TESISLATW3 LIBRARY $5.4 *4?arllainei*t §*_;l«Jlngs ^VICTORIA, S.di ? V8V 1X4 Coast economy is pondered Two reports from the Sunshine was decided mat tnfcDC chairman, Coast Economic Development :Russell Crum, would write to the Commission occupied Gibsons iExpOasis/Tourist Association town council at their September 18 •committee stressing that no public meeting. The reports were made by funds can be released without a Alderman John Burnside on behalf •detailed budgeting plan. of Alderman Ron Neilson who had The future of the Economic been unable to attend the full Development Commission is com­ meeting of the Economic Develop­ ing into question, Alderman Burn­ ment Commission held the day side reminded council, because before. starting next spring the Economic Alderman Burnside reported Development Commissioner's of­ that the two main areas of discus­ fice must be 100 per cent funded sion at the ECD meeting concerned locally. the relationship between the Ex- Relevant to this decision, said pOasis/Tourist Association Com­ Alderman Burnside, was a report mittee and the ECD and the future from the new chairman of the Sun­ of the Economic Development shine Coast Employment Develop­ Commissioner's office. ment Society (SCEDS) that fun­ Earlier this year the Ex- ding was confidently anticipated pOasis/Tourist Committee had from the federal government next been assured that there was money month, according to SCEDS chair­ in the Economic Development man Barry Wilbee, which would Commission budget to hire a co­ enable preparation of an economic ordinator for their purposes. To strategy study. date, the committee has not "Certainly, the members of the prepared a budget for the Commis­ Economic Development Commis­ sion's consideration and some of sion feel the office of the the funds set aside are now being Economic Development Commis­ used for other purposes, including sioner should continue," Burnside told council. "They feel that the It's not every adoring fan who ends up in the arms of her star, but 4 stopped to chat with Bruno Gerussi while broadcasting his CKLG preparation of an economic development strategy crucial to the groundwork has been laid for some ' year old Kristy-Lee Girard was swept off her feet; by Terry David early morning breakfast radio show from Molly's—er, Mully's existence of the Commission itself. worthwhile progress in planning ' Mulligan, host of TV's "There's Good Rockin' Tonight", when he Reach last Monday. '•• -t-ranBumside photo Alderman Burnside reported for economic development on the that after a lengthy discussion it Sunshine Coast." •At municipalities convention Correction Some wrong impressions were left as a result of errors in the cutline under the picture involving donations made by the Royal Delegates Canadian Legion, Branch #140 Sechelt, in last week's paper. The 1984 convention of the "It is not external territory assume 100 per cent responsibility In the meanwhile, as leader of First, Doreen Pihichyn is president of Branch #140, not of the MUnion of British Columbia now that we ust explore, but an for the changes which must come, the opposition Skelly pledged to ladies' auxiliary. Second, the $1,000 donation was made to Janet Municipalities held in Vancouver internal tei itory," said Dr. and pursue those changes with in-; continue to try to bring a more co­ Nixon of the Mayne-Surtees Building Society for Housing for last weekend took as its theme Scherer. He tressed the need for tegrity and above all; operative approach to the business Senior Veterans, not to the Senior Citizens Housing Society, as COMMUNITY and anyone in at­ delegates to| ursue more positive commitment." of legislating in British Columbia. reported. tendance expecting fireworks or ways of-confronting economic dif­ During this morning session; A veteran UBCM convention- The Mayne-Surtees Building Society is named for Legionnaires government bashing must have ficulties with integrity and commit- ""cherer praised the action of NDP goer .told this reporter that the Jack Mayne of Sechelt and Ed Surtees of Halfmoon Bay, the last been disappointed. ment. provincial leader Bob. Skelly who: , strorig thematic content pf the 1984 active members of Branch #40 who are veterans of the First World ... .y^on^eo^ing jjg^ had. earlier; in the weekjmade co- --••; convention marked it as different War.— outgoing president; Mayor Audrey MiiV*^^ per- .{'•.operativ' t.\*y**r»-~ e overtures•••-- - -*»».> ;•«•.-.?..• to theMprdvi• .•;*.-»• --,••.h •;v'/*WT.;.^."'. .':»"•.'••""'•''.-':'••"previous-convention' .'•" •-'•".">-i-S-.-~ - -s i ' .'.1 : t_,-jiad- ,- ... , MoQje pf C^tlegaTj op ThMrsday,. , v sonal ;;o^pcietal, [ said, Scherer, cial govement. M ••• attended. m^irig';Mhro_ghMM^ must be Skelly himself .addressed Mthe thematic presentation by Dr. John sought'when old approaches are no conference on Friday afternoon Scherer of Spokane, Washington, longer JSvor king." and called for the decentralization on Friday morning, to the speech Scherer told the delegates that of power in the province. "It is the by the incoming president, the the choices facing British Colum­ process as it now exists which is mayor of Saariich, on Friday even­ bia,, '^nd perhaps the world, are causing the problems," said Skelly. ing, the conference stressed the nowj'to achieve.a breakthrough or "We cannot come together in this need to minimize confrontation suffer a breakdown in society. One province as long as all of the power and conflict and pursue co­ of Jhe first necessities was for each is in effect concentrated in the operation if British Columbia is to and every delegate to question his hands of one man, the premier." work its way out of the economic of her own preconceptions. Skelly said that an NDP govern­ difficulties which now beset the X "You must ask yourself whether ment under his leadership would province.. you want to continue to be right move to involve more of the public X Dr. Scherer reminded delegates but a powerless victim," said and the legislature in the decision­ that they were the stock of pioneers Scherer. "It is the easier path to making process and would return •jind that the time had come again say that you are right but the other decision-making powers to the for them to strike out in new direc­ fellow is wrong and because of him local governments which have been tions if the problems confronting nothing can be done about the increasingly centralized in the past tfiem were to be solved. situation. But each individual must few years. Sechelt lad goes To school in India by Fran Burnside Lars to develop an international was initiated into this new com­ outlook and a tolerance of other munity by arriving on July 24 in a A 'hill station' in the first range people." monsoon rain which completely of the Himalaya Mountains in nor­ drenched his backpack of belong­ thern India will be home for the ings on top of the bus. The humidi­ next school year for a 14-year old ty was so high "it's like living in­ Sechelt boy. f side a cloud", he wrote, and noted Though it now bears few scars, Carl Chrismas' little trailer at Porpoise Estates received a direct hit by After a plane and bus journey that he sometimes looks put on lasting two full days; Lars giant cumulus clouds at eye level. lightning during last Saturday's rainstorm—and Carl was inside. -Fran Burnside photo Guignard is now settled in the dor­ mitory at Woodstock School in the The altitude seems not to bother Lightning strikes and... hill station of Mussoorie,-'approx­ Lars, who sprints the 150 metres up imately 260 kilometres north of the mountainside from the dorms Delhi and at an altitude between to the classrooms each day. He 1,850 and 2,150 metres. M _ rises early, at 4 or 5 a.m., runs for From the ridge above the school an hour most mornings, and is Chrismas lights up one can see the magnificent snow- already representing his school in covered ranges whose peaks rise to cross-country meets. (He finished by Fran Burnside through a metal downspout and, melted together. The phone jack more than 6,000 metres along In­ first among students and eighth blowing it apart, slammed into the was burnt all the way through dia's northern border with Tibet. overall in his first run, the 1984 Carl Chrismas was literally planks beside it and disappeared. Through the throbbing of his Looking below one sees the Doon April Fools' Day Run from Gib­ blasted out of bed last Friday, Inside there was no need to guess headache a sobering thought oc­ Valley, .through which run the sons to Sechelt.) He has already night when lightning and its ac­ what the burning smell of sulphur curred to Carl. If the wires of the Ganges River. The nearest city is done some trekking (backpacking) companying thunderbolt slammed was. telephone 18 inches away had; Dehra Dim, 37 kilometres down trips into the mountains nearby, into his 20-foot travel trailer in "That's fire and brimstone," melted, what might have happened the mountain. It is 85 miles "by and will take part in a five-week Porpoise Estates, blowing the plug Carl chuckled and shook his head, to the delicate workings of his crow" to China. "Winter Tour" trek around the through which his electricity was but he couldn't figure out exactly pacemaker? He is to keep away Woodstock is an English entire sub-continent during the connected clear out of the trailer's where the odour came from, that from spark plugs and things elec­ 'medium' school offering elemen­ winter break. The school year runs exterior wall, and frying the wires permeated the whole trailer. trical which might throw off its tary and a broad range of high from late July until the third week in telphone and electrical lines.