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= New school lunch
= program a positive
| step by government

Dear Editor:

In a Feb. 2 letter, L. Ingram
shared some of Collins’ views
about the new free lunch program
and that “nothing is free.”

Well, as expected, this is a juicy
issue for the Collinses of the
world to sink their chompers into.
As if they would ever endorse
such a program.

This letter is, in my opinion, ri-
diculous.

it is my understanding that the
free lunch does not involve every
school and that West Vancouver,

..understandably, is exempt from .

‘such a program. Universality in
something like this is simply un-

= warranted and would be- foolish: -

for any government to take on.

I believe the program will be
extended to those schools and
areas where the standard of living
and income is: lowest and where
unemployment is highest.

Some of these areas will be re-
questing a small contribution from
these children towards the lun-
ches. It is impossible to investigate
every family and every school

; | It’s time to
m preserve W.

» Dear Editor:
. For some time I have been con-
“cerned about the degradation of
creeks in West Vancouver.
~ One has only to walk up 18th
Street from Marine Drive to see
the compiete removal of trees and
_ vegetation from the banks of the
once beautiful Lawson Creek.
~ Another example of disdain for
“the preservation of creek banks
and streams is the area of Chip-
pendale Road above the Upper
Levels Higtway. Here, Lawson
* Creek has been reduced to a man-
-“ieured ditch surrounded in rubble.
-~, The watercourses on the North
Shore with their fern-covered
ravines and fish life, could be a

child to find out why they may
not have a sufficient lunch. The
cost of such ‘‘means testing’’
would far surpass the cost of the
lunch program.

All children, be they native In-
dian, from Quebec, of ethnic orig-
ins or white, would qualify for the
same free lunch where these pro-
grams are implemented.

The school lunch program here
is in reality an extension of the
programs in many U.S. states

where, during the early years of

the Reagan administration, they
tried to quash the program
because of alleged waste of some
lunches as observed in one waste
receptacle outside of one school: ---

These tunch programs in the
U.S. are not universal and are in
areas where the poverty income
levels are ten-fold worse than
anything imaginable up here.

A full stomach is an investment
and healthy bodies translate into
healthy minds.

T.E. Peck
Vancouver

restore and
Van creeks

community asset. If aif develop-
ment was kept well away from the
creek banks there could be trails,
nature walks and natural West
Coast beauty right here in our
own backyard.

If stream bank cover is preserv-
ed and bridges used instead of
culverts many of the streams that
had fish in the past could have
fish runs restored,

There has been much written of
the fisheries value of these small
streams, Let's set about preserving
and restoring our streams here in
West Vancouver.

Scanette Helmer
West Vancouver

-— ICBC propaganda repugnant

. Dear Editor:

. 1 find the inclusion of Ken
.Hardie’s column in your paper
repugnant. ;

It gives ICBC’s director of
public relations a free format to
smoothly and glibly explain
ICBC's excesses and justify its ex-
istence.

The. truth is, ICBC poses a
complete conflict of interest. On
one hand it provides insurance
coverage, and on the other it
determines and imposes settle-
“ments.

’* Part of the high cost of auto

insurance is created because ICBC

is a monopoly to be taken advan- .

tage of by everyone.

Next time you take your car for
repairs tell the body shop you are
.paying yourself and see how much
the cost comes down.

As for Ken Hardie, the North —

Shore News must know it is being
used as a propaganda outlet for

ICBC. You should hire an in- -

dependent authority with no
vested interest to comment on
ICBC.

J.L. LeBel

North Vancouver

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