AG - Sunday, September 18, 1983 - North Shore News EE editorial A stadium for ALL A junior sports stadium to serve the entire North Shore moves a step closer to realization with the feasibility study being funded by the three municipalities and the Optimists Club. The consultants are expected to report by Christmas on the need for such a facility, its best location and probable costs involved. Justifying the stadium should be the easiest task in view of the thousands of young athletes and team players from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay who stand to benefit. Such a complex would also enable the North Shore to bid for the B.C. Summer Games. As to even- tual costs, any estimate at this stage can only be preliminary and should not prejudice the basic concept. Location is likely to be the most debatable item in the study. Its terms of reference list six existing park areas to be assessed — Klahanie, William Griffin, Mahon, Kirkstone, Seymour and the grounds of the closed Hamilton School. Factors to be weighed include size, traffic considerations, ease of access, neigh- borhood impact, drainage and environmental side-effects. Two of the sites lie too far to the east to cater satisfactorily to West as well as North Vancouver. The most central, Klahanie Park, would presumably be ruled out by traffic problems. Purely from the viewpoint of access that leaves Hamilton, William Griffin and Mahon. How these measure up under other head- ings is, of course, for the consultants to deter- mine. But if the facility is truly to serve the WHOLE North Shore, the all-important ac- cess factor should have a top priority in their final choice. ‘Restraint’? B.C. residents who heat with natural gas may be hit twice in the pocketbook by Vic- toria’s decision to abolish the povernment- owned B.C. Petroleum Corp. and hand gas sales to private companies. It means gas prices will rise and grants to municipalities, hitherto boosted by BCPC profits, could drop — leading to higher property taxes. 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North Vancouver,BC V7M 2H4 Publisher Peter Spec k Editor-in-chiet Noel Wright Associate Publisher Robert Graham Advertising Director Tim Francis Personne Duector Clasaified Directo: Ws Bern Mihard Isabelle Jennys Circutation Olrector Bnan A Eihs Production Director Chis Johnson Office Manager Donna Grandy Photography Manage: Terry Peters North Shore News founded in 168 as an iIndepondent «amemnuntty Newspaper and quatitbed under Schedule MW Part th Paragraph Wot ine tacise Tan Act in pubtinhed each Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore free Prosn Cid and distributed to every door on fhe North Shore Second Clans Mat Hoystration Number 1485 Entire contonts 1962 North Shore Free Prese ltd All rights reserved Subecnphons Noth and Wost Vancouver tates avattabto oO coqueast 2S por yon Mathigy Neo cenponnibality ac egied for ounsaticited maternal an tue Ca ote FG car) gone Laren ati tbo sted Dre aes ompared Troy a lerrvprand MWihonsed GNvElope eb Ci 84 700 (average Wodnonday & Sninday) SR" THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE A VERY SPECIAL LADY among contributors to the North Shore News, her week- ly stories on events, people and programs at West Van Library were always timely, interesting and professionally written -- a busy editor’s delight. For 14 years she also drove the library’s book- mobile over the winding Marine Drive route between Park Royal and Horseshoe Bay, taking books, a love of reading and her own warm, cheerful, personality to schools, seniors’ homes and other patrons along the way. To many people Lucille Fisher was the West Van Library service. When she died of cancer earlier this year, her colleagues and friends sought some means of commemorating her very special contribution to the community. Eventually, Lucille’s keen interest in journalism, in which she had trained at Capilano College, led them to the solution. Donations came from library staff and Bookvan patrons, from husband Tom Fisher’s firm and the West Van Municipal Employees Association. And that’s how, early in 1984, some out- standing student in the Cap College writing program will receive the first annual Lucille Fisher Memorial Scholarship -- an ongoing tribute, year after year, to the indomitable spirit and en- thusiasm, and the love of the written word, that marked her life If her scholarship winners learn (oO write nearly as well as Lucille, they won't have to look far for receptive editors A strike? or N page sunday brunch by Noel Wright Seventeen-twentieths of a teacher? Could Superinten- dent Ed Cartin please explain the West Van School Board report statement that ‘‘AL present, the total staff is 309.85" .... =e * New York. Where there’s a will... s_* & Even if a municipality im- poses a late payment tax penalty in error, it can’t cancel it. So says the And _ that’s Municipal Act. se 2 NEWS photo Ellsworth Dickson NEWLY OPENED student store at Capilano College is toasted by Principal Paul Gallagher and Beverley Harnett (foreground, left), director of career und voca- tional studies. Store is open 10-4, Monday through Fri- day. ONE WORLD RECORD in swimming (100m _ butterfly) and five Canadian records (100m and 400m freestyle, 200m and 400m. individual medley and S0Om_breast- stroke) were set last month by North Van’s Lee Grenon, a member of the Chena Swim Club, coached by Joan Henderson. The real item, however, being that Lee has only partial sight and was competing in the 1983 Cana- dian Games for the Physical- ly Disabled in Sudbury, Ont. His next goal: the Canadian nalional team at the 1984 Olympics for the Disabled in LEGISLATION surrounding the Labor Relations Board needs change. By JOHN REYNOLDS MLA, West Vancouver-Howe Sound The 1 RB's recent decisions to allow workers to walk off the jyob to) attend protest tallies against the govern ment certainly was not on the basis of trying to keep poli los out of labor relations Now, public and private sec tor unions Chat are prepared to argue politics are free to walk out) The umons can shut down essential public scivices in. an attempl to diss uade the goverament, who is the employer, from carrying out policy The ERB culing condones such withdrawal of services the guise of politcal protests and states they not stetkes under aie lam not agamst protest ralhes but Foam against such unarcasonable work stoppages in cssential sctviegcs In 1980 the ERB ruled that a work stoppage on the B ¢ Peres, a protest againat pro posed changes in publie ser vice pension plans. was not a strike The berry Corpora tion argued the wathout was a strike appealed — The ruling on that appeal came a and full year later and stated the walkout was, in fact, illegal The July rally in Victoria, the August rally in’ Van couver, and similar smaller umion rallies across the pro vinee are, | believe, the same When employees can walk off the yob on the employer's time to attend political demonstrations with no con sideration to the damage or loss of business to the employer. there is something terribly wrong with BC °s labor laws. Union leaders are clarming the provincial government ts being dictatonal with some of the policy proposals, but | beheve its the umon leaders who are the dictators and in timidators of therm own mem bers. and of the public In a recent letter to a Van couver daily, one gentleman wrote “The Operation Sohidanty cally at Empire Stadium was supposedly a demonstration tn support of human sights Yet, as a mem ber of the BOCGEU.) TP have been deprived of my right to choose whether on not 1 sup portthe cally [was informed by sa umon cep that our office would be closed Wednesday Wonot voluntarily, (hee by un why North Van’s Theresa Hansson -- whose punctual cheque the City tax collector ‘*couldn’t find’’ -- now inas to wait for Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Ritchie to delete the interest charge. ae & MERRY-GO-ROUND: A close-up preview of Expo ’86 comes to Presentation House Tuesday when the North Van Community Arts Council assembles at 7:30 p.m. for its annual meeting. Guest speaker Chris Wootten, producer of performing arts for Expo. Plus, you get wine- tasting, cheese and dessert, position of a picket line Another reader wrote regarding the July 27 Victoria rally and union intiamidauion two BCGEU members, in an effort to persuade a young lady to attend the ral ly grabbed her by the arms and literally carried her for a block downtown In another instance, a Man pointed an umbrella in my face as | was leaving the demonstration carly and ordered me to walk back to the rally "° A news paper report on information picket lines set up at a num ber of government buildings said some pickets had bocn thumbs all for $3.50 (everyone welcome but only members can vote).... Seeking pen pals in Canada is 19-year-old Pat- sy Balkaran, address: St. Mary’s Village, Monaga Rd., c/o St. Mary’s Post Office, Trinidad, West Indies. Lists her hobbies as cricket, cook- ing, sewing, fishing, TV shows, tennis, wrestling, driving, country and western music -- how cap you miss for the price of a 64¢ stamp? .... UBC forestry student Terence Liow of West Van wants to talk to ‘‘Arbor Club’? members (the guys who drove spikes into trees on Grouse recéntly) for an environmental-conflict study he’s working on. Doesn’t sound like a Mounties’ in- former. Spikers can call him weekday evenings at 228-0362 ... Proudest green- in West Van this month are Una Inch of 1456 Fulton and Kay Meek of 2280 Bellevue, winner and runner- up respectively in the municipality’s annual Garden Beautification con- test -- take a peek as you pass by ..... A big welcome back to popular Ambleside Inn host Willy Brueckel, looking hale and lean after his recent stint in St. Paul’s Hospital Co-chairman of next week’s business-labor- government conference on ‘‘bridging the gaps*’ in the workplace, sponsored by the B.C. Worklife Forum Sept. 22-23 at The Inn At Denman Place, is West Van profes- sional engineer Dag Furst .... And it’s blood donor week once more at Lions Gate Hospital, with clinics Mon- day 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday 2 to 8 p.m. -_* & WRIGHT OR WRONG: The best way to straighten out a misunderstanding may often be to bend a little. Ta strike? sent there ‘‘by the union ° If these sttuations are not a strike, as the umions are argu ing, then the workers should not have to worry about cros- sing ‘‘what appears’’ to be a picket line, because they are not subject to discipline by the union for crossing that line, nor can you be forced to go to arally, or stay at a rally If at as a strike, a umon member crossing a picket linc can be subject to disciplinary action by thei union But the umons and IRB say these rallies are not smmnkes. The difference between you and aq person who's fit is that anything you can do he can do better. _~ PARNOIPACTION The Canedian movernem tor perscnal finges nd