6 - Friday, March 28, 1986 - North Shoce News [ . THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER News Viewpoint ; -horth'shore Move over movies |“ SUNDAY WEDNESDAY y FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 ast week’s announcement that a real estate developer is willing to replace West Vancouver's co aD. Panorama Studios is good news for all concerned — if the deal is completed. Polygon Properties would find !ittle opposition in its bid to tear down B.C.’s only sound Stage, and build a 42-unit condominium complex. The Folkstone Way residents, where Panorama is located, would have fellow condo-owners as neighbors instead of filmcrews. And the film industry itself would benefit from a “‘new and better’’ movie facility. But a word of caution is voiced by Panorama Situ- dios operations manager John Powell. He correctly points out that Polygon's announce- ment could be a ‘‘public relations gesture.’’ The real estate company has re-acquired its option to buy Panorama and must now go before West Van- couver municipality to seek a rezoning of the land from commercial to residential use. If public sentiment is on its side, Polygon will stand a better chance in having its rezoning application ap- proved. Also, the company stands a better chance to sell the condominiums it is presently constructing next door to Panorama, which the company’s president views as having an ‘‘undesirable appearance.’’ Panorama, with its 25-year history of serving the B.C. film industry, deserves a fair hearing. And before the deal is signed all efforts should be made to ensure _ the studio will indeed be replaced. - Peter Speck a Noel Wright .Nancy Weatherley Linda Stewart Publisher: Editor-in-Chiet Managing Editor... 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That was’ one protesters opinion in the March 1 ski-in at Cypress Bowl. ~ But, I would say his slogan was issue is not over pay. It is over the right to move unimpeded upon public property. It is one which affects all British Columbians regardless of their po- litical garments. As taxpayers we paid fer the development of the entire park, and now we pay $80,000 a year to keep its access maintained. The that Cypress Bow! Provincial Park is public property. And, it is disgus:ing and inex- cusable that one of our citizens was arrested for taking his rightful access to it. Sarah Nitins West Vancouver A British MP is demanding to know why the price of gasoline was not slashed for motorists, when oil companies are always will- ing to take advantage of any increase in the price of oil by putting up their own prices! Now that the price has dropped by some $10 or more a barrel, they seem more interested in increasing their own profits! F.W. Banks West Vancouver Doug Collins e set this straight @ IT'S GOOD to see great advances being made in the aboli- tion of sin. Thanks to Brother John Braithwaite’s unmat- ched reasoning powers / and those of his fellow aldermen / North Vancouver City is now an ‘‘apartheid-free zone’’. And one of these days it may join the crowd and become a nuclear-free zone., Even wicked, wine-sodden West Van is a nuclear-free zone. And who knows but that it too may soon poke that ole debbil apartheid in the nose! Smoke-free zones are also becoming popular, and perhaps we shall one day have pimple-free zones and bald-men free zones. Heaven can wait. : It would be wonderful to have a tax-free zone, too. Alas, Brother Braithwaite and all the other Braithwaites are united in denying us that final pleasure. But let’s not be too hard on our brother. Being black, he feels it is his duty to support blacks / even if supporting them means putting them on the breadlines. It is brilliant to refuse to buy goods from a country when you -don’t buy anything from it anyway. For if North Van does buy goods from South Africa, the news has not leaked out. Council couldn’t have been guzzling that excellent Paarl Sherry during its coffee breaks, could it? Apart from sherry, what could the city buy from that republic? Watermelons? Oranges to suck while Brother Braithwaite delivers himself of his Chur- chillian prose? Lawks-a-mighty! Not that purity is the exclusive preserve of the Braithwaites, The churning of lower-echelon brain cells is evident everywhere. Only the other day the mob was active in Lethbridge, with braying students preventing the South African ambassador from speaking. Trendies like the North Van aldermen are a bigger menace than the outright ltoonies, however. Trendyism is fashion, and when it flows from pack politics and pack journalism, fashion kills fact. The no-think McCarthyism of the 1950s was pack journalism and pack politics. Today, no- think is worse because of the greater impact of slanted 30-second TV clip and “‘documentaries’’. Those things scuppered the U.S. in Viet Nam and may now scupper South Africa. But they are not scuppering the dictator- Co ee oo ships. They cannot, because there is no access to discoitent. What we get from the dictatorships is Peter Ustinov doing a kiss bit on “his”? Russia. Trendyism has employment. Take the South Moresby Islands fuss. Indians jig around on TV, chanting and moaning. Whites put feathers on their heads and chant and moan in sympathy. Great stuff. The clips go round the world. In Brisbane, the Australian Wilderness Society says, hand on heart, that “the natural beauty of these islands is of particular con- cern to us’’. In Montreal, Pierre Trudeau pops out of the sauna to wish ‘‘al] success’’ to the environmentalists. Pierre Berton, a trendy of champion class, declares that log- ging on the islands is ‘‘an act of vandalism’’. permanent Some unidentified genius an- | nounces that the islands are the | **Canadian Galapagos’’. (It could have been David Suzuki, one of j the CBC’s top pitch-men.) Had you ever heard of the J “Canadian Galapagos’ before this false news campaign began? ¥ South Moresby, yes. Galapagos, no. And what does the Australian Wilderness Society kiiow about South Moresby? About as much as I know about South Brisbane, I would say. You can bet, too, that Trudeau didn’t even know South Moresby existed, and that Berton was too busy recycling his Klondike stories to have noticed the islands before the dance-and-feathers act began. But, like Brother Braithwaite and Co. on South Africa, they’re all sure that South Moresby is the greatest cause since child labor. Sherry, anyone? Watermelon? bat dliadathett at ae i edee e