raG's Feldey i April 2521986. North Shore News Show off the Shore Xpo °&86 is the drawing card but it’s up to individual communities to take advantage of next month’s increase in tourists traffic. | North Vancouver City and District are to be com- mended for initiating a local clean-up campaign to _ Make North Vancouver Shine. For its part, West | Vancouver . Council supports "Make the.North Shore Shine campaign, encouraging ‘residents and local businesses to light up their. homes and. workplaces as a'special backdrop to the world fair. .-. And from all three municipalities, Expo Special “, ‘Events Committees are working hard to attract interest Ms to the North Shore from May to-October. “o There’s no doubt the: tourism industry, .B.C.’s one 7 “growth industry; will get.a. ‘needed boost that Expo will provide. But it’s: up: ‘to all: North ‘Shore residents, and “> Expo organizers :: predict. the majority. of Lower. . Mainland visitors live. about two days’ drive away, and as such will be in need of lodgings. Here on the North Shore many residents have regis- ered: ‘to provide bed and breadfast, accommodation. _ ; ‘are not oven a. fair deal they lea ole des yc “that drinking and: driving: is the leading "killer of young re between 16 and 24 years of age. : the. concerned : reitizens : vand aiiis Voice OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER north shore Peter Speck Noel Wright Publisher: Disptay Advertising 980-0511 Editor-in-Chiof Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2134 : Circulation 986-1337 News Editor Barrett Fisher- Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director. Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban Dewspaper and qualified under | schdia (1, Patagtaph fitot the Excise Yas Act, Is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by Norin Snore Free Press Ltd, and disitibuied to every dost on the Noxth Shove. Second Clans Min! Registiation Number aHa5. Subscrimions Nott and West Vancouver, $25 Der year. Mailing rates. available on tequest Submissions are welcome bul we cannot accept tesponsbuity ber unsolicited maten! including manuscepls and Brctures which Should be accompaned ‘by B stampod, addressed envelope SUNDAY + WEDNESDAY « FRIDAY 4139 Lonsdale Ave. North Nancouver, BS. _ V7M 2H4 ~ Entire contents wot 1986 North Shore Free Press Lid. All rights reserved. 56,893 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) "Dear Editor: re : _ have. just read Ald. McMinn ‘letter to you regarding petitions: . which. you publishes Sunday, what ;is--at stake, possibly ;:b than an alderman; J ; He tells’us;that . ‘politicians ‘positive’ to his: ‘side i is ‘negative’ to’ not: all ‘together. ignore ; petitions: However, ‘Al be stated to'a group of r “] agree’ ‘that ‘some: “people sign : iat concerned: bi “petitions | possibly. without much: i Ald. “MeMinn states that there is a positive side and a negative side ... 'e in; MADD are very concerned with'this problem, especially with the : = ing festivities of Expo, the increased establishments of alcohol and- jon of licences:for consumption of alcohol on Sundays: e of :the. happiest times in a graduate’s. life,a° ding alternatives to dangerous : FRIENDS: ‘DON'T and: driving situations before. it is ‘too: Tat ~ “som by a selfi sh’ few! time’ when they: hat causes many of : Deat Editor: >.> Before :I’ begin: my written attack | on n Doug (free speech) Collins,: let- me first state a: ‘few important...” ' things.-1 havé read Doug Collins on and off: for the { ) last three or four. -yéars, and ‘although it sickens me . is- a great: literary. piece’ th “: t0.take in: some: of. the ‘outdated, extremist. and. ‘made mistakes: ‘in WW. “ male-chauvinist ideas he’ presents in his column, I... feel it is important to listet, to all'sides of the polit-- ~: ical spectrum. (I. also listen to, Radio Moscow oc. ~“casionally.) ‘L have made it a point not. to ‘write to your paper about Mr. Collins because I feel the more people - pay attention to. him, the more he will exort his. : communist ones as: they?.moved:., West... ‘Now that EXPO 863 is ‘hear ready to “open, :. now that: “most of “the “obstacles have been overcome, that © record.” numbers + of':.tickets: have been’ presold;: that ‘the pavilions _ have been made weathertight;. that new: highways ‘and “bridges: link ,us’ “to the ‘east‘and South, that’ many: fine hotels are ready to receive the masses, and that Skytrain is riding Now that we are ready: - wechear ': “the rail to, ‘welc the world, « “that” all * public * transport systems re tobe shutdown. ° , Paradise ds ‘to. ‘be; hela for ran-' What will our visitors think of a- ~ city! swithout, bus. service? A Skytrain that is on static display? :How -will ‘they , visit - the islands - without the ferries? Perhaps: fleets" “of barges? Of course. the: ‘Seabuises . -, could be ‘used as floating’ restau-. rants, operated by White Spot. Is there a captain at the helm of ‘this Ship of. Fools?, Or: has the Black Gang from the engine room taken over the bridge? L. Devoine . Vancouver . : ‘denounced: asa Hitler. lover.’ : n your readers and Mr, Col-:. im me ber o the’ left and I do not. twisted logic. However, now he has gone’ too far. Mr. Collins .., should, as in any true democratic society, be “allowed to say what he wants, but you and your " paper. are allowing” yourselves to be used for what many “would call evil purposes, by giving Mr. Col- y.lins an: outlet: for his lies’ and extreme right-wing “thinking.” : I-refer to. the article dated March 30, -1986, -in “that Doug ‘Irving i is hated by. the left and has been ‘Americans and British blew ‘up ‘Dresden ‘and ‘kille many.innocent: civilians.’ The* Germans,’ as we all: -know,: (except: of ‘course: Mr. . Collins): slaughtered >} the Jews, communists, socialists, homosexuals and: mentally handicapped. To conclude, it.would ‘appear. “that Mi. Collins job in your newspaper -is to: test: free’ speech .by falsehoods ‘and. to make absurd statements. Most. decent people have had enough. I strongly, suggest _which Mr. Collins makes.the outrageous statement: . that,you, consider.removing Mr.’ Collins-from: your. : paper. Or. do' profits come before common sense eat” ._, the:News? |. : John Richmond _- — North Vancouver.