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Though skateboarders on city streets and other pe-
destrian areas pose a menace to senior citizens and
others witbout the necessary dexterity te leap out of
harm's way, the problem of where skateboarders are to
go to practise their sport remains,

Many skateboarders would rather not roll down
sidewalks in the event of a spill, (he wheeled whis-
kids face the sume injuries as Che person Chey oy hit,

Lacking proper facilities, avid skateboarders must
either take to the streets or home-made backyard
ramps — choices made unattractive by local councils.

Because North Vancouver City Council has banned
skateboards from many of the city’s local sidewalks, it
follows thal the city should provide some sort: of
allernative skateboard facility.

Half a cure is as bad as no cure; the skateboarders
need some alternatives to sidewalks. Without alter-
natives, sidewalks will remain prime skating terrain.

Constructing a skateboard ramp would cost a few
thousand dollars at most. The liability insurance pro-
blerm could likely be solved with a Hftle examination.

Council must do all it can to solve the entire pro-

blem, not merely alleviate some of its symptoms.

Enjoy Cole Porter — but
remember your blanket!

HYPOTHERMIA is the problem
to guard against these cool July
evenings in Malkin Bowl, where
Theatre Under The Stars kicked
off its 18th season last week. Fool:
ed by a warm day, we neglected in-
itial precautions. Result. teeth on
the verge of chattering by the in-
termission ~- used to retrieve a big
rug from the car, which saved us
for the rest of the show.

Aside from the odd first-night
glitch in the stage management
department, the company gave
Cote Porter's venerable — classic
Anything Goes everything they’d
got — which was plenty. Fast-
paced action, bubbling with
energy. Lots of bady comedy.
Good costuming, fighting and
sound. And, for the most part,
very satisfying delivery by soloists,
chorus and orchestra of such
timeless old favorites as ‘1 Get A
Kick Out Of You, ‘Let's
Misbehave’', ‘AML Through The
Night’’ and ‘Take Me Back To

Manhattan’.

The cast, by the way. inchides
Don Mackay. twice winner of the
B.C. Drama Festival’s Best: Actor
award while with the North Van
Community Players, and Gilbert &
Sullivan veteran Peter Rupinis
who's been active with the First
Impressions Theatre in North Van.
Also familiar to local audiences is
musical director David Smith who
has conducted for the North Shore
Light Opera.

Anything Goes alternates night
by night with Lionel Bart's Oliver
through August 15. Tickets at
VTC/ChO outlets and info from
687-0174, tf TUTS °87 continues
as it) began, you'll enjoy —
especially with a sweater and
blanket!

JULY 21 was Golden Tuesday for
North Van pioneers and sportsfolk
Les and Nellie Hunter, marricd
here on that date in 1937 at St.

photo submitted

SPORT CHAMPIONS take the Gold...North Van pioneers Les and

Nellie Hunter celebrate their *50th’’.
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Andrew’s Church. Les — 78, co-
owner for many years of Heatley
Machine Works in Vancouver and
earlier a champion soccer player —
has lived all his life in North Van.
Nellie, who arrived here in 1923 at
the age of eight, has represented
B.C. and Canada in lawn bowling
at the Commonwealth Games and
is still playing in major competi-
tions. She and Les have three sons
and, to date, six grandchildren,
and a couple of months ago the
Fraternal Order of Eagles 2638,
where yesterday’s Golden celebra-
tion took place, named her
“Mother of the Year’’. Now, it’s
onward to the Diamond!

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MENTAL AEROBICS —
understanding how to get into
shape and stay there — can he as
important to health as the physical
exercise itself, according to the
fitness staff at West Van Rec Cen-
tre. To get their message over, they
organized a ‘‘Mental Aerobics
Challenge’? during last month’s
Community Day festivities. Several
hundred entrants aged 10 to 70
participated in five health trivia
quizzes where they had to guess the
calories in popular snacks, find out
their own heart rate, identify mus-
cles in their body and work out
how often they needed to exercise
for total health. Winners — drawn
this month to kick off the Rec
Centre’s Summer Fitness Program
— have no excuse for not putting
their theories into practice: Laurie
Dunn and Yvonne Parkinson each
received a pair of the latest Nike
Air Performer aerobic shoes, while
Lynn Kasperkiewicz was rewarded
with windsurfing lessons for two at
Hollyburn Sailing Ctub.

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WRAP-UP; John Douglas Patton
of West Van, a U of Vic student,
will soon be spending a year on the
French Riviera, He’s among the
more than 200 Canadian students
who have qualified for the 1987-88
course in civilization and the
French language at the Universite
canadienne en France — an

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Noel Wright

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overseas campus of Ontario’s
Laurentian University located just
outside Nice, France ... If any of
you out there ever belonged to 570
Air Cadets Squadron in Edmon-
ton, Todd Ross (P.O. Box 11302,
Edmonton, TS5J 3K5) wants to
hear from you. To mark the
Squadron’s 35th anniversary next
year they’re compiling a Squadron
history and planning a reunion
bash ... Best wishes to North Van’s

Don and Helen Preston on passing
another marriage milestone yester-
day ... And Haopy Birthday Fri-
day (July 24) to North Van's
Veena Khosla,

WRIGHT OR WRONG — Mur-
phy’s 18th Law: If it jams, force
it. J. it breaks, it needed replacing
anyway.

NEWS photo Nell Lucente

FITNESS ALL IN THE MIND!...Mental Aerobics winners (front)
Laurie Dunn and Yvonne Parkinson, (back right) Lynn Kasperkiewicz
with Paul Mayrs of Nike Canada (centre) and Tony Cohen of Hollyburn

Sailing Club.

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