6 - Sunday, January 31, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS The Gertie Todd Show back for 37th season YOUTH, BEAUTY AND TALENT come together from all over the Lower Mainland tomorrow, Monday Feb.1, in North Van’s Centennial Theatre for the first ‘‘Gertie Todd Show”’ of 1988. Ageless, tireless Gertic, ex- uberant as ever, is chalking up her 37th year as founder and president of the Miss North Shore Pageant Association, which stages the North Shore's own beauty-'n- talent contest cach summer. But tomorrow's show — the annual Miss Teen Vancouver Pageant which Gertic, wearing her second hat, also produces — covers a much wider field. On stage will be 19 entrants aged 14 to 17 years from throughout the Greater Vancouver area. They'll present a full and varied bill of talent entertainment for the au- dience, while the judges wrestle with the problem of choosing from among them Miss Teen Vancouver 1988. Her crowning provides the climax of the evening and in March she'll go to Toronto to carry the Vancouver banner in the Miss Teen Canada competition. The show starts at 7 p.m. sharp. Tickets ($8 — seniors and children $5) on sale at 124 West 16th, North Van, and at the door. With Gertie’s dynamo still humming at top revs (Friday she's off with Miss North Shore, Gail Warr- ington, to the Vernon Winter Car- nival) tomorrow promises to be a fun night out for all the family. FOR WINE STUDENTS, especial- ly those in the western half of Tid- dlycove, Joyce Matthews of Eagic Harbour Community Centre has a tempting month coming up. She's planned a four-session workshop on wine appreciation conducted by an expert in the vinous arts, Leonore Sali of National Wine ‘Importers. It starts this Wednes- day, Feb.3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Centre, with further sessions Feb.10, Feb.17 and Feb.24, Over the four weeks some 40 wines will be discussed and tasted, with plen- ty of nibbles promised as ballast. Charge for the course is §60 per person or $99 per couple and ta make sure of a place you must reg- ister in the next three days at the Centre —- NOT by phone. eee HIGH RENTS don’t only plague businesses — they're a problem for many volunteer groups too. A happy exception came this month at a little ceremony on a wood lot at 100 Amherst Avenue in Maplewood, when the tenants paid their annual rent to their landlord. Rude ombart rrassment HERE IS no surprise in the gloomy fact that we Cannot support a symphony orchestra in Yan- “eouver. . We are. deeply into the era of: kitsch as culture. The capacity crowds swallowing the’carbon monoxide ex- creted at the big wheel and mud pit truck and tractor ‘circuses held regularly at B.C. Place stadium attest to the perverted bias of the masses. Put the music of the masters in mothballs. Anything over 2 century old belongs tucked away in a museum anyways —- doesn’t it? .. But wait. Aside from the toss of enriching and eminently civil social events for the blue-rinse set and. nose-in-the-air aesthetes, a community-supported symphony plays a role larger than the compositions it breathes to life. For students of music, whether i is the very young : just beginning to choose an instrument or the music majors refining skills at UBC, a healthy Vancouver Symphony Orchestra means access to professional teaching experts. Although the competition for jobs in the field is fierce, a healthy orchestra also says to young musi- - cians, ‘Yes, there is hope and a place for all kinds of music in the community.’ An orchestra in bankruptcy is a rude embarrass- ment. It is also a signal to the potential young musician in. our community aud the parents paying for the lessons to perhaps be thinking about investing their _ time and money in a truck with big wheels and pleniy of chrome to please the masses at the mud pit circus. * The tenants are the North Shore Association for the Mentally Handicapped whose members raise funds by cutting and selling cords of firewood there. Made up of alder, maple and some softwoods, and priced at $110 a cord plus a $20 delivery charge outside North Van, the wood provides the NSAMH with valuable extra in- come. The landlord is Canadian Oc- cidental Petroleum Ltd. And oh yes, the year’s rent the Association handed over to Canadian Oxy — ONE DOLLAR! ove WRAP-UP: Still on the handi- capped beat, West Van’s Brent Davies hosts his 6th annual Gourmet Dinner F gb. 9 at his Teahouse Restaurant in Stanley Park, with proceeds donated to the B.C. ‘Paraplegic Foundation. Call 922-4729 for tickets ($75 per per- son) ... Installed last week as Potentate of Gizeh Temple and leader of almost 4,000 B.C. and Yukon Shriners was lawyer Les Peterson of West Van, Chancellor of UBC and former cabinet minister — Attorney General, Education and Labor — in W.A.C, Bennett governments ... And just back from shooting a video in famine-wracked Ethiopia for a Toronto church group's fun- draising telethon is North Van movie producer and former city alderman Gary Payne, accom- panied on the assignment by cam- craman Doug Franks. WRIGHT OR WRONG: The ultimate test of your good manners is to suffer from the same ailment the other person is describing and not mention it. @ NEWS photo Mike Watatield RENT DAY at the wood! ‘Tot...(L-R) Mayor Marilyn Baker; Jimmy Elphenstone, Mentally Haridicapped Association; Brian Thrope, Cana- dian Oxy; Ray Eagle, Mentally Handicapped Association. Publisher Peter Speck Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director . 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