Al6-Wednesday, November 12, 1980 - North Shore News

elections ’80

MARY SEGAL. Social

planner. Incumbent
alderman seeking re-
election.

Mary Segal is a 23 year
resident of the Diustnct of
North Vancouver. During
her two year term = on

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council, she has been active
on a number of committees
including North Vancouver
Recreation Commission,
North Shore Safety Council
and the Governing Com-
mittee of the North Shore
United Way She has also
acted as council
representative to the
Seycove Community School
Council. During the past
year she has chaired the
council's Traffic and Safety
Committee, and the task
force on Community Ser-
vices.

Besides this impressive
record of present in-
volvement, Alderman Segal
has many long range goals.
As a member of the council
Housing Committee engaged
In negotauons with the

Greater Vancouver Housing
corporation, she is presently
expressing Concerns on the
much needed deselopment
of reaonable pnced housing.
and of special housing for
the handicapped and the
elderly.

Further, along with other
District residents, Segal 1s
concerned about the
manufacture, storage,
transportation and disposal
of dangerous chemicals. A
co-ordinated plan for
responding to emergencies
in this area has recently been
updated and Segal 1s part of
a delegation from = council
who will attend a conference

in Mississauga late this
month on “Emergency
Preparedness for the

Eighties”.

Segal welcomes the op-
portunity to use her
aldermanic expemence and
her background in com-
munity organization ad-
ministration to service
Distmet residents for a
second time

Peter Powell
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the Lower Mainland where
party loyaluies spill over into
the municipal arena | find
them, without exceplion, to
be counter-productive and
not conducive to the
responsiveness oor respon:
sibility needed at the local
level. Itas just not possible to

retain the required level of
objectivity needed to deal
with problems of a. local
Nature if one is committed
before the fact to a “plat
form” of any kind The
Nature of issues which arise
for decision are such that
each must be judged on ats
Own Merits. quite
within fairly
Parameters.

often
narrow

“It an elected person is to
serve and keep faith with the
electorate. he or she must be
In a position to examine the
facts as presented and as
determinable, and then to
vote his or her conscience

free from any political
constraints or por com-
mitments.

“As a three-tame in-

cumbent I have no right to
ask lo be judged on any basis
other than my past per
formance. and I am quite
prepared to place my record
on the line. If any group or
association wish to support
me or endorse my
didacy., that ois their
privilege, and they do so
from their own convictions
not from any request on my
part. ] want to be re-elected
because this is my was of
serving My community Over
the last six years | have done
my best to represent the
interests fall the taxpayers
of all persuasions. and my
only promise is that in return
for re-elecuon they will vet
another two years of the
same kind of | effort
dedication ”

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