% - Sunday, October 4, 1992 — North Shore News Ee 5 ETO SE Ta (\s Colin of Gabelmann Defender of ff : ‘aifempts fo clear things Up o-- ° Meal Stop mumbling, | Claire! Why so_ emecar'” | hesitant, Mark? TAKE A break this Sunday from the Yes-No game. Two NEWS VIEWPOINT Youth yes NOTHER proposed youth club in North Vancouver City appears eaded for the scrapheap before it has been given the benefit of a test drive. On Monday night, a city staff report recommended that city council reject the fatest proposal from Sanctuary Investments Utd. to establish an alcohol-free teen dance club in the ofd Yarrows Ltd. Coppersmith building at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. The proposal is setting off famil- ier-sounding alarms. The spectre of teenage drug and alcchol abuse was raised inthe report by the North Vancouver RCMP, who predicted that the club, with its easy access from the SeaBus and SkyTrain transit systems, would lure teenagers from all over the Lower Mainland. Issues of parking and security were previously raised. And while all of the above are legitimate concerns, their underiying theme is that young people are not to be trusted. In 1991, an alcohol-free teen club pro- posed for the 700-block of Marine Drive was sunk after area businesses complained loudly that the operation would promote drug sales and youth definquency. The Coppersmith tocation moves the youth club away from car dealerships and into a thriving people area of restaurants and other commercial activity. It is distant from major residential areas. It would provide a much-needed centre for local youth to learn social skilfs. Surely, in what is one of the best locations available in the city for a youth club, the proposal should at least be given the opportunity to sink or swim on its own merits. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “What pros?”’ Electoral Area B property owner Bruce Somers, when asked to comment on the pros and cons of Nortis Vancouver District an- nexing the vast wilderness area. “fT love this country dearly, and yet I, myself, having reviewed the agreement, have come to the con- chision that it’s not really an agreement at all. This appears to me to be iike nailing jello to a wall,’ Publisher . Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptrotier ae . Peter Speck Managing Editor... Timothy Renshaw . Noel Wright Linda Stewart Doug Foot North Vancouver City Coun. Rod Clark, on the proposed changes to Canada’s Constitution. **The main season Preston Man- ning is urging people tovote No is that it gets him on every news cast in the country, and he’s trying to get his party elected. That's what his agendais. ..A{ some point we've got to settle this thing and get on with it.’’ Forest Alliance of B.C. chair- man Jack Munro, launching the Display Advertising 980-0511 Reat Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Dist“‘bution Subscriptions 986-1337 Fax Administration 985-2131 North Shore Yes Committee in support of the Charlottetown Ac- cord package of constitutional amendments. “They drive like absolute idiots. it’s the ultimate game of chicken there. The buses charge each other honking their horns.” Dr. Rob Driscoll, 30, of West Vancouver, on the frightening ex- perience of riding a bus on his way to climb a Himalayan moun- tain. 986-1337 OR) Punted on 10% recycled Newsprint North Shore managed 985-3227 North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburbar; newspaper and qualitied under Schedule 111, Paragraph (If of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver. $25 per year. Mating rates availabte on request Submissions are welcome bu! we Cannot accep! tesponsibdility for unsolicited material including Manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a slamped, addressed envelope V7M 2H4 SUNDAY « WEDNESDAY - FmCAY my 1439 Lonsdate Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. Entire contents © MEMBER SN" SODA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday. Friday & Sunday) 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. local items — one obnoxious, one inexplicable —:-call for comment. First, the AirCare foul-up that’s hurting many more people than most government boobs. After just a month, the pro- tracted lineups and ridiculously high ‘‘failure’’ rates have already cost thousands of motorists up to $232 or more and endless precious hours — only to be rejected once more at a third $16 test. The stink: is worse than from exhausts. And in numerous such cases it seems the test operators now hold out no hope of certain makes of cars — regardless of age or how much spent on repairs — EVER meeting present standards. By next August this nonsense threatens nearly a million more Lower Mainlanders. Arizona keeps lineups to a few minutes for $5.60 US (with free re-testing). Pollution-conscious California happily entrusts testing to 8,000 certified private service stations. So why must WE suffer? It’s high time for AirCare boss Claire Eraut to stop mumbling about dynamometer problems and start rapidly correcting the massive planning blunders of his Motor Vehicle Branch and its private testing monopoly, contrac- tor Ebco-Hamilton. By the way, the latter’s U.S. partner — Hamilton Test Systems — was reportedly dumped by Arizona in 1990, after 15 years. Are Arizona's currently far faster and cheaper tests just a coin- cidence? WHY SO HESITANT, West Van Council, about rescuing your Chamber of Commerce from winding up as a bag lady next month? For the third time in two years the West Van Chamber is being turfed from its temporary home, this time by a developer, and still has nowhere to go, come Nov. 1. Meanwhile, city hall has been dragging its heels for weeks on the Chamber's request to rent a va- cant municipal property at 775 - 15th St. WHY? Recent years have brought the Chamber rapid growth to 240 members — not too far short of half the North Shore Chamber total, despite the latter’s vastly bigger commercial-industrial base. It performs many valuable func- tions for West Var at large as a ‘ arse . E HITHER AND YON friendly and more accessible in- formation centre than the bureau- ° crats on 17th Street. : . Yet unlike its sister Chamber — partially funded by both North Van councils — the West Van Chamber apparently gets not a cent of cash support from the municipality whose economy and overall interzsts it serves. Surely the least you can do in liev, Mayor Mark Sager et al., is rent your faithful servant an afford- able permanent home. SIGN-OFF: Starting their fall season tomorrow, Oct. 5, are the - highly successful Dramaworks theatre classes — ‘‘everything from Shakespeare to mud pud- dles’* — for two to 16-year-olds .-»- at West Van’s Klee Wyck Centre, . directed by stage-film actress - Jennifer Riach. if your young ~ ones haven’t yet registered for the~ fun, call 922-8963 for details. ... A big thank-you from the North Shore Stroke Recovery Club for - recent grants from North Van” District ($1,750) and North Van City ($828). Nortb. Shore stroke" victims not yet members can learn about the club’s get-better services by calling 929-9314, ... Mean- while, many happy returns of to-.-. - day, Oct. 4, to West Van birthday ~ boy Cameron Wardell. ... And birthday grectings this same date ~ to former West Van alderman Carci Ann Reynolds. News photo Clady Goodman HAPPY RECIPIENTS of North Shore Charitable Foundation grants — (left to right) Mary Martin (Emily Murphy House), Jean Taylor (Capilano Community Services Seniors’ Hub} and Gloria Hayter (North Shore Caregivers Society) —- chat with newly re-elected toundation president Roger larke.