6 - Sund Hot it! Hop ir!... okay... LETS GO OVER THis *ROTATING WORK STOPPAGE THING ONE. Moke. TIME ! NEWS VIEWPOINT Trail trials FONS BAY residents have a legiti- mate concern about the effect in- creased hiker access will have on their watershed area. But they shouid also be aware that Lions Bay provided hiking access to the Lions peaks, Brunswick Mountain, Unnecessary Mountain, Mount Harvey and other Howe Sound areas at least 30 years before Lions Bay became a village and residential de- velopment began in the area. The Lions Bay route also provides im- portant access to the Lions peaks both for hikers and search and rescue teams. To limit that access would serve no good pur- pose. Lions Bay takes most of its drinking water from nearby Alberta and Harvey creeks, an unregulated watershed area. But water from the two creeks has been chlo- rinated and filtered since the carly 1980s. Lions Bay Mayor Gordon Prescott has said he is against expanding the parking lot at the head of the Lions-peak access trail. Residents fear that any expanded parking would encourage more hikers. But hikers will come regardless of the parking lot facility. To do nothing is to ignore a problem that will not quietly go away. Public access to the great North Shore outdoors is a right that cannot be denied. Increased public awareness of the value of local water resources and increased punishments for anyone found polluting such resources would go a long way to keeping access open and drinking water clean. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “They had a limousine for me and I went home with six good- icoking girls,’ said Drage. Veteran BC Rail employee Eric Drage, on his retirement party. “He’s an institution, not to men- tion a traffic hazard, in the cor- ridors of BC Rail. He’s irreverent, witty and boisterous and, at the helm of his X-Series Mark IV mail cart, just about the fastest pun in the West."’ BC Rail spokesman Barrie Wall, on retiring mailroom clerk Eric Drage. “Over a year ago the merchants tock out a page in the News say- Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptrolier Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart Doug Feot ing we are going to be comolete secon, We are still not complete, We do not have the benches; we do not have the bike racks; the landscaping is incomplete and our huge big maple trees from Oregon are dying.”’ Gallant Avenue property owner Margery Goodman, on the Gallant Avenue beautification program. “They had the whole river closed off except for one narrow channel that was blocked with rocks and four shopping carts. The fish got stuck in the carts. 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Paragraph {lf of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Fiday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distebuted to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscrpiions North and Wes! Vancouver, $25 per year. Maing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for urcedicitec maternal including --nuscnpts and piciures which should be ds. OMpatied by a slamped. addressed envelope V7M 2H4 ‘north shore’ pears [Peet SUNDAY + REDNESDAY » #MIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue. North Vancouver, B.C. SDA DIVISION 61.582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday} Entire contents © 1991 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. The time-bomb that could cut Quebec to size FIVE HUNDRED miles north of Montreal a potential time-bomb in the looming constitutional face-off between Quebec and the rest of Canada is quietly ticking. Quebee is pinning many of its hopes for a prosperous future on James Bay power, Once the massive project is completed, it promises a continuing bonanza from sales 1o the power-hungry U.S. northeast. But the Cree natives, the dominant population of the huge northern area around James Bay, strongly oppose the project because they see it destroying their traditional lifestyle. The joker in the deck is that Quebee’s ditke to that vast hank of real estate is shaky in the extreme if Jacques Pasizeau and Lacien Bouchard talk Quebecers into separating uniluerally. The territory was never part of cither New France or the Quebec that entered Confederation in 1867. It was added by the federal government in 1898 and 1912 — in effect, a gift lo Quebec. This atone could entitle Ottawa to reclaim the area as Canadian territory in case of unilateral separation — on the basis that Quebec has no right to walk out of Confederation taking away much more than it brought in. Break off the engagement and you return the ring. But there’s more. The 1898 and 1912 agreements also left the fed- eral government responsible for the natives in the area. So if the Cree wanted to stay in Canada, Ottawa would have a cast-iron case in law — and probably Unit- ed Nations backing too — for oc- JACQUES PARIZEAU... shaky title to a planred power goldmine. Photo courtesy Playboy KIMBERLEY CONRAD... nice girl next door now a two-time mom. Noel Wright HITHER AND YO! cupying Quebec's northland and keeping it Canadian, Which, of course, would eave a defiantly independent Quebec only a fraction of its present territory — and minus the James Bay power project site, its planned goldmine for years to come. Native leaders at the premiers’ Whistler conference last week ~- which listened to them sym- pathetically — drew their own line in the sand. Any attempt to take away aboriginal rights in the name of Quebec self-determination, they declared, would be an interna- tional violation of their own right to self-determination. Summer in Moscow has made self-determination the 1991 buzz-word. And if Quebec claims it, why not the Cree and ALL native groups? Brian Mulroney, kept in power only by his fellow Quebecers, often boasts nowadays of his courage in doing the right thing regardless of popularity. Defusing the James Bay time-bomb may become the ultimate test of that courage — but his medal couid be posthumous. THE GOOD GUYS; At the height of her headline fame in 1981 West Van High grad Kimberley Conrad came over to me as just ‘‘the nice girl next door.’’ Not a bad guess, it seems. Last Wednesday the former Playmate of the Month — whom Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, 65, led to the altar in 1989 — gave Hef their second son: Cooper Bradford, 2 brother for year-old Marston Gienn ... Welcome to the Golden 50th Club today, Sept. 8, West Van’s Bill and Joan Jackson, feted by daughters Pat and Lynn, family and friends at Lyan and Ken Em- bury’s North Van home ... Tomorrow, Sept. 9, light a 100- candle salute to Elizabeth Whitlow — still walking, knitting and card-playing — whose North Van family honored her yesterday with a surprise Coach House party ... And a very happy birthday Tues- day, Sept. 10, to West Van's Wil- ly Nisher. WRIGHT OR WRONG: It’s ail nonsense about the highway to hell being paved with good inten- tions. They are actually the exit signs. RE 2