10 — Wednesday, July 15, 1998 - North Shore News

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Government
cuts hurt
less fortunate

Dear Editor:

Government tay an
obhgauon to take care of
those less advantaged, inclad -
ing and in particular the blind
and vision impaired.

The Audiobooks Program
budget under the Ministry of
Municipal attairs has bee:
nificantly reduced, from
$90,000 to $45,000. This
means that fewer read: i
be available to
fewer books, resulting in
reduced services to the
unpaired. I asked the minister
on June 4 about the reduc-
tion, but she of course
ducked the real issue and gave
an excuse about donations

Here’s a better
way to fix tickets

Dear Editor:

Just another speeding motorist dred of donanng P72 bucks
to Commissar Clark to buy fresh needles so’s the junkie punks
stay healthy enough to kick in our doors and cart Our posses:
sions off to the pawn shop.

Try a new idea for your motoring sak

Cop pulls you over tor speeding. Locks vou tm the back seat
of the black-and-white with a pen 2 10-point quiz supplied
by the Motor Vehicle Branch.

| SUST SPENT ALL
DAY DOWN AT CTTY HALL,
GING THEM SUGGESTIONS
ON REVITALIZING THE
DOWNTOWN.

cr issues ticket for reasonable amount c.g.
$50 plus a buck a click over the limit, revokes your licence, takes
your kevs, calls a cab.

@ Four or five: Officer issues same ticket, slaps fluorescent
orange magnetic base din

happy Face on rear side window, computer automatically
revokes vour license in 72 hours if full Motor Vehicle Branch
written exam not passed.
B Eight or nine: Officer issues same ticket.

@ 1G: No ticket (may. wo free per vear), info entered in com
puter, yellow Happy Face decal aft

Incidentally, a British lad recently informed me of how the
junkie punks back home practice motoring satery — steal a pick-
up, equip with scaffold-cype ladder rack protruding past rear
bumper, reverse through window at local business of choice,
load as desired, depart. Workers Compensation Board hikes it
too as there is much less risk of injury than our method of tear-

Bored viewer needs rescuing

filling the vord. A similar fee-
ble excuse is taking place on
Vancouver Istand, where all
the government minister can
do te protect the vanishing
Marmot is to invite people to
donate. Where are the real
commitments of these minis-

Freedom Speech Defence Fund) to purchase ters to real problems?

Mr. MacDonald a remote control to allow him Perhaps what they have in
to occasvionaily switch channels. T believe the mind as) ta form a
community would rally rouad and save this Commonwealth — Holding
poor unfortunate trom his fife of ennui. Society to administer the

Dear Editor:

Re: Help tor the less torninate.

You have to teel for John MacDonald, the
West Van resident whose letier appeared in the
Juiy 1 News mailbox, complaining about how

ing off the front doors of busine: vith a chain,

Tn addition, the punks remain warm and dry during periods
of inclement weather.

So you see, Commissar, even scum can better their driving

skills. Surely we can do as well without your punitive cash grabs.
R. Lindsay Harper
North Vancouver

boring are the repetitive ads on Rogers’ Cable
10. T think the North Shore News should
establish a fund for contributions (a ta Collins

Miles Browne
North Vancouver
mibrowne@direct.ca

donations?
Jeremy Dalton, MLA
West Vancouver Capilano

riharper@planeteer.com

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