_forth Shore news — SGA As wn ee ee ER nee rop the puck FORGET swords into ploughshares. Try trees into liockey sticks. If ever there was a strong case for clearing trees, North Van District’s plan to build hockey rinks at Mt. Seymour Parkway and Berkley Road is it. To say ice time on the North Shore is in short supply is an understate- ment. Every fall, many local boys and girls have one choice if they want to play Canada’s national game: early morning commutes to Burnaby and beyond. No fewer than 16 North Shore hockey teams will use 8-Rinks during the upcoming season for 5:30 a.m. practices. -.With, the deteriorating state of affairs ‘at the Cap West Club — and subsequent. ‘closure of its rink — North. Shore hockey and figure skat- ings associations lost what they could ill ‘THE North Shore News Free Speech Defence ‘Fund has moved beyond the halfway point. ‘To press time: Friday, donations from over 1,600 News ; speech supporters to the fund’ stood at *$108,957. Legal fees expended thus far by the News have . The final bill will k= zauch high- er. All funds receiv:d will help defray the legal costs faced by the News in. its battle with ine Human Rights Tribunal over 2 complaint Jzid against the n ; per and its columnist Dou Collins by the ‘Canadian lewish Congress. The hearing into the matter, which began on May.12, concluded on June 27 with final arguments at the Century Plaza Hotel, urrard St. The decision from | Nitya lyer, the tribunal of one hearing the complaint, is expected “readers and free already exceeded $200, 1015 B “some time later this year. ° “: More excerpts. from the hundreds of respondents to a the cause: oag s "Please accept this cheque to assist in our fight for the vation of free speech. Tiay our fight as I believe everybody wha believes in this issue must band together to combat the attempt- . €d erosion of one of our most cherished rights. Please iW. Campbell Men “p the goed» work. » . qo00 ae (Ode) Owed to Doug Collins: Let the tormentors have their say knowi: ring you're not alone, the “quiet people’ will win ' the aay when all the shouting’s done.” . > Donations to the fund can be sent to: 1139 Lonsdale ; ie North Vancouver, V7M 2H4. Cheques should be made "out to o the North Shore News Free Speech Defence Fund. . — trenshaw@direct.ca Sf north shore oe . Neleng rates avaiable on request. —- Colin Stewart and Doris Stewart Distribution Manager afford — another sheet of ice. As of July 1, 447 North Shore youth had their names on hockey wait- ing lists, and 260 tykes are just a birth- day away from playing organized hockey. District council has done the right eae wn WPOINT thing by asking for private sector pro- . posals to develop the five-acre site. Like their North Shore counterparts, North Van District has been reluctant to enter into public-private-parmer- ship agreements for recreation devel- opment. However, as similar partnerships in’ Coquitlam, Surrey and Richmond have proven, the two sectors can devel- op recreation facilities that serve the paying public, the municipal govern- ment, and private company interests. First star honors to the district for taking action. DEEP down we ordinary citizens must have a pretty low opinion of ourselves. lar support for the monarchy in Britain itself last week dropped below . 50% for the first time (it plummeted past that here in 1980). - The operative factor in Britain’s case was tie latest adventures of Princess Diana, mother of the next-but-one heir to the throne, Prince William. Falling victim yet again to a telephoto relentless tabloids. the son of flamboyant man Mohamed Al Faye: How else to explain the fact that popu- ens, Diana was discovered smoochin tian playboy Dodi Al Fayed on rane t in the Mediterranean in a series of cloudy pictures published in Britain’s If Dodi had been nothing worse than tian business- , owner of Harrods, the store of the establishment that despises him, things might not have been quite so bad. But within days a Californian model named Kelly Fisher filed a lawsuit for $440,000 against Dodi for the London tabs dug u life, the Queen can h ‘Aarti Shove News, tounded in 1962 as an independent suburtan newspaper under Schsdule 111, Paragraph 111 of the. Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid and déstrithted to every door on the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Punsications Md uta 5468 M 885-2131 (177) SH ais) 985-2121 (101) ‘and qualified allegedly breaking ‘their engagement. Then farther ttillating dirt on Dodi, painting him as a philander- er eager to chase every skirt in sight. Despite Diana’s divorce from Prince Charles and freedom to pursue her own ly have been amused. As mother of a future monarch, Diana is still the highest profile — and for many the most admired —- member of the PETER SPE Publisher royal family. Add the ongoing corutroversy as to whether the adulterous Charles can ever . marry his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles. Throw in, for good measure, Prince Andrew’s separated wife Fergie, Duchess of York, writing columns on slimming for U.S. media, and the royal. soap Opera continues to provide the world’s top- rated entertainment. So why should its pro- duction company, the royal family, be so vili- fied for bringing so much pleasure to so many? The only answer can be that today’s media reveal the royals to be a family just like ours and/or our neighbors’, with all +? the warts and blemishes of us ordinary folk. We wanted the royals to emerge from the mystique of earlier times and show they were human like ourselves. When they did, we loved watching their shenani- gans — but hated the mirror they held up. to us. To suggest, however, that we therefore trade them in for a faceless top-hatted president elected every five years is public hypocrisy of the highest order. First, che royals have been naughty throughout history. The crown survived the madness of George III, the lechery of George IV, Victozia’s dalliance with John Brown,’ the mistresses of Edward VII and his grandson’s abdication to marry Mrs. Simpson. e only differences today are telepho- to lenses and instant global communica- tion be radio, TV, and the's sei hungry tabloids. In the good old days of: sedate broadshcets as the sole source 0 news, royalty could. still vacy. Second, as inuch as we need th : for daily inm Ourse ; providing a permanent Sik Pe “against, the damage temporary political mast can wreak without the resteaint of a tutional monarchy. : Elected presidents i in definition politicians themseive don’t cut it compared to exemplary cover! eigns like George V, George VI and our: present Queen Elizabeth. It’s been wisely said that the valu the monarchy lies not in the p wields, but in the power it denies to 01 ers. Combine this protection of our-ri and liberties with the ongoing daily enter: tainment provided by Dianas;: Chast an Fergies, 2 and ‘you have an unbéatable’ Pack age. too clase fr pearly North Van's Everett and Dorothy Irwin very happy 60th anniversary. : contagious — — why not start an epidemic? 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