iy warn firme Caen if _ 1 GOT A TENNIS {DONT WANT. 0 OFFEND THE GOT A TENNIS LESSON IN 2 THANE To WATCH OPRAH. THAVE Too esta SOME JONE-TAMD NEWS VIEWPOINT — eighbors feed neighbors ERGHBORHOODS neighborly tending if they are to be _¥ good places in which to live. That message was delivered loud and clear by the RCMP at a June 2 meeting in North Vanceuver’s Pemberton held Heights. The meeting had been called (to allow the neighborhood's residents to vent frustra- tions over increasing vandalism and petty crime in the area. It was the sound of honest concern from a neighborhood used to 2 high level of community safety and 2 low level of crim- inal activity. Concerns iated crimes. But such crimes reflect. the general health of focal family units and, by natural ‘raised focused on youth- need much extension, the general health of the aeigh- borhood itself. The community checkup obviously turn- ed up more symptoms of deteriorating neighborhood health than some residents might have been aware. . It pointed to a local need to look more closely at home environments and neigh- borhood support. As RCMP Const. Mike Lidstone so elo- quea‘ly told the 150 people at the meeting: “Say no te violence. Don’t accept it. Re- ject it. You guys have to work to make your streets safer.’’ That responsibility starts in each home. To repeat the first streetproofing tip for parents that accompanied the June 4 News story on the meeting: Become more in- volved with your children. “LETTER OF THE DAY Taxpayer fed up with NVD priorities Delbook Avenue and vice versa; where are our tax dollars going, Mr. Mayor? Whatever happened to essential services like maintenance of road Dear Editor: Three cheers for Mr. Wright’s article of Friday, May 28, re: the 1993 budget. Accountability to the frustrated taxpayer is long overdue. It seems Ernie Crist is the only councillor who was concerned over the years for the health of this district. The days are long gone when all we wanted was to see photo op- portunities of our mayor in the news, Let’s hear it from the thousands of people who commute daily down from Prospect Road to Publisher . Managing Editor . Associate Editor Sales & Marketing Director .Peter Speck “Timothy Renshaw Noet Wright Linda Stewart surfaces, where there are none anymore? For years we have had to dodge and weave through a maze of craters and pot holes (it has become a real obstacle course), but you are not there for us. You're concerned with your $10 million new district hall. And you have no money for removing your pile of garbage from in front of our property, or Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classilied Advertising Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution Subscriptions 986-1337 ff 986-6222 Fax Administration 985-2131 po™ to repair the asphalt on our boul- evard. And we did not hear a peep from you on our behalf during the tax revolt. That’s because you know there’s a neverending gold mine in the pockets of your taxpayers. Well, come down from your ivory tower, Mr. Mayor. Fan- tasyland is over because the tax- payer is fed up with the likes of you. Let’s all rally behind Ernie Crist for mayor this time around! J. Siebert North Vancouver oe, uD This newspaper contains tecycled fibre 986-1337 985-3227 p KIM CAMPBELL’S worst enemy now is time. Today’s conventional wisdom says it will beat her. Uf it does, Canada itself could move one big step closer to going down the spout with her. From swea: ing-in day (June 25) she has just about 10 weeks before calling a late October election. But the G-7 summit in fokyo, July 7-9, effectively reduces to cight weeks the time left for convincing a crabby electorate that Mulroney is finally history -—— and that Tory government is now a whole pro- tising new ball game. A tough assignment even with everyone paying attention, instead of haif of the voters in turn being away at the cottage or beach. The outcome, says today’s con- ventional wisdom, will be Camp- bell’s failure to sell the new refurbished Tory image to the electorate in time to escape defeat by Jean Chretien’s Grits. But what exactly does ‘‘defeat’’ mean in 1993? Reformers in the West and Lucien Bouchard’s Bloc Quebecois make it highly urtikely that ANY one party can win a working majority of, say, 155 seats, The two new regional parties could well take a combined total of at least 70 seats in B.C., Alber-— ta, Ontario and Quebec, with the PRESTON MANNING... tough, practical program. embattled NDP salvaging 20. That leaves 205 to be divided between the Tories and Grits. In order to win even the slim- mest of working majorities one of the two major parties wou‘d have to reduce the other to 50 seats or less. To be realistic, it won’t hap- pen. So what WILL happen? An Italian-style parliament of uneasy coalitions: Tories and Reformers versus Liberals and NDP, that’s what. Given our staggering $491 billion federal debt — which threatens to plunge Canada at any time into an agonizing New Zealand-type bankruptcy — a Tory-Reform party team in charge is undoubtedly the safer bet. At least the Tories are for- mally cominitted to deficit elimi- nation, while Preston Manning has a tough, practical program for making it happen within three years. Chretien’s Liberals have no such commitment, preferring to waffle about spending even more HITHER AND YON a Liberal-NDP coalition had a clean majority in the House over Tories and Reform combined. Conversely, even a fairly solid win over the Tories wouldn't help Chretien if he and Audrey , McLaughlin were still out- numbered by a Tory-Reform Par- ty alliance. : So one thing at least is clear. Before we find out whether Prime Minister Kim Campbell won any- thing except a summer job last ” weeiend, more than one fat lady has to sing this October. ' eee ! DEAR MAYOR DYKEMAN: Thank you for your June 13 letter “Get It Wright Next Time.’’ But did Your Worship actually READ my May 28 column, or merely its headline — ‘‘Does District Hide Deficit In Cooked Books?”” Just asking, becatise if you did. read the column, you might recall it simply commented on earlier ‘public allegations by Coun. Ernie Crist. !t did NOT say they were valid. But it DID say such charges — made openly by an elected of- ficial —- obviously demand a response. . Now that Your. Worship — after shooting the messenger — has obliged, all that remains is to ask voters for ‘any further ques- tions?’’ i WRAP UP: On display until July 14, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in city hall foyer, 141 West 14th, are the contrasting works of talented mother and daughter artists Emaime and Joan Martin. ... Reform boss Preston Manning speaks here 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, at the International. Plaza, Capilano and Marine — call 980-5300 for limited tickets ($10 each). ... Volunteer drivers for seniors’ evening meals needed 4-5 p.m. Monday or Wednesday — please phone North Shore Health, 986-7111, if you can help. ... And hi there, Madam Prime Minister Designate, did you check the postal code of 24 Sussex Drive yet? West Van reader Derrick Humphreys points out that it happens to be KiM 1M4! Comptroller . Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independenl suburban nevspaper and quatitied under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ilt of the Excise Tax Act. 's published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distnbuted to every door on the North Shore, Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No, 0087238. Mailing rates avallabte on request: Subrussions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibiliy for unsolicited matetial including Manuscrpts and pictures winch should be accomparied by 4 stamped, addressed envelope North Shore managed . borrowed money to ‘‘stimulate’’ the economy. Ditto their natural allies, the NDP — happy to sink ever deeper ove in the glue while foreign loans fi- nance welfare and ‘‘job creation.””, WRIGHT OR WRONG: You “Defeat” for Kim Campbell, can’t fool all the people all the therefore, could only come if she time — some of: them are busy won so disastrously few seats that fooling you MEMBER fey SPs HIDAY a 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, SOA DIVISION North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1993 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Pee Vee es eer a as Oe a ae ‘