A6 - Sunday News, November 30, 1980 ‘Moral obligation’ , Tomorrow night (Monday, December 1) West Vancouver aldermen will make their final decision on the bylaw amendment that would effectively ban all further highrises in the municipality's apartment zone -- limiting future development there to three-storey townhouses and duplexes. The measure was an election pledge of Mayor Derrick Humphreys. It has enjoyed strong community support at two public hearings. It is backed by the municipal planning staff and council’s citizen advisory bodies. It ts also an integral part of the West Van Community Plan adopted earlier this year after four public hearings. The attitude of the vast majority of West Van residents is clear beyond any shadow of doubt. Nevertheless, the question of “moral obligation” for “financial loss” to a tiny handful of would-be highrise developers has been raised in council. The term is incorrect. There can obviously be no “financial loss” on = still y. The townhouse type of development envisaged by the downzoning could still yield a very respectable return. What the opposing developers are talking about is loss of ex- pectations. There are some who might call those expectations simple greed. The primary moral obligation of council is to the community that elects it. Period. If West Van’s six aldermen failed, tomorrow night, to pass the amendment, they could rightly be charged with aban- doning their civic duty in order to enhance ’ the private profits of three or four vocal landowners. We are confident the aldermen will do their duty. Due credit A Nanaimo judge has ruled that a towing company had no right to hold a car until the owner coughed up $25 in cash. Industry representatives say that’s all wrong because no business is required by law to give credit. Sounds reasonable -- until one reflects that tow-away firms are the only businesses that provide an unwanted “service” without the customer's consent. Chalk that one up, too! THE VONCE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER sunday north shore NEWS 985-2131 61 39 Lonsdale Ave North Vancouver iH 6 V7M 244 (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING 980-0511 Publisher CLASSIFIED 986-6222 Peter Speck MACUL ATION 986-1337 Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noel Wright bse Cadwell Claassitied Manage: & Office Administrator Bern Hibhacd Creative Otrector Tarn F ean us Production Hee kh Stonehouse faye McC cae Managing Editor Andy Fraser News Editor Cohs Lloyd Photography BE Hisweoett: (dn BSc or Accounting Supervisor Barbara Keen North Shore News founded CS as ar nidepencdern! oye ty pews Dape: and Quatted Goder Sc thaechite ME Paet W b ar age ager mn the t noise fax Act oon puthshed aah Wednenday and Saamday te, Nott. Sstore bee Presm itch aed timatertoctesdd te evert yy foes one tas Nott) ‘atrore Syerccoend fC ban Meat bhangetiate + Nacortitoat ityea’ Sseatote captions BLO goare yerat bE otiee ca eerets ery x YN ee Ln Pree Progs bt Albright. camervad Ne. FV VRE VU tee cormgecnertaloelit yy a ergihardds tee mye pee Have heaters ree Wa dees vagal. asec) gaee Soares wwtiec ft Peeve Ce eT ay ee Ce sPeartagnvercd achedreresencd oe tus PO vette VE RUE IE D CIAC UL ATION 60,870 Wodnenday 49.993 ‘nada, aN. hk THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE By SIM TAYLOR Do you remember when dinner knives had _ bone handles? My mother had a set. I vaguely recall that they were made by Thomas Walker and Sons, of Birmingham. That set is nor more They had to be thrown out, long ago. The steel was still good. But the handles were all split. As my mother explained it to me, water from the dishwashing had gotten inside the bone handles. As the shank rusted, it swelled, and split the bone. “*Just carelessness,” she shrugged. I thought about that again the other day, when my two teenagers were washing dishes after Sunday dinner. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the bone handled carving set, a wedding present, disappear into the suds in the sink. “But Dad,” they replied to my yelp of protest, “it’s only for a few seconds.” Yup. And it’s only for a few more miles, that we drive our cars before giving them the oil change they need. And it’s only for a few more days, that we put off making a phone call or PEN-POWER: Five weeks ago The News carmed a short item about Mayor Eugene Kush of Hanna, Alta., who has no use at all for Hallowe'en. His Worship was reported preparing to haul trick-or-treaters into court on charges of extortion by threats or, alternatively. vagrancy. He also promised to have the police jail any mendicants found working the streets of Hanna after 9 pm on Hallowe'en night Whether the feisty mayor kept his threats we haven't heard But they upset young David Stigant of Caulfeild so much that he took the news story to school where it was made into a class proyect) He and all his fellow grade- sikers wrote letters to Has Worship) protesting this brutal crackdown on oin nocent litte ghosts and goblins just out to make themselves ai few honest packets of sunflower seeds The letlers were mailed and the class returned to other projects Lo and behold, a couple of weeks later cach of the grade six Caulfeild letter’ writers received back a personally addressed reply from Mayor Kush on his city’s embossed letterhead thanking the sender for his concern about Hallowe'en in) Hanna and adding. “I will give ito very secnous consideration © Moral for our clec tron age kids af you want action pulitin wnting' eee Move over, Frank Baker ~ the North Shore's lates: How the little things writing a letter to say thank you. And it’s only a few little things, like a pen, or a pad of paper, or a_ typewriter ribbon, that we take home from the office. Such litde things. Who's going to be hurt by them, anyway? Until it’s too late. And then you find that your handles are split. Or your engine needs $500 worth of repairs. Or your high-school English teacher died before you told her how much she had influenced you. And you find yourself writing a column about honesty, using paper and ribbon you didn't buy. As author Ralph Milton wrote in ‘“‘Everyday Dishonesty”: “Honesty in small matters doesn't seem to be on our agenda any more. People have concerns for larger issues, but don't see any connection between them and a nit-picking kind of honesty at home or at work. “Petty dishonesty is what greases the skids to ethical anarchy. Maybe the big issues are really the sum total of little issues.” Most people, I suspect, don't intend to be unethical in small things, let alone the big issues. But it’s so much sunday brunch bit of extra care. How may of us, I wonder, can't be bothered about the sum total of the little things — untul its too late to by Noel Wright eatery just a quarter-mile to the east of you at 303 Marne will also be serving up tiffany lamps, old photos, artifacts and nostalgia a la carte. It's the new “Mother's” Pizza and Spaghetti House. the 55th to be opened in 10 years by the Hamnilton-based “Mother's” chain whose gimmick 1s to furmsh all its ouUets in the style of a 1925- 3S North Amencan boarding house The ceremonial pizza-cutting takes place Tuesday with Mayor Derrick Humphreys and Miss BC Lions, Terri Paulson, kacking off a “Mother's” fund-raising dmve to buy a bus the physically handicapped Benevenuto, for mama mia, as they say tn pizza land Who's) potsoning West Van's feathered frnends’ Dr. Dudley Richmond ot the Ambleside Pet Chin reports that six birds. in cluding three or four pigeons and a crow. were found mystertously dead oof in convulsions on Ambleside Streets during the first two days of last week One pigeon mimagod to survive and was released Thursday from the pet clini. — the cause of the trouble having been established as potsoned corn, which birds can't get hold of too cassily on their own and come in doesn't naturally poisoned — form anyhow Dr Richmond has some private though uo Confirmed suspicions linked to certain types of establishment) where birds are unwelcome visitors |. Sull on the pet scene. Hugh Williams, here from Manitoba. lost his 17-year- old poodle Cindy from the 1700 block Mahon, North Van about 8:30 am last Tuesday. A treasured family member, Cindy has a black woolly coat, unclipped, with a grey tnge round her muzzle. She sports a rhinestone tag and a current CINDY has anyone seen her? and friend... North Van City heence Anyone with an idea as to her whereabouts would do Mr Wilhams a great favor by calling him at 984.9247 eee len years ago a Belfast Sarah Haghes, decided children from stnfc torn Northern Ircland should have a chance to sample life ino an housewife. cavironment = un troubled by death and Molence That was the beginning. inthe US , of the Sarah Hughes foundation for Children of Northern Ireland which last sammer gave 198 Insh youngsters aged cight fo Tl a month's holiday in odd up easier not to take that little 1 KNOW YOU LIKE BLUE JEANS BETTER SACHA...BUT YOU'REA PRINCE AND SOME DAY You'LL HAVE TO GOVERN ALBERTA! change the verdict on | lives. (James A. Taylor. Managing Editor of th United Church Observer’; Toronto.) the Amencan Midwest. The idea has now spread to the Lower Mainland, where Sarah and her local sup- porters aim to do the same for 25 more children next summer. Total cost (including air: fare) of taking a child into your home for a month will’: likely not exceed $500 but = those unable to afford it can ‘ still help with donations of. any size to the Foundation. Dents or Joyce Mahon, 980- 5228, can tell you more. FOR DESSERT: A plateful of good wishes to” Edith McLennan on her forthcoming (January) | retirement after 20 years as — secretary (to West Van.. School Board's secretary~ - treasurer She'll be replaced by another Scottish sounding lady, Marlene MacKay a congratulatory toast to North Van Hydro. cxcc R.D. Handel on: winning — the Professional — Service Award of the. Association of Professional — tngincers of BC He's held just about every position on the P Eng — circuit, plus. being an active Kiwani and. minor league sports booster, and a mug of Aussie beer — for Hillside Semior rugby “i coach Brian Lynch who's taking his team to do battle” Down Under neat July. WRIGHT OR WRONG! I's getting to be a bit much» when Santa asks the kids for: the old) man’s credit number