6 - Friday, September 2, 1988 - North Share News

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CHARITY CAMPAIGN CHAIRMEN come in all sizes, including pint-size, Chairing the 1988 Muscular Dystrophy fund drive is Curtis Randall, aged 11.

The Kamloops youngster is onc of up to 2,000 B.C. victims of the

progressive neuromuscular disease.

A wheelchair case — yet he snowmobiles, cuts the Jawn, goes fishing with dad and tours the province with the family (and wheelchair) on summer vacations. Best of all, he inspires hope by showing what supportive families can do to give young sufferers as normal a childhood as possible.

There’s no cure so far for MD, often genetically inherited though sometimes spontaneous, But 50 research projects across Canada, five in B.C., are working on ii and there has just been a major breakthrough in isolating one cause.

Which brings us to Labor Day weekend, The cost of MD is high,

relative to the numbers afflicted. In B.C. this year the Muscular Dysteophy Association needs over $900 for each of tire 450 severest sufferers now registered with it, in order to pay for research and ser- vices like the MD Clinic, travel and lodging, orthopedic equipment and counselling. It depends for that money on B.C. response to the

annual Jerry Lewis Telethon out of

Las Vegas — carried this year from 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 4, to 4 p.m. Monday over CKVU-TV (Cable 13) with 15-minute local personality segments every hour. If you love being able to walk or run, please phone in a pledge — small or large. At [0:15 a.m. Monday Ill be among those on the CKVU phone panel hoping to hear from you!

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EXPO’S LEGACY to Vancouver, the glittering geodesic “golf ball’, has proved a smash hit since Science World opened its Summer Preview there last May I, attrac- ting almost one-third of a million visitors by the end of August. Late last month the turnstile clicked up the magic number of 300,000 for West Van’s Elizabeth Chapman and her children Graham and Emi- ly, who received royal treatment to mark the occasion — year-long memberships to Science World, free lunches, dinosaur posters and a one-minute shopping spree in the ift shop.

Science World closes after Sept. § until next spring for construction work. In May 1989 it will open permanently as the full facility science centre known as Scierce World British Columbia.

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yesterday, Sept. 1 ... Anniversary greetings today, Sept. 2, to Rev. Canon Stanley Smith and Evelyn on their Sist ... And the same again tomorrow, Sept. 3, to West Van's John and Elsie Flaten,

MD CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN hits the road...11-year-old Curtis Ran-

dail (foreground),dad Cliff, (lef) mom Robin and sister Jennifer.

Stalled cabs

HE CONCEPT of regional taxi licensing in the Lower Mainland has unfortunately been aban- doned on the roadside by provincial politicians.

Spearheaded by the North Shore’s Sunshine Cabs Ltd., the drive to replace municipal taxi monopolies with a competitive regional system suffered a serious setback with the recent cabinet committee denial of a Sunshine licence amendment that would have aliowed Sunshine to pick up fares anywhere outside its home base and take them to the Vancouver International Airport.

Approving the amendment would have opened the way for a limited form of regionalization and provided an opportunity to monitor its effects, both pro and con,

As it stands now, cabs can only jegally pick up fares in their home-base municipality and usually return home empty, leaving tourists and others ignorant of the system waving helplessly at passing cabs from the curbsides of forbidden municipalities.

Though the system guarantees taxi companies a set area to service, it also guarantees the inefficiencies of a monopoly, inflates cab licence values and kills any motivation to improve service or respond to new cus- tomer demands.

Solicitor General Angus Ree has said the provincial government will continue to look at regional licensing, but that its institution could take up to 19 years.

With commitments like that, hopes for any changes to the taxi system in the Lower Mainland look ex- tremely bleak.

POSTSCRIPTS: Up to 200 entries are expected in next week’s Coho Festival Art Shaw sponsored by the West Van Community Arts Council. Arts Council director Lynn Flipse reminds that all entries must be delivered tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 3) between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. to Klee Wyck, 200 Keith Road, West Van ... Well known West Van artist and craft- sman Shun Boon (Benny) Fung exhibits photographs from a recent visit to China all this month in the Memorial Library ... Ex-Brits should red-ring Monday, Sept. 12, for the Indian Arm cruise being organized by the Society of St. Geosge — with buffet supper, no-host bar and four hours of superb scenery for $40 per person. Numbers limited, so call Doug Rogers, 922-3796, soonest to reserve ... Congrats to North

Van's George and Margaret Linsey on reaching their ‘‘Golden 50th’

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Publisher _... Managing Editor... Barrett Fisher Associate Editor .... Noel Wright Advertising Director . Linda Stewart

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celebrating their 61st.

tte WRIGHT GE WRONG: Every vacation has at least two days of good weather —- the day you leave and the day you get back.

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BIG HUG FROM STEGOSAURUS for West Van’s Graham and Emily Chapman as mom Elizabeth — visitor No. 300,000 to Science World —

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