7 - Wednesday, April 25, 1999 - Narth Shore News

Motorist learns a lesson; gives a warning

Dear Editor:

Thank you for your information
supplement for automobile
owners, in your edition of March
30. You are to be congratulated,
especially for the article on car ac-
cidents.

However, there is additional in-
formation that every citizen and
motor vehicle driver should know

Seniors make housing plea

Open letter to West Yancouver
Council

We, the undersigned seniors of
West Vancouver, are deeply con-
cerned with the present lack of af-
fordable housing in our
municipality.

We are given to understand that
you are elected to serve ail the res-
idents of West Vancouver and yet
we now find that nothing has been
done for fixed income seniors since
the 1970s.

We have paid taxes and have
helped to build this beautiful
community, but many of us find
that now, through no fault of our
own, we are unable to cope with
the extremely high rent increases
that are now becoming so com-
mon. We are told repeatedly that
there is no available land. Perhaps
the true meaning of this phrase is
“there is no land made available
for affordable housing for

about the operation of our justice
system in the event of an accident.
I was in collision with another
car just before Christmas. Two
police officers attended and after
surveying the scene, talking to
both drivers and to two witnesses,
a charge of running a yellow light
was filed against the other driver.
In my appointment with the
ICBC adjuster, my statement was

seniors.”"

If our mayor and council could
please do something other. than
form housing taskforces every two
years and instead face up to this
very serious problem, the seniors
of West Vancouver would begin to
feel that their interests are finally
deing served.

The following list of names form
a tiny fraction of the many senior
citizens of West Vancouver who
are anxiously awaiting some sign
of interest in our plight: Kathleen
Day, Emiiy Limon, Ludomir
Sosinski, Nina Sosinski, Ethel
Brown, Norah McMahon, Mildred
Clarkson, Jean Atkins, Gladys
McGale, A.M. Hill, Margaret
Rutherford, Renee Maki, Vincent
Cassidy, Chris Cassidy, Charlotte
Penwarden and Mona Russell.

We would appreciate a response
to this letter as soon as possible.
Betty C. Johnson
West Vancouver

Who paid for MLA’s ad?

Open letter to John Reynolds,
MLA:

in the March 30 North Shore
News, there is a full page ad on
page 10, headed a message from
you. The ad features all the alleged
efforts you have made for the en-
vironment.

There is no indication on the ad
that it was submitted by the pro-
vincial government. My question

to you, Mr. Reynolds, is this: Did
you personally, or the Social Cred-
it party, pay for this ad? Or is it
one of numerous print and TV ads
being run by the B.C. government,
at taxpayers’ expense, to allegedly
advise us of government services
and programs?
Can an election be far away?

Jeremy Dalton

North Vancouver

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Due to space constraints we
cannot publish all the letters we
receive. Published letters may be
edited for brevity, clarity, accura-
cy, legality or taste.

taken and I signed a release form
on my “totallied’’ car. I was asked
over the telephone if | wanted to
salvage a two-year-old natural gas
conversion in my car. I had al-
ready purchased another car for
which a conversion was unsuitable,
so I declined.

Not hearing anything more from
anyone by mid-March, I tele-
phoned the adjuster, only to be
told that the other driver had suc-
ceeded in having the charge
dismissed by the traffic court judge
and unless the witnesses could be
found, the accident would be a
charge on my insurance. Only one
witness’ name was recorded by the
police officers and that witness
refused to cooperate and is not re-
quired dy law to testify.

i then received a settlement che-
que from ICBC in the amount of
$82.11, the net after salvage of a
1977 Ford Granada with a natural
gas conversion. A form Setter was
received stating that since the acci-
dent was now a charge on my in-
surance there would be an increase
in my premium and that reasons
will be supplied upon request.
There was no accounting for the
salvaging of the car.

A traffic court judge can over-
tule the collective judgment of
witnesses and attending police of-
ficers, and thereby penalize the
other party who is not present or
represented in the court. This your
readers have a right to know.

C.P. McKinnon
West Vancouver

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