te eA Lp “Wet tipenpmpy . Ubllly “Wbltdtipy % MUMy . , : Ullyyy a Lee lliyyyy “Cty, Wh Vllltypy dlr lly Merny “M11 try Ulbteyyy 77 | Culture crisis GROWING refrain is reverberating Aen the streets and offices of Vancouver. it is born of a sense of betrayal that many groups are feeling. Since coming inte office barely one year ago, ihe rookie NDP government has managed to alienate almost every group that heiped get it elected. First it was the teachers, then the en- vironmentalists, then the doctors. Artists are the latest group to join the widening chorus. Most expected the government to make goes on its campaign pledge to improve cultersl funding. Unfortunately for them, it also pledged to be fiscally responsible. Recent cuts to the cultural budget have ‘forced many artists to curtail their seasons. Some individuals, with 10 to 15 years’ training and just as much professional ex- perience, have been reduced to welfare. In another sour note to artists, one West Vancouver councillor recently refused to vote on the portion of the disirict’s com- munity grants granted to prefessional arts groups, saying that the funds amounted to a double tax on those residents who al- ready support the arts through their patronage. In other words, no art for art’s sake. {t appears that both levels of govern- ment are oblivious to the implications that arise from letting arts funding go by the wayside. The social cost of living in a world without art extends far beyond the monetary. LETTER OF THE DAY Wild salmon stocks are at risk Dear Editor: There have been’ many media pieces recently heralding the recent Fisheries decision to permit natives to sell ‘food fish.” One such article was Bob Hunt- er’s July 19 column in the North Shore News in which he states: “For sood measure the right to sell fish was also stripped away, thereby forcing natives to work in canneries, instead of for themselves as they had always done.”’ Hunter neglects to mention that natives have always been able to Peter Speck ... Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director .. Linda Stewart Osug Foot Comptroiier ‘licences sell the fish they catch if they ob- tain a commercial fishing licence, just as all non-native fisherpe- rsons are required to do before they sell their fish commercially. The only difference is, native are free; non-native licences are not and can cost tens of thousands of dollars. In addi- tion, natives who maintain an ad- dress on a reserve are not required to pay income tax. The decision to permit natives to sell ‘food fis’? commercially puts conservation of wild salmon stocks at risk. This decision places Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Newsroom 935-2131 North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an it ni suburban newspaper and qualified independe 4 under Schedule 141, Paragraph Ill of the Excise ‘ednesday, Friday and Tax Act, is published each Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and issions are fesi Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates available on request. issk e bu? we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, ~ North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Distribution Subscriptions 986-1337 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax 98: Administration 985-2131 SE no restrictions whatsoever on when and where and how much a native person can fish; whereas non-native fisherpersons are sub- ject to the limited openings and quotas that they have always been subject to. This is a political decision based purely on race that affects not on- ly ali people involved in the fish- ing industry immediately, but also the conservation and preservation of the wild salmon stock for future generations. Irene Monrce North Vancouver BS Printed on 10% recycled newsprint North Shore managed VAN vameusere anqa 986-1337 §-3227 MEMBER Sh" J SDA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Stanley Park’s not big enough for you, Bryan! LOCAL BOYS who make good can always count on an enthusiastic cheer leader in this column. That goes for the North Shore’s international rock superstar BRYAN desnite the painful allersy his metal triggers in your scribe’s culturally impaired ears. Noel Wright Nonetheless, Mr. Adams’ pro- posed tribute to his hometown — a free nine-hour rock concert on Labor Day in Stanley Park — is a gift horse that definitely needs to be looked at in the mouth. Hard. The plan okayed by the Parks Board (in the face of widespread citizen outrage) is for 42,000 free tickets to be issued for this cricketfield Woodstock at Brockton Point. The Adams cor- poration would share concession profits with the board and pay the public costs involved. At very minimum these latter — a mammoth morning-after clean-up, one new cricket field and hundreds of police man-hours — wouldn’t exactly be peanuts. One suggested figure is around $300,000. However, Adams Inc. now has a much larger vision. Hotfoot -- back from Europe, its CEO — Bryan’s manager Bruce Allen — wants no nonsense about a 42,000 attendance. Open it up, he says. ““Come one, come all, no tickets, none of that crap!’’ As many as as 750,000, he indicates, wouldn’t worry him — what causes trouble are fences and scalpers. Maybe. But Sunday’s Guns N’ Roses riot in Montreal suggests even 53,000 rock-hypnotized fans ~~ high on metal, or whatever else, and celebrating Adams- mania all day long all over the park — might add quite a few lit- tle extra items to the morning- after bill. Like restocking the Aquarium with whales, paying for a standby battalion of forest firefighters and hiring the entire RCM? training academy from Regina. With a mere 42,000 audience confined to BRYAN ADAMS... in the right place, a quarter of a million? re 4 HITHER AND YON 20% of the park, police say crowd . control would already bea | - nightmare. Don’t get me wrong, Bryan. Notwithstanding my persoral hearing disability, nobody more. admires your feat in putting the .. North Shore on the world rock -’. map. But the place to entertain . your huge armies of fans, with no annoying restrictions on the ways they express their personal . euphoria, is clearly a wilderness, . _. or reasonable facsimile. . : Stanley Park is not a wilderness. It’s Vancouver’s backyard for EVERYBODY to enjoy — even today's few non-.. rockers. But only so many thou- sand at a time. It’s just not big enough for your mega-party f see Bruce is muttering about - Agassiz, the Stein Festival site, 23° a possible alternative. But there's » a more prestigious one stili closer. — especially considering the class act you'd be following. =: The last superstar to perform”: there eight years ago drew a cool QUARTER OF A MILLION fans — Pope John Paul H at Ab-- botsford airport. es SCRATCHPAD: If you twen- ty-somethings aching to do your: bit to save Canada from its pres- >; ent politicians have becti turned off by the sea of grey and white" heads at Reform Party meeting, Ryaa Jaye of West Van has good |": news for you. The party, he 7° reports, now has a growing youth © ~ wing at last. He represents the.” Capilano-Howe Sound RP Youth and welcomes your genération-_ to-generation queries about Reform at 922-8206 ... Bargain- - hunters alert — Mt. Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate, holds the first of three Thursday Half-Price Sales (‘‘all items half- - price from our normal bargain prices’’) tomorrow, Aug. 13, from 2 to 8 p.m. Do they mean a quarter-price sale? ... And a very big happy anniversary today, Aug. 12, to West Van’s David and Beth Mathieson. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Never beef about too much government. Just thank God you don’t get as much as you pay for. er AE