& ~ Sunday, April 3, 1988 ~ Nosth Shove News

_INSIGHTS _

The message of Easter: a walker and a whistle

EASTER Is THE HERALD, br hope reborn and life renewed. A'symbol of it nexi week will be a 34-year-old woman armed with a whistle, moving slowly around the block at 16th and Gordon in: West Van./

Linzey Frank movesslowy, at

‘times a little unsteadily, and only .

with the aid of a walker. Her / whole left side is paralys —/the’ cruel aftermath of ireatfaemi she! underwent a number of years ago for a brain tumor. The cancer has . been controlled but the price has been high. She mus now live in a local group home for the physi-.

’ cally disabled.

Her handicap has not, however, tamed Linzey's independent spirit and sense of humor. Last year she » became a volunteer office worker .

at the West Van Unit of the Cana- .

dian Cancer Society after fellow

volunteers promised her transport.

A short time ago'she told Unit

' oe neat Norma ‘Sharp that she

wanted to canvass door-to-door

, Rear.home during, the April Cancer ‘Fund campaign which starts this week. She knows the monster only , too well, and that:moncy is vitati in

fighting ‘tl “The problem,” said Norma, ‘is that you can't manage steps."’ “

Ina flash L inzey retorted "1 can always crawi!"’

Norma Matly rejected any idea f

of such an indignity, Her solution

_ was the whistic. ‘When there are

steps," she said, “blow hard three times. [f they’re at home, they'll open up to see what's happening _ then they can come down’ to YOU." So that's how L inzey will collect from her. neighbors, confi- dent she can complete the job in a. couple of nights.

. A former UBC student, she also works one day a week as a volun- teer at West Van Library. With other handicapped persons she regularly attends a program of. | therapeutic horseback riding in’ Langley. She demonstrates what Rick Hansen wheeichaired around the world to proves the truce poten-

cent, the, government is sending a strong message: road " Upgra ig is of little importance. © ‘ ast 10 | ears : ago, ‘the. Upper. Levels ‘Highway

B meeting ‘ernment’ established a Budget Stabilization. Fund of $459. million from which to fund election-year. goodies. -

ae é govern ent, could ease.a lot of traffic woes, in- ”

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ancouver, with part ‘of ‘that. it-.ignores’ substance» fora yilo us pre t. to sain , Ropelarity with: he laraer

. ‘Managing Editor.

tial of disabled people with willpower and guts.

If anybody is unsure about the ultimate message of Easter, Linzey'’s walker and whistle spell it ous very clearly, '

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POSTSCRIPTS: Richer by.

$20,000 is the Women's Studies department of Cap College thanks toa $10,000 scholarship donation from the North Van-Seymour Women's Liberal Commission, matched by a $10,000 provincial grant. The money, says the Cam- mission's Mobina Jaffer, is to cn- courage women to enter politics and provide 50 per cent of our MPs by the year 2000, . No strings"! to the gift, of course —- but per, | sumably the Lib Jadies would be the last to object if all or most of,

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their Cap College beneficiaries turned out to be loyal Grits! 2. ! Gearing up for its 75th birthday | celebrations starting next Sunday is West Van's first Anglican church; St. Stephen's at 2Znd and Gordon.

* More details in this space on Wed-

nesday ~ but meanwhile the — 7! senior choir invites ali former 7, members not yet contacted to join is choir reunion party, April 14,

"by calling Eleanor Prevost at 922.

6229 or 926-5324

... And it’s high time to maké sure! of your tickets (from West Van Ree Centre) for.the season's third

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and final Chaniber Music Cancert next Friday, April.8, at 8 p.m, in West Van United Church. Geof- frey Michaels (violin), Gerald Stanick (viola), Kenneth Friedman _-

° (bass), Wesley Foster (clarinet), va

Brian G'froerer (horn) and a Hamilton Cheifetz (cello) are.” featured performers in the.” Beethoven Septet.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: A very

happy Easter'to all — especially © holiday. weekend motorists driving

_ the way they wish their kids would.

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