6 - Sunday, July 26, 1992 ~ North Shore News AND AWAAAAY WE... A bittersweet irony rewards f/f Hey! weeke's Te PM. 21? NEWS VIEWPOINT Northlands nub N THE coming debate over the massive Northlands site development proposal, North Vancouver District staff and. council must steer clear of the easy course of attempting to please all special-interest groups. Heavy-handed compromise has already shaped the preferred plan for the Northla- mds golf course site. The result is a steeply graded course that pushes into elevations higher than those originally anticipated. The Northlands site pian is now crowded with just about every conceivable civic amenity except a municipal airstrip. Why load everything into one site? All of the proposed features are neces- sary for the rapidly growing Seymour area, but by virtue of their location to the pro- posed golf course, simple open-space areas attached to such development is limited. Given the lay of the land, the proposed $9.2 - million Hyannis Drive extension flanking the northern perimeter of the golf course site wili likely be a more expensive piece of road construction than originally thought, North Shore residents are rightly proud of the area’s natural heritage, but in most cases that heritage gets irrevocably degrad- ed in the transition from planning stage to project realization. The Northlands pian requires the clear- ing and site preparation of 78% of the 294-acre area. If the district is indeed committed to substantial development at Northlands we have to be sure that what is developed is something we can truly jive well with. QUOTES OF THE WEEK “*North Vancouver, let’s give our neighborhood a crime end drug going-away party."' North Vancouver RCMP Const. Marty Blais, on the RCMP's Aug. 4 National Night Out against crime, ‘That particular night they had a huge bonfire going and bongo drums pounding all night, they were singing and chanting — it was weird.”* Indian Arm resident Neil Wilson, on the bizarre and annoy- ing party wildlife on Indian Arm’s Twin Islands. “In a way, it's very much like having a baby — it’s exciting when it comes out, but while you're going through it, it’s pain- ful.”* North Vancouver actor Robert Rozen, on founding the two- year-old Whistler Summer Theatre. “Greg points out that I'm old, the schooner is classic. 'd better get it tight or my brother will never speak to me.”* West Vancouver Mayor Mark Sager, aboard his brother’s sailboat, Passing Cloud, during the Victoria to Maui yacht race, attempting to get his adjectives correct. “Things are done in the darkness that would not be done in full light.” North Vancouver City Coun. Stella Jo Dean, suggesting that sensor lights be installed in the Semisch Park area. Publisher... Managing Editor . Associate Editor. Advertising Director Comptroller North Shore News, founded in 1959 as an independent suburban newspaper anu quahfied under Schedule 111, Paragraph lit of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on ihe North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver. $25 per year. Mailing cates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannol accept responsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accornpanied by a stamped. addressed envelope. Peter Speck . Timothy Renshaw -Noel Wright Linda Stewart Doug Foot Newsroom V7M 2H4 Display Advertising Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising $e VONCE Ga oecert ee Att WEST WAC OWE Distribution 986-1337 Subscriptions 986-1337 Fax 985-3227 Administration 985-2131 MEMBER 980-0511 Printed on 70% recycied Dewsprnt 286-6222 985-2131 SUNDAY « WEDNESDAY © FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue. North Vancouver, BC. SOA DIVISION 61,582 (average Circulation, Wednesday, Friday 8 Sunday) Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Captain Canada THE GAME plan seemed simple and foolpreof. Just let Joe Clark, his throw-away pawn, strive for a while to get a constitutional accord among the nine anglo premicrs — and fail, as fail he inevitably must. Then he, Brian Mulroney, ' would ride to the rescue with his own unilateral federal deal giving Quebec everything it demanded. After which he would somehow contrive to con and/or bully the required minimum of six anglo premiers into signing on the dot- ted line — thus emerging as the savior of the nation at the coming election. To Mulroney’s dismay, howev- er, Clark refused to fail. Against all odds he and the nine leaders of 75% of Canada produced a unan- imously backed package giving the latter, Quebec and the native peo- ples much of what each wants and compromising rationally on the other items. That, of course, effectively scuppered any unilateral federal deal custom-made for Quebec — whose bottom line boils down to nothing less than everything. Meanwhile, Premier Robert Bourassa quickly made it clear that the anglo premiers’ ‘‘much’’ is not nearly enough. The latter, in turn, reject even minor tinker- ing with their offer unless Bourassa stops pouting and finally joins them at the table. Splits over the issue are devel- oping within the federal cabinet. And Aug. 5, by which date Bourassa must start preparing his Oct. 26 sovereignty referendum, is now just 10 days away. Soifhe - refuses to blink, and if the anglo premiers hang tough, we have deadlock and-a 50-50 chance of Quebec bolting by October 1993. This sorry story has a bit- tersweet irony for Clark, aka “CAPTAIN CANADA... aka Hon. Joe Clark. GERTIE TODD... a ‘Status of Women’ pzegeant. HITHER AND YON “Captain Canada,”’ whom Mulroney back-stabbed nine years ago by wresting from him the par- ty leadership and his chance to return as prime minister. Mulroney now risks being - remembered for using the nation as his dice, rolling it twice and losing cach time. And Joe — by succeeding in doing what his boss ordered, but gambled on never happening — may have hammered the final nails into Brian's politi- cal coffin. None of this is lost on the backroom P.C. moguls whose job is the ultimate survival of a party which the voters may shortly dec- imate. They know Clark’s hard work, integrity and inter-personal skills make him today Canada’s most respected Tory. They know he’s the main reason for the Tory jump to 22% from 18% in the . June polls (how much higher, had he been PM?), They search’ elsewhere for such leadership : assets, and pass on. They Jook at Mulroney ... and at their watches. They measure Joe — funny. waik and all — against the fumbl- ing Jean Chretien, fashion model Audrey McLaughlin and untested 10% Preston Manning. Laying down the ruler, they check their watches again. GUYS AND DOLLS DEPT.: The unisex “North Shore Youth Awards”’ public speaking and tal- ent night tomorrow, Monday, Ju- ly 27, at 7 p.m. in the Centennial _ Theatre brings you the brave new world according to the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. After 41 annual Miss North Shore Pageants the radical fems this year forced founder- president Gertie Todd to open her show to young males. The result: instead of the usual 12-15 brains-'n-beauty entrants, this time just six dolls and one heroic guy — top Sentinel scholar Bevil Conway, 18. Nonetheless, they and Gertie deserve your support for a gallant rearguard action in face of the joyless gender gen- darmes for whom fun is a four- letter word. Go cheer them on — tickets at the door. eeo WRIGHT OR'WRONG: One sure way to get into trouble is to be right at the wrong time.