8 - Sunday, October 11, 1992 - North Shore News

Forget about seawall,
what about Parkway?

Dear Editor:

Every once in a while many
of us iz the all too silent ma-
jority read a letter, story or ar-
ticle in your newspaper that af-
fects us in such a way that we
feel compelled to respond.
Such a letter, by Coun. Ernie
Crist in your Aug. 28 issue,
penetrated my usually tolerant
sensitivities.

Uncer the guise of fighting
for the rights of the citizens of
North Vancouver District, Mr.
Crist is taking a very complex
and extremely expensive issue
and trivializing it for personal
political gain.

He wants a task force to
study what he calls ‘the need
to address the erosion and pro-
tection of foreshore lands,
pollution, commercial, indus-
trial and recreational use des-
ignation.’’

Well, 1 would like to make
the following comments to him
regarding his latest ‘‘Crusade
for Crist.”

Hi, Ernie. There are a lot of
us out here in the ever silent
majority who have been Jisten-
ing to you for years. Some of
us remember your early begin-
ning speeches, at the old Palm
Springs Heakth Spa, some 20
years ago.

Watching you over the last
few years on community TV at
council meetings proves that we
still maintain a fair sense of
humor.

This current issue of yours,
Ernie, this task force thing, is a
beauty as far as masking the
aciual costs and real issues to
the taxpayer.

It might work at Playland
with walnut shells and a pea,
Ernie, but it won't work out
here in the Cove area.

Some of us, in the Dollar-
ton/Deep Cove area are for-
tunate cnough to tive on the
waterfront, and contrary to
what you allude to in your let-
ter we pay several thousands of
dollars in taxes for that special
privilege.

Ali of the residents of the
area live relatively close to the
water and have (for years) en-
joyed Cates Park, Deep Cove
Park and the many accesses
and public areas in between.

These could always be ex-

panded and improved and you
would have trouble finding a
resident of the area who would
discourage far more access to
the water.

Ernie, you don’t need a task
force for that. :

So let's see, Ernie, you say
we need the task force to de-
velop ‘‘a comprehensive water-
front policy to protect the mil-
lions of dollars the district tax-
payers have already spent on

. community planning,’’ etc.

Well, Ernie, as one of the
taxpayers I thought that’s what
the council and the district
staff were supposed to do.

Isn*t that why we have a
planning department. Ernie?
Isn’t that why we have a coun-
cil, Ernie, to represent us re-
garding the aliocation of our
tax dollars?

You mention taking a poll,
Ernie — well 1 wonder what
would happen if you poled the
people of the district and asked
them if they wanted a West
Vancouver-type seawall,

Before you poll them, Ernie,
you might want to give them
an idea of what it will cost
them out here in the Cove area
where 80% of beaches aren’t
flat.

This idea of yours would
cost millions of dollars to de-
velop. Ernie, let alone the cost
that this would bring to our
area in more development.

We like the way it is, Ernie,
that’s why we live here.

In closing, Ernie, tet me ask
you to do the citizens of the
Cove area a favor.

How about a poll for a task
force even), to study the great
Job of coordinating what the
various levels and departments
of governments have been do-
ing on Mt. Seymour Parkway
for three years.

We have been really im-
pressed watching how well you
have monitored our tax dollars,
digging, cutting, patching,
sewering, digging, patching,
landscaping, ‘*gas-lining,’’
patching, and now digging, on
the Parkway.

I, for one, would be inter-
ested in seeing your ‘‘statistics”’
on that poll, Ernie.

Robert M. Landucci
North Vancouver

The West Vancouver Policemen's
Association would like to thank the
following sponsors within our community
for making this year’s golf tournament
one of our most successful ever:

Arigato Sushi
Ambleside Inn
Banner’s Restaurant
Bay Moorings
Restaurant
Bean Around the Worid
Bill Soprovich
Boathouse Restaurant
Horseshoe Bay
Brunswick Bowling
Lanes
Canadian Airlines
Dundarave Cafe
Eatons, Park Royal
Earl's Tin Palace
Restaurant
Famous Players
Theatres, Park Royal
Greek Connection
Restaurant

Hongkong Bank of

Canada

J.A.W. Fabricators

Palermo's Restaurant

Park Royal Hotel

Peppi's

Pressed Metal Products

S.A, Mowat Ltd.

Salmon House on the Hill

Someptace Special,
Caulfeild Plaza

Squamish alley Golf &

ountry C

Super Valu, Park Royal

T.L.C Auto Detailing

Taso's Restaurant,
West Van

West Van Transit

Wetmore Motors

White Spot, Park Royal

Weather extremes resulted in
unprecedented water demands

Dear Editor:

Re: Letter from Mr. Keith
Henry appearing in Mailbox Sept.
13:

1 must comment on the critical
and caustic statements made in
Mr. Henry’s letter concerning his
views on the water shortage faced
by the region this summer.

The public has not been misled
by the Water District, as alleged
by Mr. Henry; rather, they have
been informed of the measures
that all of us had to take to con-
serve water for essential purposes.

This was due to extremes of
weather which resulted in a supply
capability and consumptive de-
mand that was unprecedented and
considerably outside the range
which a water utility can efficient-
ly plan for without having to
adopt special measures.

Lower Blueridge:
watch your cats!

Dear Editor:

This is a warning to the
residents of lower Blueridge that a
maniac dangerous to their pets
and possibly their children and
themselves is at large, as indicated
by the airgun pellet lodged in my
cat's face.

If he had been hit a quarter
inch higher he would have Jost an
eye or possibly been killed.

Humans’ (although | use the
term loosely in the perpetrator’s
case) capacity for cruelty to
defenceless animals is amazing.

To the idiot who did this, if you
object to my cat being in your
yard, please come and talk to me.
1 would rather keep him inside
than have him maimed or killed.
J.L. LeBe
North Vancouver

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Of course it is always possible
for everyone to enjoy the use of
unlimited quantities of water,
given the abundance of nearby
fresh water sources, if cost is no
object.

In the real world, though, the
extra cost of providing the facili-
ties to be able 10 indulge ourselves
in that luxury under even the most
adverse conditions is generally
considered to be an unjustifiable
expenditure of public funds.

The fact that most water con-
sumers from Victoria, B.C. to
Portland, Oregon were required to
implement emergency conservation
measures this summer that were in
some cases considerably more

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that this view is universally held.
Mr. Henry is correct when he
States that we have lots of water
available in the Lower Mainland.
For the most part, however, it’s
water of poor quality or in the
wrong place to be of practical
value to the general public.
Ongoing planning by the
regional district and member
municipalities will ensure that the
needs of the Lower Mainland res-
idents continue to be anticipated
and met in the most cost-effective
and reasonable way.
J.R. Morse
Chief engitieer
Greater Vancouver Water District

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