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News Viewpoint

Cashiess victory?

est Van school trustee Margot Furk rejects

the suggestion in our editorial last Wednes-

day that the School Board was motivated by
vote-catching in pleading inability to pay an arbitrated
2.2% salary increase to its teachers — who were poised
Jast week to launch a work-to-rule campaign in protest.
The increase has now been upheld by Compensation
Stabilization Commissioner Ed Peck.

The Board, says Mrs, Furk, had decided that money
to meet the pay hike for existing teachers could be bet-
ter spent elsewhere, in particular for contingency staff-
ing. The CSC disagreed, though it didn’t immediately
explain why. Until it does, we can only speculate on its

reasoning.

According to Mrs. Furk’s figures, however, three
facts remain clear. Firstly, the Board had earlier cut its
provisional budget by $700,000. Secondly, ‘hat cut
reduced the 1986 tax increase for the average West Van
household to about $80 from the roughly $130 origi-
nally projected. Thirdly, half that amount would have
covered the arbitrated 2.2% pay hike — bringing the
average household tax increase to perhaps around
$105. Now, the Board must presumably pay the teach-
ers’ raise at the expense of its alternate plans for its

reduced budget.

Surely this must mean that the trustees said, in ef-
fect, ‘‘we’ll look after the taxpayers, the teactiers can
wait’’ while the arbitrator and the CSC said ‘‘wrong,
the teachers don’t have to’? — thereby labelling the
Board’s judgement as faulty. If, nevertheless, the
voters this November continue to support the present
Board, it will at feast have won a cashless victory!

“DOLLMAKER”’ conjures up
certain mental images—possibly of
some sweet,* stout, middle-aged
German lady with braided hair,
clad in rumpled artist’s smock.

Whatever picture springs lo
mind, Sheila Dewar almost cer-
tainly doesn't fit it. A former
cosmetics demonstrator, the slim,
elegant 36-year-old native of New
Brunswick would look perfectly at
home in a haute couture salon or
playing as an extra in ‘‘Dynasty”’
. but dollmaking? You have to be
kidding!

Up to 1985 Sheila herself would
have said the same. Yet only 18
months after discovering her talent
she’s now turning it into a promis-
ing cottage industry.

Sheila’s ‘‘faceless’’ dolls (that's
her trademark) come in all sizes up
to two feet high—conversation
pieces that add a unique decorative
touch to a hearth, den or feminine
bedroom. Though they’re concciv-
ed primarily for adults, litde girls
of the Cabbage Patch generation
would undoubtedly jump at own-
ing one. She complements them
with bunnies, teddy bears, gnomes,
toadstools and baskets of artificial
flowers and fruit, all exquisitely
crafted. Last weekend she held a
display of her past six months
work for neighbors and friends,
who snapped up half of the 80
items within a couple of hours.
There'll be more such showings
(very civilized, with canapes and
refreshments) at ‘‘Willow Haven",

GOLDEN PIONEERS ... West Van's Mildred and Leslie Hughes 50

years after that day at St. Stephen’s.

LETTER GF THE DAY

Even Christians can run

Dear Editor:

Bob Hunter decries Bill Vander
Zaim’s wearing ‘this Christian
belief system on his sleeve, as
though it were automatically
somehow superior to other nutty
belief systems’? — as though it
weren’t!

While | don’t agree that Mr.
Vander Zalm has flaunted his
religious beliefs in responding to
the media’s questioning, | would
agree that he probably does con-
sider his belief system to be supe-

rior to others — especially to
frivolous philosophies like the one
Mr. Hunter confesses to having
dabbled in so briefly. It is clear
that Mr. Hunter sees his own,
viewpoint as superior to Mr.
Vander Zalm’s. ! consider my
belief system to be superior to both
of theirs, but so what? Isn’t it
wonderful that religious freedom is
still tolerated in this country, and
even a Christian can run for public
office.

Like Mr. Hunter, I too was in

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DOLLS WITH A DIFFERENCE ..

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NEWS photos Noel Wright

. Sheila Dewar displays products of

her recently developed talent. Blank faces are her trademark, but the
Cabbage Patch generation can always add their own!

her North Van home, this fall. If
dolls with a difference are your
thing, call Sheila at 985-1711 and
tell her you’d like to come.

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GOLDEN PIONEERS of the week
are West Van's Leslie and Mildred
‘Mid’ Hughes who were married at
St. Stephens on September 1, 1936
and have lived at 2548 Nelson since
1937. But their pioneer roots
stretch back even farther, ‘Mid’s
parents (the late Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Ford) having moved to
West Van from Toronto in 1913
while Leslie’s family arrived here
in 1920. Highlights of last
weekend's celebration with friends
and family—daughters Sally
Samler and Bobbie Steen plus two
granddaughiers—included letters
from Governor General Jeanne
Sauve, Brian Mulroney and John
Turner, together with a toast from
Art Peers, their 1936 best man.

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SCRATCHPAD: Maybe you're
still in time for today’s Coho Fes-
tival walk down the scenic
Capilano Park trail via the hatch-
ery. Buses from Park Roya! South
will shuttle you to Cleveland Dam
up to 2 p.m. So get stirring and get
down, anyhow, to the day-long
fun and barbecue in Ambleside
Park ... It’s goodbye today to Rev.
Brad Newcombe, popular minister
of Deep Cove-Mt. Seymour United
Church for the past four years,
who’s been named chaplain at
UBC ... Rosemary Slaney, head of

university in the early 60s, and I
too used to believe that one had to
check one's brains at the door to
accept Christianity. However, after
years of checking out the various
Eastern religions in my search for
spiritual wholeness, I eventually
came to a point where I was willing
to give Christianity a try. After a
thorough and initially skeptical in-
vestigation, which covered ar-
chaeology, psychology, literary
analysis, and so on, I have con-
cluded that Christ does give mean-

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North Van’s Volunteer Tutors
program, is seeking adults who
love kids to tutor one special-
needs child twice a week. Training
provided—call her at 987-814) ...
North Van Chamber of Commerce
president Graham Reid and coor-
dintor Fyfe Brown urge local
business types not to miss tomor-
tow’s (Sept.8) ‘‘Business After
Business" get-together, 5-7 p.m. at
the International Plaza. These
regular $10 ‘‘after-fives’’—with
free hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and
ideas galore a-popping—pay hand-
some business and social dividends
... Next Sunday (Sept.14) get ready
to run, jog, walk or wheelchair
your way on the annual three to 10
kilometre North Shore Terry Fox
Run to raise funds for cancer
research, chaired by well-known
West Van athlete George Morfitt.
Registration 7 a.m. behind Park
Royal South. Pledge sheets at
Shoppers Drug Mart, Kentucky

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Fried Chicken, Bank of Nova
Scotia and Canada Post Offices.
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WRIGHT OR WRONG: If you
have difficulty meeting new peo-
ple, try picking up the wrong ball
on the golf course.

NEWS photos submitted

REV. BRAD NEWCOMBE
farewell to Deep Cove.

or public office!

but you get the point. Let me,
however, recommend C.S. Lewis’
“Mere Christianity’? for an ex-
cellent presentation of what in-

ing to my life, and can indeed be
the answer to the spiritual search
that many quite brilliant people
have undertaken during this tu-
multuous and confusing era.
Although I myself cannot prove
that God exists, there are well-
known philosophers who believe
they can, I can’t prove electricity
exists either, but I can see the
results. In a sense, it doesn’t mat-
ter how well [ present the case for
electricity — or God; either they
exist or they don’t. I could go on,

telligent Christians actually do
believe.

In conclusion, I would suggest
that Mr. Vander Zalm, like other
Christians, may not consider
himself to be superior as a person.
I would hope not, at any rate.
What is superior is God Himself.
P.G. Persons
West Vancouver