Studying the fabric of our lives

THEY SAY, as they
wrap themselves in the
trendy habiliments of
youth, “‘Ti’s never too
late.” Hah, I could give
them examples,

And this is one of those. It
could be, if you don't act in
good time you just might lose
out and spend the fall kicking
yourself.

Think of me as Early
Warning.

Early, indeed, as my alert
concems an upcoming Series at
Elder College in October and
November. I don’t blame you
for grurabling — confound the
wretched woman, we’ ve not
sipped even the first of sum-
mer’s joys, and she’s on about
fall classes.

You'll be glad in the end,
though, because this series
promises to excite attention,
and it would be a good idea to
have your own space nailed
down in advance.

It’s fittingly called “The
Future is Now” and is bent on
addressing all the important
basics of our lives — the
garbage mountain, our water
supply, housing for the hordes,

air quality, transport, the works.

Not very sexy, I grant you,
just the very fabric of our lives.

And where's the money for
it all going to come from? Now
you understand why you ought
to be there.

It’s old stuff, really. We’ve
been threatened with one or the
other debacle for years, and
there’ ve been some nasty
scenes over loss of graceful
surround and views essential to
our identity. The rest of us read
about them and congratulated
ourselves for our good sense in
having chosen to live in a par-
adise.

When people can ski, sail,

Eleanor

THE VINTAGE YEARS

play golf and tend the garden
all on the same day, they aren’t
into examining ue corruption
of air and water quality. We're
having a lovely time.

But say — a lot of the dam--
age that’s showing up was done
on our shift, when you think
about it. It was we who built a
bunch of the houses and
demanded the convenience of
multiple gasoline pumps and
chopped down trees to make
better ski runs and tipped the
garbage over the other side.

It was ourselves mutilating
gentle little sparkling Mosquito
Creek 50 years ago and turning
it into a fury that finally had to
be entrapped in ugly concrete.

So we know it first-hand, a
lot of it, and now we are the
ones with the leisure to learr:
how to make amends. We have
the time, though it’s maybe too
late. We also have a better per-
spective than any newcomer
because we know what it was
like before we messed it up.

I can’t tell you how much
for the six Tuesday discussions
— Helen Gray is facilitator and
will have that information.
Helen was History and Political
Science Librarian at Simon

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Frases before she retired. She
“retired” right into Elder
College,

She has lined up at least a
dozen experts for the six
Tuesdays ~~ 2:30 to 4:30 pam.
cach time — who will give us
the bad news and describe the
options open to us.

@ Housing is the opener, with
emphasis on sheltering seniors.
Michael Geller has been
involved in that line of work on
every level from the architect's
to that of developer and had 10
years with Canada Mortgage
and Housing. Saul Schubert,
who is general manager of the
B.C. Housing Commission, has
demonstrated innovative con-
cepts regarding shelter for us
old folks, He’s had 20 yeurs of
it.

@ Transport becomes more
and more a problem — the
automobile is a very selfish and
clumsy medium, we're learn-
ing. Bridge or tunnel or seabus
or what?

The GVRD and the govern-
ment are studying it all under
the 2021 umbrella, and Paul
Lee is its Director. He'll! be
there, along with Gavin Joyce,
Who is Manager of North
Vancouver District's
Engineering and Transport
Department.

& Water Quality i is under
scrutiny all the time, and two of
the GVRD men, Mark
Ferguson and Brett Young, will
tell us what beaver-fever has to
do with it.

&@ Air Quality problems can be
dropped on the doorstep of
transportation, like an unwant-
ed orphan. Morris Mennell has
had a hand in pollution-control
both at home and abroad.

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Sunday. June 19, 1994 - North Shore News - 37

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GVRD. plus Allen Lynch, who
coordinates all the recycling
programs on the North Shore.
B And then coines Financing,
and it’s in the hands of Colin ONE BIG DAY!
Smith and Sherry Dunford. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2ND
Colin had a couple of years as a at the PNE
deputy minister in our BE PREPARED TO SELL
Legislature and now handles SPACE IS LIMITED
finance for the GVRD. Sherry’s contact: 57
Director of Finance for our eee
North Vancouver District. Phone 257-5160
Notice they are all people Fax 257-5164
who work at what they talk
about, which should indicate
hard facts and no baloney.

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