6 - Sunday, December 15, 1985 - North Shore News Editorial Page ity Ald. Ralph Hall’s motion in coun- a News issue cil Monday expressing disappointment C at this paper’s news coverage of the re- cent municipal election is a little odd, coming from a good newspaperman. , As Ald. Hall well knows, ‘news’? means something NEW. That's what readers look for. With one significant exception it was vir- tually non-existent during the three weeks prior to polling day. : The fledgling lteftwing Community Electors Association initially promised some hope but its openiag attack on the present City council never developed beyond vague generaliza- tions. Mayor Loucks was returned unopposed and five of his six aldermen, re-elected solely on their records, seem to have done very nice- ly despite the paucity of ‘‘news’’. In the City’s school board election and in West Van it was the same story. No candidate . Said anything startling or aired any fresh, ex- citing ideas — for the simple reason that there were no discernible issues beyond the desire of each candidate to win or hold a seat. Notwithstanding our editorial efforts to combat voter apathy, the predictable City result was a meagre 18% tu-nout. In sharp.contrast was the West Van Sunday shopping referendum, a highly charged and genuinely newsworthy issue. Those for and against became actively involved, leading to am eventual voter turnout of 39%, a figure -normally reached. only. in mayoralty contests, - People and--politicians,, NOT the raedia, create the issues that.banish apathy. With no issues.there’s no news — unless you apply that term to:free advertising for candidates whose press releases say only ‘‘I want your vote’’. “We don’t. : Lady Margaret ear, dear! VIEWPOINT (Dec. 8) ap- parently got it all mixed up when Margaret Mitchell objected to females in the House of Commons being called ‘‘the honorable lady”, saying it was sexist. We in- nocently thought that must mean she prefer- red ‘‘non-ladies’’ to fadies, thus discriminating against the latter. Not so, however. Seems the NDP lady MP for Van- couver. East merely wants ladies treated like gentlemen MPs, who are ‘called ‘‘the honorable member’’. Sorry we read you wrong, Margaret — and please tell Claude to ’ put away his stockwhip! , “THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER 980-0511 & ‘Classitied Advertising 986-6222 ff Display Advertising Newsroom 985-2131 nel ae Circulation 986-1337 BF SUNDAY « WEDNEMDAY » FRIDAY. Subscriptions 986-1337 : 4139 Lonsdaie Ave., Norih Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 publisher: Peter Speck advertising director operations mgr. Berni Hilliard Linda Stewart editor-in-chief managing editor Noel Wright Nancy Weatherley North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban Newspaper and qualitied under Schadute Ii}, Pait tl, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lic. and distubuted to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Entire contents © 1985 North Shore Free Press Lid. All nghts reserved. - “Member of the B.C. Press Council SI 56,245 (average. Wednesday ‘ SDA DIVISION Friday & Sunday) ; se eese! THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE. WHEN ONLY ONE honor of its kind is awarded in the en- tire province — only t! in the whole of Canada — you're left in no doubt about its prestige, Such are the arnual Rhodes Scholarships, the best known and most coveted inter- national scholarships in the English-speaking world. The 1986 Rhodes Scholar for B.C., named last week, is 21-year- old Daniel Promistow, son of West Van lawyer Barry Pro- mislow and former wife Nomi Kaplan. He's presently in his fourth year at the University of Chicago, where he expects to graduate in the spring with a B.Sc. in biological sciences. Next fali his Rhodes Scholar- ship will take him for two years, with the option of a third, to continue his studies at Britain’s venerable Oxford University, with all expenses paid. The Rhodes Scholarship Trust is, as you might im- agine, decidedly fussy about its choices and its yardsticks are not confined solely to academic achievement though Daniel, who’s been on the Dean's List each of his three years at Chicago, measures up fine in that department anyhow. But there’s a lot more to his life- style than Jectures and labs. He rows for the U of Chicago (which should definitely endear him to Oxford), is a keen hiker, canoeist and skier, and is presently organizing a nordic ski tour for 90 students. He plays piano, guitar and saxophone, and has been ac- tive in the theatre. And his record of service to fellow humans undoubtedly won him additional marks from the selection committee. He’s worked at the wilderness Camp Deka in the Cariboo for children with tear- ning disabilities and in Chicago, during the past two years, he’s been assistant resi- dent head of a student counselling centre. For these and other public service activi- ties he’s been honored with membership in the Univer-i- ty’s exclusive Maroon Key Society. With such a breadth of interests his ultimate career ambition is hardly surprising: to help bridge the growing gap between the two worlds of science and the humanities. Daniel shouldn’t have to pinch and scrape too much at Oxford. Cecil Rhodes, - the famous English and South African statesman, endowed the scholarship fund in his will MARGIE GOODMAN .. Carols from the Cove. ONE OF A KIND ... -1986 Prosislow. . with a cool six million pounds sterling — and that was in 1904! At the current exchange tate the cash value of Daniel’s scholarship nudges $20,000 a year. But then, he’s pretty clearly the kind of fellow Rhodes would have counted as a bargain at the price. x k * SCRATCHPAD: Last chance this Sunday afternoon to treat the kids to the ever-popular Christmas fairy tale “‘Rumple Stiliskin’’. Final performances of the West Van Little Theatre - production take place at | p.m. and 3 p.m, in the West Van Rec Centre, 22nd and Marine — admission all of two bucks ... Peter Howard-. Jones, Director of the B.C. Lifeboat Society’s North Shore Station wants to thank all readers and the North Van Kiwanis for their continuing financial support through col- lection boxes in stores and other donations. The money has been well spent by the un- paid volunteers on call 24 hours a day — in just over a year they've responded to 102 rescue calls and assisted 179 boaters in distress .... In- terested in a little Christmas spiritualism? Spend ‘‘An Evening with David Young’’ Wednesday (Dec. 18) when the well-known North Van medium, radio and TV per- sonality talks about his life and experiences 7 to 9 p.m. at Seycove Branch Library, 1204 ERNEST PORTFORS P.Eng at the peak. Noel Wright e sunday brunch ¢. Photo by Fred Schifter B.C. Rhodes Scholar Daniel Caledonia, North Van ... Milt and Margie Geadman's merry Goodship Carol sails again out of Deep Cove Friday (Dec. 20) to Dollarton, Monday (Dec. 23) to Bedwell Bay and Christmas Eve to Belcarra _ Park. Call Jordan Welsh even- ings at 929-3248 for times and . other info ... Peaking in his profession, North Van's Dr. Ernest’ Portfors has been elected president of the 1t,000-member Association of Professional Engineers of B.C. ..,. NEWS Sunshine Girls have finally made it (o the boardroom, where West Van's Shawn Rosman, an exec with Intercon Petroleums Inc., pro- udly displayed part of his vast collection the other week, Who said beauty and business don't mix? ... Apologies to displaced person Norma Sharp, West Van Cancer Campaign Chairman, whose picture appeared in last Sun- day’s BRUNCH with a mixed- up caption — Norma’s the lady on the right, with Treasurer Margaret Bulling on the left ... Featured artist this month at West Van Library is Houshang Seyhoun, founder of a school of ‘‘environmental modernism’? who’s exhibited in Paris, London, Moscow, Peking, Rome, Tokyo and