a ition to the pay increase North. Van District Mayor Don Bell see i tirely. » $30,000. a year les tax-free $5,000 -- is substantial. So, bee in 1978. But the ‘basic to ao with Mayor Bell value for money. > -. population of <5,000 and a hefty eight-figure aes \ y current standards. if | ’ mn aents are added to policy- ‘making, supervisory and administrative -fanctions, 60-hour weeks are far from _Npusual, even in smaller municipalities. “Meanwhile, senfor non-elected officials answerable to the mayor and council commonly enjoy salaries in the range of $50,000 upward. No company today could hope to attract ' qualified candidates for a position of comparable responsibility in private business or industry for the revised salary granted to Mayor Bell. Always provided he and his two North Shore colleagues (who are paid ap- preciably less) are the men for the job, they represent pretty smart bargains. Making sure they ARE the men for the job is the job of their employers — the elec- torate, Discrimination? A New Westminster merchant fs suing the Better Business Burean for allegedly sug- gesting that only members listed in its directory have “high ethical standards.” He's not listed, not because he lacks high ethical standards but because he doesn’t think the $100 BBB membership is worth the money. 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TAYLOR Something happens when people look at each other in the eye. When you suspect a child of fibbing, you say: “Look me in the eye!” I'm told that monkeys (and hockey players) can tolerate from other monkeys (and players) unless they look the other person (or monkey) in the eye. But once they have made that contact, they can no longer pretend the other monkey {or player) isn’t there ~— they can't back down. They have to fight. Something similar hap- pens to drivers in heavy traffic, Pve noticed. Not that they start fights, though that happens occasionally. Almost the opposite -— courtesy depends on making eye contact. ' Our office parking lot empties onto a street close to a traffic light. In the evenings, it’s hard to get out of the lot. Traffic is either hurrying to get through the light, or jammed up bumper- to-bumper waiting for the light to change. I always know which drivers will slow down, will make room for my little car in the line of traffic. It’s the ones who make eye contact with me. FATHER FIGURE to around 100 babies (they've lost count exactly), a remarkable North Van resident passed away last Sunday at the age of 82. For 40 years Howard Reid and his wife Dorothy acted- as foster parents to a steady stream of unwanted = or abandoned infants from a few weeks up to one year old until they could be legally adopted -- just as the Reids themselves had cartier adopted a fine son and daughter. Howard and Dorothy were featured in a picture in the Sunday News of May 17, just six weeks before his death. The occasion was the presentation of an award to the Reids by the Ministry of Human Resources for their outstanding service to all the foster children thoy had loved and cared for during the crucial carly months of life To devote half of a-tong iifetime of your own to such o task marks you oul as a pretty special kind of per son Very literally, it has to be a labor of love That's wharit obviously was for Howard and Dorothy Their adopted son John Reid — an officer with the West Van Police Department — summed it up in a sentence. “As parents, they were the greatest.” The others will look everywhere else - at my front wheels, at the traffic light, at shapely ‘pedestrians, even at. their own ‘hood ornanients. But never at me..To look at me, personally, would mean recognizing that I too was a human being like them, anxious to get home, tired, impatient... _ It makes a difference. - And it’s why, I suspect, the Christian faith continues to focus on a person, Jesus, in ‘spite of the attempts of generations of well-meaning Christians to turn it into a : system of rules ‘and regulations, of principles and policies. Systems and rules can be kept tidy. And for many people, they're more comfortable, because you don’t have to exercise your mind, or to cope with something unexpected -- you just follow the rules. - Yet we keep coming back to a person who, 19-1/2 centuries later, keeps on surprising us with his teachings, his actions, just - when we think we have him all figured out. Because we can identify with him - with his temp- tation, with his patience, with his suffering, with his compassion. Across alli those centuries, we can still make T contact with a real person. sunday brunch But not many can identify with a set of principles -~ any more than those drivers feel like showing courtesy when all they look at is that hunk of rubber, plastic, metal and rust that I fondly call my car. “(Vlames