to eclipse all the others.

So Coho Festival 89 (Sept. 6-
10) — the North Shore’s biggest
community-wide celebration —
swung into action Thursday at the
annual meeting of the Coho Festi-
val Society, followed by a planning
session of the board. Re-elected
president for a third term was Don
Griffiths, supported by veepees
Jim MacCarthy and Bil! Chapman,
secretary Beverly Tanchak and
treasurer Chris Duggan plus direc-
tors Per Danielsen, Jim Diana,
Noei Hullah, John Moffat, Jim
Zeismaa and your humble scribe.

Retiring from the board, heavy
with honors, were Mike Nicell —
founding president of the Festival
for seven years — and Dave
Bakewell, another major con-
tributor from Year One.

Meanwhile, just after the
meeting, the Coho boosters receiv-
ed a special good news item. The
Soaciety’s video ‘‘Urban Salmon,”’
produced last year by Mike Nicell
in conjunction with Shaw Cable
TV, has won first place in the
B.C.-Yukon cable documentary
contest and will now go on to
compete nationally.

Behind all the fun and enter-
tainment of the Festival days
themselves, the event has a more
serious purpose. It raises money
for community projects directly
related to perpetuating and enhan-

cing the annual salmon mn -- and
to educating people about its im-
portance to B.C. Funding applica-
tions for such projects are currerit-
ly being considered and may be
submitied up to March 31 to The
Coho Festival Society (Attn. Bev-
erly Tanchak), c/o Suite 2-659
Clyde Avenue. West Vancouver,

sicp,

Hfe. But those warnings

mill poltution contro!s.

6 - Sunday, February 5, 1989 ~ North Shore News

Too littie, too ‘late te

RGPOSALS from the two Howe Sound pulp
and paper mills to limit the amcunt of dioxins
being discharged into the sound are a positive
but they come 2s too Little, too iate.

Eavironmeatail experts have been warning for the
past year thsi deadly dioxins Mushing into the sound
from the mills conkd have disasterous effects on sea
fell on deaf ears until ihe
pablic outcry becense too lowd to ignore.

Years of sbuse have polluted waters that were once
fal of fe, end cnvironmentslists have charged that
dioxins and other organcchlorines produced by using
chlorine in the puip bleaching process at the two mills
have permanently destroyed an snnoal fishery worth
$900,000 after unacceptable levels of the chemicals
were found in Howe Sound crab, shrimp and prawns.

Both the federei aod provincial governments kave
hed ample warning of the possible environmental
Gamage resulting from chlorine pulp bleaching, yet
they bave neglected their responsibility in enforcing

The Howe Sound milis cizim their clean-up pro-
possis will reduce dicxin and furan fevels to ‘‘non-
detectable jeveis ,”’ but the plans are aimed primarily at
the two high profile poisons and make no provision for
moving to technologies that could completely eliminate
all organochiorines or provide consumers with any op-
tion to purchase chiorine-free paper products.

Howe Sound needs more than patch-ap technology
from its mills if it is to survive.

N. Shore’s biggest party
gets rolling once more

FISHY BUSINESS AHEAD with just seven months left to
plan a five-day community party for upward of 15,000
guests — this one being also a 10th anniversary party aiming

.. hat-trick

DON GRIFFITHS
presideat.

B.C. VIT 1C8,. If you have a wor-
thy new proposal under either of
the two headings above, they want
to hear from you. So do the salm-
on!

wee

UMISEX KITCHEN? The idea
scares the pants off a friend of
mine (who luckily has a devoted
wife). Boasts he *'can’t even boil
water withot scalding it.”’ But
then, he hasn't met Eleanor
Godley.

The longtime North Shore resi-
dent and former kitchen columnist
of the North Shore News has made
it her crusade in life to teach men,
especially seniors, how to cook.
She regards it as a SOCIAL
crusade as much as a culinary one.

Most men, she notes, are entire-
ly dependent on their womenfolk
to took after ihe entertaining —
which means the social life of
widowers and of bachelors who

INSIGHTS

split with their girlfriends often
nosedives to a crash. How can you
invite friends over to brunch or
supper once the little woman is no
longer around to cope with the
oven and frypan?

In addition to the school
board-sponsored classes she’s been
teaching for a number of years,
both locally and overtown,
Eleanor has also written some
highly practical cookery books,
among them ‘‘The Kitchen
Ranger’* (1985) published by
Methuen. My own favorite is still
her first one — ‘'Eleanor’s Cook-
ery Course for Seniors,”’ a ring-
binder volume with the simplest of
directions printed, one recipe to a
page, in jumbo-size type. You can
prop it open at the page you're us-
ing and read it from the far side of
the kitchen.

A stimulating and amusing in-
structor, Eleanor recently started a
new 10-week cookery course for
men at the Lucas Continuing
Education Centre, 2132 Hamilton,
North Van, and it may still be
possible to join the fun if you
move fast — call 986-8888 for
details. And by the way, you don't
HAVE to be womaniless to attend.
Half her present class has been
ordered there by wives and
girlfriends who figure ‘‘partner-
ship’? means HE cooks the occa-
sional dinner!

that’s only half the item.

The birthday, celebrated with
family and friends at University
Hospital at UBC, was Mary Hor-
ton’s 110th. She’s now the oldest
person in Western Canada and the
third oldest in Canada — two
110-year-old Nova Scotia women

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POSTSCRIPT: It was happy bir-
thday — and then some! —
yesterday, Feb. 4, to Mary Hor-
ton, widow of Rev. H.E. Horton
who was pastor from 1922 to 1925
of St. Andrew’s Methodist
Church, North Van, before it
became a United Church. But

“YES, FLIP IT NOW,
Godley with stedest Wally Galpin.

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being only three months ahead of
cr.

tee

WRIGHT OR WRONG: It’s odd
how the young always try to hide
their poverty, while the old like to
brag about it.

NEWS phote ide Lucente

WALLY" ...male cookery crasader Eleanor

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