6 - Sunday, August 30, 1992 - North Shore News o Y Le (lcd Crime cash week by federal Solicitor General Doug Lewis that cash and other proceeds of crime seized froms drug traf- fickers will be shared with the police departments and municipalities invoived in the criminal investigations is good news. . Since the RCMP set up Anti-Drug Prof- -.. fteering units in 1981, the police have seiz- ed approximately $147 million worth of drug cash and assets. Right now the money fs pumped into the federa! general revenue account. it is iogical that the money should return to the community. Canadian police look south with envy to drug squads. like the one operating in Orange County, California, where municipal, state:and federal agencies regu- T HE ANNOUNCEMENT made this Jarly share in the take. The Orange County police are more than happy for the fiscal support of enforcement in their own war on drugs. In Canada, Lewis warns thet no com- munity should expect 2 windfall from pro- ceeds of crime assets. Whatever money dees come our way, and that is solely dependent upon the lege) skill of Aitorney Genera! of Canada law- yers to secure the right (o the ownership of seized assets, it should be applied dircetly to the social problem. Money generated by seized proceeds of crime may best serve the community by being applied directly to local drug rehabilitation and youth support programming. QUOTES OF THE A female employee of Bridge House restaurant, recoun- “Actually, it is more like a wv sickness... one that. goes on forev- - er. ” “West MLA David Mitchell, on politics. “It seems that people are scared . Of natives and children.” “..:: Capilano College art instructor “-.George’ Rammell, on trying to . find accommodation on the North _ Shore for an Inuit artist scheduled to attend the local campus next month as part of a cultural ex- ‘change program. Publisher Managing Ed Editor . Adverilsing Diector Gemptroller Doug Vancouver-Garibaldi . Peter Speck . . Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright . Linda Stewart “You're asking us te solve a social problem. The government sells Hquor, and people use fi.”’ North Vancouver RCMP. {nsp. Peter Wlodarczak, on trying to control the use of alcohol in Lynn Canyon Park. . “Central Lonsdale could be any smal! town anywhere in North America: boring.”’ : Judi Ainsworth of the North Vancouver Chamber of Com- merce, on what’s wrong with Lonsdale Avenue. . Display Advertising 960-0517 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Newsroom 985-2131 North Shore + News, founded in 1969 as an independent sul paper and qualified ran newspa| under Schedule 111, Paragraph Il of the Excise Act, is published each Wednesday, F tiday and North Shore Free Press Ltd. and deor on ihe North Shore. istration Number 3885. fest Vancouver, $25 per ear. Mailing rates available on request. issions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts, and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, ~ North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Distribution E Subscriptions 986-1337 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax 985-3227 Administration 985-2131 it’s all right. I’m dead. the ting her initial thoughts upon hearing the voices of focal police officers after she had been bound, gagged and brutalized by an assailant. “‘I guess we ail are.” Accused abductor David Alex- ander Snow, to Crown counsel's statement, great violence, aren’t you? 986-1337 MEMBER 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday} Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. Ali rights reserved. ‘You're capable of” Manning mulls the next move for Reformers — THE RUG is being pulled from under the Reform Party . by the latest constitutional developments. Reformers haven’t yet quite lost their balance, but they’re obviously having some trouble staying upright. Two key planks in their plat- form — Senate reform and refer- endums — have been stolen and vandalized by the enemy. Hence, the deafening silence with which Preston Manning has so far greeted the deal sold to the nine angle premiers by Brian Mulroney and Robert Bourassa. In the matter of the Triple-E Senate the Reformers fell into the same trap as Alberta Premier Don Getty. They figured that equal and elected automatically meant effective. But with a brilliant end-run around them, the terrible twins from Quebec have given the West an equal, elected Senate —— while ensuring it will be as effective against the vastly increased power won by central Canada in the Commons as the local lawn bow]- ing club. Nonetheless, the toothless new chamber does offer Manning himself and other RP brass an ex- cellent chance of seats in Ottawa, if they can’t make it there as - MPs. Hungry men don’t reject half a loaf. ‘Meanwhile, on his personal road to Dimascus, the Prime Minister (and honofary co- premier of Quebec) has apparently been converted to the idea of ask-- ing Canadians ‘‘all on the same day"’ to approve the mid-August deal in a kind of giant Ottawa- run Gallup. And suddenly, the RP’s own referendum approach fooks more like a minefield. It’s one thing for the local council to ask its taxpayers whether — yes or no ~~ they want a subdivision or a golf course, though even then the result, as PRESTON MANN ING...desfening silence. WENDY HANNA... Tuesday birthday gir. Noel om] y' slightly different wording) that’ the only question Ottawa CAN: put on an immensely complicated: issue whose fine details are famil mortgage... ~. Aside from a million odd: Quebec radicals, nobody, wants | destroy Canada. So Pres ‘Ma ning ~- his cherished re: it gun pointed ¢ ‘at his head ‘of appearing co swift. to urge na tional suicide. Fighting the deal flat 0 against Ottawa's emotio paganda juggcrnaut mi at's why. Torrebadell and Haroid Schilies ~ with Gayle Biden and Ross M Cutcheon posting the low gross scores. The latter would hav. earned special approval fro’ . B.C.’s late, colorful Gerdoz a son Sr., whom the five-ye 7 As well as being its only repea' mate’’ on the “Cape Beal fishboat Gordon lovingly ": remodelled into a luxury yacht Boys and girls 5-10 can now ister for West Van Soccer Clat- picking up forms at the Rec Ce: tre and Ambleside McDonald’ Care givers with stressful respon: sions of the North Shore Care. Givers Support Society — call 983-2142 for info ... Aud wish ‘many happy returns of Tuesda! Wet Sept. 1, to Horseshoe Bay dy Hanna. : eae. vy a WRIGHT OR WRONG: To how deep a puddle i isy, you mu step in it.