6 ~ Wednesday, September 18, 1991 - North Shore News GET BACK To WORK You INGRATE! ALLRIGHT GUYS! ...\M BEHIND You! STAY OUT FOREVER IF INSIGHTS OE: 2 | aoe SSS NEWS VIEWPOINT Out of luck lottery couver City lottery kiosk are about T HE OPERATORS of a North Van- the pointed to get skewered on heads of local bureaucracy. On Sept. 9, the owners of the B&B Ticket Sales kiosk currently located on the 13th and Lonsdale Safeway store site ap- peared before city council to argue against a city directive that would require the kiosk to come up with 21 parking spaces or move elsewhere. The 35-square-foot kiosk, tormerly Friendly Glen's, moved to the Safeway site from its original 17th Street location on Safeway’s invitation. Until recently it had been operating at the site without any objection from the ci- ty, but since new owners took i¢ over it has been deemed by the city to be a commer- cial expansion to the Safeway site. Added parking is therefore required say city fathers. Not added parking from Safeway, which has a 119-parking-space lot and vastiy superior financial resources; added parking from the kiosk owners, who probably have about as much chance of providing 21 parking spaces as the regular man on the street has of building one of the great pyramids. Added parking from the kiosk owners even though most people who drop by a lottery kiosk do not spend hours browsing the kiosk’s merchandise; added parking from the kiosk owners even though a pood many of the Safeway parking lot spaces are used by people too cheap to pay for parking at the medical building across the street. Added parking from the little guy who again is easier to steamroll than the big guy, locally, provincial, nationally and_in- ternationally. LETTER OF THE DAY Forestry column breath of fresh air Dear Editor: What a breath of fresh air to finally read some facts about our forests in Noel Wright’s column July 26. In five short paragraphs he clearly explains what the forest industry has attempted to say over the last two years with high-cost public relations programs. And what he says is the full truth! Too often in the local daily papers we read half-truths and Peter Speck hy Renshaw biased and unfair comparisons with countries which are logging second growth managed forests. Local television is not much better when they try to make news rather than report it. Noel succinctly points out that, by law, one must clear-cut in Sweden, because for 300 years they creamed the forest of the better trees through selective logg- ing. We don’t want to make the Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Distribution Subscriptions same mistakes. I am going to Sweden, Germany and Austria to see first-hand the successful forest practices in those countries and when I return I in- tend to make known more facts — not biased fiction. The public is seeing throug: this highly or- chestrated attempt to boycott our most important export industry. Bert Gayle West Vancouver 986-1337 986-1337 North Shore . .Noel Wright . .Linda Stewart Advertising bong toot Comptroller North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Fasagraph Ilt of the Excise Tax Act, is published each We‘inesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distribuied to every door on the North Shore. Second Crass Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannot accep! responsibility for unsolicited material including manuscnpts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. Newsroom V7M 2H4 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax ‘north shore. SUNDAY « WEONTEOAY » FRIDAY s 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. 985-3227 985-2131 MEMBER WM SNS 985-2131 = Administration ce SDA DIVISION 61,582 (a-erage circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1991 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. JOHN MAJOR... immigration backlash. ‘Racism witch hunters Should peek at Europe CITIZENS SHOWING a lack of enthusiasm for runaway immigration from the Third World are routinely tarred as ‘racists’ by our Politically Correct Thinkers. Luckily for the PCTs, they do their moral witch-hunting in submissive Member countries of the Euro- pean Community, already pro- tected by much tougher immigra- tion laws than North America, are now scrambling to erect new walls against further waves of im- migrants — with their govern. ments, including leftwing ones, out in front leading. In Britain, Tory Prime Minister John Major is urging a drastic tightening of immigration to avoid an ugly continent-wide political backlash, Meanwhile, France's socialist Prime Minister Edith Cresson has threatened to fly some 300,000 egal immigrants back where they came from as soon as the police can round them up. Maly, so far the toughest of all, has thrown out thousands of des- perate Albanian boat people. And even in the tolerant Netherlands soaring crime has made im- mire sa hot political potato. Ao in Canada, the main prob- lem is refugee claimants — from eastern Europe, North Africa and, increasingly, Southeast Asia. Since 1973 their annual numbers have skyrocketed by over 3,500% — from 14,000 to 500,000 in 1990. Officially, the European Com- munity’s chief concern is finan- cial: the fear that this torrent of impoverished humanity may bankrupt Europe’s social welfare systems, especially if joined by a huge new flood of tteconomic refugees’’ from the Soviet Union. But an equal or bigger fear of cit- izens in individual EC countries with falling birthrates is the threat to their traditional cultures. What they're saying is simply that they prefer to tive mostly among those with shared values, experience and history. That's how it’s been with every human tribe since the dawn of time and nothing — least of all sermons from discreditec politicians — will quickly change it. To call this ‘racism’ has about as much meaning as saying the'earth goes round the sun. A beautiful hybrid of different races and cultures may eventually flower in a future, more ideal world. But it’s a delicate plant that grows very slowly and cannot be forced. Europe's leaders, listening hard to their people, are smart enough to recognize that reality. ee Brit PM sees - Canada — not in today’s Western Europe. Noel Wright Canada’s Politically Correct Thinkers, squandering billions in a vain effort to cultivate instant hot-house multiculturalism, could learn a fot from them. DATELINES: How can businesses make their way through today’s information jungle to get their message to an increasingly jaded and skeptical public? Veteran broadcaster Rich Jones will tell them how tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 19, at North Yan Chamber of Commerce’s luncheon meeting in the North Shore Winter Club — call 987-4488 this moment to check whether they have a place left ... Third annual western re- union of all ex-Navy and wartime merchant navy veterans goes Fri- day through Sunday, Sept. 20-22, at HMCS Discovery — if you qualify but aren’t yet aboard, phone Vancouver Naval Vets Assn. pronto at 980-7625 ... And for a reminder of Emily Carr see North Shore artist Margaret Key’s watercolors on exhibit from Fri- day through Oct. 16 at North Van City gallery, 14th and Lonsdale. WRIGHT GR WRONG: In some countries people still pray in the streets. In Canada they’re calted pedestrians. RICH JONES... penet information jungle.