‘6 — Sunday, August 18, 1996 — North Shore News

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“I see highrises as a contagious
"disease —- they spread — with the
previous justifying the next.”

"~ North’ Vancouver District resi-
dent David. Sadler on the. thorny
issue of development in Seymour
. during a publi¢ hearing for a pro-
posed nine-storey apartment build-
‘ing on Mount Seymour, Parkway.
: (From an Aug. 16 News story.)
“Ten kids are too many, but to
“have 400° to 500 ‘is mind" bog-
ging”
Dan Morrison, who sits on the
” board of the North Vancouver Minor
Ice Hockey ‘Association, on the fact
-that’ice rinks ‘that were scheduled to
- be‘opened this September on Tsleil-

“Waututh (Burrard’ Band) land have -

been’ pushed back to July or. August
“next year. That means the waiting list

for’: children’s ' hockey’ in. North .

Vancouver will remain at 509, (From
an Ang. 16 News story.) ;
--. “You're more of a traffic cop
‘than-yeu are a lawyer at times.” .
<s- West. Vancouver maritime. lawyer
Gary Wharton on dealing with the
crew ‘members of the Universe

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‘rooves, dips,
; Dear Editor: : :

I’m sure the workers on. the

Second Narrows Bridge are proud of -

{ their workmanship and the fact that
they ‘“got. the: job done” 10 days
; early. . :
[ have an interesting question for
these over-achievers.
What happens, come’ winter,
when water accumulates and freezes

Explorer. The ship arrived for repair
‘in North’ Vancouver Aug. 2, after a
fire on board killed five crew meni-
bers. in Alaska, (From an Aug. 9
News story.) a

“It didn’t even fizz on me
steering the Queen Mary, but
when I went down to Long Beach
California and { stood in the port
wing of the bridge, I looked fore
and 1 looked aft and I thought:
‘Good God, did I used to steer
this ruddy thing?’ It didn’t fizz on
me when I was 22 years 'of age.”

Bill Rowlands was the youngest
quartermaster to steer. the Queen

"Mary. (From an Aug. 18 News story.) , :

“He had specials for lunch,’
“specials for breakfast, specials for
dinner and at the end of five days
he gave,me five dollars for four
people. If I'd had spoke Russian

Pd have told him what to do with
it. : : ya ,

,, Geoff / Tilbury served Andrei
Gromyko, the foreign’ minister of
U.S.S.R., aboard the Queen Mary.
(From an Aug. 18 News story.) :

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in all the dips, grooves, bumps, chips
and valleys? _

I think the contractors should be

required to spend the $256,000

_ bonus on a great big sander and get

out there and correct all the errors

made so we can drive safely and qui-
etly on a better surface.

Sheila McMinn
West Vancouver

a ISTLER, a haven for
_ freestyle skiing and not-so-free
“y. real estate, is the site for an

international gathering of free thinkers;

this week.’ .
The. International .

Society | for

Although ISIL’s members would like :

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PARENTS’ liability for the
misdeeds of their offspring
_is in the‘aews again. Parents
in Surrey are being sued for
$30,000 fire damage to a
school! caused by their pre-

teens aged eight and 12
respectively,

The concept might have given’

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day, under peer pressure, kick o1

_. The only answer, dad and mom, is to. examine your insurance po!

fine print right away; buy insurance fast if you:don’t yet have
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junior ever fouls up; make sure’ he swears he didn’t mea
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. CONGRATS to West Van's Bev London, elected’ president:

Puppeteers of America, Inc. at its July a.g.m. in Columbu

the third Canadian so honored in the‘organization’s 59-yeal

Many happy returns of tomorrow, Aug.19; to Wes! fan’s J

... More Birthday wishes that day ‘to former, West Van alderman. €

Rowntree ... And from the Better Late Dept..a-100-caridle salute to:

ns Jennie May Cairns who celebrated her first century last: Th day;

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: Shoot for the moon .
you'll be among the stars. \ ran

—~ The North Shore News believes strongly in freedom of § ccc and th

_ + right of all sides in a debate to be heard. The columnists published in th

present differing points of view, bur those views arc not necesirily those’ of th
newspaper itself. ‘ nee ‘ :

that will likely

- And it is censorship

Individual ‘Liberty (ISIL) is staging its _

' 15th’ annual convention for , six’ days,
- beginning Monday. It’s the first time in
Canada, and the organization is being
given a poor welcome by a small minor-.

ity.

Despite its’ inclusive : nature (a U.S.

‘militia sympathizer, marijuana legaliza-
tion advocate, and Nobel Prize-nomi-

to see a radical change in the way we are
governed — less government intrusion
will benefit us all, they say — Kurt
Pokrandt, the West Vancouver-based

convention organizer, says it is anything

but racist.or anti-semitic.

“Reform Patty MP Herb Grubél will

be at the opening reception on Monday.

_He’s also slated to speak Tuesday, on the

21st century debt crisis’ awaiting ‘the

the rallying cry for the ubiquitous.
gle-taggle group’ of malcontents ‘who
will undoubtedly . show up 't : protest
ISIL’s allegedly .“dangerou:
‘about freedom and less: gove

They indeed have a right to protes
But !ct’s hope they. pause: to.co
something that’s far worse than
gerous” ‘idea: being ‘prohibited; from
expressing certain ideas entirely.

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