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NEWS VIEWPOINT

Planning sense

West Van Alderman David Finlay is urging his council to participate in a regional planning association to replace the Greater Vancouver Regional District planning department — abolished under the government’s restraint program. He talks sound sense.

Whatever the planning sins of the GVRD (and they undoubtedly existed), it is naive to think that 15 municipalities, huddled tightly together in a densely populated metropolitan area like the Lower Mainland, can each go it alone in the matter of development.

There has to be some organization capable of taking an overall view, in the interests of ALL the municipalities, on such issues as waste disposal, green belts, traffic flows, and air and water pollution which are not confined to municipal boundaries.

Equally important is the reconciliation of conflicting interests between adjoining municipalities (as, for example, the recent case of the proposed West Van bus depot in Kiahanie Park, with its unacceptable impact on nearby North Van District homeowners). You can’t have one municipality allowing a glue factory just across the fence from a residential subdivision in the municipality next door.

The proposed regional planning associa- tion, though devoid of the GVRD's regulatory powers, would address such’ problems, together with long term development objec- tives for the region, and seek fair solutions for the common good.

We hope the three North Shore municipalities will cooperate with their neighbors in establishing such a clearly needed body without delay.

Taste-burgers

McDonald’s has surrendered in a battle with residents of quaint, old-style Freeport, Maine. They screamed so loud when the ham- burger giant proposed replacing a Victorian mansion with its standard golden-arched eatery that Big Mac settled for a restaurant in the mansion itself — and no golden arches at all. That’s one way of adding good taste to hamburgers. Now, how about serving them on Doulton china, with silverware?

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THIS PAPER 1S RECYCLABLE

SCALDING WATER is beginning to splash over all kinds of innocent bystanders

as the B.C. strike situation comes to a boil. ltem One. After a par-

ucularly promising start this year, United Way fund drive volunteers heard grim news last week from campaign chairman Dave Catton of West Van. With barely a month still to go, the cam- paign was suddenly running nearly half a million dollars behind target. By the last days of October the tally stood at just over six million, or 63 per cent of the $9.7 million that must be reached by late November unless a lot of helpless folk are going to suffer next year.

“It's crunch tume,’” Catton told) his warriors, urging them to raise a cool $1.6 million within the next week just to get back on track Two days later 35,000 civil servants hit the bricks — with the threat of more than 100,000 other pay packets drying up by mid-month. A

situation in which charity tends to stay very close to home...

Item Two. The ‘‘Festival of QOpera’’ benefit perfor- mance scheduled for

November 19 at the Orpheum to raise life-giving funds for the Vancouver Opera has been postponed indefinitely “We are very concerned about the negative impact that threatened strikes may have on ticket sales,’” says Vancouver Opera Associa tion g.m. Cathrine Lowther “AML the artusts are donating their services We do not want to waste then valuable contributions or place them nm ai potentially awkward labor relations position 7" Sad little cameos from the province cun by prokets

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

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By contrast, a heartwarm- ing story from Margaret Freeman of North Van about a public service ‘‘good guy”’ who’s still on the job.

Three weeks ago; she writes, ‘‘we were on the 240 bus when my husband was taken ill and collapsed.

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I'd like to thank Mrs. Joanne Donachie, our bus driver, who got us immediate help. She organized everything so beautifully. She took care of my husband and also saw that the passengers got on to another bus and could con- tinue their journey without too much delay.”’

Never worry when the Mrs Donachies of this world are in the driver's seat

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Sull on the happy news beat, there’s News associate publisher Bob Graham “What a nice guy, a good neighborly businessman,” he says of the boss at the West

Van gas station where he dropped by for oil the other week. After topping up, the Starter motor of Bob’s Porsche refused to work. The repair job, the station operator politely insisted, needed to be done by the Porsche specialty mechanic, but a phone call found the

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NEWS photo Eric Eggertson PROUD MEMORIES of their father recalled by Heidi and Robert Inman as they uncovered the plaque dedicating a new playground last weekend at Delbrook Centre to late commni- ty leader Derek Inman.

latter booked solid all day.

Whereupon boss man im-

mediately undertook to store

Bob’s precious steed over the

weekend under cover . at no charge.

The name, if you like that kind of service, is Terry Hig- gins who runs the PetroCan station at 22nd and Marine.

FOLKTALES: West Van's former — and most quotable -- judge, Perry Millar, with wife Marda, were among guests in Horseshoe Bay last weekend at painter Daniel

nd Deaese Izzard’s Hallowe'en wine ‘n cheese

The bishop and his

A BATTLE has been

brewing al

Our Lady of

Lourdes Roman © atholk Church on Stellarton, an

eastern Nova Scotia mining town

have insisted upon receiving communion

knecling, Despite an explicit

Six parishioners standing while deter

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mination to the contrary by Bishop Wilham Power

of Antigonish

Thre Stelarton Six havc been convicted oan Nowa Scotia last Sumenet for Shokating Sectra UT TCuy ct the ctummanal Code which makes tt ano ootftence to

dasturb othe order or sole maity of a ccligous service Hut Roseanne Nkhoke Caraham a lawyer and one of the sin wall agypeal che devs

srom this autumn before the

Supreme Court of © anada

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religious service The Appeal tas

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By WALTER BLOCK

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will deal wath the

miatter. under the Rights Anyone Ss RuUCcss

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new Charter of

and breedoms. as highly unfortunate that this case has turned. so far oon whether of not hnecl Vag disturbance of oa

Lomstirbutrtes the

religious

cetcmony bor there are real

ly ono objective criterion which can help ous make a Uctermination once way oft another Whats one per sons odesturbance | (Bishop Power) ts another person's solemn practioe (Roscanne

Skike Garaham) bortunatcly, there crists a

however potnt of law upon which an unambiguous determination can be made

This ts the law of trespass

Suppose I were to make ita tule that anyone who comes into my living room must re main standing (ice) Cannot knecl) And now, suppose that you enter my living room and insist upon kneching — It would be impossible to cven claim that) your actions disturb the order of solemn ty of a religious service, since my living room is paticntty not a house of worship Am | thas without legal remedy?

Of course not) itts my hv ing room, and I and | alone may dctermine the criteria forentry Damay ansest, for ca ample, that in order to stay on the premises, one must do a bandstand, a cartwheel, on behave un any other outlan dish omanne: | odecm = ap propriate Your only chouwe nto Comply, or to tcave

In mach the same way, whatts proper Ochaviour tn a church can only be determin ed by tts owner And tn the case Of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman C atholic Church, the ownacr 1s) Bishop Wilham Power, as the representative of the partshtoners

if the Bishop wishes, he

Retired and living recently in Delta, Perry and Marda head east and south shortly after Christmas to their permanent Golden Years pads: a sum- mer coltage on Georgian Bay, Ont., and a winter ditto in Florida . . . Still on the art circuit, West Van’s Allan Ed- wards is showing his recent watercolors of Provence and Normandy tomorrow through Saturday, at his Dundarave gallery, 2228 Marine ... Meanwhile, the Association of Professional Engineers of B.C. has been distributing honors around the North Shore, electing North Van's Dr. E.A. Port- fors and Frank A.R. Willis to its Council, and bestowing Meritorious Achievement Awards on North Van's R.G. Saunders and West Van’s J.H. Partiament ... Getting into place for Bye-Bye Pierre Day is Chris England, Tory candidate in the 1980 federal election, who’s been chosen 1983-84 president of the West Van-Howe Sound Pro- gressive Conservative Association . . Congrats to Frank Kearney of West Van, president of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, on being named a director of the Canadian Real Estate Association News food columnist Eleanor Godley’s uniquely designed book, Cookery Course for Seniors has been selling (to coin a phrase) like hot cakes and is headed shortly for its first reprint. If one fool-proof recipe per page in type big enough to read at four feet without glasses sounds like the answer you've been waiting for, you could just be lucky stull at Eaton’s Wood- ward’s or Classic Bookshop

.. And for dessert, a very happy birthday today to His Worship of West Van, Der- cick Haumpbreys

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: Recipe for a happy week If te works, let it, if at doesn’t, make at, if at won't, forget it

castle

may fequire all those whe enter Ghis church to come in crawling, pushing a peanut in front oof them noses (Oot course af he acts in $80 caprwious a manner, he may destroy the parish his gob. for

and lose these and other tcasons, he ois catercmely untikely to act in such a way But as long as he isin charge he has a night to determine the rules for cntiry )

Now un the event, Bishop Power, in consullation with fis associates, has determin cd that standing, not knecl ing. is the proper demeanor: at COMmMunton services [tors competecly beude the pom whether knecling, in ton of

viola this ruling. discurbs the solemnity of the scrvice We may even concede, for the sake of argument, kneching os

that somchow morc “solemn than standing Despite this, the bishop completely within his rights to insist that his own ruling be upheld

Hf a man’s home as his cas the then a church is the castle of the bishop