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Dear Editor:

Pegey Trendell-Whittaker’s
Aug. 26 article on terminology,
Living with disabilities, concerns
me as a handicapped individual,

In this biased report, Pam Hor-
ton — who was the only one in-
terviewed — illustrates how cer-
tain disabled groups are out to
change the language. The result of

Sikh
remarks
shock

Dear Editor:

1 am shocked that Noel
Wright should print the
remarks of a bigot in his col-
umn. I’m referring to the snide
mention of ‘‘turbaned, bearded
Mounties’? and their implied
cowardice in avoiding riot du-
ty.

E suggest Mr. Wright apolo-
gize for leaving the marked
impression that he agrees with
his so-called ‘‘puzzled reader’’
(News, Sept. 2). Then both Mr.
Wright and his ‘‘puzzier’’
might do a Jittle research into
the long, honorable service of
the Sikhs in the British army.

Only a little knowledge of
the nobility and integrity of
these fighting men will make
clear who is really the coward
in this affair.

The cowards are those who
whisper this rot.

Sohn Harris
West Vancouver

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“Word games’ don’t help disabled

these efforts is that the terminolo-

gy is becoming increasingly vague.

Even though Miss Horton's in-
tentions are noble, her word
games do nothing to battle what
she perceives as ‘**disabled
stereolyping.”’

Her examples of some of the
“most offensive’? words like:
handicapped, confined to, victim
of, spastic, wheelchair bound, is

just going too far. In fact, if given
the choice. Po prefer the usaze of
“handicapped” as opposed to
“disabled.”

And | have never had a prob-
fem telling anyone that foam
“wheelchair bound” or ‘contined
to" a wheelchair because that is a
reality — 1 can’t go anywhere
without one.

However, Miss Horton and [

W. Van publication

Dear Editor:

The ‘*Special Golf Course
Issue’? of West Vancouver Report,
recently delivered to all West
Vancouver residents, presents a
thoroughly biased examination of
the controversial golf course cur-
tently proposed for Hollyburn
Ridge. Further, the newsletter fails
to address a number of concerns
put to council and the course’s
proponents by residents earlier
this summer.

For example, the Report’s
“Cypress Golf Course Chronolo-
gy’? states that on May 14, council
reactivated the Golf Advisory
Committee to ‘‘discuss alternate
course plan to retain old growth
trees.”? It does not mention that
this move was prompted by con-

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cerned citizens who spoke at the
public hearing. Had they not done
so, council would have approved
the original golf course design,
which would have caused many
old-growth trees to be cut.

The Report also touts ‘‘shared
public/private play.’’ This means
that members of the public will
have access to nine holes, five
days a week, and 18 holes two
days a week. Several golfers who
spoke at the public hearings said
golf is an 18, not a nine-hole
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Blue-collar men and women,
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Wednesday, September 26, 1990 - North Shore News - 7

can agree on several things: we
don't corsider ourselves to be
“specials? we don’t wish io be
patronized; we jusi would like to
be treated Hike everyone efse. But,
of course, F don’t) purport to
speak for all handicapped indi-
viduals,

Brian Piatts
North Vancouver

‘biased’

Finally, the proposed course's
location in under snow from
mid-November to mid-April.
When Vancouver receives rain or
snow, the location is hidden in
cloud. No mention of this is made
by West Vancouver Report.

West Vancouver Council seems
bound and determined to push the
golf course proposal through
despite opposition by residents,
environmentalists, and local ar-
tists. Should the course fail — for
whatever reason — council's
legacy to taxpayers will be an
eyesore unsuitable for use by
skiers or hikers.

Christopher Brayshaw
West Vancouver

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