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of the water lease area.

and hollow promises.

‘community pride.

‘family interests.
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IT’s NICE enough to be publicly
honored by a cabinet minister at a
packed meeting in the North Shore
Winter Club. :

But when the daughter you
thought was 2,500 miles away. is
suddenly there too, hugging and
congratulating you to loud ap-
plause from the audience, that re-
ally makes your evening—as it did
last week for Lynn Valley resident
Betty Waters.

The ‘occasion was the pres-
entation to Betty of the ‘‘Constit-
uent, of the Year’? award by

. Energy Minister and North Van-
Seymour MLA Jack Davis at the .

annual .Socred constituency
meeting. She’s been. Jack’s secre-
tary and executibve assistant since
1975 but the honor was far from
being merely political. Primarily, it
reflected her long involvement in
the community life of Lynn Valley,
where she and her late“ husband
Steve first settled in 1949 on the
future.site of Argyle High School,
and her years of dedicated volun-
teer work for such causes as ithe
Red Shield Appeal, the B.C. Heart
Foundation and the Cancer Socie-
ty. *“ Always ready to help cthers
and make our corner of the world
alittle better for everyone’ was
how Jack ‘put it.

“‘a little better
world for everyone.”’

BETTY WATERS...

hy the gales of controversy continue to blow
around Sewell’s Marina is a mystery.

The technical legality of Dan Sewell’s ac-
quisition of the old Bay Boat water lot lease has been
ajudged correct in two separate legal opinions.

Recent agreed realignment of the offending Trans-
port Canada floats will return lost public access and
moorage area. Sewell himself has agreed to incorporate
500 feet of transient moorage, for which boaters will
be charged government wharf rates, and 200 feet of
free drop-off moorage in his proposed redevelopment

But fishermen and Combined Ratepayers Committee
for the Foreshore Lease members charge that the
municipality has been duped, that fishing boats in
distress will fall victim to rapacious entrepreneurship
and that in some smokey back room the cards have
been shuffled in Sewell’s favor.

The marina owner has been cast as the smirking
villain. But Dan Sewell is not some fly-by-night sharpie
out to swindle unsuspecting local yokels with fast talk

His family has been a guiding force in Horseshoe
Bay community life for three generations.
$750,000 plan to revitalize what is now a seaside
eyesore with boardwalks, barbecue pits, a lookout
tower, more marina space and more parking will be a
boon to beth Horseshoe Bay’s businesses and its

It is a plan that will have benefits far beyond Sewell

fight

His

Appropriately enough, both her
offspring attended Argyle after it
was eventually built. Terry is now
a doctor living in Deep Cove. And
it was Penny, married with three
children of her own, who flew in
secretly from her Toronto home to
surprise Mum on her big day.

Congratulatory letters came

from Mayor Al Roach of Midland,
Ont., Betty’s birthplace, Premier
Vander Zalm and Attorney
General Brian Smith, who called
her as ‘‘an outstanding individual
+s @ compassionate and caring
person.” A reminder—in . case
cynics try to tell you otherwise—
that political parties of all colors
‘still attract some pretty fine human
beings.

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GLAD TIDINGS of the Mulroney
government accomplishments were
naturally the only message brought
to last week’s North Van Chamber
of Commerce meeting by Capilano
MP. Mary Collins. But one item, at
least, struck a responsive chord
among the 150 free enterprise types

who politely listened to her—the-

news of Ottawa's first-ever ||

“paperwork reduction plan’’.
Every department dealing with
small business must now report
yearly on paperwork reduction.
And a watchdog business advisory

committee keeps up the pressure to

‘constantly cut red tape.

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WRAP-UP: Daniel Izzard, Liz
Smily and Gordon Smith are just
three of the more than 25 acclaim-
ed West Van artists whose works
will be on display June 3-12 at the
Municipal Hall (750-17th St.) as
part of the municpality’s 75th an-
niversary celebrations. The
“Outstanding Artists of West
Vancouver"’ show, open &:30 a.m.
to 9 p.m. weekdays, is sponsored
by the Community Arts Council ...
If you’re wondering whether North
Van City’s five-term Mayor Jack
Loucks will be retiring or running
again in the November elections,
the answers, at this date, are ‘‘no”’
and ‘‘yes’’. Someone has to fight
all that nonsense about amalgama-

ee.
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THE CROWD HERE IN
VANCOUVER 1S GOING
ABSOLUTELY WILD AS
RICK HANSEN GROSSES

THEFINIGH LINE...

tion over at District, hall! . . And
congrats to the latest’ (May 15)
Goiden Anniversary club
members, Beattie aid Thelma
Thomson—North Van _ residents
for 35 years, tie a retired CNR

SDA DIVISION

Noel Wright

® friday focus ®

YOU KNOW THAT Rick
HANSEN SURE HAS

GIVEN MEA WHOLE NEW
RESPECT FOR THE

Political cynics, meet Betty

supervisor, with a family of five
plus eight grandchildren.

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: A closed
mouth gathers no feet. /

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

1fCE WORK for summer...students are among those manning West
Van’s new info centre at the foot of 14th, pictured here with 75tk An-
niversary coordinator Don Youngson and Wilma Nott of the Parks

Department.

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LETTER OF THE DAY
No further
money for
Japanese
internees!

.” OPEN LETTER TO
PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY

.Many of us who fought in WW
Il, are very upset at your latest of-
‘fer to the Japanese in Canada for
“ reparations for their removal from
coastal: B.C. in 1942 when Japan
declared war on us. This was a
military decision based on public
concern and the security of our
coast following Pearl Harbor. In
1947 the Japanese were compen-
sated to their satisfaction and the
matter should, and must, end
there. :

Reparations ‘to the Japanese is

ery

: tantamount to an admission that

Canadians should not have oppos-
ed them during WW II. How. ab-
surd. ‘

-Mr. Mulroney, have you stop-

"ped to consider what the Japanese
|-.did to our people during WW _II?
- You don’t appear to know,-or care

because the ‘atrocities suffered. by

_. our POWs would make-you sick.
: Many accounts have been written

and. I suggest.you read some of
them.

Do you know how many POWs
were killed, or who died while in
Japanese hands? In the winter of
1942-43 alone 35 per cent of all
POWs died.

Have the Japanese ever offered

. our people compensation for the

survivors or dependants? Has the
Canadian government ever gone
after the Japanese for compensa-
tion?

I would strongly suggest that if
you have 12 million dollars of tax-
payers’ money to spare, you should
pay those few survivors of the
Japanese POW camps and their
dependants, there’s very few of
them left.

Let’s
nonsense.
Ron Smith
Bowen Island

have an end to this