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WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE fof THE DisAL NO VoTe IN THe RereREN DU?

NOT ME. \ TRAVELLED ALL THE WAY TO MONTREAL T Stow

NOT MME, | WENT 70 EVERY LOCAL. . UNITY RALLY TOWNE THE FLAG.

guotes of the

-“Nitro-methane is a very potent fuel. It’s like putting a stick of dynamite on top of ycur pistons.”

John Andres, who attended the funeral for a West Vancouver motorcyclist, on the fuel used in the victim’s drag-racing motorcy- cle. (From a Nov. | News story.)

“There’s nothing wrong about publicly talking about how the premier can do better. That doesn’t mean that £ don’t support the premier. It means

‘that [I’m a= supporter who

believes that anybody can always do better. ... One can be more helpful by not being blind- ly loyal but by being corstruc- tively loyal.” ; ’ North » Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA David Schreck, on criticiz- ing the premier, sort of. (From an

‘Oct. 29 News story.)

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NOT Me,

| CAMPAIGNED FOR THE NO GIDE IN QUEBEC ALL MONTH.

NOT ME. 1 LINED UP INTHE COLD FOR TWO HOURS TO

OUT OF IT. ww WHAT HAPPENED?

week

“TE think the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television Telecommuni- cations Commission), if they're going to give a licence to any- body in Canada, it would be that idea. I hate to say it, but it’s politically correct.”

Burrard Band (Tsleil- Waututh) Chief Leonard George, on secur- ing a native-run specialty TV ser- vice. (From .an Oct. 29 News story.)

:“The residents of Cedardale are giving the NIMBY syndrome a bad name.”

? Keith Road resident John Cox, in a letter to West Vancouver District Council on the issue of ‘adding a new bus route to the

‘Cedardale area and the opposition:

; to that new route. (From a Nov. | News Story.)

mailbox Thanks for the silence

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- Dear Editor:

Remember those train horns that

“used to blow long and loud every

night from the rail yards in’ the Lower Lonsdale to Pemberton area?

Well, I; for one, would Jike to pass along my vote of sincere thanks to all those people responsi- ble for fixing the problem, especial- ly Lis .Vallaster of the North Health Department

news viewpoint

along with all their: staff, all the folks at North Vancouver City hall, Mr. Trainor at BC Rail and all the members of the Engineman's union, for their efforts in putting a stop to the noise. Thanks to you kind folks, thousands of us in these areas can now get a better night's sleep. _ I's most appreciated. Gordon M. <srant North Vancouver

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LONGING TO get away as far as possible for a while :

from the Quebec mess, with- °

out (technically) leaving this continent? Try Dutch Harbor.

We discovered it on a recent sea voyage to Japan via the northern Pacific Rim. Sailing west, 42 hours out of Seward, Alaska, the Golden Princess docked for an afternoon at this busy little port for the City of Unalaska, population 4,300 and metropolis of the Aleutians.

{t's the true — and fascinating — last frontier of North America,

Some 650 miles west of Kodiak, the tiny 80 square mile island in the Aleutian chain, dominated by a 6,700-foot volcano, was home for thousands of years to the native Aleuts (akin to Canada’s {nuit).

They thrived by living off the bounty of the Bering Sea — until the arrival in 1758 of Russian fur hunters, who virtually eliminated the Aleut culture.

More than a century fater, in 1867, U.S. Secretary of State

William Seward bought Alaska and,/ / , much social life; the streets appear :.’

its Aleutian appendages from Russia for the princely sum of $7.2 million.

Bombed by the Japanese i in 1942, the island became an impor- tant US. base during the Second World War.

Remains of wartime army installations still abound But today

the source of the islanders’ prosper-

ity is exactly the same as it was for their Aleut predecessors.

In fact, Dutch Harbor boasts of being “the world) ’s busiest seafood port.”

Each year from August to May the population triples with the arrival of commercial fishermen from the U.S., Russia, Korea and

other countries to harvest the seem- -

ingly endless riches of the Bering Sea, ;

Ashore, the apparently healthy mini-economy is based exclusively on fish processing, marine tackle, ship maintenance and repairs, and

_ freighter traffic (since almost all

supplies arrive by sea). There are two modest shopping

_malls. A spanking new [12-room

Grand Aleutian Hotel. A 170-year- old Russian Orthodox church with. onion-top spire. A couple of other churches. A single TV channel. A radio station. And a spunky local

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newspaper called (inevitably) The Dutch Harbor Fisherman,

As somewhere to get away from it all, Dutch Harbor can certainly deliver, With certain provisos, how: ‘ ever,

You'd better be crazy about seafood; it may be the only protein , you'll ever eat there.

You'd better enjoy cool, rainy weather; they average just 28 days - ,of sunshine a year and we were “lucky to land on one of them.

You'd better not depend on too

to be permanently deserted, with more bald eagles visible than | human beings. |

Above all, you'd better be i in: robust health or have robust med-. ical insurance; local medical facili- ties are minimal and medi-evac by

_ air to Anchorage (two hours’ flight -

away’) costs US$20,000. °

All in all, an intriguing place to _ explore on one of i its rare ‘Sunny, afternoons.

But as Mother used to say about - anywhere more than a mile from home, | wouldn’t want to live. there!

WEST VAN ROTARY holds its Fashion Show Dinner ° Wednesday, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m. at the Hollybum Club — cali Marcelle, 926-0196, for $35 tick- ets (profits to the “Youth Outreach Program”) ... And many happy returns of Monday, Nov. 6, to for- mer, West Van mayor Derrick 3 _ Humphreys. ae

WRIGHT OR WRONG: - Mondays are the potholes | in the road of life. .

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Vancouver. Old age is where it’s at. At least when it comes to securing municipal services.

The events of a recent Vancouver Council meeting are a good example.

Discussion over funding allocations in the district revealed that seniors are first in line when it comes fo municipal fund- ing allocations.

A lawn bowling facility? Of course. How much? $100,000. Consider it done.

A skateboarding facility?

Now hold on a niinute.

in a municipality — Canada’s richest

I DOESN’ T pay to be young in West

West —

Young atheart «- co

per-capita — in which facilities for teenagers are virtually non-existent, the request would seem to be well within reason.

But reason is not prevailing in West Vancouver when it comes to young peo- ple.

The municipality’s population is aging fast. Servicing that aging popula- tion is important.

’ But servicing those who will lead ‘West Vancouver in the future is equally important.

The municipality is already too expensive to live in for most young fam- ilies.

And West Vancouver’s commitment - to the young people who do live within its borders continues to be urderwhelm- ing. i oe

West Vancouverites enjoy a quality of life that is envied by many, but its future will be far less bright if its youth are excluded from the community vision.

The proposed new West Vancouver « youth activity fund is a positive step in moving to embrace West Vancouver youth and encourage them to be a part - of, not apart from, the North Shore community.

lis realization will be a key: invest- meat in the municipality’s future.

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