6 — Friday, June 12, 1998 -- North Shore News north shore news VIEWPOINT vream factory HIS) week’s announcement that Silicon Graphics and Capilano College are teaming up. to open a $2.5 million animation lab at the college is a perfect example of how business and education can work together. For decades now the college has positioned itself to be at the forefront of creative media technclogy. Television, film and the emerging multimedia mediumis are all strongly Soon more of it will be made in B.C. by people trained on the North Shore. The burgeoning B.C. film industry is currently being held back due to the lack of resources like the lab scheduled to open at the college later this year. The talent is simply going else- where right now. Soon the work will be coming to where the talent is. What’s especially sweet about this pon BE Too HASTY, > SIR, COULD BE THE ANSweR To cerns MORE WOMEN | "SR? aa! IN THE MILITARY, ee SiR, PERMISSION To BE REASSIGNED, Mirtey deal is that it is a cost-recoverable arrangement. The college will be leas- ing the equipment. The students enrolled in the program will be pay- ing the leasing costs. Cash-strapped taxpayers will not be footing the bill. The initiative goes a long way to firming up the reality of the nascent dream factory some call Hollywood North. supported. The partnership with Silicon Graphics will provide a place for peo- ple already working in the film indus- try.to get access to leading-edge ani- ‘mation. and digital special effects technology. - . ‘The whiz-bang magic of a movie : Hike ‘Titanic was created: by \Silicon Graphics know-how. From June joy to grumpy old me Having also hit Sund Hospital race in ‘Vancouver, wi hich d runners from many West Van school and the Oceans Day Family Festival Whytecliff Park, I ami all all-Juned Of course some people wish it would. Whar a vast cultural difference, for instance, between West Vancouver's com- munity day and Hats Off Day, its equiva- lent in Burnaby Heights. Our day, with its tradi- tional parade ending at the 22nd Street recre- ation area, is reminiscent of hundreds of years of ° . festive days ‘on the com- mons of England - ~ right down to Maypole : dances... Various groups sing : and? 2 2 play music, most.of it “Humphreys quickly re recovered fri Spirited but genteel,‘and .. . of a funny turn with his he there is a beer garden, In" ‘old irascible self: By: the: tin contrast, Burnaby Heights’ celebration — . he may havea fresh pol ica along a strip of a : few business blocks his restless e rgics. beginning in the 4000-block East. , . Hastings Street — is flady commercial. The merchants set up stands on the :: sidewalk and peddle their wares, some- times specialtes for this day only.” |: And the atmosphere is polygiot. In: ’ West Van we munch hot dogs = plain vanilla ones. But at the Heights, more often the dogs are Italian sausage. And there are kebabs and other Levantine™ munchies, lite pizzas and such... The fish store, a fixture for 70- odd | years (same family) i in an area where there Is surprising continuity of ownership, offered cooked Dungeness crab at $10 and whole pink salmon at $6. ~ Not that my loyalty to West Van busi- nesses is any the less. Not a bit. Like the- - respective community days, cach has its And what is so rare asa day in June? then, if ever, come perfect days. — James Russell Lowell : Finding fault with policy i . ot keeper in North Vancouver. bject- article appeared i in the North Shore News was away. A friend kept it for me because of a similar experience.I had last year. - : On Aug. 11,1997, I found’an obviously expensive tele- photo camera lens at the’ top of Mount. Seymour, Since all Ocal facilities ‘were’ closed for the day, I took the lens home. : following day I phoned the parks branch to advise them :T had. found: this:lens; and gave them my: name and phone timber, 5 that’ if contacted, they: could pur ‘the touch with:me, I “subsequently honed the North: CMP to'report the lens 1 had found. ; ‘o immediately bring the lens to them. this; as the lens could just-as easily : from them. Within hours, the y.door'and confiscated the’ lens. ‘They had - t, name and address using auto- ber identification during m my phone call: “~ aid “that it:would>be- held for ‘90 days, and if ig ¢; it‘ would go into police i invento-—. id at publi iuction, with the proceeds going into d-wasn’t even offered a receipt for the lens.., ¢ RCMP determined that this ut a’ North. Vancouver ‘District pol- + 20, 1997, 1. wrote ‘a letter to YES, sometimes even in Vancouver. On such days ir is hard to do anything except be atavistic sun-worshippers, . - . Sybaritic pagans, and hedonisuc gray pe-peclers. Translation: idle bums. The rites of spring are played out on the beach | “with their huge exposures of skin (or, in’ some weighty cases, exposures. ; of huge skin). And in the parks where lit- - tle Len Norris-style tykes ‘totter through the shaded grass toward their unknown destinies.’And on the road in the throaty roar-of open sports cars driven by clearly superior beings pretending to look non- " chalant, and of motorcycles ridden by the a New Vikings of Harleydom. - a , * Along: Greater Tiddlycove’s “Marine Drive and elsewhere on the usually- - ining what ‘had happened, statin thar I’. North, temporarily: Mediterranean. Shore, very* bad’ policy” and ‘that it “discour- . the wildflow ers grow in careless luxury: the ‘general * ee from: involving the, Police whenever “poppies in orange and yellow cluimps, fox- fo ~ glove, lupins; delicate Queen Anne’s lace, ‘and others whose names I have to get from my wife because to know too much ’ botany is to spoil the love of flowers. Such was last weekend. The sun: ~ shone, and, defying Shakespeare, never was his gold complexion dimmed. The ‘temperature was perfect.'And community days and various celebrations and. festivals.‘ distinct character. And how lucky to proliferated. enjoy both in one day. But my analytical eye never shuts, 900 A staunch lobbyist fort the propose community centre at {or‘on top of) : Glencagles Golf Course suggested to “with just a touch of menace, that J should change the topic. Which o I repeat: (a) Don’t ut it thes a for Money, That’ s t ¢- issite. - Course consisting largely of Gri Men. The instructor, undatt “ceeded to.coax the GOMs the roles of Raven, Wolf, et t “technically, I was ‘under the i impres- ion that any article found by me belongs to me unless some- hip, and if not claimed in 90 days. : Certainly, [ have a stronger claim id. bere ‘ ‘° tha article chan does ‘the District of North Vancouver.” It + ; : T : Agent X2S (a young spr demonstrated some of the s GOMs assumed, and, if the: amusing as his representation they ; shoulda been in 1 pictures LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters must inctude your namé, full address & telephone number. VIA a-mail: trenshaw @ direct.ce North Shore News, founced in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 131, Paragraph 111 of te * Ercise Tax Act, is published exch Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lig. and distributed to every coor ont the North Shore. Canada Post Canadsan Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No 0087538. 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