6 - Sunday, November 1, 1987 - North Shore News a Display Advertising 980-0511 i Glassilied Advertising 986.6222 PUDlisher.... Peter Speck Newsroom 985-2131 Managing Editor Barrett Fisher Distribution 986-1337 Associate Editor.... Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart News Viewpoint Subscriptions 986-1337 North Shore News, founded m 1969 a5 an independent suburban neespaper and qualied under Schedule I, Fararaph tof the Excsse Tas ACL 1s published each Wedne day, Friday and Sunday by Hotth Shore Free Press and Utsthbuted {9 every duot on the Norn Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions and West Vancouver. $25 per year. Marling rates avaiable on request. Submissions are welcorne but we cannot accep! responsibility fot unsoleited maternal inctuding ManUsCnpts and pctures which should be accompanied py @ stammed, addressed envelope. a Wier i wwe AS the SUNDAY + WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Nest of trouble AGLE PRESERVATION has become big news in North) Vancouver District recently, with the Girt Guides wavine their flags, calling foul against the Roche Poim Land Development Project planned for an area where an eagle’s nest is located. Admirable as the guides’ efforts may be, before district council and residents let this issue fly out of hand, they should do a little bit more homework and consider the repercussions of their actions. First, no one has even confirmed that the nest is currently being used. Its nesting purpose may have ex- pired, and the eagles may well have found an alter- native home. And second, although eagles may be a threatened species, it seems highly unfair that, while they are receiving such preferential pampering without even be- ing present, bears and raccoons on the North Shore are regularly destroyed when they blunder into the urban environment. A council move to preserve lands sur- rounding an eagle’s nest would be easier to swallow if other animals, which too might become threatened, were afforded similar respect. Even if the eagles do still use the nest, they, accor- ding to the guides, do not use it every year. Intelligent creatures that they are, the eagles could decide against returning to the nest, and instead find a more suitable nesting ground away from development. A district compromise would be to develop the area only as demand requires — but to put a halt to a resi- dential development for the sake of an empty nest would be ludicrous. Entire coritents © 1987 North Shore Free Press Ltd, All rights reserved. $8,489 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday} Soe owen Photo submitted BEVY OF BEAUTIES at West Van’s highly successful Anniversary Ball last weekend...(1 to r standing) Linda Rowland, Anne Archibald, Caroline Mason, Corinne Noonan, Jean Calder, Bea Otiver, Betsy Waterbury, Brendy Martin; (kneeling) Merla Beckerman. j Noel Wright @ Sunday brunch ® Nichols, Teamster boss Senator Ed Lawson, former Liberal finance minister Jean Chretien, PC MP Gerry St. Germain, U.K. Consul General Brian Watkins, NDP Op- position Leader Mike Harcourt, success during his first year as Speaker. But in transforming the House from (to quote Vancouver’s morning daily) ‘‘a raucous kindergarten class to a forum for - civilized and rational debate’’ he THE BEST THING to happen to the B.C. Legislature in decades wiil be the subject of a fun-filled and (for the sponsors) profitable $125-a-plate dinner on Friday, Nov. 13, in the ballroom of Van- HITHER AND YON: Congrats to season’s Community Concerts, { j ‘couver’s Trade & Convention Cen- tre. “Roast Mr. Speaker’, orga- nized by the West Van-Howe Sound Socred Association, is billed as a lighthearted, fundraising trib- ute to its MLA, the Honorable has won/praise/from observers of every other political hue as well. The/list of 10 scheduled ‘‘troast masters’’ says it all. They include only two Sccred colleagues — Highways Minister Cliff Michael and Tourism Minister Bill Reid — John Reynolus, for his outstanding ARTIS ‘mi ° 6 Si, Wee (0) (9eT woe A Fehebreetety ht Be, eka haha. eens oe : Foe plus leftwing columnist Marjorie K'S idea‘of a hearty.dinner roast with all the. trim-.. NDP House Leader Mark Rose and entrepreneur-sportsman Herb Capozzi. When a group of lead- er-personalities as diverse as these in background, philosophy and teniperament agree unanimously on ANYTHING weightier than today’s weather, you know some- thing truly remarkable has hap- pened. KAMIKAZE DEPT.: Latest con- tender for the shop-soiled crown of the B.C. Liberal party is Cap Col- lege geography instructor Gordon Wilson, who lambasted the ‘outrageous, unacceptable and in- tolerable’? Canada-U.S. free trade agreement the other week at a meeting organized by West /Van- Howe Sound Grits. The 38-year- old provincial leadership can- didate, whose home is at Half- moon Bay, is president of both the Comox-Powell River and Sunshine Coast Liberal Associations, and veepee of the Mackenzie Riding Association — for which he ran unsuccessfully as liberal candidate in last fall’s provincial election, winning 14% of the vote. In 1985 he was elected a director of the Sunshine Coast Regional District. He’s married with two pre-teen children, active in community drama groups and youth soccer coaching, has taught: at Cap for the past 13 years and is a past president of the faculty associa- tion. In addition, like his many pro- vincial Grit predecessors, Mr. Wilson obviously isn’t lacking in courage! ates City Mayor Jack Loucks—who has to be doing a lot of things right— on being re-elected last week by acclamation for a sixth term. Back into your kennels for the next three years, District ,amalgamationists! ... A big hand, too, for West Van Anniversary Committee chairman Jim MacCarthy, and especially his ball committee co-chairmen Caroline Mason and Betsy Water- bury, who made last weekend’s Anniversary Ball such a roaring sold-out success ... Wearing another hat, Jim reports to council tomorrow on whether there’s final- ly enough donor money in the kitty to proceed with that $600,000 “legacy”? bandshell in Ambleside Park. Tiddlycove friends and foes of the project alike are agog ‘o learn whether the 1 xtient’s still breathing ... Featured Wednesday (Nov. 4) in the second of the GORDON, WILSON...Grif 8:30 p.m. at North Van’s Centen- nial Theatre, is ‘tone of our own”’ — Jamie Parker, raised in Van- couver, UBC grad, winner of over 200 scholarships and awards, and widely acclaimed as one of Canada’s most exciting young pianists. Admission by CC membership only (call Ernie Timbers, 988-8696, for info) ... And a happy birthday card laced with a cordon bleu tomorrow (Nov. 2) to North 'Van’s Eleanor Godley, ... former News food col- umnist. WRIGHT OR WRONG: It honestly doesn’t matter whether you starve it or feed it. Just do everyone else a favor and stay at home. JAMIE PARKER...exciting talent. oan