Ao - Sunday, April 22, 1984 - North Shore News EEE editorial pag c NEWS VIEWPOINT Artificial issue he aims of the small group of public gallery orators who describe themselves as West Van's ‘‘Combined Ratepayers Association’’ are becoming in- creasingly difficult to follow. Having needlessly alarmed several hundred Lower Ambleside and Dundarave homeowners by spreading the misleading impression that the whole area was about to be rezoned multi-family overnight, they suddenly went into reverse on discovering that a majority of council was on their side after all. Alt issue were several basically routine planning staff studies over recent = vears which examined infill housing possibilities in the area and which the group had_ inac- curately represented as being official council policy. So last Monday, when council voted 4-3 in) support of Mayor Humphreys’ recommendation that no action be taken on the studies at the present time -- meaning things stay exactly as they are -- one would have expected the “‘CRA”’ to cheer. This was the outcome for which the group had pre- sumably been campaigning with the backing of homeowners whose fears it had aroused. Instead, Mr. Edward McKay, president of the Ambleside-Dundarave Ratepayers Association, promptly echoed the demand of the three aldermen opposing the ‘‘no action” motion that a public hearing should never- theless be held. Mr. McKay's swift turnaround seems so illogical that) one wonders § whether his group's real motives are simply to keep its artificially created issue alive at any cost for political purposes that have little or nothing to do with it. If in doubt ... night in jail, loss of $500 or more and no driving for six months is a rotten way to wind up a happy. convivial evening. That's the message of the four-week police crackdown on drinking drivers which started Good Friday, and there's already evidence the police aren't fooling. The odds against motorists who mix gas and alcohol have shortened a lot since Friday and there's only one sure way to beat them: if in doubt, DON'T! sunday |. : Wrteptay Astrortiatiig, POU Ot news Classified Advortiat 960 6224 north shore iiterucor BOO ZV It news (. tre ulation 9d0 15357 : Subocriptta. . 900 7061 1139 Lonedale Ave North Varn uueo tes Publtotre: \ stato Kublinaha. t Bitor te C Heol a) aoe Peta, stoy Pave vw 1 ft orsumnol Otror tc. > taealitoWd Mana, . Pathos Litre t ot eee Sens wet Mita, Manny ee ee 1804 North Shore bros Prema ot AM fyb en oni vm! Mombor of the O % ae - ue ' sims IMS PAPER, re uLAMDEL, sunday brunch HE CAMERAS were shooting the funeral of a teenage high school student Thursday afternoon at St) Monica's Church, Horseshoe Bay, with genieving family and school. Mates in attendance the popular, attractive Grade 12 girl had been killed in a car crash on the lpper tevels a tew days earlier Out party- ing with the gang The youthful driver had been drinking So the story went The teartul scene at the church was enough to make any Csrade 12 guy with a driving hheence and the grad season rapidly approaching pause and think Which ts precisely why the cameras were recording every poig- nant detail under the wat chful eye of Cst. Colin Bursill, community relations officer with the West Nan Pohce Department Happily, the cotfin was empty Nobody had, in fact, been hilled The mock funeral was staged to pro vide the closing sequences o! an audiovisual presentation orgamized by Cst Bursill in collaboration with senior students themselves from West Van high schools to help stop drinking driving A DIAMOND ALMAS looking for profit not week ocather the students whi tase dhertic all thre pbhotogtaplrs tral breeca. crud with Bursill wrevkape of a botalhed Car on Strovrtitp thie the Cypress Bowl) road Wioticai the where Va pede ity t pres terpethid ont Stade rt a be Stree wn dae thre se trend (anil prrorbratiby to wicket aasediear ce 2 oo teaeteenbes Yvcorsae with bradbovip vvoypoene ! tbe cre NNR Chiat if yoru ee Se a Prony cabvaout bre peas poe daa! oot Db peas Pte a taeda cee br Pattie Weel eter brb, aw ae Fee derp ries tthe pow thes Phy y Where thi tte eaet eas meet Syaatedary 6 Ngee CM ot a te en a ee sats tap dade Nerv ater | OND S Brace It.. ne boas Niwsee aes by Noel Wright aS SS SS HIGH PRICE OF ALCOHOL ... ‘‘funeral'’ procession with grieving relatives and schoolmates leaves St. Monica's, Horseshoe Bay. led by cross-bearer and rector, Rev. John Robertson, who conducted the ‘‘service’’. Peace Centre the hoped- tor establishment over town of a major non-political resource centre teaturing peace displays, films, lter- ature and every other type of anti-war material Among the sponsors named to date are lawver Bruce Torrey, journalist Jim Oakes and businessman Charles Bate. CKNUCS Laurier Lapierre is a member of the advisory committee Underbning the fact that peace doesn’t come Cheaply isthe fare tor the cruise a4 munimum SLOO donation howeser bs $60 being tax deductible cased somewhat bor turther intormation and reservations call Patricia Kennedy al QRR 6400) ort Yo 7477 Soumds Uihe a fun cutie And vour dough wernt bay atiyttyinp onl Docvcrtras dary apytiow RANI ee (eee Me agai ror Wess Novag oe cot maui: Lda Cd 2 ed litcomb SOMTOE cabisegiy repooon the Community bday Cocorirhirbhes Pheocogohas whit ale at Ms Manna kati . JESSUP headaches swapping -tth Odatarte EASTER MA.LBOX Reader likes ou: ‘auth he and his pals at the Seniors Acuyity Centre are organiz ing includes a wine and food garden, a big plant sale and a good old-fashioned tun fair “tfor kids from five to 9S") complete with coconut shy and naii-driving contest Further ideas (and help) wetcomed Call red at 922-S381 of Ann Mitchell a: 926 2639 HITHER AND YON: thing we can One vouch for former Tory MP John Reynolds. now MIAN tor West Sound wont be funni itt the up Nan Howe coming federal clection for the Caprilanea seat beimny vacated by retininge meniber Ron Huntington John squashed that rumor flatter than a pancake before £SO witnesses af his Coustituene \ breakfast mee hinge last Moody Wo also prontiise vou Seven Yeas restaurateur Dramond Almas will iiaks tro ottveome . duartiig thie tren thor of Mary PS wher scornve SO police Oobficers will baie ds aboard bis floating tosteley with appre ratis« cbse bo ALT AN WEELEAMS into Che mone, Nee and kick off National Police Week. The former City alderman is serving the 100 or so $8 lunches at cost North Van school trustee Margaret Jessup is among the !6 B.C. school trustee delegates off to Toronto next month on a week-long exchange visit to swap headaches with opposite numbers trom Ontario. who'll be coming here to gather tips from B.C ‘s restrained school system West Van's Allan Williams, former Socred attorneys general who quit politics las: year and came to roost with Davis and = partners, the crack Vancouver law firm, is now into the money business as welt -- he’s been named a director of the Canadian Commercial Bank Another rung up the cor porate ladder for North Van's Don Swoboda who's been appointed B ¢ Hvdro's veepee electrical Operations in its recent senior management shuffle For the past three vears he’s been Hydro’s Lower Mainland division manager, responsible for keeping the lights burning from_ the Sunshine Coast to Hope Congrats to Andrew Adler of Handsworth who tied for first place in the Grade 10 division otf the Canadian Mathematics Competition conducted by the University of Waterloo -- the” three divisions (Grades 9, 10 and 11) attracted a record DON SWOBODA another rung up breahinp 44 494 (ontestants from er Coct well sono cards to Ball MiC.owa prelined head home the of the North Shore Nope Schools arch resw etn N46 thorols popular Curculation Dire tor ot The News who's in St Paul so having oa different Type ot ciecubation prrotlern franca And while were om the subject don € forget the blood donor Clare Tuc sday (Apel 24) 2 ter Bye tee at Picea Crate NMforidas dare tee than breoliehary bhoosported te bara tha- clresant « . . 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