AG - Sanday News, July 19, 1981

We cannot help feeling a trifle sorry for the operators of the Dundarave “hot dog stand” whose innocent goal of turning an honest buck by supplying sustenance to local beach-lovers has brought a hornet’s nest around their heads.

Contrary to certain suggestions, there was nothing irregular about the licensing of the concession. Such amenities come under the jurisdiction of the Parks Commission and are not routinely subject to public hearings. Since there have long been similar con- cessions at West Van’s two other major beaches — Ambleside and Whytecliff — there was no advance warning of the uproar

that the commission’s decision would unleash. Nor, to date, does there seem much

evidence to support the fears of a number of Dundarave residents. Council members who have visited the stand say the operators are doing a better job of containing litter than the municipality itself.

The prophesy that the existence of the stand will bring hordes of extra “outside” visitors swarming to the beach appears a little far-fetched. A counter-petition organized by the concession itself reportedly showed 80% of the signatories to be neighborhood people. And it should not be forgotten that three earlier outlets for beach snacks — the former IGA, drugstore and health food shop at 25th and Marine — have all disappeared since last summer.

Relocation of the stand away from the landscaped park area should certainly be considered. But in any case we doubt that it will ever turn Dundarave beach into a West Van Contey Island.

Agree to differ!

Actors, by their nature, may have a sounder grasp of sex equality than many of us. Katherine Hepburn, a firm believer in it, says women straining to be men are boring. “I don't like to see girls taking on jobs that men are clearly better at,” she adds. “The truth is that men and women are very dif- ferent.”

Maurice Chevalier, of course, put

“Vive la

the same thought in a nutshell: difference!”

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By JAMES A. TAYLOR

You never know when you might be setting an example for others.

Betty Ann Darby, a missionary in Haiti, tells about a man with an unusual name — when it comes to naming their children, Haitians are not often tied

down by tre “ions! His name was’ cellophane Guerriere, which, literally

translated, comes out some- thing like “plastic soldier.”

Cello wanted to train for medical work. Except that he got sick whenever he saw blood. “If someone came to our door with a cut finger” Betty Ann recalls, “I was the one who had to stick on the bandaid. He headed for the backyard!’

Yet somehow, Cello over- came his aversion to blood. He is now working in the local medical clinic. And he is, says Betty Ann, the person who can be counted on to handle the most repulsive, the most festering. wounds and dressings — and to do it with the greatest care for the patient.

What changed him? Cello credits a nurse. An ordinary nurse. She was in charge of the clinic when he first

CANADA OR BUST was the slogan on their T-shirts — and by the time Mayor Derrick Humphreys greeted the two crash-helmeted young ladies last Sunday morning at Park Royal it was Canada they'd well and truly “busted”. Catherine Ostler and Angela Tambosso werc back home from St. John’s Newfoundland, which they'd left 70 days ecarher at the start of their 5,500-mile cycle (mp across the con- tinent

When the t®o 1980 Hillside grads first dreamed up their adventure two and a half years ago, fmends and parents said “Oh yeah'” A little later last Sunday they retorted “Oh yeah!” to those parents and some 70 friends as they ceremonially poured a flask of Atlantic scawater

into the Pacific at Dun darave beach After the dreaming had

come the months of planning and learning things.

among other how to mend a flat, truc a wheel, pull a bicycle completely apart (and put i At the end of Apni they flew standby to the Maritimes and departed

Muy 3 an

together again)

from St John's pounnpy rain

Averaging 90 miles a day

(thear record was 133) thear route took them through Quebec City, Montreal Ottawa Thunder Bay

Winnipeg Saskatoon

fdmonton Jasper and then

via Kamloops Kelowna and

Hope to Vancouver Braving sun orain thai sleet snow and bomterous Prarie winds

' started working there.

Most of us think that authority should give us special privileges. We can give orders. We can get others to do the dirty work.

But this nurse didn't do that. she set an example. Cello soon notied that she always did the dirtiest jobs herself. The wounds, the ulcers, the abcesses that reeked and turned everyone else’s stomachs, she took

care of herself. And she did

it with such obvious love and compassion, that Cello found himself thinking about how the patient felt, instead of how he felt himself.

The patient's became more than his own.

That, it seems to me. is the quality of saints.Most of us react as Cellophane Guernere used to — when things get unpleasant, we think mainly of ourselves. But a few people are abie to set their own concerns aside, and to think mainly = of others. In losing themselves, they gain a new life filled with love, and kindness, and peace. And we call them saints.

We should remember that they too were once ordinary people. Like ourselves, like

needs important

Cello Guerriere. They were changed, by someone else's

example. And we need to remember that our example may

change someone else. Who might be watching

folk make saints

you today? (James A. Taylor ts managing editor of the

United Church Observer. the organ of the United Church of Canada published in Toronto).

“Sorry, I must have dialed the wrong number — what's

new?”

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

Spending most nights in their tent apart from one or two in private homes, one in an hotel and one in a convent. They had gear trouble in the Manitimes, four new tires and a total of 15 flats bet- ween them. Incidentally, in case you're in the market for tures yourself, they had a Michelin which lasted 5,200 miles and a Sekai Deluxe which has completed over 7,000 without a single flat. Worst stretch for traffic and dnvers) was

heavy inconsiderate Penucton to Park Hardest stretches for cycling Nova Scotia's Cabot Trail and north of Lake Supenor (the Rockies were a breeze by

Manning

com parison ) Most ner vewracking incident being besicged by black bears

through the aight hours in their tent in Algonquin Park.

where they were campers.

What on earth makes two girls hke these decide they have to cycle across Canada

the only

alone” I guess its lke the man who climbed the mountain — “because it's there”. If you want to know what's right with their generation, get lo meet Catherine and Angela sometime

If you hke to get in on record-breaking events.

Tourism Minister Pat Jordan invites you to the World's Biggest Tea Party, |! am to 4 p.m July 29 at Robson Square. That's the day Prince Charles gcts hitched to Lady Di 6,000 milcs away

ins sSt Paul's Cathedral There’ be a continuous showing of the wedding

IOURNEY'S END — Mayor Derrick Humphreys (lett) welcomes home Angela Tambosso (right) atter ber

§,500-mile cross-Canada Osdler (centre)

cycle

trip with Catherine

ceremony, videotaped eight hours earlier, courtesy BCTV. Redcoated Mounties will be on hand as Mrs. Jordan presides at the urns. You also get a chunk of Woodward's royal wedding cake and a chance to pen your good wishes tn a special guest book that will be sent to the bnde and groom. If your invitation to Buck House has gone missing due to the mail stmke. the day

needn't be entirely rumed for you SCRATCHPAD: Top

West Van Legionnaires for 1941 &2 are John Moore and Dorothy Hancock, recently installed as president and Ladies Aumhary president respectively oof Legion Branch 60 A fanfare across the border for West Van's James A.D. Matheson who's received his Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University, Evanston, Il Congrats to Scatinel David Rowntree, son of Gordon of that ilk, who's been called to the bar in Vancouver after winning his law degree from Osgoode Hall ... And get out on the water next Sunday (July 26) to demonstrate peacefully agains( mining on Gambier Island — this year’s Sun Salmon Derby Day ts also tagged as Save Howe Sound Day with the Save Howe Sound = Soctety’s pennants and tree buttons obtainablc from Howe Sound mannas Call LLM. Calvert at 971 "QU for further info

WRIGHT OR WRONG, Diplomacy ts the art of telhag you to go to hell tn such a way that bonok forward to the trip

grad

you