€@ - Sunday, July 12, 1992 - North Shore News ‘MORNING Hon... THIS IS JHA, FROM’ THE BLAB". HE'S GOING “To THROW HIMSELF AT THE FRONT DOOR EVERY MCRNING WHILE THE PULP AND PAPER STRIKE IS ON. (. Vv Y : 6.c.-wide strike continues. Newsprint in short Supply. The V.S.E. index is down .93 In a double- header over the weekend, Toronto clobbered Detroit. Dear Abby, Last year our Poodle had a nervous breakdown... Water FEW moist days and the water- conservative efforts of more than a ew gocd citizens has the Greater Vancouver District (GVRD) fleating the Rotion of easing the ban on lawn watering near the end of this month if water con- sumption remains at its current fevel and . drougt::-hke conditions do not return. The GYRD intends to lift the stringent water restrictions imposed on June 25 when reservoir jevels reach ‘normal . amounts for this time of year. Water consumption over the last 10 days has averaged 222 million gallons. The ideal water consumption rate is under 300 mil- lion gallons daily. In June, as is our way with water, we NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK _ waste were spendthrift gluttons. During the month Lower Mainland residents sloshed through 300-plus million gallons on 18 days compared to iast June which didn’t have any days topping 300-plus million gallons. . Despite the recent rain and cool weather, the GVRD says unrestricted lawn sprinkl- ing now would strain water reserves, which briags us to the nub. Our wet coast lifestyle is a mirage. We take water, a most precious resource, for granted and we waste it shamelessly. The browning of '92 may well be a harbinger of parched times to come. We should ease off on the taps — even when the rains return. “H's (the strike) knocked the hell. cut of production. In terms of how much money it’s cost us, that depends on who is doing the counting.”’ Bill Hughes, president of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Ltd. said people should be worried about the long-term effects of the pulp and paper strike. There are about 500 workers on strike at Howe Sound Pulp and Paper. North Vancouver waterfront are being hit hard. The labor dispute is costing local companies millions of dollars in lost reve- nues. . “It’s out of sheer frustration. This Publisher industries © Peter Speck government has not moved one inch. They've come out with this big club and we are angry. I’ve never seen my colleagues so angry before." North Vancouver general surgeon Dr. Anthony Chan, the BCMA’s North Shore repre- sentative, said most of the area’s approximately 200 doctors said they will opt out of the MSP as a last resort. ‘It seems that every summer we have deaths and injuries in Lynn Canyon Park. The kids are determined to do that every year. We can’t stop them from jump- ing. All we can do is stop them Display Advertising 980-0511 Distribution from drinking. Uf they're sober maybe they won't jump and if they do maybe they'll hit the water and not the rocks. That last fellow was pretty lucky.’* North Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Sheila Armstrong said police have increased patrols of Lynn Canyon Park during the summer and weekends to help curb alcohol use which, too often, is a contributing factor to the injuries and deaths suffered by canyon cliff divers. Cliff diving is a popular activity each summer in the park. The canyon has claimed 15 lives in the past 12 years. © 986-1337 & Managing Editor... Timothy Renshaw Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director .. Linda Stewart Comptroller Ooug Foot North Shore News, founded in.1969 as an Newsroom distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mait Ragistration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per ear. Mailing rates available on request. Btomissions are welcome but we cannot accept fasponsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. V7M 2H4 Reat Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 drth' shore. : bal x : Sa : 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, * North Vancouver, B.C. Subscriotions 986-1337 Fax 985-3227 Administration 985-2131 MEMBER SRS Printed on 10% recycieo newsprint 985-2131 5 North Shore managed SDA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All tights reserved. Keep aspirins handy until the fat lady sings! IF YOU thought the 18-month constitutional headache was ending at long last with the angio premiers’ package finally cobbled together last week, go out and buy yourself another bottle of aspirin. At his Thursday press con- ference the response of Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa was: “Nice try, but not good enough yet.” Russia’s Boris Yeltsi per- suading the G-7 countries to lend him billions had a far easier ride than the nine Canadian premiers laboring to placate the absent tenth. — : Bourassa made no immediate commitment to return to the bargaining table with them, where he should have been from the start. He merely hinted he MIGHT — provided various items he dislikes are opened wide up again for further detailed hagel- ing. he’s unhappy about the divi- sion of powers. He's unhappy about aboriginal self-government, He’s unhappy about the future creation of new provinces. Above all, he’s unhappy about an equal Senate, reducing Quebec to eight seats like alf other provinces in- stead of its present 24. Though hope springs eternal in anglo breasts, none of this was really unexpected, of course. In fairness, Bourassa himself — an economist who knows which side Quebec's bread is buttered —- has no illusions about the cost of quitting Confederation. Personal- ly, he’s convinced that Quebec's best future lies within Canada. But Bourassa the wily politician has to fight the separatists and likely his Liberal Party’s fiercely nationalistic youth wing too in order to sell a constitutional deal to Quebecers. So anyone last Thursday who expected him meekly to agree to sign on the dotted line must believe in the . Tooth Fairy as well, What, then, comes next? if he insists on opening up’ whole basic elements of the fragile package, as opposed to fine-tun- ing minor details, it could quickly unravel altogether — with tough- minded premiers like Don Getty, Bob Rae and Clyde Wells rever- ting to their earlier hardline posi- tions. That would leave Briar. Mulroney no choice but to take over and offer Quebec a unilateral federal package — contents so far unknown and with no guarantee, anyhow, of eventual approval by the provinces under the current 7-and-50 constitutional amending * forinula. ROBERT BOURASSA... gerous tightrope act? dan- Noel Wright HITHER AND YON If, on the other hand, the. premiers hang tough by rejecting any changes to the main substance of their deal, then Bourassa himself will be left treading a dangerous tightrope: how to stop Quebec from bolting without los- ing his own political hide in the process. : Don't count on the fat lady singing for quite a while yet! . eee WRAP-UP: Send good wishes half way round the world this week to Vienna, Austria, where the North Van Youth Band is par- ticipating in the International Youth and Music Festival ... Bumped the other day into popu- lar former West Vaa G.P. (and Socred candidate) Dr. Rodney Glyan-Morris, back working in the Lower Mainland after a six- month locum in Dawson Creek ... From the Oops — Sorry! Dept.: gremlins got to Wednesday’s item on the L.A. te West Van Legion Branch 60. New 1992-93 L.A. president is Dolly Cartwright — REPLACING Midge Malcolm who’s now past prez... And remember to ‘‘give a pinta’’ ° tomorrow or Tuesday, July 13-14, at Lions Gate Hospital bleod _ donor clinics, 2:30-8 p.m. both days. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: Chance makes brothers and sisters. Hearts make friends. . so. BRIAN MULRONEY... offer with no guarantee?