6 - Sunday, September 4, 1988 - North Shore News ion every ti AFTER HALF A MILLION WORDS (cqual to eight full- length novels) this people-and-poke-around column today marks its lOth anniversary. BRUNCH first appeared in the North Shore News Sept. 3, 1978. What were our hot local topics on that Labour Day weekend a de- cade ago? In West Van, BRUNCH reported, one of them was water- ing holes. After months of mysterious delays since Council's OK two years carlier, George Fotiou at last had carpenters at work remodelling his Ambleside cafe into the Square Rigger neighborhood pub. Meanwhile, rival pub bidder Bill Clancey, who'd narrowly lost out to Fotiou, had an appeal to the Consumer Affairs Ministry pending. Over in North Van they were trying to get a food co-op off the ground with a public meeting at St. Andrew’s United Church and a Rec Centre dance. Park Royal Towers residents were hopping mad over nocturnal traffic noise from the new overpass linking north and south Park Royal — located almost in their front yard. Prime Minister Trudeau had on- ly a few days left to call a fall elec- tion. Over at the PNE a new Tory hopeful called Chuck Cook was getting known by shaking hands and kissing babics. And Tory leader Joe Clark was duc in town Tuesday to drum up votes — which included being interviewed by CJOR’s star hotliner of the day on the “John Reynolds Show’’. Government car tests were still $1.75. Quote of the week was from Oscar Wilde — ‘‘Always forgive your encinies. Nothing annoys them more."’ And in that 1978 BRUNCH ‘‘flag”’ shown below, your scribe’s hairline was quite a bit lower. The intervening 650 columns or so (thrice weekly for the past 16 months) have hosted a total of some 10,000 North Shore charac- ters. Many of them achievers and doers of good works. Many others fun to know. And a sprinkling of rogues — some well-meaning — together with the problems they cause the rest of us. Color them all “our North Shore community’’, using a nice warm color. And no regrets from this corner about those cight might-have-been novels. Real Jife can beat fiction every time! awn CAN OUR BRIGHTEST and best on the North Shore make it 4 hat trick? Twice in two years a North Shore student — Daniel Promislow in 1986 and Robert Wai in 1988 — has won the world's most prestigious university scholarship (only If annually for all of Canada). Now, the Rhodes Schol- arship Committec is inviting ap- plications until Oct. 21 for a 1989 award, worth around $23,000 a year for up to three years at Bri- tain’s vencrable Oxford University. tax receipt — but cail 988-5281 soonest while space lasts ... An- niversary greetings today, Sept. 4, to North Van's Dick and Helene Carney, celebrating their 51st ... And happy 80th birthday tomor- row, Sept. 5, to Horseshoe Bay pioneer Fred Rummel, a West Van NACA fa tegy OST ODPL wOrtatcers, TARUEY NOEL RIGHT © sunday brunch ¢ resident for over 50 years now liv- ing on Vancouver Island. eh WRIGHT OR WRONG: Being a frog isn't as bad as it might seem. Whenever anything bugs them, they eat it. Age limits are 18-24 and for fur- ther details call B.C. secretary Peter Fairey, $43-7928. ans WRAP-UP: Remembered this weck will be the 81-year-old victim of that runaway car tragedy last February on Taylor Way. A me- moria! service for longtime West Van resident Clarence Conn will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Hollyburn Funeral Home, 1807 Marine, West Van ... Pack the clubs, gather a foursome and head up the Sound neat Sun- day, Sept. 1), says Sarah Arm- strong of North Shore Family Ser- vices, for their fourth annual golf tournament at the Squamish Valley Golf & Country Club. The $50 fundraising charge covers green fees, dinner, lots of prizes and a — Page 5S, September 3; 1978 - Sunday News NEWS photo Mike Waketletd JOB WELL DONE at North Yan's Canada Employment Centre for Students which found work for almost 1,300 before closing late last month, Left to right, staffers Geoff Grant, Chery! Woolstone, Colin Daglish. HALF A MILLION WORDS OLD...a column celebrates a bir- thday. Obligations met APILANO COLLEGE deserves accolades for expanding its evening course program to meet a ballooning demand. At a time when students frequently come up against an unfeeling wall of educational bureaucracy and end up being turned away from filled courses, the college has taken extra steps to fulfil! its obligation of bringing accessible schooling to the community. Realizing that the future presents many closed doors without some sort of post-secondary education, youths are enrolling in community college programs as never before. Couple that with an increasing number of workers returning to school for retraining as changing job markets call for specialized skills, and the number of students clamoring for classroom space is outstripp- ing supply. High demand for day and evening academ- ic programs and few no-shows at recent college regis- tration show that students are taking their education seriously. Versus limiting enrolment or packing students like sardines into already-fulJ programs, Capilano Coilege uses foresight and initiative to meet this growing de- mand. In establishing a 3:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. full- time first-year university arts and sciences transfer program, the college has already set a notable prece- dent for accessible education in British Columbia. In expanding that program, as recent demand warranted, the college has again shown its dedication to improving the lot of students who might otherwise not be able to attend classes. Education holds the key to B.C.’s future. and Capilano College should be proud to be a forerunner in making that education available to the community. PES BEANE, TT f : el ! 980-0511 986-6222 985-2134 986-1337 986-1337 985 3227 Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions Peter Speck Managing Editor Barrett Fisher Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director . Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 a5 an independent cuburban newsoaper and quabhied under Schedule 111, Paragraph ll ot tne Excise Tax Act, is publishod cacn Weanesday. 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