6 - Friday, December 27,.1985 ~ North Shore News Editorial Page Season over nd so it is over for another year. The months of shopping, the wecks of good will t’ords men and the days of festive feasting have ended in the collective blink of an eye. Old Saint Nick has returned to the hangers of a thousand costume rental shops; visions ‘of sugar plums have danced quickly to a halt. And we now stand separated from the harsh realities of January and the steadily receding waters of goodwill by a few ‘choruses of Auld Lang Syne. 7 The hangover from imbibing such heady doses of good spirits, from revelling in the narcotic bliss of giving, be it ever so store- bought, is a brutal one froin which to recov- er. Philosophers and dreamers join hands and. demand why it cannot be year-round, why can we not always be cheerful, benevolent, generous, forgiving and high-spirited? Despite such scolding, we are faced with a reality that. dictates otherwise, with a world whose. values do not coincide with those of the reborn Mr. Scrooge. ~, Humanity can but iry its best to invest the childhood ;wonder felt in the last two weeks “the deepening gloom of impending nuclear annihilation -and assorted world horrors — the whole thing still happens at all, even if it is is only 0 once a year. What smell? ur prime minister’s wife Mila Mulroney says husband Brian gets to _ Brian because he has no sense of smell. Thus - jin one ‘family anecdote, Mila has shared with us the secret of Mulroney’s ‘glide through his ‘first. 15 months in office. It’s obvious now | why Mulroney -has noi paid attention to the media stink raised over the. Tory run to the patronage trough. And we now know why tie paid little attention to the smell that arose . from the Tunagate affair, the buffalo meat problem and the rancid wine scandal, : Hr VOICE OF NONTH AMD WEST VANCOUVER Display Advertising Newsroom 985-2131 Circulation Subscriptions 4199 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, 8.C. VM. 24 publisher: Peter Speck advertising director operations mgr. Berni Hilliard Linda Stewart editor-in-chief menaging editor Noel Wright, Nancy Weathertey "North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedute Mt, Part Mt. Paragraph Hl ot the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed Io every Coo? on ihe North Snote. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3865. Entire contents «1985 | North Shore Free Press Lid. All rignts reserved. . . Member of the B.C. Press Council 56,245 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) S04 DIVISION of December and give thanks that — despite Mailbox change baby Nicholas’ diapers on a. regular basis. Mila says the chore falls to. 980.0511 & Classitied Advertising 986-6222 steps connecting 988-1337‘ 986-1337 2 - hariness and She has pride, and she sur- , MISS JONES. OEE ABOUT HIRING SOME EXTRA HELP ory How many really care? Dear Editor: You are elderly, and your two sons were killed in WW HI keeping this country free from the mad German. You have a small pension which keeps you from starving to death, and the stores are full of Christmas gifts for the rich and pompous multitudes. They don’t know hunger, and they never had to choose between life and death. Your sons have been forgotten and so have you. ‘The federal: ‘government knows that your vote is in ‘the silent minority how, so they promise the’ baby ’ boomers the world, while they destroy what life you: still hold-on to. . Who knows her name? ‘She is a -‘‘street person,’ who .carries everything she owns with her wherever she. goes. She Stays indoors these ' days to stay warm. | often see her sitting on the stairs between the foyer of the Vancouver Stock Exchange Tower and the Pacific Mall, where she- sits on the few the two. There’s a bank of pay tele- phones there which yield quarters every. once in: a while, as the affluent stockbrokers and rushing magnates forget their coins. on the busy signals -nd no- answers. These quarters are. her living in the cold winter months. She. is self .suffi- ciert |! have stood and wat- che. ser work. She jis independent. vives. Nobody seems to notice her there, and she is almost always in the same few square metres from week to week as ] make my way to the tower periodically on business. How many. are there like this? In Mexico 1 saw a man on , a corner in a small cown near . Manzanillo. He was sitting on the stumps of two' legs which had partiaily formed. garbage, He didn’t even have knees. He was without hands and held clumsy stumps ter- minating just where elbows should have formed. He was a living skeleton. I stood and watched him from across the street for almost an hour. My friend was shopping for shoes and I was killing time. I stood and watched this poor creature holding his hat stretched in front of him, begging for a few pesos from any one passing by. This is a town with a considerable tourist population. Not one of those well fed Americans- gave him anything.’ Excuse me, one stopped and took his picture. Every single donor was a. Mexican,: and most were women. 1 ap- proached to give him some money, when | noticed he was also blind. Take a pencil and paper, and write the names of the Every voice should Dear Editor: * IT wish to thank the North Shore News for stressing to the .public the important position that their municipal government plays in their lives. It is the municipal government that supplies the drinking water, removes the maintains the sewers, provides ‘police, fire, health and safety services, Streets ‘and street lighting, local parks, libraries, recre- ation facilities and cemeter- ies. If these services are not managed with efficiency and fiscal responsibility, every citizen.suffers. I therefore: wish to thank the 18 per cent of the voters of the City who were con- cerned enough (o get out to vote; and to caution those 82 percent of the voters who failed to vote, that if they continue to be silent, they may find their daily lives controlled by a minority, whose ideals may not agree with those of the silent ma- jority. Most of all [ wish to thank those persons who supported and voted for roc. | promise that I will continue to initi- ate and support policies of fiscal. responsibility, good municipal services with amenities for all citizens, and planned revitalization and development to provide more homes, more jobs to help with the tax load. As chairman. of the joint City and District Expo | 86° committee, I will continue to promote.. Expo’. 86 with special events Pond ““bed and breakfast". to bring visitors to’ patronize our businesses and. provide more. employ- ment. 1 will work ‘o save Park and Tilford Gardens to be our greatest tourist attrac- tion. .The maintenance of these gardens costs a half . million dollars a year. do industrial developer will assume this cost and the City has no power to influence Hundreds Dear Editor: I hope you will allow me to use your column to thank hundreds of North Van- couverites; those who cheerfully left their baking or their TVs to talk with me; thase who took time on a busy Saturday to vote for me; those who arranged the all- candidates meetings: these who put up signs, people in this world who re- ally care about: you; | mean the people who care as much about: your welfare as their own. You won’t need much paper, and most of you won’t write more then one flame. ’Too many people will have trouble beliéving ‘in even one name. Who really cares about you? And who do you care about?) | * John N. Hembling - West Vancouver be heard such a development as the property is already zoned for M-3 industrial use. it is only in,a rezoning, such as required for.a com- mercial development,” ‘that the city has the power to ne- gotiate the saving ;:f the gardens. Further, # 1aixed commercial - devexupment means less pollution, more jobs and more tax reventie to lighten the tax burden. I am a merchant at 7 Lonsdale Avenue, where 1 am available to anyone wih a problem or a proposal. Stella Jo Dean Alderman , North Vancouver City thanked drove voters, contributed money and time to our cam- paign. } also wish to thank my fellow candidates: Trudy Galpin, Bob Davis, Barb Sharp, Bill Bell, and the Community Electors’ Association (CEA). © It is good to finish with gratitude and no shame. CEA next time! Donna Stewart North Vancouver