6 - Wednesday, February 10, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS iore to some ducks than meets the eye! THOSE THOUSANDS of imports from Alberta competing in Sunday's Great Capilano River Duck Race aren‘t just any old rubber bath toys. They have quite a pedigree. The entrants in North Van Rotary Club's zany Valentine Day event are specially made Taiwanese racing ducks with weighted bot- toms which keep them upright, no matter how turbulent the water. No chance of your duck drowning on the 2.5 km course down to tidewater.- But why from Alberta? Because to date Albertans, it seems, are way ahead of B.C. as rubber duck racing enthusiasts ~ later this year, indeed, Red Deer (not to be upstaged by Olympic Calgary) will be hosting the World Championship Duck Race! All of which apparently explains why, some time back, the Alberta Heart Fund invested in 100,000 ducks of its own for use in fundraising races on the Bow River and elsewhere. Between whiles the AHF rents them out to other charities — and that’s how North Van Rotary was able to get the 25,000 needed for ae, a its Feb.14 fundraiser. By last weekend some 20,000 of them already bore the race numbers of eager temporary “owners”. {f you haven't yet sponsored YOUR duck — witha chance of winning a Chev Corsica or a trip to Australia — get to Park Royal, Cap Mall, Save-On- Foods or a Shoppers Drug Mart pronto with your five bucks. Hopefully still in time! eee AFFORDABLE HOUSING [or West Van seniors is a continuing and sometimes highly controversial community issue, as West Van United Church housing planners were recently saddened to Searn. But it remains a top priority with West Van Kiwanis Club, whose seniors’ lodge and apartment complex at Gordon and 22nd has PRT eaNs long been an example of how to do it. Now, the club is looking at a major expansion of the facility by adding an extra wing to the lodge and building, within the complex, a new three to four-storcy apart- ment block of one-bedroom units. Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society president Bill Davidson reports the formation of a special committee — Bill Atkinson, Brian Hanna, John Millard, Brock Webber and Harry Weatherley — to examine the project and, by September, come up with recommendations on a plan, costs, financing and fun- draising. After that the club will snap into action. Mayor Don Lan- skail and council are being kept in the picture and if all goes well, the sod would be turned in the spring of 1989. HAPPY-SAD MEMORIES were evoked for West Van broadcaster Tom Larscheid and 19-year-old daughter Candice late last month ag e/ NEWS photo Mite Wabelietd CARING DOLLARS...on behalf of the North Shore Association for the Physically Handicapped, Candice Larscheld and broadcaster dad Tom Larscheid (left) receive cheque from Canuck Foundation's Glen Ringdal (centre); with the (right) NSAPH president Elizabeth Kok and p.r. director Leray Mickelson. | Mo say, no pay HE PROVINCIAL government is trying to live in the best of two; worlds when it makes ‘municipalities accept its unilateral decisions on when they received, on behalf of the North Shore Association for the Physically Handicapped, a $2,000 cheque from North Van's Glen Ringdal, administrator of the Canuck Foundation. The donation was made in memory of Tom's late wife, Bernice (‘B.R.*'), a former NSAPH director who dicd last fall, and the ceremony took place at Wilding Way House group home where Candice, herself handicapped, presently lives. see WRAP-UP: Big weekend for local curling fans starts tomorrow (Feb.i1) when North Van Legion Branch 118 hosts the Pacific Command Seniors Bonspiel at the North Shore Winter Club. Follow- ing Thursday's 9 a.m. opening ceremony —- to be graced by WakOATe “ OR: Mayor Jack Loucks, MP Chuck Cook and MLA Angus Ree — 14 tinks from every corner of B.C. will be competing through Sunday ... Congrats to Cap College stu- dents Megan Arundel, Judith Anne Guertin and Sarah Sample, all three recent winners of the Rita Johnson Memorial Scholarship ... And the first of North Van City’s two free ‘Heritage Week"? walks takes place Sunday (Feb.14), highlighting interesting features of the City’s past in the Moodyville- East Esplanade area with tour host Roy Pallant. Start time 1:30 p.m. -— call City Hall, 985-7761 local 235, for info and registration. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: The fellow who hastens to tell you what kind of a person he is usually isn't. - Photo by Bill Li OYSTER FRUIT!...97 Kiss FM's Campbell McCubbin (right), winner of Stong's Oyster Shuck contest at the Vancouver Boat Show, receives his prize — 2 string of pearls —- from Stong’s president Bill Rossum. Look- ing on (left) emcee Wayne Cox. LOOKS LIKE MY POPULARITY 1S GOING UP. THE ENTIRE LIBERAL CAUSUS HAS CHIPPED IN TO GIVE ME AROUND THE WORLD CRUISE THIS FALL... i : - group homes and forces them to pay for the privilege. Such a situation is unfair, unjust and smacks of dic- tatorship. i In the wake of ‘‘deinstitutionalization’? moves by the provincial government, the number of residential group homes has increased, — but the amount of municipal input has not. Siting, size and facilities are all under the domain of the provincial government, and the municipalities, which’ must live with the group homes, are forced to abide by provincial decisions. And with significant funding inequities between group homes and institutions, the municipalities are being left to shoulder the burden of making up the. difference — if they can. While institutions are wholly a provincial matter, group homes are not. Whole neighborhoods are af- fected by group homes, and the residents and their elected officials should have more input into the mat- ter. Provincial officials are so used to running a solo show they have forgotten that a change of venue (in this case from the institutions (9 groups homes) should mean a change in script. Much as it might like, the province cannot have everything, and the existing set-up is akin to taxation without representation. The province must either allow in dn eh See Rescine i Ree 3 At 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions Fax Publisher Peter Speck Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director . Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Yee and disiriouiod 'o Byety door | on ine Nonn Sboie, ond Class Mail Registration Number . Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. 58,489 (average, Wednesday eae 4s Be Ls ; the municipalities some degree of decision Maning Mailing rates available on request. 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