Not Ordinary Housewife

From a 1972 Newspaper article that recently resurfaced:

Not Ordinary Housewife

Anne Fall, North Vancouver District aldermanic candidate, isn't your ordinary harassed housewife!

True, the attractive brunette does have a fulltime job at home, maintaining a nest for husband, Stewart, an electrical engineer with B.C. Tel. and sons Joseph, 7, and Andrew, 6. But the 33 year old Ms. Fall successfully combines the homemaking routine with active participation in community affairs.

For example Anne Fall has long been involved with the co-op kindergarten movement -- an interest probably growing out of her earlier working experience as a grade one teacher -- and last year she served a President of the Westlynn Co-op. For five years Ms. Fall has been a Director of Neighbourhood House and she currently chairs a Needs Committee dealing with issues such as low-cost housing, recreation, and city planning. Ms. Fall is also Chairman of the North Shore Transportation Committee and in this regard she's led a tough, apparently successful battle against the Third Crossing.

Now the young mother and community activist is a challenger in Dec. 9th's District election.  Ms. Fall stands as an aldermanic candidate, slated with the Association for Community Action, a concerned citizens' group which she recently helped to found. And, not unexpectedly, it's her own experience with District and City Councils that led Ms. Fall to tackle the current administration.

"I've seen briefs presented to both Councils on behalf of Neighbourhood House. I've personally pleaded, reasoned and outright fought week after week on behalf of the North Shore Transportation Committee. I've sen City Council embarrassed into holding a hearing on the Third Crossing and then simply filing the presented briefs. I'm fed up with a developer-oriented District Council, a tedious bureaucracy with only aldermend Rose, Bell, and Dnley at all approachable. My concerns are growth and development, transportation and recreation, housing, citizens' rights.  It's obvious to me that most members of the current District Council can't cope with these modern problems and I want to get on that council and get to work!"

She knows what she's about, Ms. Fall does.  A Vancouver girl who attended UBC and who's lived on the North Shore for the past seven years, she's well aware of local problems and she's shown the community her interest and willingness to work.

And she certainly knows how to organize her time. in addition to all that community involvement, Ms. Fall still gets away fo skiing weekends with her family and she makes all her own clothes.

That's my mom.  She did get elected, and I'm sure was a real thorn in the side of the establishment for the years she served on council.  She was a dynamo for another decade before cancer took her - a deeply felt loss to anyone who knew her, friend or foe.