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Matlbox fraud

he refusal of Canada Post to provide

mail delivery to new housing subdivi-

sions like North Van’s Tempe Heights would lay a private corporation open to criminal charges.

In certain cases the residents of such subdivi- sions not only go without home mail delivery but may be virtually denied mail service altogether.

Tempe Heights homeowners, for example, are still without even an on-site group mailbox. They have to collect their mail from General Delivery at a post office two to three miles away at certain times between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. How are those at work weekdays during the same hours, with no one to run errands for them, expected to get their letters and parcels?

CanPost — which extracts 34 cents from them for every stamp but delivers aothing

- whatsoever in return — explains its policy by citing its mandate ‘‘to improve service, to im- prove human relations within the corporation and to achieve financial self-sufficiency’.

This is like paying a painter in advance to paint your house, only to have him never turn up. Instead, he uses your money to paint another house, patch up a row with his wife and reduce his overdraft. Obviously, he would wind up in court.

The abysmal record of CanPost at its primary job, the prompt and dependable move- ment of mail from A to B, is bad enough. But

* to charge two classes of customer the same price — one getting its mail delivered, however late, the other never getting it delivered at all — is tantamount to criminal fraud against the latter.

Residents of affected subdivisions should at very least be issued with IDs entitling them to a 50% reduction on all stamp purchases.

Jitter-weed?

mokers are steadily vanishing. Only 25%

of British Columbians still cling to the

_ weed. But curious te relate, those who

haven't yet kicked the habit are smoking

MORE —- averaging nearly a carton a week,

the highest consumption in the industrial world.

Could it mean the sight of all those non-

smokers and notices everywhere is finally giv-

ing the dwindling puffers a bad case of terminal jitiers?

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IMAGE-MAKERS: if you want the best in the interna- tional design business, don’t waste time on New York, San Francisco or Toronto. It's right next door.

That's the big story — after 18 years of sickly, tilted orange — behind the smart new red-white-blue design job for CP Air jets, unveiled last week.

The orange logo monstrosi- ty was the work, back in the mid-sixties, of one of the top New York PR and design firms. This time round the CP

' Air brass decided to break

with tradition by letting a few of the natives have a crack, The coveted prize — the con- tract to give the airline a whole new look — went to the West Graphika -design group on Bute, winner of numerous other design awards over the past 15 years. Its founder, chairman and creative director Jurgen Grohne, is a longtime West Van resident.

As head of the team that won the competition over two other competitors, Jurgen notes that ‘‘in the past the tendency has been to have this type of work done in Toronto, New York or San Francisco. I hope the airline’s decision will convince other Canadian companies that they can also find talent in Canada.”

A native of West Germany, Jurgen immigrated to Canada in the mid-fifties and was later joined by his brother Joff Grohne, president of West Graphika and one of its four partners. Jurgen’s wife, Patricia Grobne, is herself a well-known local artist.

Among other things, the new corporate image, which will be introduced into every part of the CP Air organiza- tion, restores the name “Canadian Pacific’’. The aim is to identify the planes ‘‘pro- udly”’ as a Canadian airline, something ‘‘CP Air’? fails to do abroad.

Along the way it also iden- tifies Canadian design talent —— and specifically our local boys — as proudly taking se- cond place to none.

* k& € HIS MEMORIAL isn't hard

Noei Wright

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photo submitted

CP AIR GOES VANCOUVER...local image-makers Jurgen Grohne (seated) with partners (} to r) Ren Knight, Joff

Grohne and Gerry Green.

to find. Few, if any, contem- poraries of Helge ‘‘Bud’’ Pearson ~—- who died two weeks ago, just before his 81st birthday — have left a more visible mark on the North Shore. .

The young, Swedish-born immigcant carpenter who

worked his way west during

the depression was a builder of rare vision. Arriving in North Van in the 1940s and eventual- ly founding Pearson Con- struction Co., he was respon- sible for many functional and beautiful local buildings ~ among them, the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church; North Van's Swedish Rest Home; in- dustriz, and commercial buildings on Pemberton (he was nicknamed for many

years the ‘‘Mayor of Pember- ton Avenue’’); the West Van Recreation Centre and the nearby Kiwanis seniors’ homes. .

He gave freely, too, of his time and talent to the com- munity — as a charter member and 1951 president of the West Van Kiwanis, as a Mason, as a Parks Board Member, as president of the West Van Seniors’ Housing Society and through generous support of many charities.

“His spirit lives in our hearts and minds always,’’ says Kiwanis past Governor Bill Watts. “His fine works live on- for our eternal benefit.’

we ke SCRATCHPAD: Hats off to

our local lenders — though their square dealing comes too late for West Van's Milan Stastny, stuck with a $170,000 bill when the man he'd sold a house {to reneged on the assumable mortgage. North Shore Credit Union marketing manager David Knight reports that original NCCU mortgage customers (Stastny wasn't One) are now released of all liability if buyers of their pro- perty assume the mortgage and then default ... West Van singers Roy Forbes (Bim) and John Philip Wade in Celebra- tion 111, and Rachet Paiment in concert are among featured artists during the upcoming (Jan, 22-25) ‘Week of Music” at the Aris Club on Granville Island — call 687-1644 for program info and tickets ... Want to improve your chess? Holly Turner has just the thing for you in the form of a four-session, $15 course star- ting Monday evening, Jan. 27, at North Shore Neighbour- hood House. To enroll phone 987-8138 ... Parents of pre- schoolers won’t want to miss listening to Cst. Alison Irons at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Jan, 22) in North Van City Library. The North Van lady Mountie

“will be talking about child

molestation, how to protect

‘the young child from sexual

assault, and pre-registration is advised .... All (or any?) former North Red Deerians in these parts are invited to the 75th reunion bash being held June 14 by the former Alberta municipality and its school. Make their day by writing to Harlan Hulleman, North Red Deer 75th Anniversary Com- miltee, Box 1096, Red Deer, Alta T4N 685 ... And rally round at the Lions Gate Hospital blood donor clinics tomorrow and Tuesday (Jan. 20-21), 2 to 8 p.m. each day.

HELGE PEARSON ... builder of visions.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

GATEWAY TO SUCCESS ... four North Vancouver students display winning posters in Gateway to Expo project. Talented young artists are (J to r) Paula Bodnarchuk, Kevin Leung, Shary Varaljay, Shannon Higginson and Leah Wallace. The stu- dents designed banners that will decorate 300 lampposts on North Vancouver streets.