Ao - Sunday, May 27, 1984 - North Shore News

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Brother's keeper

f westerg nations don’t voluntarily in-

crease effective aid to Third World coun-

tries, they could wind up paying an even
higher price at home.

That’s the implicit warning from visiting
New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Robert
Muldoon, a staunch advocate of interna-
tional monetary system reform.

Numerous Third World countries now owe
international banks so many billions of
dollars that they can’t meet the interest
charges, let alone have any hope of ever
repaying the debt itself, without tightening
their citizens’ belts so savagely that eventual
social and _ political catastrophe becomes
inevitable.

If such countries are thus driven to
challenging or actually repudiating their huge
debts, a widespread collapse of the western
banking system could follow, leading to
economic disaster in the western world itself.

Sir Robert predicts that banks will be
forced to take the initiative BEFORE the
catastrophe stage is reached -- by ‘‘writing
down’’ some significant portion of Third
World debts. That way, the banks and their
investors might bleed, but still survive. ‘‘It’s
no use telling these countries that it’s their
fault,’’ he says. ‘‘That just doesn’t make
sense.’’

Reinforcing his argument was last week's
declaration by four major Latin Americ
countries owing over $200 billion that they.
will not be forced into insolvency by rising
interest rates and existing repayment terms.

The writing on the wall is becoming harder
to ignore. Its message is that we ARE our
brother’s keeper -- by necessity if not by
choice.

Fishy high tech

cience is coming to the aid of Maritimes

scallop fishermen whose rakes often

damage the delicate, bottom-dwelling
shellfish. A gadget giving them a small shot of
electricity that makes them jump several feet
off the bottom, allowing them to be scooped
up, is being tested. Now, all we need is a way
to fit out baby salmon with a mini-computer
homing device that leads them straight to our
boat when we press the key!

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RARE TALENT

A had been bestowed
on the vibrant, at-
tractive young woman whose

tragic death 12 days ago
shocked West Vancouver: an
instinctive love and
understanding for people
four times her own age, and
the urge to make a career out
of caring for them in their
final years.

As a 16-year-old Hallside
student, Rosalind Anne
Brossard was already work-
ing with the elderly and
sometimes ailing residents of
the Kiwanis semior citizens’
home in West Van on fre-
quent visits to her grand-
mother there. For a teenage
girl her rapport with them
was exceptional and it
pointed to the vocation she
resolved to follow on leaving
school: geriatric nursing.

After completing her
Grade 12 she spent a year at
Capilano College and was
taking this year out in order
to gain practical experience
working with the North
Shore Homemakers. At 19,
one of three sisters and two
sons of a widowed West Van
mother, she was savoring life
to the full with her
contemporaries, while
loving, especially, old people
-- as theyloved her.

It all ended in afew
cruelly senseless seconds on
the afternoon of May 15 in
Ambleside, when an open
car door flung her from her
bike beneath an oncoming
dump truck

Why, with so much going
for her, i should happen to
Rosalind is the tortured
question that can never be
answered, of course But
meanwhile, her friends have
set out to ensure that the
goals she set for herself will
not be forgotten They have
established the Rosalind
Aone Brossard Trust Fund
to provide ao bursary tor
those who would follow her
chosen path of mursing and
caning for the old
trons can be
Roval Bank
Drive

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by Noel Wright

March ... a rare and loving talent mourned.

to a remarkable girl of in-
finite promise ...

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GLORIOUS WEATHER
has been ordered by Mayor
Derrick Humphreys for
West Van's ‘‘Circus Circus’’
Community Days frolic next
weekend. All the traditional!
fun of the fair Saturday at
the Rec Centre after the 11
a.m. parade from Ambleside

Park and this year the
celebration extends into
Sunday, too, with the

Memory Cruise (tickets $10
from Bernie Holt, 922-8264)
leaving the foot of Denman
at 1 3 opm and ano in
terdenominational church
service in the Park at 4 pom

cd . °

SCRATCHPAD:. A warm
thank you from dog ‘n cat
lady Doers Orr to Park

Roval for hosting her animal
Adoption Days
month As a

cather this
result, says
Doris, 26 cats, tive hitters,
two bip puppies and an adult
poodle found good

and Park Royal

homes

thereby

aN
Tay

made a big contribution to
animal welfare on the North
Shore If you’re spring-
cleaning, Dianne
Dashwood-Jones and her 35

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MARINA DANIEL,
its own.

volunteers who tot happily
m the bions Gate Hospital

Thrift Shop at 128 West
Sth, North Van, would
gteathy apprectate your
discarded clothes, shoes.

dishes. pots, pans and small
apphances they help raise
thousands of dollars
year for medical equipment
and patient LOH

CNCEY

caic at

Crude 2 wand 1 students at Ridgeview School peepare tor

Community Days frole neat Saturday

Photo submitted

ROSALIND ANNE BROSSARD at the April 28 Peace

RUSSELI

Photo submitted

The Thrift Shop is open
Tuesday to Friday from 10
to 4-and Saturday from !0to
1... Roasted Thursday (not
for the first time, not for the
last!) was West Van’s former
veteran alderman Don
Lanskail, president of the
Council of Forest Industries
of B.C., who was guest of
honor at the annual dinner
of the B.C. Wholesale
Lumber Association in the
Four Seasons ... At a special
school assembly this month
1983 Argyle grad Russell
Smith received the Governor

General’s Silver Medal as
highest (91.25%) scorer in
the provincial scholarship

exams, together with North
Van School District's
Delbrook Science Award ...
At the same ceremony they
handed out the Delbrook
Humanities Award ,40 his
fellow 1983 grad Marina
Daniel Harking back
some further years, 1959
grads of New Westminster’s
Lester Pearson High School
have until June 8 to register
for three days of nostalgic
hoopla at the 25th reunion
bash, June 22-24. If you
qualify, call Diane London
(nee Holland) at 522-4348 or
Peggy Rose (nee McMurdo)
at 936-8095 to reserve your
place in the fun ... Sull on
the nostalgia beat, a
reminder to former RCAF
and RAF types that the

fourth Commonwealth
Wartime Aircrew Reunion
happens September 6-9 in

Argyle honors

SMITH

Winnipeg (at them last party
in TI9RO they had S000) ait
Crew and guests from. four
continents bor all the gen
call Fo HH. McCaffery in
Richmond at 278 S6K6

Then there's the Sid-Arrow
Reunion, August 4S in
Revelstoke for
dents oof the

former res
Sidmouth
Arrowhead. 12) Mile South
Lake

Beaton and Trevut

COUPES whave been sivart
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And congratulations to two
tmrote North Shore ladies
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