TH BE FORESTS MINISTRY SCRMBIAS TO SUBSTONTITE HOPCOURTS uta 72GB ORES RNIN “OIG. DEAR TREVOR Lautens: I read your Friday column, ‘Retirement village or just living death?,’’ with deep sor-_ NEWS VIEWPOINT Crucial question |HE RULING Friday in North Van- eouver. provincial court . that found convicted kidnapper and - rapist . David Alexander Snow to be a dangerous “offender. was an easy one for Judge Jerome Paradis. - The publie cried for. such a designation | : ‘and. Snow: himself requested that neither . forgiveness nor: leniency be applied to his : case,’ a in turn: Paradis noted the prognosis for ‘Snow. responding favorably te future _ Fehabilitative treatment ‘is not good.” Those’ ‘crowding the courtroom for a ‘chance to come face to face with evil in- carmate ‘at a safe distance Curing the pro-. ceedings that led‘to Friday’s decision were surely disappointed: what they saw was Mr. Ubiquitous Everyman. read through the 14-page statement submitied by Snow to the court reveals just how difficult it is to reconcile the inundane measure of the man with the , Monstrous circumstances surrounding the actions he has been found guilty of. Tellingly, Snow expends little effort in his submission to offer insight regarding his brutal treatment of the women he terroriz- ed, Instead the court is treated to a pains- taking . account of Snow’s failed business life in Orangeville, Ontario, as well as '. copious rebuttal of brother Vic’s testimony. Ultimately the decision to lock such a criminal up and throw away ‘the key is a popular call. The difficulty comes when at- tempting to determine the’ more crucial question of why Snow did what he did. “LETTER OF THE DAY ‘Let. her write: News needs an antidote in my mouth and it is not just the freach roast. It is the newspaper Dear Editor: . ; If. the ‘North | Shore News was really an equal. opportunity news-., paper... they ‘would move - Noel Wright to:page 8 and hire a full-' , time “‘merchant of: anti-hate’’ to ' occupy page 6, directly opposite in itself. I am left feeling that issues are far too one-sided and that no one else writing for challenges the Collins argument. safe house for hate-mongers, and point of view, written with as much one-sided controversy as Collins. - This person would have to Tep- resent everything Collins hates, in the paper offer your readers an opposing: “) page and opinion from Mr. Nin- ‘+ compoop himself — Doug Collins. 1 agree with Collins, freedom of | speech, is a precious sanction to uphold and protect. ' However, when simple little old ae \, me sips hot coffee whilst reading One can only conclude -he was _ designed to protrude. Rebuttals to the editor-make it to print, but these gratuitious bones are not enough. % challenge the Nerti Shore News to once and for all put an end to the whispers that they are a body and in mind. Wouldn’t an equally vocal rad- ical lesbian feminist person-of- color Jew be perfect? Let her write. Now we have freedom of speech. ; K. Chopik Norih Vancouver row for you. I know how hard it is for you youngsters | nowadays to realize all you’re still missing. ; ve As a fellow scribbler old enough (just maybe?) to be your dad, let . me reassure you, Trevor, that be- ing 73 — hale and fit, as the fashion is nowadays, and with the right partner — can be a ball. This being a family newspaper, _V ll refrain from commenting in’ detail on the bedroom and hayfield frolics you somewhat crudely describe — except to urge. you not to worry, so long as you’: . . keep on eating your spinach and | avoid too many cold showers. I commend you for your devo- tion to the patter o7 little feet. As the sage (don’t ask me which) said: To everything there is a season. But | assure you that the season - when your pattering little feet — - by then sizes eight to 12 — just. drop by at decent intervals, drag- ging along their own pattering lit- tle feet to visit briefly with gramps and gran, is also not without its, charm. Moderation, after ail, is the key to all lasting pleasures, don’t you agree? Meanwhile, let me dispel some other groundless little fears you harbor about the Golden Years. First, condos. Whoever tald you they were all pastel with neuiral carpets? Some of our best friends have gone in for delightful mod- - ern mixes such as mauve and yellow walls with Victorian Ax- minster rugs. And any clacking of false teeth in neighboring suites can easily be silenced, of course, just by turning down one’ s hear- | ing aid. Golf, swimming at the four: foot end and other retirement complex sports are, of course, en- tirely optional. Bridge is a little harder to dodge until you play the Wright convention. Simply i ignore your partner and insist in every hand on bidding seven no-trump. The session will end quite early, you'll never be pestered again. Which brings us to cruises - (sorry to hear you were seasick as a child on those 1954 Atlantic crossings, but kids quickly grow out of these things). The reason we of maturer years love them i is :, twofold. - They’re the only way you can visit dozens of foreign destinations : and unpack only once — since you take your hotel along with | you. And where else can you live tax free for three whole weeks or more? Noel Wright . HITHER. AND YON I could go on and on- about - these and many cther sep-. | tuagenarian and octogenarian “ delights. Cultivate clean living and a tolerant outlook, Trevor, and ° one day they'll be yours. too. It would be so sad if you got; too set in your ways to enjoy © them! “ POSTSCRIPTS: Help your dumb friends Saturday, July 31, at ... North Van Legion Branch 1168's variety sale from 11 a.m. to 2” p.m. in the Legion hail, 123 West: {5th St. — all proceeds go to Aid to Animals in Distress. ... “Arts 2; in the Cove’’ continues its summer youth workshops at the Seymour Art Gallery in the Deep Cove Cultural Centre, 4360 Gallant call 929-9456 for details. 2.0... Entertaining out-of-town visitors?, * Recommended is the Harbour Ferries three-hour dinner cruise around Engtish Bay and False Creck aboard the replica pad- dlewheeler MPV Constitution Board nightly at 6:30 p.m. in Harbour — $42 per head in- cluding the tasty smorgasbord And happy anniversary to Wes Van Mayor Mark Sager and wife Kathryn who tied the knot on this ; day, July 28, three years ago. WRIGHT oR WRONG: People. afraid to stick their. neck ov t can never win by @ nose. Collins, I am left with a bad taste Publisher ... Peter Speck Managing Editor . _ Timothy Renshaw Associate Editor . Noel Wright Sales & Marketing Director .. Linda Stewart “Comptroller... .. ,Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph I! of the Excise : Tax Act, is published ‘each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by Norlh Shore Free Press Lita. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. 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