot.

The other star (and party host)

LATEST MEMBERS of the Diamond Club ... West Van's Mary and

Jack Muir,

LETTER OF THE DAY

Everything going from bad to worse!

Dear Editor:

No wonder most of the stores
are having 50 per cem off sales.
They bought heavily in) anticipa-
tion of Expo 86 increasing business
by 25 per cent from the influx of
tourists.

However, this has not material-
ized and they are carrying huge in-
ventories which they must turn in-
to cash. Some of them must surety

vo under. Other factors are: so
many unemploved, the money Ea-
po is siphoning off, and most of
afl, the miltions being spent on
several lotteries running at the
same Ume. Personal savings at the
bank are also below normal,

It is a shame we have to run all
tnese loueries and relieve the gov-
ernment of their responsibilities
thar they formerly took care of.
Some of these services should

THE VOICE OF MOTH AND WEST VANCOUVEK

SUNDAY - WD spay . TDA
1139 Lonsdale Ave.
North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4

57,656

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GRIT HOPEFULS? ... Richard
Blackburn (upper), Rev. Michael
Karabelas (lower).

was a tall, handsome 18-year-old
with a shy smile who gravely shook
1,000 hands as their owners filed
past enroute to the bars and buf-
fet. The name was Felipe, Prince
of Asturias, son of King Juan
Carlos and Queena Sophia, and heir
to the Spanish throne. One lady
guest was heard to vow she’d never
again wash the hand clasped by
Royal Highness.

For three local residents it was
very much a ‘family’? affair, West
Vai's Frank Bernard is the
Spanish Consul here. His colleague
at the Consulate happens to be
Martha Brucckel, gracious hostess
of the Ambleside Jne owned by her
and husband Willi — where, a
couple of years ago, Felipe’s mom
and dad dropped by for a quiet in-
cognito dinner at the end of their
royal tour of Canada. Who says
monarchists live in the past?

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CAPT. VANCOUVER'S | links
with these parts just keep on grow-
ing. D.H. Felstead of West Van
forwards us rews from a friend in
England that che Captain’s cottage
is still standiag in nis home village
and is. now occupied by Chris
Braisher, Olympic medallist and
pal of Roger Bannister who ran the
first. four-minute mile in Van-
couver in 1954. Also enclosed was
a picture of the Captain’s grave —
with its tribue to B.C. — in the
yard of Petersham church, where

never have been sponsored by the
government in the first place.
When the economy is good and
unemployment is at a minimum, it
is easy to give hand-outs to anyone
or any group that asks for it, for
some of the stupidest reasons.
Then when they have to cut back,
there is a hue and cry about
discrimination.

When the three per cent sales
went into effect in 1942, it was

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MESSAGE FROM PETERSHAM ... cemetery caretaker Frederick Ed-
monds (left) with Murray Vines who has tended this special part of B.C.,

the Captain's grave, for 30 years.

Noel Wright

Rev. Ed Wallace, rector of St.
Stephen's, West Van, conducted
the Vancouver Centennial service
this May. No way we're ever going
to forget George!
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THE DIAMOND CLUB is
recruiting new members at a record
clip. This week it's congratulations
to Jack and Mary Muir, West Van
residents for 38 years, who went to
the hitching post in Winnipeg on
July 31, 1926. Jack, 83, was in the
menswear business until retiring.
Mary, 81, stayed home bringing up
the family (two sons and now five
grandchildren), paints in oils and is
an avid gardener.

Humble apologies to last week's
Diamond guests -- North Van's
Rowland and Jean Astbury and
Viest Van's Kenneth and Lola
Macpherson — for the gremlins
that screwed up their picture cap-
tions. The Astburys were the

supposed to be a wartime meusure
and was to be lifted when the war
ended, Now it is seven per cent and
no hope of it being rescinded. Not
to mention other taxes that have
increased steadily over the years.
Postage stamps have gone from
three cents to thirty-four cents ana
the service has gotten worse. We
used to get two deliveries a day
and Saturday morning. The maii
came across the country by train

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WRAP-UP: Spies renort Rev.
Michacl Karahelas, Richard
Blackburn and former Expo secu-
rity chief Bob Haywood will seek
the upcoming provincial Liberal
nomination in North Van-Seymour

. Former North Shore newspaper
publisher Hal Straight’s son Rob
of New York married Pierre Ber-
ton’s niece, Megan Walker of San
francisco, last month ... And the
North Van SPCA’s Laurie Keller
wants volunteers for the new
Shelter Dog Walk program. If
you'd like to take a nice pooch for
a walk Tuesday and Thursday
mornings, call 926-8722.

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: There are
two sides to every question — as
long as it doesn’t concern us per-
sonally.

and we received it faster than we
do now by plane. With all their
multi-million dollar automatic
sorters, zip codes, etc, it hasn’t
done a thing to speed up door-to-
door service. Now I see where they
are considering cutting services
further. Next will be another boost
in postage.

J.H. Cooley
West Vancouver