6- Friday, March 4; 1988 = North Shore News

INSIGHTS

Tory bea seer for

lary’s”

loyal

LIMBERING uP FOR E LECTION DAY, the Tory strate- / nial West Van candidate for you- .

_ gists who look after MP. Mary Collins’ riding | held aS10-~. f
, bean dinner last Monday for the party faithful and potential

| ‘recruits.

'- Rather than embark on 1 the has-
“sle.of organizing a $100-a-plate
fund raiser, they had opied fora

simple “family fun'' party and, as :-

such, the result earned at teast a
B-plus. Braving heavy rain, some
150 diners showed up at Gleneagles
Golf Club. The beans could have
: used another 15 minutes in the

oven, but -the salad was crisp, bar
prices reasonable, the socializing
animated and the speeches mer-

cifully short — Mary delivering, in

top form, @ 10-minute upbeat call
»: t-rally behind President Mulroney
~ and his promised land of free trade
: and Mecch Lake.
Due to the revised constituency:

/

‘+ boundaries which take effect alter
“ July 12, not one but two riding

association presidents were in’ al-
tendance. Emcee John Lakes heads
Mary’s new post-July riding of
Capilano-Howe Sound which will
see her in gumboots, wooing rural
voters as far north as Pemberton
and Darcy. Derek Cave presides ° :’

“over her present suburban ~;

Capilano riding, now winding

down, Among other paying guests: _

noted were LGH board member |
and former chairman Hillary

Clark; LGH Research Founda-. |".
tion's Bill Crompton; Ken Cook, :..
son of Mary’s North Van running ~

mate Chuck; Bert Fleming, peren-

HE GOOD health’ of: local sports and om-
“munity, spirits ‘ will be much ‘enhanced’ by th
a. Capilano. College’ s $4 million Sportsplex.
-The' campaign ‘to: raise public: awareness.’ over: the
“gommunity. benefits: of: the complex’ and ‘the $1.5, mil-
lion in public. funds still needed to initiate its construc- .
tion ‘will-kick off at the college. today with the: help of

‘Premier’ Bill Vander -Zalm’.and’ should: be ample. in- a

‘Spiration for the rest. ofthe North’ Shore to get involv-’’
ced and donate to what will be an extremely worthwhile :

“developrient on all, Sporting fronts, Sportsplex’ could
unique ‘program ‘fusing reereatio all f:

program, if “developed will: provide. traini
[ ies ‘for the physi-

name-it; West Van engineer Dr.
Kurt Wallersteiner; and West
Van's former mayor Derrick

Humphreys. Absent, alas, was °

Mary's redoubtable sparring part-
her, namesake Doug Collins, who
might have added even more fun.”

As it was, the politically placid -
evening brought nothing more
disturbing than a touch of heart-

burn from the beans and we were

all home to bed shortly after 10

p.m. The only loser from the affair.

was presumably the White Spot. :

: eae:
FUTURE GUARDIANS of the::
true North, strong and free, Icarn-:

- ed what it takes last, weekend when
“North Shore and other. members of -

. surest Way to damage your laurels
‘Is to rest on them too long. @

N OEL
‘When

2290 B.C. Regiment Cadet Corps.
toured Royal Roads Military Col-’.
lege, Esquimalt. The message that
Lyna Valley's Ryan Jankowski:
and his fellow cadets got was the

“? need for a high grade point

average from Grade 8 onward. |.
Ryan, a Grade 8 student at Argyle,
was sufficiently impressed by all he

saw and heard to decide that Royal

Roads training for a carcer as a
military officer would definitely be
one of his options on graduating.

-@oe

WRAP-UP: Back home from a
“filming session in the cast is:

- veteran actor Jack Ammon of.

North Van, who has a partin the - "

“new John Travolta movie-‘‘The

- Experts'’, Watch for it — and him~:
on the local movie- -house circuit -
“this summer ... Doing the honors

at today's official opening of.
Granville Island's giant 10th bir”
thday party are Fisheries Minister...”
‘Tom Siddon; Mayor Gordon: : |

. Campell and Musqueam Band

Chief Wendy Grant. With over ‘50 I
special events — including tours,:

+ parades, contests, open houses and.
“entertainment galore —the

festivities continue through March’ |
13.2. Meanwhile, another 10th);
anniversary party, Nanaimo Senior: cog
Sccondary’s Class of .'78 Reunion,:

is brewing. Any. cligible North.)

‘ Shore types can, call Vanessa
_ Simpson in Nanaimo (758 1767)

for info:
, a . . :
"LEARNING: wh takes...Ryan

Jankowski (I): with Royal Roads:

WRIGHT OR WRONG: The .
~ guide, - ‘Cadet : Van: Der:-

USE TO WORK'AT.
REVENUE CANADA? .

Peter Speck’

Managing, Editor
Assoclate Editor.

Barrett Fisher.
Noel Wright:

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