A6 - Sunday, January 1, 1984, - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter

by -
Ellsworth
Dickson

As each year draws to,a-close, people look
forward to the potential that the new year
holds. A fresh start requires that one looks to
oné’s failings and takes action to correct past
mistakes. And so, New Year’s Resolutions on
this, the first day of the year 1984, the Inquir-
ing Reporter asks: “

‘What are your New
Year's res olutions: 2°"

Alex Murchie
North Vancouver

My New Year’s
resolution is not to make
one. That way I’m safe as
1 can’t break it.

Janine Stelter
North Vancouver

*, . | believe in New Year’s
. resolutions, “but many
people’ don’t stick to
ythem. In past years, I
haven’t been ablé to keep
them as well. This year my
resolution is a secret and
I’m going to keep it.

So

Bruce Nicol
North Vancouver

| made a New Year's
resolution a few years ago
and that was to quit
quitting. I’ve been gearing
myself up for a strong
Stand on certain issues,
but | haven't made any
conctete decision yet.

Nigel Nicholas
North Vancouver

I’ve made
resolutions
just as

too many
and broken
many. It's a
challenge for most peopic

though | suspect
don’t keep them.

most

Kathy Robinson
North Vancouver

1} don't: set New Year's
resolutions =Whilg, the
thought behind it 1. good,
most of the time they are

broken just after they are
made

o

NORTH VANCOUVER firemen hose down the smoking remains of an automobile, destroyed _
by fire on Boxing Day 3 at a local dealership. The fire was one of several minor blazes daring the

holiday season.

NORTH SHORE fire
departments were busy
over the Christmas holi-
day weekend, but in a
nice sort of way.

Spokesmen for North Van-
couver City, ‘North Van
District and West Vancouver
departments are. all reporting
that the ‘holiday | passed
without serious incident,
despite the number of calls.

In North Vancouver
District, between midnight
on Dec. 23 and midnight
Dec. 27, they logged 31 calls.
Seventeen of those were for
such things as inhalators to
the scene of accidents, eight
were fire-related, two were
false alarms, two were to deal
with public hazards and two
were public service calls.

West Vancouver depart-
ment was busier, handling 40
calls during the same period.

“‘We had a raft of calls,
mostly about broken water
pipes,’’ said a spokesman.
The most serious of the fires
occurred when a man altemp-
ting to thaw frozen water
pipes with a propane torch
set fire to the siding on his
house.

Woodward's
Correction

in the Homemaker Sale
selling Dec 27 Jan 26th

page 8. photographs are not

in the right order C is Lota, D |
Is Jessie, E is Melody Wood
ward's apologizes to its cus
tomers for any incon
venience this may have
caused

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Orwell Country

My God, doesn't the date above look ominous? Somehow, the
people of the free world thought they would never be able to write
that date down and still it the free world. I imagine that,
especially last night and today, debates will rage throughout front
room parlours on the North Shore, with folks trying to hammer
out the issue — was George Orwell more wrong than right? Being
the essential optimtst/capitalist, | think he was more than
right, although ['m sure this is not a universally held Cane

Way Down Upon the Swami, Dept.

1 suppose it ts incumbent upon me to make some sort of predic.
tions for 1984. [ve thought deep and long, peered into a special

1955 Bytck hubcap I keep for metaphysical purposes, and come
up with/ the following.

interest rates will come down to 7%

- a stable business climate will manifest ttself tn 1984
and there will be no strikes.

: Labour and Government will reach harmontous ac

cord and live happily ever after
early in 1984, medical science will announce a single
; pill which cures baldness and/or obesity
there wil] be a chicken in every pot

Predictions are, no sweat for me Nobody said they had to be
realistic

Happy to Say We Do, Dept.

Yes. we're happy to say we know we're the number one body
shop on the North Shore, and we also know that we can't rest on
our laurels tf we plan to stay that way in 1984 So we're spending
about BO thousand dollars on new, state-of the-art equipment,
energy saving miracles that you could fix (he space shuttle with.
And we're going to try and get every customer to tell two friends
t how happy he or she is with Crash Pad. | haven't
calculated how many people that will be by the end of 1984, but
TH bet ite a lot. Happy New Year ow

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