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Taking on trust

here may be a lesson for municipal can-

didates — and voters — in President

Reagan's landslide victory and Prime
Minister Mulroney's similar feat two months
earlier.

In both cases the specific election issues
proved, in the end, to be less important than
the personalities of the two leaders. True,
issues alone might have determined the
technical winner. But the overwhelming
SIZE of their majorities in each case
reflected something more. A vast number of
Americans obviously liked and_ trusted
Reagan personally, despite reservations
about some of his policies. In Canada, it was
apparently the same with Mulroney.

At council and school board level, issues
vitally affecting the entire community---in
the way interest rates and unemployment,
for example, affect a nation---are fairly rare.
Most local government issues are of direct
importance only to relatively small activist
groups. And the short three-week campaign
period allows scant time for the electorate as
a whole, even if interested, to reach fair and
balanced judgments on often unfamiliar mi-
nority concerns.

When issues, real or imaginary, remain
unclear and confusing as polling day ap-
proaches, the safest course for voters may be
to concentrate on personalities rather than
**platforms’’; to look at the candidates’ re-
cords; to ask, which can | TRUST most to
do his or her best for us on all the issues?

That's the way Brian's and Ronnie's huge
majorities obviously figured things out. It's

hard to imagine so many people wrong all at
the same time.

Doctor's orders

inance Minister Michael Wilson's
economic statement Thursday was lke
going to the doctor suspecting oneselt
of suffering from a rather serious condition
and having it confirmed. The good news is
that the doctor believes it can be cured if the
patient cooperates by accepting some unplea-

sunday brunch

Teachers Association ... The
new West Van unit office of
the Canadian Cancer Socie-
b N [ W . h ty, run by Betty Jean Wyatt,
Vy Oe rlg [ 15 now in business Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 10 to 2
at the former Pauline
Johnson School, 1150-22nd
Street (925-1952). But Betty
Jean is seeking volunteers to
make full-trme daily opera-
tion possible---call her at
294-1871 when the office is
closed if you’d like to help
Feast’ for park lovers:
Rick Hankin, the dynamo
driving the GVRD- Parks
Dept., addresses the North
Van Chamber of Commerce
lunch meeting this Thursday
(Nov.15), 12) noon in the
Canyon Gardens. If trans,
trees and beaches are your
thing, badger a Chamber
member to take you along .
Belated congrats to Bob and
Myrna Handel, longtime
North Van residents, who
last weekend celebrated their
35th anniversary. Bob's an
engineer with Hydro, while
Myrna runs her own Calico
Candies business on
Lonsdale ... A single five
buck Provincial Lottery
ticket recently won LGH
nurse Elizabeth Hopkirk a
cool $50,000 ... Meanwhile,
North Vdn's Isabella Waugh
didn't even have to wait and
see---she rubbed her $2 Pio-
neers of the West ticket last
month to find it worth an in-
stant ten grand . And

OWER of Nega-

tive Thinking

Dept., or how to
double your sales
revenue without even
trying.

A sure-fire pitch was
devised by auto-beautician
and North Van Chamber ot
Commerce director Len
Macht while helping out as a
celebrity breakfast host at
the local McDonald's during
the burger chain's” recent
fundraising day Presenting
a bunch of balloons to a
munching businessman of
bluecollar totler, Len would
say The balloons are SO
cents each---but frankly,
you'd look pretty silly carry
ing ome out there on the
Street at erght in the morn
ing, wouldn't vou? So give
me a dollar and tll get
lost'”’

It worked, time and again

* * *

MARSHALL McLUHAN’S
latest disciple is North Van- | *
Seymour MLA Jack Davis -

who's evidently decided the TOP OF THEIR CLASS...West Van science teachers Brian
Media 1s the Message He's Herrin (upper picture) of Caulfeild Elementary and Ron
launched his own smart little Knight (lower picture) of Hillside with appreciative students.
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lick ‘em, join *em.. Engineers of B.C. for their

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their feet in opera next Dave Brousson of West Van
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cost, the Tatiana Vasilieva Victona, last weekend Dale
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tull-costume excerpts from the M. G. Griffiths Award
such classics as The Mar for Rescue from
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