6 — Friday, April 14, 1995 - North Shore News

-Ah- Could T get af a PR.
firm a oer 7 here please

garden’
of biases’

‘FOOD AND drink, food
and drink. Philosophically,
. [despair that food and
_ drink are two of the three
- animal obsessions of :
“mankind, the third being.
you-know-what — for".
which food and drink are so
often, the prelude. : mons
We’ should: Contemplate our:
‘souls more. And: ‘our brutish phys"
_ i¢al needs less..~.”

However, i suspend this philos-
ophy ‘three times.a day, not count-
ing snacks,:pretty much like

“everyone else. Stuff the soul —
what’s for dinner?.

So, shoving aside my rumina-: ”

..tions on Ranke’s striking observa

tion’ — that all things are equidis-

tant from God — } recently; !
‘devoured Vancouver magazine’s

.Petor Spock .
Publisher fat
985-2131 (404)

: Doug Foot
_ Comptroller, °.
985-2131 (133)

‘ratings of the city’s best restau-

rants, being unable to devour the
cuisine therein described. Five
children and six cars to support,
you know.

In our household the menu is
strictly limited. I] believe we have
a total of six basic entrees. “Ah,
No. 3 — sausages!" J cry, at least
once a week. “Good old reliable
No. 3! One of my favorites!”

‘Perhaps I exaggerate the range,
since No. 6 itself is from
McDonald’s takeout — a sure-fire
winner, with its golden cheese
melted over a scrumptious beef
patty cooked to perfection and

., nestled in a bun derived from
: carefully raised and harvested
. wheat, accompanied by a ‘95
'. Pepsi (always a good year) in the

kind of tumbler you get for buy-
ing 30 litres of gas. : '
' Praise McDonald's. lis takeout
is our only family dinner that
every child will eat without fussy
complaint. |. .

Still, I take voyeuristic delight

‘fn other people’s more exotic din-
:ing-out. So I ate up Vancouver's

annual ratings, ‘though I pay iittle
attention to the magazine other-.
wise. .

’ First, an accolade for Timothy

: ' Renshaw, North Shore News

restaurant critic (who doubles as |
managing editor in his spare
time), the only one of the survey’s .

“15 critics writing for a publication
beyond the big city’s loop.

And the North Shore and and
Whistler (an honorary suburb of”

. Chris Johnson
Operations Manager
985-2131 (141)

TNT HEE T IN ANTE NICOLL ONE PUB LE LOX IPNRA LINES PEIN ETRE HN ERNE SEL EN EEN, TEA ENTE

S$ Viewpoint

weeavny

{¥ MPLOYMENT EQUITY is coming to

a ferry terminal near you this summer.

The B.C. Ferry Corp. (BCFC) conduct-

ed a census of its workers in 1993, Its employ-

ees were asked to identify their gender,

whether they were aboriginal, “persons from

visible minority groups” or “persons with dis-
abilities.”

The data provided the basis for BCFC’s
employment equity hiring program for sum-
mer 1995, the stated principle of which is:
“ensuring that no person is denied employ-
ment opportunities for reasons unrelated to
ability or qualifications such as gender or
racial origin.’ No problem.

But here’s the rub as outlined in an inter-

‘nal memo in which BCFC states this year’s
summer hiring goals: “... increase the partici-
pation of aboriginal peoples, visible minority
peoples, persons with disabilities and. women

West Vancouver) are the only
Greater "Yancouver places where a
separate “best restaurant” was”
chosen.

In the North Shore's case, the
palm goes to the.Granite Cafe, the
newish eaicrie partly owned by
West Vancouver's mayor, Mark
Sager. I'll get there for lunch
when my children are big enough
to be left alone — around 2005.

Other contenders listed are La
Toque Blanche — my wife and I
dumped the children on Grandma,
for two hours and sneaked out for
an anniversary dinner there
recently, and it was outstanding
— the Beach Side Cafe, and Cafe ~
Roma. .

More striking, North Shore

” restaurants grab three other gener--
al categories: the Salmon House .
on the Hill (Best Seafood), Cafe ..
Norte (Best Mexican), and Earl’ s
Tin Palace (Best Casual).

In case you're eager to get a_

glimpse of a celeb like me (1 walk
around with my column pasted on dum. j
my forehead, and I’m still not rec- oo Hl
ognized), my favorite lunch spots
are Chesa, where the daily. special
which includes soup and entree
are both a sure-fire delight and a
bargain at $8.95; Carmelo’s.
everything superbly cooked; Pat's,
strong on salmon and desserts;
and the Park Royal Hotel dining
room and patio, uniquely combin-

“ing good food and service, Olde .

* World charm, and New World

ambience (West Coast Version) on
the banks of the Capilano, coe

eating.

to get out of it.

tion.

this weekend.

Linda Stewart —
Sales & Marketing Director
980-051 i] (31 9)

Timothy Renshaw
Managing Editor
985-2131 (116). .

But for sheer quantity, which “-
‘ testifies to its consistent quality,
this houschold has gobbled up
more food from Ken Sung’s
Ambleside Chinese Restaurant
than all the others put together —
10 years of Saturday night good

I'd add many others to my list,
but the fact is I'm in too comfort-
able a-culinary rut with the above

eevee :
Turning now to drink: alarm, -
chaos, disaster! West Vancouver's
6th Street liquor store, in d cosy
mall just off Bellevue, closes
tomorrow for months of renova-

Whaauaat? The government’ Ss
broke. Why, waste money on gin-
gering up —~ boutiquing, really —
this perfectly comfortable, old-
shoe of a liquor store? Ambleside
residents who can walk to it will
be inconvenienced.

Should have put it to a referen-

a oe e@

Getting back to the matter of
souls: Warm Easter wishes to the
Christian community, and espe-
cially those in it and others who
‘will deraonstrate against abortion

Peter Kvarnstrom
Display Manager
980-0511 {103}

(specificaily in male-dominated occupations)
in BC Ferries work force by actively recruit-
ing and hiring members of these groups dur-
ing the 1995 hiring period.”

All things being equal, this season’s
favored whipping boy, the white male, will be
less equal at the ferry corporation.

BCFC statistics showing relative B.C. pop-
ulation, B.C. and BCFC labor force figures
reveal, when broken into the aforementioned |
categories, that BCFC. has stumbled along
equitably in hiring from_all categories prior
to the initiation of ‘the employment equity
program. The marine industry has tradition-
ally attracted white. males.’ Why is this. now
treated as being wrong? This year BCFC has

hired on the basis of sex, ethnic crigin and _

disability rather than merit.
As @ raw concept, employment equity is
plain old Orwellian double-speak.

matlbox

Shameful
Suns hine

Dear Editor: .

Re: Sunshine Girl.

You should be ashamed! I
have been a North Shore resi-
dent for almost three years now
and have read numerous letters
of complaint.from readers
regarding your continued prac-
tice of including photographs *
of bikini-clad women in your”
“Sunshine Girl” photograph. '

I echo their complaints and.
finally, I, too, am compelled to
put pen to paper because I find
your April 5 photograph of. a ,;
woman wearing only a “teddy”

_ Offensive. :

Just.what is your point? You

‘purport t to publish an ‘informa-_.
' tive newspaper, however, ‘your
continued practice, in spite of: '
many complaints from your
readers, to include. Sunshine
photographs” | not: only
“demeans ‘your’ paper. but con-:.:
tributes to the exploitation of =
women in general. « m fa

The response. that you occa-::

~ sionally. include photographs’ |:

of men, or other newspapers, dou}.
this ‘too, ‘is’ not. impressive. | |: -
There is a place for these types”
of photographs and it is not in,
a local newspaper.” °°
Bena W. Stock .”
North Vancouver

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