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Friend defended

T LOOKS like dogs are getting to be anything but

man’s best friend.

If adopted, a bylaw introduced by North Van-

couver District tast
playgrounds,

picnic areas,

week will outlaw canines from

playing fields, beaches,

fitness circuits, running tracks, golf courses, bowling
greens, tennis courts and sign-posted parks, including
Lynn Yalley, Cleveiand and Strathcona parks and 21
other parks throughout the district.

The few parks where dogs will be permitted on a
leash year-round will be marked.

North Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker,
furthermore, has requested a follow-up report to look
at the possibility of ticketing dog owners on a gradu-
ated fine basis for bylaw infractions.

What did dogs do to deserve such banishment?

What must they do to better their public image?

Man’s best friend is being targetted simply because it
must follow the call of Mother Nature. Surely the dog
is not at fault. Pet owners must take the responsibility
of cleaning up after and keeping control of their
animals. Baker’s follow-up report request regarding
ticketing dog owners for bylaw infractions seems to be
a just solution to ending canine waste and keeping
dogs in line. But banning dogs frorn public azeas in the
district is simply going overboard.

Both man and dog will lose if this bylaw is adopted.

Noel Wright

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MAKING AMENDS for raining
out her Walkathon a week ago, the
weatherman has promised ‘‘West
Van in Motion’’ chairman Pat
Boname a great weekend ahead.
So all systems are ‘‘go’’ for Tid-
dlycove’s big Rick Hansen fun-
draiser tomorrow and Sunday
(May 9-10), sponsored by the
Municipality, Ambleside-Tid-
dlycove Lions and the North Shore
News. j

We're reprinting the entry-and-
pledge form (which contains full
instructions) on page 15 of today’s
paper for anybody who’s lost the
original one or needs an extra
copy. Times are from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. on each day. Start your first
lap at any of the three checkpoints
— Seawalk at 24th or 19th, or at
the entrance to Ambleside Park,
and have your form stamped each
time you pass anot’ 2r checkpoint.
And, of course, you can wring ex-
tra bucks for Rick out of your
sponsors by clocking up laps on
both days, not just one,

Deadline for delivering the
pledged donations you coHect to
the Mayor’s Office is now Friday,
May 15. And don’t forget those
handsome prizes for two lappers
— a year’s free pass to the Aquatic
Centre or the equivalent in other

LETTER OF THE DAY

Widow may
lose home
because of
suite ban

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Rec Centre or Seniors Centre pro-
grams. :

See you'in sneakers bright and
early Saturday — striding out for
Rick!

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THE ROYAL HAND this week in
London, England, clasped that of
West Van’s 98-year-old Agnes
Watts, ‘‘angel’? of the Variety

AGNES WATTS...a royal hand-
clasp for the chiidren’s ‘angel’.

Dear Editor:

I am writing to you on the sub-
ject of illegal suites and the
district’s proposal to phase them
out. I have lived in my house for
20 years, am a recently retired
widow who took the trouble before
my retirement to work out my fi-
nances to enable me to continue to
live in my house; this financial
calculation included the rent from
a person: occupying part of the
house. I am now told I must ‘get
my house in order’ (which |
thought I had done) and Mayor
Baker announced she is ‘not
prepared to legalize existing suites’.

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Club of B.C. From the Duke of
Edinburgh she received the inter-
national show biz club’s Catherine
Variety Sheridan Award, honoring
her for the more than $500,000
she’s donated over the past seven
years to Variety’s special projects
for children. Her 1982 gift alone to
Variety Club’s annual February
Telethon was a cool $250,000.

Remarkably hale and hearty as
she heads towards her century,
Agnes is a pre-World War One
immigrant from Germany, living
in modest style in a Bellevue con-
do. She amassed the fortune she’s
now busily giving away to B.C.’s
needy kids over a lifetime of hard
work supplemented by a canny in-
stinct for wise investments. ‘tI do
it for the children,’’ she says, ‘‘and
I couldn’t feel better.’”

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CHEQUE-BOOK cancer fighters,
fresh from donating to the April
“Cancer Can Be Beaten’’ fun-
draising campaign, have a chance
tomorrow (Saturday, May 9) to see
at first hand just how their money
ig spent, reports B.C. Cancer
Foundation director Dave Catton.
The B.C. Cancer Research Centre,
601 West 10th in Vancouver, is
holding a 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. open
house where you can meet and talk
with some 40 scientists and 130
support staff doing leading-edge
research which is winning
woridwide recognition.

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WRAP-UP: From the dean of
West Van seniors, Fred Titcomb,
comes a plea for help with a
special 75th Anniversary project
being planned for Tiddlycove’s

I heard Mayor Baker being in-
terviewed on the radio this morn-
ing. She used certain words,
without definition, that left me
more confused than ever; words
such as ‘independent’ to describe a
suite, from which I gather it would’
have to be totally cut off from the
rest of the house. She also used the
word ‘kitchen’. What constitutes a
kitchen? A wet bar with a
refrigerator and one hot plate
could be a kitchen. The most con-
fusing references were to tenants
and lodgers. 1 understood her to.
say that a lodger would still be
permitted but a tenant wouldn’t.

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upcoming Community Day, June
6: the committee is compiling a list
of all present West Van residents
who were also born there in the
year 1912 (they needn’t have lived
in the municipality all their lives,
provided they’re back there now).
If you’re one of them, or know of
any, call Lynda Lyons at the
Seniors’ Centre (926-4375) soonest
... Long years of dedicated volun-
teer service at the Margaret Fulton
Centre by Leona McPherson and
Mary Lawrie were honored at the
Centre’s April 30 Volunteer Rec-
ognition dinner ... Top Orange
Lady for 1987-88 is North Van's

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Edith Zagol, elected Provincial
Grand Mistress: of the Ladies
Orange Benevolent Association of
B.C. at its 65th annual session fate
last month in Nanaimo ... And to
close, Mrs. E.L. Scott of West Van
brings us yet another Canada Post
joke. She’s just received a
Christmas card from Palm Springs
— postmarked December 9, 1986!

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: If the
Lord meant for us to stay on our
toes all the time, how come He
gave us so much to sit down on?

HONORED VOLUNTEERS...longtime Margaret Fulton Centre workers
Leona McPherson (1) and Mary Lawrie.

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From Mr. Crist’s rather wild
statements about protecting the
character of the community so that
it doesn’t become a slum area and
citizens are not ‘living in holes like
Hong Kong’, | assume he is talking
about density. The density of my
house is two, with one car; exactly
as it was when my husband was
alive. The density of many single
families is much higher than that. I
wonder who is being protected? |
see from the new district budget
that an amount of $500,000 is be-
aside ‘to cover the
estimated costs of investigating
and registering illegal suites’? with

the district planning to recover this
half a million dollars ‘through in-
spection and registration fees’’, so
it doesn’t appear as if the exercise
will even generate increased reve-
nue for the district.

As the previous letter writer
says, there are plenty of net-so-
rich ordinary working, and retired,
people who want to continue to
live in their houses in North Van-
couver but unfortunmely the
district seems determined to winkle
them out and force them to move.
\ deeply resent that.

Name Withheld
North Vancouver