6 - Friday, February 6, 1987 — North Shore News News Viewpoint Food, please ORD that Transportation Minister Cliff Michael wants B.C. Ferries to serve real B.C. food is somewhai premature. The minister should instead be urging B.C. ferries to serve real food of any kind. For those who make regular use of the otherwise ex- cellent ferry service, B.C. Ferries food is notorious for its indigestibility. Kitchen staff aboard the various B.C. Ferries vessels have churned out the same overcooked selection for the past decade. And why should they do otherwise? They have a captive market of hungry travellers who form long ferry cafeteria lines at the beginning cf each voyage, resigned to the culinary fate that awaits them. Knowledgeable veterans bring their own meals. But the unwary. tourist has no such advantage. He joins the line perhaps impressed w'th its length and fooled into thinking his reward will be »ymething edible. It is a rude awakening indeed. For all the millions that are annually pumped into the B.C. Ferry system, food remains a !ow priority, and though it might seem a superfluous item to some, food betrays the real character of any organization. A call for the use of real B.C. products in B.C. Fer- ries food is admirable, but only if those products are prepared with the pride that each of us would want advertised as real B.C. food, not the generic pap that is shovelled the world over at the long-suffering traveller. Dear Editor: amounts ‘to something like _ By writing to you to say how pleased she was with the way ICBC handles claims (Letter to the Editor, Jan. 23), the lady has merely made ICBC look more of a joke. By forking out what to me Animal coverage appreciated Dear Editor: It was most |pleasant to read the item in your paper Animal Rescue’s Routine (Dec. 17) about a lady’s keen eye noticing a seagull in trouble, ° struggling from a hydro line. The lady called B.C. Hydro and very shortly a lineman arriv- ed, who also cared about the plight of wildlife. It was reported that he did a wonderful job at the .risk of himself. Gaile V. Campbell West Vancouver $30,000 in so small a space of time to one family to pay for damage and replacement to three cars is tantamount to idiocy. Even if the three accidents were apparently no fault of the writer's family, there must surely be a hint of the drivers being ac- cident prone, THE VOICE NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER: SUNOAY + WEDNESDAY . FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 §8,287 (average. Wednesday a Friday & Sunday) Display Advertising Classitiad Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom — Distribution Subscriptions North Shore News, foutieatin 1 OE DCTS AED DOGS Lae ILL UP DANI Pe A SNA PIVISION 980-0511 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 arth Shove 38 00 FeO ai pant Asay EANWHILE. LURKING IN THE PACIFIC DEPTHS.THE SOVIETS PREPARE TO MEET CANADAS BOLSTERED PACIFIC FLEET... It is no wonder that there was a large increase in the premiunis for this year, but I suppose that if the. settlements were to that writer’s satisfaction all the thou- sands that drove accident free yet were still charged highcr in- surance costs must sit quietly by and read how please she is with the ICBC joke. ta seamiem eet aon eenee Bo It is high time we rid ourselves of the bureaucratic bungling of the motor insurance outfit we were straddled with by the NDP during their brief peak of power that we hope will never return again. Ernest Edwards North Vancouver Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Advertising Director Council should give ‘red light’ Dear Editor: For .some time we have had motorists running yellow lights — strictly against the law. In fact they are beginning to run the red light, and police who have been lenient on this law breaking are now belatedly beginning to clamp down. Similarly, for some years we have had illegal suites and councils have seen fit to turn a blind eye. Realtors have used this fact to their benefit by advertising mortgage helpers, potential suites, etc. in spite of the fact that they themselves knew the area to be single family zoned. While the police have never considered changing the traffic laws (and inviting the law breakers to help them do so), North Vancouver District Council is now setting up a task force heavily loaded with realtors, il- legal suite owners and their tenants, all who have been cheerfully running the red light, to consider bylaw changes. Whereas other municipalities are reasonably suc- cessful in enforcing their bylaws, district council ap- pears to feel it expedient to try to satisfy a minority by changing regulations. to suites Taxpayers are heavily subsidizing illegal suites in that they are providing schools, water, sewage, gar- bage collection, roads, fire protection, etc. for this fungoid growth. In some cases their neighborhood is depreciated because of slum conditions developing i in their area, It should be pointed out that wartime conditions of 1940 which made it necessary for councils to approve doubling up accommodation, should not apply now. The laxity of councils over the previous years in ig- noring the increasing abuse of a privilege, and the present evasive action of council in trying to justify this now uncontrolled abuse is not commendable. Having only just re-elected a council to represent and act for us, it is only reasonable to expect them to uphold their pre-election promises. This wil] probably become an emotional issue, and it’s one that should be judged solely on the facts. Council should not be coerced by the yellow light proponents. They should turn on the red light and have the guts to enforce it as other areas do. J.M. Langdon North Vancouver Peter Speck Noel Wright Barrett Fisher Linda Stewart rape St tse ety het ote eat Malin cates Bahetng MANGE Hgts suteet ac toesuies IEF 4 Entire contents < 1987 North Shore Free Press Lid. All fights reserved. DEPLOY ANOTHER RUST- SEEKING MISSILE. Dear Editor: I attended the public meeting on Ambleside-by-the-Sea on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at West Vancouver Municipal Hail. I was proud to be a resident of West Vancouver when I heard the well-thought comments from our residents, almost -unanimous in their desire to see the foot of 14th Street dedicated as a park, the first step in the reclamation of our waterfront. It appears that these people have openly ‘been declaring themselves in favor of waterfront park for many years. Who in municipal hall has the power to ignore these opi- nions and to authorize so much of our tax money to be spent on su- perfluous and sometimes mislead- ing reports, drawings and models? Will our new mayor and council be able to stop this delaying and have that area dedicated as park right away? Let us have some ac- tion so residents, developers and municipal planners can redirect their energies elsewhere. S.M. Adams West Vancouver