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WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE fof THE DisAL NO VoTe IN THe RereREN DU?

NOT ME.
\ TRAVELLED
ALL THE WAY
TO MONTREAL
T Stow

NOT MME,
| WENT 70
EVERY LOCAL. .
UNITY RALLY
TOWNE
THE FLAG.

guotes of the

-“Nitro-methane is a very
potent fuel. It’s like putting a
stick of dynamite on top of ycur
pistons.”

John Andres, who attended the
funeral for a West Vancouver
motorcyclist, on the fuel used in
the victim’s drag-racing motorcy-
cle. (From a Nov. | News story.)

“There’s nothing wrong
about publicly talking about
how the premier can do better.
That doesn’t mean that £ don’t
support the premier. It means

‘that [I’m a= supporter who

believes that anybody can
always do better. ... One can be
more helpful by not being blind-
ly loyal but by being corstruc-
tively loyal.” ;
’ North » Vancouver-Lonsdale
MLA David Schreck, on criticiz-
ing the premier, sort of. (From an

‘Oct. 29 News story.)

,

/

NOT Me,

| CAMPAIGNED
FOR THE
NO GIDE
IN QUEBEC
ALL MONTH.

NOT ME.
1 LINED UP
INTHE COLD
FOR TWO
HOURS TO

OUT OF IT.
ww WHAT
HAPPENED?

week

“TE think the CRTC (Canadian
Radio-television Telecommuni-
cations Commission), if they're
going to give a licence to any-
body in Canada, it would be that
idea. I hate to say it, but it’s
politically correct.”

Burrard Band (Tsleil- Waututh)
Chief Leonard George, on secur-
ing a native-run specialty TV ser-
vice. (From .an Oct. 29 News
story.)

:“The residents of Cedardale
are giving the NIMBY syndrome
a bad name.”

? Keith Road resident John Cox,
in a letter to West Vancouver
District Council on the issue of
‘adding a new bus route to the

‘Cedardale area and the opposition:

; to that new route. (From a Nov. |
News Story.)

mailbox
Thanks for the silence

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- Dear Editor:

Remember those train horns that

“used to blow long and loud every

night from the rail yards in’ the
Lower Lonsdale to Pemberton area?

Well, I; for one, would Jike to
pass along my vote of sincere
thanks to all those people responsi-
ble for fixing the problem, especial-
ly Lis .Vallaster of the North
Health Department

news viewpoint

along with all their: staff, all the
folks at North Vancouver City hall,
Mr. Trainor at BC Rail and all the
members of the Engineman's union,
for their efforts in putting a stop to
the noise. Thanks to you kind folks,
thousands of us in these areas can
now get a better night's sleep.
_ I's most appreciated.
Gordon M. <srant
North Vancouver

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LONGING TO get away as
far as possible for a while :

from the Quebec mess, with- °

out (technically) leaving this
continent? Try Dutch
Harbor.

We discovered it on a recent sea
voyage to Japan via the northern
Pacific Rim. Sailing west, 42 hours
out of Seward, Alaska, the Golden
Princess docked for an afternoon at
this busy little port for the City of
Unalaska, population 4,300 and
metropolis of the Aleutians.

{t's the true — and fascinating
— last frontier of North America,

Some 650 miles west of Kodiak,
the tiny 80 square mile island in
the Aleutian chain, dominated by a
6,700-foot volcano, was home for
thousands of years to the native
Aleuts (akin to Canada’s {nuit).

They thrived by living off the
bounty of the Bering Sea — until
the arrival in 1758 of Russian fur
hunters, who virtually eliminated
the Aleut culture.

More than a century fater, in
1867, U.S. Secretary of State

William Seward bought Alaska and,/
/ , much social life; the streets appear :.’

its Aleutian appendages from
Russia for the princely sum of $7.2
million.

Bombed by the Japanese i in
1942, the island became an impor-
tant US. base during the Second
World War.

Remains of wartime army
installations still abound But today

the source of the islanders’ prosper-

ity is exactly the same as it was for
their Aleut predecessors.

In fact, Dutch Harbor boasts of
being “the world) ’s busiest seafood
port.”

Each year from August to May
the population triples with the
arrival of commercial fishermen
from the U.S., Russia, Korea and

other countries to harvest the seem- -

ingly endless riches of the Bering
Sea, ;

Ashore, the apparently healthy
mini-economy is based exclusively
on fish processing, marine tackle,
ship maintenance and repairs, and

_ freighter traffic (since almost all

supplies arrive by sea).
There are two modest shopping

_malls. A spanking new [12-room

Grand Aleutian Hotel. A 170-year-
old Russian Orthodox church with.
onion-top spire. A couple of other
churches. A single TV channel. A
radio station. And a spunky local

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newspaper called (inevitably) The
Dutch Harbor Fisherman,

As somewhere to get away from
it all, Dutch Harbor can certainly
deliver, With certain provisos, how: ‘
ever,

You'd better be crazy about
seafood; it may be the only protein ,
you'll ever eat there.

You'd better enjoy cool, rainy
weather; they average just 28 days -
,of sunshine a year and we were
“lucky to land on one of them.

You'd better not depend on too

to be permanently deserted, with
more bald eagles visible than |
human beings. |

Above all, you'd better be i in:
robust health or have robust med-.
ical insurance; local medical facili-
ties are minimal and medi-evac by

_ air to Anchorage (two hours’ flight -

away’) costs US$20,000. °

All in all, an intriguing place to
_ explore on one of i its rare ‘Sunny,
afternoons.

But as Mother used to say about -
anywhere more than a mile from
home, | wouldn’t want to live.
there!

WEST VAN ROTARY holds
its Fashion Show Dinner °
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m. at
the Hollybum Club — cali
Marcelle, 926-0196, for $35 tick-
ets (profits to the “Youth Outreach
Program”) ... And many happy
returns of Monday, Nov. 6, to for-
mer, West Van mayor Derrick 3
_ Humphreys. ae

WRIGHT OR WRONG: -
Mondays are the potholes | in the
road of life. .

/

member es

Vancouver. Old age is where it’s at.
At least when it comes to securing
municipal services.

The events of a recent
Vancouver Council meeting are a good
example.

Discussion over funding allocations in
the district revealed that seniors are first
in line when it comes fo municipal fund-
ing allocations.

A lawn bowling facility? Of course.
How much? $100,000. Consider it done.

A skateboarding facility?

Now hold on a niinute.

in a municipality — Canada’s richest

I DOESN’ T pay to be young in West

West —

Young atheart  «- co

per-capita — in which facilities for
teenagers are virtually non-existent, the
request would seem to be well within
reason.

But reason is not prevailing in West
Vancouver when it comes to young peo-
ple.

The municipality’s population is
aging fast. Servicing that aging popula-
tion is important.

’ But servicing those who will lead
‘West Vancouver in the future is equally
important.

The municipality is already too
expensive to live in for most young fam-
ilies.

And West Vancouver’s commitment -
to the young people who do live within
its borders continues to be urderwhelm-
ing. i oe

West Vancouverites enjoy a quality of
life that is envied by many, but its future
will be far less bright if its youth are
excluded from the community vision.

The proposed new West Vancouver «
youth activity fund is a positive step in
moving to embrace West Vancouver
youth and encourage them to be a part -
of, not apart from, the North Shore
community.

lis realization will be a key: invest-
meat in the municipality’s future.

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