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Neediness not always overt

Dear Editor:

1 would like to respond to
Jayne DeAth’s recent letter to the
North Shore News with regard to
her disappointment upon deliver-
ing what must have been a
wonderful company hamper, food
vouchers, etc. to a home that ap-
peared to house an ‘undeserving
family.”*

Although the letter addresses
the Vancouver Christmas Bureau,
let me share just one incident that
‘occurred some years ago when |
was the volunteer chair of the
North Vancouver Christmas
Bureau.

We matched a welfare family
with a wonderful group of
schoolchildren for a food hamper
and a visit to our toy shop.

When the hamper was
delivered, the adult organizer
noted that the house was above
average, contained fairly good
furnishings and no need was evi-
dent. ‘

She decided, therefore, to revisit
the family the following day and
share with them her response to
their ‘“‘greed’’ (a word Ms. DeAth
uses),

Shortly afterward the mom
called -me. They were devastated.
They ‘had come from Britain a few
years earlier with their three
children, and funds to buy a small
business, Their location (a mall)

/ went bankrupt, and with it, his
business,

He had purchased his house
(mortgaged) and suffered a ner-
vous breakdown, They received
welfare and mom had assured her
husband (against his wishes to

Apology for
inappropriate
language use

Dear Editor:

I offer my apology for the un-
parliamentary language I used in
reaction to Councillor Crist’s
charges in Jan, 29's North Shore
News story ‘‘Crist warns of rec.
shortfall."’

My ill-chosen words were clear-
ly inappropriate for an elected of-
ficial. 1 regret any embarrassment
this caused to Coun. Crist, his
family or my colleagues on coun-
cil,

~ Coun. Paul Turner
North Vancouver

On the other hand

Dear Editor:

Doug Collins got it right the
‘first. time. Awarding him a Cana-
dian Confederation medai is a
joke, and a particularly bad one
at that.

The ‘‘Slobodan Milosevic
Award for Inflammatory Rhetoric”
would have been far more ap-
propriate.

Graham Stallard
North Vancouver

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seek extra help at Christmas) that
everything would be handled with
delicacy and tact.

Please, please, Ms. DeAth, do
not undertake an assessment
yourself next year. | realize you
must be very upset as: you have
written to more than one newspa-
per.

And be assured that we who
work for the Christmas Bureaus in
B.C. are very grateful for the
corporate and staff support we
receive, as are our needy clients.

Ida Paddock
North Vancouver

Pe ine we

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Business shouldn’t be subsidized

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Developers in West Van- especially above the Upper
couver have not had an in- Levels, the bigger burden we
crease in their development put on our schools, police and
cost charges for the last 10 fire protection, roads and in-
years. frastructure.
. ‘Taxpayers in this municipali- Doing business in West Van-
ty cannot be expected to pay couver for big profits should
these costs either. Canadians be ‘‘paying your full share.”
now spend more on direct and Taxpayers in the municipali-
indirect taxes (federal, provin- ty will not, and should not, be
cial and municipal taxes) than expected to subsidize big
on food, shelter and clothing business any longer.
combined. E.J. Fonseea
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