December 18, 1987 - North Shore News Saaeaaee OE ROE Rar ener eS News 6 ~ Friday, Viewpoint. Peter Speck Barrett Fisher Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 7 Distribution 986-1337 Associate Editor Noel Wright Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban nevspaper and qualiied under Schedule tit, Paragraph tt of the Ercrse Tae Act 1S Published each Wednesday & day and Sunday by North Shore Free Press. Lid and aistnbutes! to evety door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Regiteaton Number 3885 Subscuphions | Hotin and West Vancouver, $26 per year baiting rates avacatie oa request jubmissions are welcare Dut we CAanbO! Accept fesponcinity for unsolcied material cluding Maouscnpts and octures which should be accompanied by 4 Slarrped, auidtessed envelope Publisher Managing Editor "+ WEDNESDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 ay Brae! SUNDAY Entire contents © 1987 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Food for life HE REAL Christmas spirit has yet to stir the collective heart of North Shore resideats. While the commercial stampede to locat malls and shopping centres is in full swing, assuring the ex- change of inter-family fobs and gewgaws, the appeal for food donations for those who will have a tough time filling Cnristmas stomachs, never mind stockings, is falling upon ears deafened by the mercantile roar. West Vancouver Santa Claus Fund representatives, for example, currently have enough food donations to fill five Christmas hampers. The organization has committed itself to supplying hampers to more than 58,804 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) a NOT FAIR! YOU DID IT THURSDAY, IT TURN TO WEAR WHITE HARD HAT AND SIT IN THE TRUCK... 200 West Vancouver families down on their luck. Across the North Shore, the flow of food donations to the 54 food drop locations set up by the News has yet to rise above a trickle. It is easy, in the annual merathon to complete Christmas shopping lists, to forget the season’s bleak side. The festive spirit is itlusive te many, but the secret to its appreciation, no matter how shopworn it may sound, lies in giving to those who really need it. Food is the most basic gift to give when you have more than you need, and the most appreciated gift to receive when you don’t have enough. So indulge in a bit of the season’s spirit and give. Christmas needs it. , Christmas food. drive information is available at 984-XMAS or 922-6522. a KEEPING TAB: West Van wat- chdogs now guard thy and my wallets against the profligate spen-. ding habits of BOTH senior govs, ernments. Kenneth Dye has been. leuths now tail OTH big-ti hopefully ‘keep Victoria’s spend- thrifts on the run, +e # PROOF-READING DEPT. federal auditor-general for several » Beware of the written word, par- years, And just unleashed, closer to home, is former West Van alderman George Morfitt who’s been named auditor-general of the provincial government in succes- sion to retired Erma Morrision. George, who was selected by a special committee of the Legislature composed of both gov- ' ernment opposition members, is a former president of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and former chairman of the UBC. board of governors. In addition to being one of the funniest after- dinner speakers you’! ever tempt to your head table, he’s also an outstanding athlete — who'll ‘ticularly if written by someone else ‘— it can even make you forget your spouse’s name! ‘ Spies at West Van municipal hall are chortling over the following nugget from Surrey’s coat-of-arms presentation ceremony last month. Surrey Mayor Don Ross (now retired) attended the similar cere- mony staged here on March 15 by Mayor Don Lanskail at which West Van received its own new coat-of-arms from Dr. Conrad Swan of the College of Heralds. Seems our guest from the south was so impressed that he asked permission (gladly given) to use some of the material, including ng me spenders part of the script, for the Surrey event. Came the day of the dress rehearsal down there. Reading blithely from the Tiddlycove script, Mayor Ross proudly an- nounced: ‘I will now ask my wife, Mrs. Lanskai!, to unveil the coat- of-arms...."” ons POSTSCRIPTS: Send _ get-well- soon greetings to Richard Baker in St. Paul’s, recovering well at last report from heart surgery Tuesday. That’s right — he’s the hubby of North Yan District's Mayor Marilyn Hadn’t heard much news lately about Grace McCar- thy, savior of the Socred Party after the Socialist hordes took over in 1972 and runner-up /to Bill Vander Zalm in last year’s fead- ership race. So it was nice to find photo by Tom Butler ‘FITNESS AND LEISURE’ BUFFS...(l-r) the North Shore’s Fanny Kiefer, Tony Pantages and wife Diane, Clive Jackson and wife Carol-Ann toast ‘ the opening of the new Pan Pacific Club. Noel Wright ® friday focus ® ae . Madam Minister still looking and sounding in great shape at Satur- day’s pre-Christmas party thrown - by North Van-Capilano MLA Angus Ree and wife Cheri. Stay: tuned, as the anchormen say ... A generous sprinkling of North Shoré notables — arnong them: CJOR’s Franny Kiefer, lawyer Tony Pantages and wife Diane, and BCTV’s Clive and Carol-Ann Jackson '— were among the 250 - corporate and media types who graced ‘the recent gala opening of the Pan Pacific Hotel’s posh new $2 million Pan Pacific Club for leisure and fitness ... ‘‘Privatiza-, tion’”’ seems to be alive and well at the West Van Kiwanis Club — judging, that is, by its enthusiastic reception of last Monday’s guest speaker on the subject, Energy Minister Jack Davis ... Congrats to North Van's Sheila Smith on winn- ing a $10,000 scholarship at Mon- treal’s McGill University where she’s studying science. We count the Argyle grad as ‘‘one of our own”? — Sheila, with her ‘two brothers and her sister, having delivered The News for several years in the Westlynn area. ‘‘It was an excellent source of income,” write proud parents Leo and Marie Smith ... And finally, the nicest ‘multicult’ Christmas greeting of the season from Lonsdale Quay | Hotel’s Jady Ainsworth, chairman of the North Van Chamber. of Commerce tourism committee. Judy’s all-encompassing message.? ‘Merry Everything — Haypy Always!”’ - ane WRIGHT OR WRONG: Agreed, it’s the thought that matters — but how the heck do you giftwrap a thought? GEORG chaser. ren Photo submitted SHEILA SMITH...honor with profit from McGill principal Johnston.