q ‘by y Noel Wright, 7 SONTE PALL ME - DEPT.: .Having a_ cabinet \ ) ve minister as your MLA may add a.touch of class to your riding, but it seems to have some disadvantages, too -- as West Van senior citizens. are becoming aware. - Their | MLA. Labor Minister Allan Williams -- is apparently far too busy with affairs of state.in Victoria to let them-. know whether ’, they're actually going to get | . the-promi ) grant. they. need to go. ahead with West Van's Jong delayed senior citizens’ centre. Forat _improvement proj : least three weeks Mf. mid: the rush -of ap- Williams simply hasn’t been returning phone calls on the subject from his con- stituents. Up to Friday he had failed - to return numerous calls from Mayor. ‘Homphreys, ‘who has been “trying repeatedly to find out where matters stood during» the past month. He had likewise ignored calls from Alderman Bob Hicks who has worked hard and long . for over a year to get the seniors’. centre off the ground. Your reporter got as far as. Mr. Williams’ executive assistant David McPhee, who didn’t know the score but promised to get back. Like his boss, he never did. A new civic group op- posed to “the cut-costs-at- any-cost policies of some school trustees and _ their backers” has been launched in North Vancouver. Describing itself as a non- partisan grass roots organization, the North Vancouver ~ Voters Association (NoVVA) | is headed by Clare MacSorley, and advertising agency executive and unsuccessful candidate for school board ‘the $1. (which, incidentially, * ‘won a ~ “Tw thirds of the cost -of 2° “million centre national design-award). have already been pledged $400,000 from West. Van council and $400,000 from | ‘~ -+the provincial: recreational facilities program -- with the_ balance to come from Ot- tawa. But at the last moment the feds handed over. the relevant $15.1 million fund to the provincial government _ with instructions to disburs it (as the latter saw fit) for Sewer, water, garbage: “recycling and community plications from municipalities: throughout the province for a slice of the pie, West Van-seniors now _fear that the final 400 grand they were earlier assured of D errick _Teceiving direct from Ottawa may have gone down the drain. * Meanwhile, their urgently needed centre remains. Stalled and their elected © representative, busy Mr. Williams, doesn’t have time ‘to talk about it -- not even to . the mayor. When, like Mr. Williams, you’re-returned to ‘the Legislature with a. 10,000-pius majority, I guess you don't have to talk to. anybody ¥ if f you don't choose to. at the "November election. 1978 At last week’s. founding convention, him president, MacSorley said NoVVA will “take a positive approach to maintaining a nigh quality of ‘education in North Van- couver.” First vice-president Cam Turner who chaired the meeting at the Canyon Gardens, attended by about Grass clippings The problem facing the North Vancouver District firefighters when they turned up at 3484 Carnarvon Avenue Sunday was where to start fighting the fire. They could see the smoke - pouring out of the caves - but there was no sign of the fire. Finally, while a fireman was checking round the outside of the house he moved a plastic garbage bag full of grass trimmings and thero it was. Spontancous combustion in the bag from Sunday's hot weather had ignited the ch ppings. Smoke was drifting up under the siding — start mystery fire of the house and being drawn up through the wall and out through the eaves. “We thought we had a high fire until someone moved that bag,” said District fire captain Gordie Robertson. “We couldn't locate where it was and this could have been serious.” He urges people not to leave clippings fn garbage bags in a location where they can set something on fire. “People should make sure they take them out to their garbage area,” he said. “A situation like that can happen in just a couple of days of cutting the grass. There would be enough heat in that bag to set it right off.” which elected At any rate not ‘anti the next election campaign. eae Condolences to West Van . Alderman Doreen Black- burn, absent in England again for the second time within two or. three short months. The first trip was to. visit. her ailing mother of over 90.' This time it’s to attend her mother’s funeral .-. Despite the an- nouncement in another “newspaper, bhursday, June 1 éast, not in the 1979 calendar) and Principal Bernie Holt’s retirement party at ‘West Van Secondary is now at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19. Former WVSS students and their parents cordially in- vited, but please hel g 922-3931 to*let them you're coming .. Pet-lovers who read this column in time have until 4. p-m. today (Sunday) to visit _.Marie Moscovitch's Open House at the West Van SPCA shelter, 1020 Marine ’ Drive in Ambleside Park -- - some delightful dogs, cats and kttens..are up for “adoption . Another “retiree” who'll be missed by many is Ron Dirk, irrepressible editor of the Mount Seymour ‘Lions Club bulletin — the service club 140 people, said NoVVA members come from diverse political backgrounds, with many different occupations and representing all North Vancouver neighborhoods. 599 Seymours, Downtown Phone: 681-4344 ZALES Jewellery Repair Event! _ —This offer good i in n both Zales st¢ Zales stores from now until June 30th. ZALES The Diamond Store answer to-Playboy (complete - with centrefold). Good luck to successor Bill Harborne as he takes over Ron's joke ’ book and art direction. ' SALUTE .Rev. Edward Wallace, rector of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, West Van — elected 73rd president - of the Men’s Canadian Club of Vancouver in succession to Don Hamilton marketing research guru Bill: Watts, ‘awarded a 25-year pin and Legion of Honor certificate by the West Van Kiwanis. Club David. Bruce- Thomas for the great clean- up job he’s done as new owner . of Ambleside’s Village Marina at the foot of th in W eaters, make a note. Two outstanding | young North Van musicians have _ received one of Canada’s top - honors in that field. David — Sabourin (tuba) and Ronald George ong e 102 youngsters chosen to form the 1979 National Youth Orchestra, in- ternationally recognized for the professional level of its performance training. Dave and Ron are two of the 16 young: B.C, musicians- who made the grade from among 700 applicants _acros: - country. After a seven-week © training period, they'll participate in numerous NYO public concerts. Of such stuff is the New York Philharmonic made ... se vality education’ group — launched i in North Vancouver For further information about NoVVA, which ap- parently aims to act as a counterweight to the CCA, can be obtained by calling 985-1153 or 985-6340. . ee RING SIZING Larger or Smaller Men’s & Ladies’ Regularly priced from $9.00 to $16.00 SPECIAL OFFER $7.95 DIAMOND RETIPPING Regularly priced to $16.00 per claw OUR PRICE PER CLAW $7.00 (regardless of number) HALF SHANKS IN 14K GOLD (back section of the ring) Regular Replacement Cost . . depending on thickness of shank. SPECIAL OFFER. . . $40 - $60. . $32.00 Park Royal Shopping Centre Southside Woost Vancouver Pres 725-1151 MY KEEPER: The Dawson City - Flood Relief Fund, launched | May 6 by Rev. Ron Bares, rector of St. Clement's Anglican Church, North Vancouver, has: brought in ‘over $5,700 and huge consignments’ of used clothing during the past. ~ month -- with donations still. arriving from as far away as Toronto. Meanwhile, other — Lower Mainland churches have joined the drive to aid — _the stricken Yukon coni- munity. It has to be one of most heartwarming North Shore stories of the year... The generous $100, 000 matching pledge.last week to the Lions Gate Hospital Children’s Floor Fund by Park Royal and ’ British Properties nicans. that LGH administrator John. Bor-. thwick now has to raise only. . another $80,000 or so to reach “his $300,000 target. That works out at roughly A special feature of _famous — store-wide . BROTHER'S | : participant Missing ’ America’s - (fully let-out). 10 only, at 3295 each (regularly $4395). All Sales Final! HOLT RENFREVV AT PACIFIC CENTRE $1. 67 per - “North. Shore” household. The: hospital does a magnificent job for’ all North Shore residen why