6 — Sunday, March 10, 1991 — North Shore News a Sa ‘ened “oul ab, SY Syne? \ SS Savdies SN Ss Sy WSS Wey MANNS ~ NN NEWS VIEWPOINT Parking problems ORTH VANCOUVER City should remove the nominal fees charged at Lower Lonsdale municipal parking lots for the good health of area residents, businesses and commercial growth. In a March I News report, Lower Lonsdale residents complained that park- ing in their neighborhoods is now plugged with the vehicles of people patronizing such mew area businesses as the Famous Players six-cinema theatre. Parking, they told city council, has been reduced to almost nothing, while only half a block away a massive city-owned pay parking lot stands 80 to 90 per cent empty. Some counci] members suggested restric- ting parking for area residents only. But such a move would bind the free flow of area commerce in unnecessary lengths of red tape. It would require more policing, more ticketing and more towing; it would result in more frustration for people wanting to use new facilities in the growing Esplanede and Lower Lonsdale areas; and it would ultimately have a negative impact on the area by driving more and more customers to other areus of the North Shore and downtown to spend their entertainment dollars. . The Esplanade area, with a new cinema complex and new restaurants, has the potential to flourish into one of the North Shore’s most exciting and vital commer- cial-entertainment areas. But that potential could be sacrificed for the price of a $1 per night parking stall. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK **We have an ear, nose and throat specialist who is particularly useful.”’ Vancouver Bach Choir general manager Gilian Wilder, on the wide range of choir-member backgrounds. “They spend something like $216 million on developing this car, it goes down there and the car doesn’t sell. Very soon they found out that the name they picked, Nova, means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.”" Multicultural communications expert Zaher Meghji-Ahamed, on a Genera] Motors biunder. marketing “My dad likes to watch TV and my mom fikes mountains.”’ Fromme Elementary School pupil Simon Jones, from the book he is producing as part of the school’s Writing Project program. “‘When you pray for peace, you don’t pray for peace for your own people but for everyone. You can’t ask for peace for yourseif and not for others.’’ Aziz Khaki, the interfaith coor- dinator for the Council of Moslem Communities of Canada, on pray- ing for peace. “It seems the province wishes to ignore us, hoping that we, like our front yards, will simply slide into non-existence."’ Deep Cove resident spokesman Cynthia McLeod, commenting on area resident concerns over the $11-million Dollarton Highway improvment project. “He’s obviously been watching too much BCTV news.”* North Vancouver City Ald. 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Landfall dicey for Socred ship-jumpers RATS, IT SEEMS, have gained a whole new respectability nowzdays, since the media took to describing dissident Socreds as ‘‘deserting the sinking ship.” Leaders of January’s abortive riding revolts, weepy Nicole Par- ton and half a dozen other defec- ting candidates — and now heavyweight cabinet dropout Mel Ceuvelier — reckon the leaking vessel can’t survive the coming election storm with Bilt Vander Zalm at the helm. Right or wrong, they pose an equally interesting question. How do they themselves plan to make landfall? “Landfall,” for them, presum- ably means free enterprise gov- ernment. If so, how do they square that with the fact that the ONLY viable choice in this polar- ized province boils down to free- enterprise Social Credit — warts and all — or ‘‘the socialist hordes?”’ Meanwhile, other suffering Socreds come in three packages. First, traditional Socred sup- porters now loudly vowing they can never — on principle — vote again for Vander Zalm. What the idea of eight NDP years does to their resolve as elec- tion day loonas is another matter. People who talk about principle in politics are one reason why the secret bailot was invented. Then there are Socred can- didates who think the best way ‘o win or hold their seats is to disown Vander Zalm himself. Like Susan Brice in the 1989 Oak Bay by-election — the perfect Socred candidate in a rock-solid Socred stronghold. Perfect except that she wouldn’t even allow the boss in ber riding during her campaign. Against all the odds the NDP candidate lick- ed her. Holding their noses, selfish Oak Bay voters figured a New Demo- crat heroine to her leader might do more jor them than a Socred backbench outcast hardly on speaking terms with the premier. Finally come the genuine ship- jumpers who've torn up their membership cards and are now busy trying to launch a free enterprise ‘‘alternative’’ with a name like a fish packing firm.Former Maple Ridge Socred president Donna Telep and former Socred director Jim McLean claim their new ‘“‘B.C. Pacific Party”’ is backed by ‘‘several prominent British Columbians.”’ The same words used of an earlier ‘‘alter- native,’’ the Enterprise Party, which flashed briefly across the Noel Wright HITHER AND YON B:C. political heavens a year or so ago and vanished into space. With the election call now maybe only weeks away, the kindest description of the Teleps and McLeans is terminally naive. Even if the monumental organiz- ing and nominating problems were solved, no unknown, untested party could do more than hand the NDP a resounding victory by splitting the free enterprise vote. Let’s face it. If a majority of B.C. still wants free enterprise to run the show, Social Credit — with or without Bill Vander Zalm Heading into a hurricane miles from land is no time to jump ship. You’re safer on board, pat- ching the leaks. Even rats know that! eee POSTSCRIPTS: Current Socred problems lend special interest to ‘West Van Chamber of Com- mierce's guest speaker at its 7:30 a.m. breakfast meeting, Mar. 12, in the Ambleside Inn. Socred MLA John Reynolds, who resign- ed last year as environment minister over a purely en- vironmental issue, has quietly watched the unfolding scene from the sidelines —- call 926-6614 re tickets... Preschooler parents wishing to register for September are invited to the 7-9 p.m. open house Wednesday, Mar.13, at Montessori Preschool, 595 Burley, West Van (925-1437)... And the call is out for all Argyle Class of °71 grads whose 20-year reunion is being held May 18-19. For details contact Cheryl, 980-5394, or Donna, 980-7646. NEWS photo Stuart Davis RED CROSS origins and activities are explained to Courtney Graham and 4th West Van Guides by Red Cross official Sara Taylor... who received from them a $50 donation from Xmas craft sales,