6- Suny january 2 26, 1986 - North Shore News

4 nergy Minister Stephen Rogers created quite a-tough political dilemma for

- conflict of interest revelations. -

ment in a pulp partnership which needs timber from proposed logging in the southern Queen

- on the cabinet’s environmental land use com-

+ should be used.

— who,.voluntarily..resigned when his own

“revealed — - Mr. Rogers is toughing it out with “help from his boss, Mr;’Bennett immediately ’ held that his energy minister’s portfolio is not ~. directly concerned. with forestry. And despite

cabinet. ; a

Forcing Mr:: Rogers to quit would have been + popular: with many voters as ‘being only fair. to Mire: ‘Waterland. It would also have robbed the

“minisier = but resignatio ‘is tie hororable parliamentary

: of interest, clearly exists. : Mo

|) year, Mr. Bennett had to.weigh the increased : damage to the Socred i image of losing not one

- “but two key ministers in a conflict of interest * contest.And reversing his initial support for _.Mr. Rogers could -have earned him.the dread- ed. label ‘indecisive’, which is costing Prime ’ Minister Mulroney dearly. : ‘Gambling on the public’s short memory; Mr. Bennett's ay out “of ‘the dilemma may: erefore be sound politics. Whether it’s sound ‘moval and. ethical leadership i is ariother matter.

~ Brian | Mulroney's top trade negotiator.

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Bennett's way

. Premier Bennett following the recent.

Mr. Rogers has a $100,000 tax shelter invest- |

": Charfottes, including Lyell Island. He also sits - mittee which — examines how such resources - But unlike Forestry Minister Tom Waterland :

='$25,000 investment i in the same partnership was ©

‘opposition outcries, the Premier later reaffirm: . - “ed: that Mr. Rogers. would remain in the :

: opposition. of a useful election issue. Neither - used ‘of any abuse of privilege, =

°. tradition when-even the potentiai for, conflict

Against this, in‘an almost certain election ;

hose. ‘who: fear: the cost of. free. trade” ‘have an aily of sorts in none other than -

“Simon: Reisman,; who earns: ‘$1,000 a day for athe job, ‘Says.it still ‘costs him:up to $300,000 - a year in. income he forfeits from ‘other sources, | free trade is a losing: game for Mr. | — if he’s geod enough to command’ that kind 0 money, maybe he ‘should be fun-,

keep law and order during the

WITH: COLORS ‘BLYING...6th Field Engineer Squadron ‘proudly: parades. st North: Van District Hall Nov. 24, 1984 to receive the Freedom of the District from Mayor Marilyn Baker

(efi, on Platform).

A SMART SALUTE, please, to North Van's very own ar- © my, which celebrates its 75th'

birthday next Saturday... It was on February 1, 1911 — after vigorous petitioning

- organized by two worthy locai

residents, Alexander Phillips and Donald Cameron — that Ottawa officially authorized the formation in North Van of the 6th Field Company, Cana-

dian Engineers. After three- |

quarters of-a century, with a proud” tecord in two world

_ wars, the only military unit, permanently stationed on the’ North Shore. is still . going.

" strong.

Its first C.O. was Major

. §.P. Fell; commemorated to-

day in Fell and Pemberton Avenues (Pemberton being his middle name).. British-born

» and’ educated at Harrow

School, where he was a

~ classmate of Winston. Chur- _ chill, Fell arrived in North Van

in 1897 to become manager of

the Lonsdale Estates and in / 1905 was commissioned in the * Canadian Army.

By the spring of 1912 ‘his fledgling unit had enrolled its first, 30 Sappers (the tra:. ditional engineers). It made its public debut the following year at a garrison. review in Stanley Park, where it led the march

- past the Duke of Connaught.

A year ‘later it first saw active service when called out to help

‘tiame for’ army~

turbulent Nanaimo coal strike,

The North .Van.-Sappers * forward-looking |

were thinkers, too. As early as 1913

they proposed the formation: of an aviation section. Alas, the then defence minister, Sam . ‘Hughes, poured cold water on. - their brainwave, . dismissing’

flying machines as ‘costly toys, only as yet in the : experi; mental stage and most -imprac-

tical in war’. Poor’ myopic:

Sam! .

- Meanwhile, by 1915, they completed the construction of. their permanent: home, * the Forbes Avenue Armouries, on jand donated by a North Van

businessman, one Mr. Mahon: ’

From there the 6th Field Com- pany functioned asa recruit- ment and training centre throughout World War One — mustering well over 4,000 recruits and sending nine out of lO of them, a total of 3,827 ‘trained men, overseas in 100

separate drafts.

Continued training and ex- ercises paid off. by the ‘out: break cf World War Two in

1939, when the Company was

mobilized with-an experienc- ed cadre of battle-ready of- ficers and. NCOs. This time

the unit itself went ‘overseas . ~ with the 3rd Canadian Infan- ©

try Division — landing on the

- D-Day Normandy beaches

i

Megen and the Rhineland.. «

and distinguishing itself in ac- tion all the way from Caen and the Falaise Gap to Nij-

photo submitted

SWEET CHRISTMAS MEMORY .. . Chris McEachnie (left)

receiving 8-Ib. chocolate ‘‘Santa’’- ‘from West Van Secondary

Principal J John ‘Williams.

Noel Wright

< sunday brunch ¢

cna Squadron, as it has since been!

Tenamed, is a Militia unit, —

doubly ‘demonstrated. The. “Squadron” *, Freedom of the City in 1972". “and the: Freedom -of the” “District “in” 1984:— honors

which’entitle” through North’-Van_ streets . with «bayonets fixed. And why not? In peace as in war they’ve : proved mighty good guys to

- Sappers!

= _ NEW! photo & art Davis

‘Field. Engineer

which: means its. personnel -. have civilian jobs and live a normal civilian life apart from training commitments.

: Training sessions are. held every Thursday evening in the

Forbes Armouries, with a two- _

day weekend exercise (usually -- at Canadian’’Forces Base Chilliwack) once.a month. Plus a major one-week exer- cise cach summer withthe

ifth Canadian Mechanized:

Brigade Group at Wainwright, Alta. Base pay rate for a- freshly joined private is $31.75. per full training day — $14.25 for. the Thursday evening : parades. |

Under its present C: 0., Ma-~

jor Bill White, the unit has an.

authorized ‘strength of 111, with some 30 vacancies cur- rently open — and nothing

makes Major Bill happier than -

to welcome new recruits. Give them a call at the Armouries (988-4533) to find out. more.

° The esteem nai fie n in very ’own army" “has-been

‘received

it to: march’ colors flying and have around. Happy birthday, xk OO *.

WRAP-UP: Christmas has been history for a month but

‘it still holds sweet. memories

for West ‘Van's Chris

the:

McEachnie, Grade 7. To raise money’ for. the Santa’ Claus Fund, West -Van! Secondary, students raffled ‘off ‘a: huge © chocolate “‘Santa” donated by-, Thelma’ Jackson:of Purdy’s, Park Royal,’ selling over 400 | tickets’ at 25° cents.: Winner.

Chris suddenly: had‘a whole ° bunch of new; close friends’... |.” Elected:1986 chairman of the. :. . North Shore Union Board of ©

Heaith is West Van Alderman’: Gordon Rowntree, with North Van. District‘Alderman:Joan : | Gadsby as -his vice. .., Margaret: Ramsay of the - North Shore Information and | Volunteer Centre.is holding a house warming -4 to’ 6p. m: "Tuesday (Jan.-28)' at their new, ’ location, 1060 Roosevelt Cres-- “cent — two blocks ‘south of. “the Avalon off’: Lloyd _ Latest. :.. North -.: Shore ~ bed- ~and-break fast registry . gearing up for Expo is Jane Heukelom’s ‘‘Host ‘Inter-: . national’, in. West’ Van. alae you're. interested i in earning a

flew: --bucks as. as:

: Featured’ February artist, 10° a.m.'ta‘2 = pam. weekdays, at West Van's ‘Klee ,Wyck’ Gallery ‘is | Ken Walters, ‘displaying ” Lower Mainland § scenés painted in his

to Karen: Magnussen: skating . instructor Nancy Hunter of .

‘North Van who's now.Jaun-"

ching her ‘‘Guidebook® for Teaching Preschool: Skating and -Hockey’’, ..a- Canadian sellout, on the U.S. -market.

: kok *

‘WRIGHT .OR WRONG:

Why is it that people never of- fer to make a long story short until it’s too late?