6 - Sunday, July 8, 1990 - North Shore News Y 4 ACTUALLY, 113 ONLY A PLASTIC SPOTTED OWL... TS USED TO SCARE THE LOGGERS AWAY. Poison of progress HE WARNING §s signs recently at Deep Cove’'s posted back to the mid-1970s. Studies, tests, samples, combined with Panorama Beach are as much signs of increasing area urban develop- ment as indications of the cove’s conti- nuing pollution problems. The signs were posted this week at the beach following tests that showed fecal coliform counts again exceeding mini- mum health safety standards set by the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Mt is an action that documents the continuing mystery of Deep Cove pollu- tion. And it is a mystery that is no closer to being solved than it has been in past years. Panorama Beach was closed last year. It was closed the year before that; at one time for a 47-day stretch. Closures at the beach are not new: Panorama’s problems with high coliform counts date much head scratching and head shaking, have failed to pinpoint a single major pollution source. Along the way fingers have been pointed at everything from dogs running loose on the beach to boats anchored in the harbor. But the real elizsive. The pollution in the harbor, which suffers from limited natural flushing, is the result of many factors. It is a cumulative poison — the poison of pro- gress and urban development. It is everybody’s pollution. answer is far more It would be easier if there were a single villain to tar and feather. It is much harder to have to accept a portion of the blame. “I’ve always said that there’s nothing better you can do with your spare time than work for yonr community.’” YWCA 1990 Women of Distinction Award winner Anne Macdonald, on community in- volvement. “*There’s no magic pile of money.”’ Capilano-Howe Sound MP Mary Collins, on federal govern- ment spending. “‘What the college board tries to do is make an annual nominal tu- ition fee increase but at the same time allow the students to be Publisher Associate Editor envelope . Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an indepengent suburban newspaper and qualitied under Scheaule 11! Paragraph {Ul ol the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday. 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THE VOICE OF HONTH AND WLS3 VARCOUUER SUNDAY + WEDNESGAY © FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C V7M 2H4 59,170 (average. Wednesday Friday & Sunday} voy SDA DtviISION z Display Advertsing Classified Advertising Newsroom Distribution Subscriptions “They'll go and chase whatever, the old instincts come back, and then they'll come home and they’re regular house pets again. We go to Bowen Island to look for packs of wild dogs and we find good old Fluffy.” Conservation officer Rod Olsen, commenting on his suspicions that domestic dogs, not wild animals, are killing the disappearing pets. “The conclusion from this I’m finding very difficult to work out.” John Bremner, North Van- couver District’s director of engineeying services, commenting on the continuing mystery of Deep Cove harbor’s chronic pollution. 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 MEMBER North Shore owned and managed Entire contents «©: 1990 North Shore Free Press Lid. All righis reserved. Old Money returns ~ if you can collect it! ‘““OLD MONEY” — the charming custom of passing the family bucks from one generation to the next, which some of us thought had died with the Edwardian age — is said to be making a comeback. But before you start counting dear old dad's and mom’s nest ege, be warned that this time there could be a snag unknown in the heyday of Old Money. First, the good news — froma recent Canadian Press survey which found that many of today’s aging parents are winding up a life of honest toil far better off than their high-earning yuppie off- spring. Thanks mainly to real estate. If or when they die, they're leaving their middle-aged kids their homes — 80 per cent of them mortgage-free — which may now command !0 to 15 times the price paid for them. There’s nothing unusual about a house bought for $20,000 in the 1940s selling today for $300,000. While real estate is a major part of the 75 per cent of personal assets in Canada controlled by people over 50, two other findings by the survey suggest that many of them are not short of cash ei- ther. They account for 55 per cent of all discretionary spending and keep their plastic (if used at all) clean —- their ratio of debt to wealth is a mere six per cent. **These holdings and demographics,’” says the CP survey, ‘‘will inevitably conspire to produce a mammoth transfer of wealth between generations.” As much as $1 trillion, it forecasts, could be bequeathed by parents in the next couple of de- cades to their baby-boomers. Maybe. And many of the latter could certainly use the money. Though today’s high-spending, low-saving yuppie may earn more than dad and mom did, his true financial health is often much poorer. But alas, children, now comes the snag about these new billions of Old Money they’re promising you. The problem being that the rocking chair has been put into storage. Many of today’s dear old dads and moms in a position to provide theiz boomer with modest comforts in his own retirement are insisting on living to a disgraceful age — healthy, active and having a ball like never before, when they ought to be dozing quietly by the fireside. Jogging, skiing and tennis-play- ing into their late 70s. Goiting the winter away in Palm Spcings. Cruising the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Polynesia whenever they can snatch a few weeks away from all the other fun. And where does the blame lie? With medicare, health magazines, fitness clubs and travel agents — that’s where! “We paid our dues — now we can enjoy life,’’ explain the two 80-year-olds, packing their bags for a safari in Kenya. “They spending our inher- itance,’’ moan their grown-up kids. Good arguments, both. Old Money is definitely back — the only question being how much will be left to collect by the time dear old dad and mom take their final package tour to the Pearly Gates! kek TAILPIECES: Among this year’s exhibitors at the Arnold Mikelson Festival of Arts in White Rock — on today and continuing next Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15 — is well-known West Van artist Forrest Johnson. Now in its 15th year, the prestigious open-air event in three acres of lush gardens attracts up to 150 artists and craftspeople in all media — from painting to pottery, stone carving to jewelry ... Last call for any 1970 Burnaby North High Schoo! grads in these parts who’ve not yet registered for the dig three-day reunion party Aug. 3-5: phone Wayne Humphry, 430-3836 pronto ... North Shore Tourism chairman Paul Perkins and Eco- nomic Development Officer Bon- nie Pyplacz tel] what it all means to Tiddlycove at the 7:30 a.m. West Van Chamber of Commerce breakfast Tuesday, July 10, in the Ambleside Inn ~- call 926-6614 to reserve ... And happy 53rd anni- versary today, July 8, to North Van’s Syd and Genevieve Fink- beiner. NEWS photo Neil Lucente WINNER in the national Career Week photo-story contest, Isabelle Gelderblom of Cap College ceceives her award from Grant Botham, B.C. directors general of Employment and Immigration Canada.