6 - Sunday, December 2, 1990 - North Shore News INSIGHTS 7 TSA NEW GATIE.YOU GUESS. f WUC BC CABINET MUSTER ? WILL BEWMPLICATED IN A SCANDAL, = NAT HE DO. AND WHEN. rt wn . ‘h fe NEWS VIEWPOINT Time for clear water T approve phase of the project. North Shore residents and all those in the Lower Mainland serviced by the two North Shore reservoirs have been awash in dirty water since last week’s heavy rains and melting snows turned local creeks and rivers brown with sediment. And while local health GVRD engineers maintain that the water is safe to drink, they concede that the water drinking water is well below national guidelines. HE DISMAL esthetic state of local drinking water during the past week surely helped convince the Greater Vancouver Regional District to in principle the $478-million upgrade of our water system and approve funds for the $5 million first three-phase, than allowable the efficiency water. It therefore At times last weekend, levels of North Shore water were 40 times higher than those recommended under na- tional guidelines and eight times higher the turbidity levels. Turbidity does more than just make drinking water look dirty, it undermines of chlorine to disinfect raw requires that more chlorine be added at the source. So customers end up not only with turbid water, but with more heavily chlorinated turbid ater. The $478-million overhaul to the Lower officials and It’s time to Mainland’s water system is long overdue. return Vancouver water to its rightful place at the top of the world’s list of best-quality water supplies. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK is the sieve ideas must “The environment through which all pass.”’ North Vancouver District Ald. Bill Rodgers, in presenting the plan from the North Vancouver District Task Force on the En- vironment to district council. “lt would be good for each and everyone to realize that no matter what our contribution is, in the final analysis when we pull the finger out of the water it is not going to leave a hole.” Ald. Ernie Crist, in a eulogy to the fleeting fame of local politi- cians. Publisher “The GST is too dig’ an issue to do all at once. It has to be done piece by piece. Today we're doing a story on the GST and funeral homes...these guys (federal gov- ernment) will get you even when you're dead.”’ Graham Ritchie, CBC-TV even- ing news executive producer, on CBC coverage of the GST. “Trees are like your children. You often don’t realize that they're growing.” West Vancouver resident Glen Patterson, in his submission to West Vancouver District Council on the municipality’s tree policy. ‘*There is this belief that teenagers see themselves as immune, immor- tal and infertile.”’ Joan Rousseau, a community health nurse with North Shore Health’s community preventive program, on sexual misconcep- tions. “1 do believe that we may well see the demise of the independent candidate at the local level, and I think that is wrong. Behind the scenes party politics do exist and we just kid ourselves if (we say) they don't.”’ Outgoing North Vancouver District Ald. Joan Gadsby, on fi- nancial contributions to municipal election campaigns. Peter Speck tet Vine! 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North Vancouver, B.C V7M 2H4 59,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) s oa SDA DIVISION — Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom $85-2331 Distrdution 986-1337 Subscriptions Fax North Shore owned and managed 986-1337 985-3227 is MEMBER Entire contents 1990 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Unaccustomed test faces new Youth Council FOR YOUNG people on the North Shore a brighter day in 2 their relations with the adult world is dawning. But in one key area it calls for an unaccustomed effort on their own part, too. Adults are now listening. West Van has added a permanent Youth Committee — a project spearheaded by Ald. Pat Boname — to the raft of other advisory bodies with ongoing input to council. Youth involvement in rel- evant council policies is also a priority for North Van District's new mayor, Murray Dykeman. Meanwhile, a major breakthrough in communication between the generations came six weeks ago at the YouthSpeak conference in North Van, where 300 teens talked with local mayors, aldermen, and communi- ty leaders. The two-day event, or- ganized entirely by young people under coordinator Irwin Oostin- die, plans the early establishment of an ‘tumbrella’’ North Shore Youth Council. {ts most urgent task, says Oostindie, is a youth-operated fa- cility. This need spotlights perhaps the biggest single problem facing many teens in the saciety created by today’s adults — NOWHERE TO GO except ‘‘the mean streets.”” Only 20 years ago the norm for many teens was still a single-fami- ly home with a rec room or other space with some privacy for them and their pals. In their separate living room Mom and Dad —- as often as not still together — could keep a quiet, non-intrusive eye on com- ings and goings. Some moms were even at home all day, with cookies and juice when the kids returned from school. There were still generation problems, of course, but the set- up did help breed certain behavior standards. Today’s 40 per cent divorce rate with all its emotional trauma for children and a big increase in working moms living in cramped quarters, plus soaring house prices that make single-family homes unaffordable to many young parents, have drastically changed that teen scene. When kids say their parents have a living room to go to after a hard day but THEY have ‘nowhere to go that’s our own,”” they’re often telling it like it is. Since this trend in many teenage home backgrounds won't easily change, well-run teen drop-ins — with non-alcoholic refreshments, games, dances, etc. — can bea valuable answer to the vanishing, rec room or those mean streets. But to succeed, the young orga- nizers will also have to become actively involved in the other vita! IRWIN Oostindie ... place of parents. peers in Noel Wright oh HITHER AND YON function of traditional family home life: teaching DISCIPLINE, Peer pressure will have to replace adult authority — by teaching discipline not as a ‘“‘drag’’ but simply as the smart way of learning to cope with a tough post-school world that shows no mercy if you step too far out of tine. And by demonstrating, with all the inge- nuity of youth, that responsible behavior is cool because it PAYS. That’s the ultimate test facing the planned new Youth Council. It deserves every help adults can give it. eee TAIELPIECES: Many of the North Van civic and business establish- ment, plus West Van friends, braved the downpour to Cheers Restaurant Wednesday to ‘‘roast”’ retiring District Mayor Marilyn Baker. A fun-filled evening of warm teasing speeches to the guest of honor — top humor prizes probably going to Mayor Jack Loucks and Municipal Manager Mel Palmer, with the grand finale a moving tribute from hubby Dick ... North Shore types dominate the new 1990-91 Seniors’ Lottery executive — with chairman Al Cummings, past chair Bob MacKay and vice-chair John Leonard (all of North Van), and treasurer Peter Peters of West Van ... And a ‘‘must’’ for im- pressionist art-lovers are Daniel Izzard’s latest works from his travels in Europe last spring — now on exhibit at Harrison Gal- leries, Park Royal South. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: How come the guy not good enough for your daughter is the father of the world’s smartest grandchild? eae Res hee han ALD. Pat Boname ... teenagers’ friend of council. |