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GREATER Vancouver Regional

District (GVRD) staff plan to log

trees in eight areas of the three
Lower Mainland watersheds is at the
very least a public relations. gaffe.
Cynics might argue that the proposition
smacks of contempt cf public process.

The GVRD is preparing ecological
inventories of its watersheds.

The stated intent is to assess risks to
water quality. The Seymour watershed
received attention first, and the findings
of the Seymour watershed ecological
inventory are yet to be reviewed.

scheduled to have their inventories com-"
pleted in 1996.
Opponents of logging in the water-

sheds see any cutting in the woods prior’

to the promised public input leading toa
comprehensive management policy as a
short-circuiting of process.

The pressure regarding actior: on fi ive
watershed areas where wind has toppled
trees in old-growth stands is ostensibly ; a
matter of fire and safety hazard. It is
also, as shown in an Oct. 5 letter from
the Chilliwack Forest District Manager
to a water district official, an issue of
“maximum recovery of merchantable

Therein lie the questions of funda.
mental perspective. Are the watershed ©
forests to be viewed as a cellulose oil
patch from which timber is: to be.
extracted from for profit and the sup-—
port of the bureaucracy in place to man-
age the watersheds? Or are these mag-
nificent forests to be seen as living her-
itage whose continued integrity will help
to sustain the quality of. our drinking
water supply? ; ;

The public, now mostly unaware of
what kinds of trees remain hidden in the ©.
local watersheds, have a right to be part’:

The Capilano and Coquitlam water-
sheds are being investigated: and are

GREAT moments i in in history:
OTTAWA, June 30, 1867 —
John A. Macdonald’s vision for a
new country collapsed when his -
proposal to unite tomorrow under
the name “Dominion of Canada”
was received without comment by

=the four colonies affected,’

No debate was held. However,

"each of the four is believed to have

its own reasons for preferring to
remain separate.

New Brunswick thinks unem-
ployment insurance is too stingy.
Nova Scotia feels the winds are
blowing in the wrong direction.
Lower Canada is indignant at being
lower than Upper Canada, and the
other three all consider Upper
Canada to be too uppity, the CBC
reported.

», WASHINGTON, July 3, 1787
-— Gen. George Washington today
filed away without response an
invitation to attend a convention in
Philadelphia where a proposal will

_ be made tounite the 13 revolution-

ary former colonies into a single
new nation called the United
States.

Asked if he might not be miss-
ing an opportunity to become
Father of His Country, Gent
Washington yawned, scratched
himself. and said: “Oh, I don't
know. I think I'd rather be remem-
bered as ‘Pretty Good Friend of
His Country’ ... ‘Quite a Keen >...
Citizen of His Country’ ..; some-.
thing like that. 7

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fibre.”

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of biases

“Alexander Hamilton is wel-
come to be the ‘Father’ if he wants
to raise this brood of squabbling
babies,” Gen. Washington grinned.
“Imagine — tiny Rhode Island
wanting to join with big, rich states
like New York! It’s insane!

“By the way,” he added, puz-
zled, “why the hell is this city
named after me? I'm not exactly
flattered, standing in this unhealthy
marshland. ft should be called
Hamilton, or something.”

Told that the name had already
been reserved for a brilliant and
sophisticated city in Ontario, Gen.
Washington snorted: “Never heard
of it.”

LONDON, April 30, [707 —
The Act of Union, which would
have united England, Scotland and
ireland, died on the order paper

of an honest discussion regarding the,

future of watershed forests.

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amalgamation i issue

Dear Editor: /
Before we al! get led around in

circles by the city/district amalga- °

mation issue, let.me remind the
public of one factor. that looms
large and can not be ignored.

In 1982 | was asked by the then
mayor and council to update and
review the original study. When 1
reported back to council, I said
that the savings of scale were
there, and that in my. personal
opinion = amalgamation. would
eventually take place, but not in
my lifetime’

Jam still very much alive.

The big deterrent to any amal-
gamation was the existence of the

district’s land bank. — in. 1982

around $110 million. .

While past councils have used
some land bank ‘moneys to cover
the costs of operations, and have

‘sequestered millions more in golf

today without debate, and the three

countries will remain separate.

A source close to Queen Anne,
who spoke on the condition that he
not be identified, said: “Well, it
was just crazy idealism, crazy ide-
alism right from the start, that’s
what I said, and I still say it.

“The English hate haggis, the
Scots would like to stuff those _.
awful chips right up the ;
Englishmen’'s noses, and the Irish |
are utterly charming with everyone
except each other.

“The fools who tied to bring
these three places together ignored
their huge differences in wealth and
language and so forth, and thought
it could all have been settled over a
lukewarm ale or a‘dram of wkisky
or a pint of Guinness.

“t told them that if they wanted
to settle it they should go to
Brussels and ask the European
Community to sort it out.”

NORTH VANCOUVER CITY,
Oct. 16, 1995 — Council of North
Vancouver City voted without
debate today to file a proposal for
amalgamation from North
Vancouver District.

On other parochial matters:
Must be nice to be a consul. Last
Sunday in Lighthouse Park a Jeep
with consular licence plates was
parked quite obviously on the road-
way, bumper-to-bumper with
another properly parked car.

As is well known, foreign diplo-

courses and parks, the deterrent i is
still there, { do not: know today’ s
valuation, but I would guess’ at’
between $250 and $275 million.

As long as this exists, and is
used to cover capital and develop-
ment costs, no district council can -
in any honesty, recommend to its
citizens that they voluntarily give ;
up a priceless assets.

We are now grossly | overstaffed,
over-taxed, and over-parked.’ But”:
that asset is ‘still there, and by the :
Municipal Act, belongs to the peo-
ple and must be used to the best:
advantage for the people, ; :

_ The city. has a’ deteriorating
infrastructure. Some ,,of. the -dis-
trict’s is starting to show wear and
tear. Thesé capital funds are going
to be needed, ‘or: the district will

: become a place for the rich only.

Peter C.D. Powell’:
North Vancouver *

host country and sometimes cant,
just about get away with mur‘er.
Being virtually fireproof, some of
them adopt arrogance as. their f
eign policy. . or

Good stroke for ‘Allied.
Shipbuilders, whose president,
Arthur McLaren, has been building .,

boats so long that he is believed to
“have supervised the coristruction o

the Ark, in winning a $19.6 million:
contract for BC Ferries' new :
Century-class ferries —_ short-route
utilitarian haulers. F

That will give about a year’s "Ss .
employment for 160 people, though
just a small glittering speck of «
North Vancouver's golden days of
shipbuilding. ; ei aa

In contrast, the future seems
positively ahead for North :
Vancouver's Ballard Battery | ;
Systems Corp., winning solid con-
tracts as we apparently forge ;
toward the new age of low-pollu-"
tion electric cars. j

As for that high-profile corrup:
tion on the provincial political.
scene, we all know of Judge Oliver,. :
Wendell Holmes’ famous dictum”
that free speech does’not include
the right to shout “Fire!” in a

crowded theatre, 9. *,

But does it include the right to-
shout “Bingo!” at a New

Democratic Party convention?: ©:
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