6 - North Shore News — Sunday, June 25, 2000

T’S easy to support the concept

of organized sports for our chil-

den, isn’t it. We're all in favour
of a sound mind in a sound body, not
to mention getting all those trouble-
some teens off street corners and out
of 7-Eleven parking lots.

But what lessons are we teaching
those same kids when they are con-
fronted by a lack of facilities and,
worse, active opposition to the
prospect of more children playing
sports for longer periods of time on
ficlds that are actualiy designated for
such activities? | -

——VIEW POINT:

ective SupR

youth have signed up to play next sea-
son. Unfortunately, some of them
won’t have a place to practise. There’s
not much point to keeping them
down at Ambieside, as one West Bay
resident suggested, if the only prac-
tice time available is 2 a.m. :
On the face of it, the same resi-
dent’s other suggestion — letting
then: play on the “lots of good fields”
in North Vancouver — has more
merit. After all, West Vancouver resi-
dents will doubtless be thrilled to
accommodate an exchange program
that would swap West Van soccer

- ‘The latest example of this selective’ ' playess for the North Vancouver City

NIMBYism is the opposition of local

residents in West Bay and Caulfeild to.
‘lighting that would alfow school:

8:30

“playing. fields ro be used until
is so

p.m: West: Van’s soccer pro

successful that 1,800. children and,

Littie League kids who need another
diamond and the North Vancouver.
Tiistrict kids who were displaced
when resident complaints ultimately

-resulted in the removal of the Ross

Road lacrosse box.

play in North

lds over there.”

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rchestra.: (From a June 23 This Week story.)
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iinciple of doing good deeds’
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rows.a. Jure-18 News. Sunday

- the headline-dominating
Canadian Alliance
leadership race?

8.C.’s most colour-
ful politician is |
happy to cblige _
again. -
B.C. Reform Party’
leader Bill Vander Zat
wants to create a B.C.
of the Canadi:

a

Instabile

= Credit Party, the Fai

- Coalition Party, the B.C. Progressive |

. Conservative Party-and the:B.C. Party.
+: At Reform B.C.'s annual general. :
meeting a ccuple of weekends ago the

“170 ‘party delegates voted virtually unani-’

~ mously to open get-together talks with -
the four other day right-wing groups —
_ all of which have already signalled their
© interest in the idea.” 27 |
; j The first step would be for the five...
party leaders to devise a process for merg:
ing. ‘That doncand ratified ‘by members —
” of all the parties, a founding convention
“would. be. held tater this year.

"Certaiily none of them have anything |

to lose. In.1996, Reform B.C. won
9.27% of the popular vorc, Socreds 0.4%
and the Pamily Coalition 0.26%. The
Tories and the B.C. Party didn’t'score .
~ enough to be recorded separately,
Meanwhile, the latest Angus Reid poil
puts' Reform B.C, at 15% —.down from
21% in April — and just below the NDP _
“at 16%, trailing the Liberals at 57% by.
over 40° ts. Ts
Merging 5.C.’s five right-wing,

midgets would doubtless give them all a ~~

we

‘Platform to Rebuild B.C.” i:

VOTE FOR

FIGURED
te THEY
KNEW WHO

“TOM LONG'S CAMPAIGN.

oe AHEY
NEVER

WOULDA
JOINED.

, jb ortuccoe|
TEAM EXPLAINS THE

RATIONALE OF SIGNING UP QUEBEC...
MEMBERS WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ALLIANCE:

. ‘scandal by its premier,

. one Bill Vander Zalm. -

~ . But the thousands of %
loyal 1991 Sacred sup-

opposition, :

So it’s there that the ultimate right.
wing merging must finally happen: And
with under a year before the electi
‘only practical method is for Refo
and. iberals to strike some deal to avoid
any possible splitting of the anti-NDP., :
vote that could enable a New Demc

porters didn’t simply...

evaporate into thin air.
; -They switched to the
triumphant Liberal opposition, not fro

ri

. - Reform B

any love of Liberals‘or their leaders, but -~.

simply because it was’— ahd still is
only effective socialist political h
left to them. ;, a :
With the grip the Ailiance (formerly
federal Reform) still has on B.C. voters,
this doesn’t have to be. Vander Zalm’s"
“Vision 2000: Reform B.C.’s Policy.
form to Rebu , i5.a plan te
hich every right-wing voter craving n

~ and better ways to govern ourselves can

say a loud Amen. | , 7

’ Its centrepiece, a new B.C.) -
Constitution within two years. Just a

of its highlights include: reform of the
Legislature (free votes, fixed election

_ dates,effective recall, initiative and refer:

enda); tax reduction leading to a flat tax

_, within five years; exempe business from
» Corporate Tax in return for job creatio
a B.C. Health Care Approach not dictat:
- ed by Ottawa; tax éredits to families to;
" encourage home child care; B.C. to cun-

ie

trol its own immigration, like Quebe
In short, Vision’2000 is virtual m

erhood for the ex-Socreds and ex

. LETVERS TO THE EDITOR mist inciude your
name, full ‘address and. telephone numbe:
Subek via e-enall to: tresshaw@asaews,

mance,one or more
Cs

. course. But for “uniting th

© B.C.it’s Vander. Zalm’s only, p:

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