Storage
answer
to water
shortage

‘Dear Editor: *

Your editorial of Feb.
wide of the mark.

The North Shore receives
excessive precipitation. in the
2900-block of West Van-
couver. the rainfall records
Show the following:

1990: 1,860 mm
~ 1991: 1,938 mm :
1992: 1,839 mm ‘

The Problem with water

“shortages’’ is the grossly in-
adequate water storage.

The Capilano dam was
built circa 1958, the Seymour
dam in 1961.

The population since then
has ‘more than quadrupled
_ and: industry has expanded.
Yet. no provision has been
made to increase water
storage. é
. As you showed
photo on Feb, 14, most of
the precipitation flows over
the spillway /of the Capilano
dam and provides the major
flow in that river.

With’ precipitation con- ,
sistently at almost two metres
annually you should be pro-
moting increased water
storage and agitating for
‘engineering planning to ac-
complish this and provide
adequate water for the Van-

yeouverarca,
' Conservation of energy is
laudable. But in this soggy
‘climate’ the lack of - water
destroys gardens and affects
real estate values.

Every ‘resident should be
allowed to sprinkle once per
‘week, minimum. Failure to
allow this equates (to gross —
dereliction of duty to the
public,

John Bell
West Vancouver

17 is

in’ your

Comparing salaries shows
financial rewards excessive

Dear Editor:

Our MLA David Schreck
should be commended for bringi-
ng to light the high cost of ad-
ministration in the North Van-
couver School District.

With some administrators being
paid more than the premier of the
province, the minister of educa-
tion or the deputy minister of
education who is responsible for
the education system of ihe whole
of British Columbia, some re-
sponsibility must be shown in
future by Chairman Don Bell and
his board members.

The claim by Chairman Bell
that the revelations are merely po-
Nitical is ridiculous.

The complaints of course are
economic and ! Schreck being a
PhD is mathematical economics is
a more reliabfe voice in these mat-
ters than either Chairman Bell or

his highly paid superintendent.

The financial reward for the
North Vancouver superintendent
of schools in 1992 was in excess of
$158,000, according to school
board records,

In British Columbia salaries of
the Supreme Court judges are
$155,000, and those salaries have
now been frozen by government
for two years.

{ do hope that the members of
the North Vancouver School
Board can learn from the actions
of the federal government: after
all, one must agree that a
Supreme Court judge is more im-
portant to the well-being of Brit-
ish Columbia than the administra-
tion of a mid-sized school district,
and should be rewarded accord-
ingly.

Ernest Sarsfield
North Vancouver

Retailers better wake up’ fast

Dear Editor:

Last Saturday I set out to buy a
few items. 1 started) at Park.
_Royal, where [bought shaving
soap, but they did not stock
blades for my razor (London
Drugs).

{ then tried to buy 25 feet of
drapery cord unsuccessfully
(Eatons, HBC), but managed to
find the razor blades.

A replacement loudspeaker of
proprietary manufacture (Radio
Shack) was ‘‘no longer stocked.”

Shifting to Sears, | managed to
find the card, but [ had to buy a
package (35 feet).

Thence to two hardware stores
before | found a simple cover
plate (Thunderbird had ‘trun
out’’),

Total time taken: | hour and 40
ininutes, Gas wasted: not known.
Frustration level: extreme at this
point.

Do the Canadian retailers real-
ize what they are doing to
themselves?

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there are four stores which will
not see me again. :

Js it any wonder cross-border
shopping is alive and well? Here's
one consumer who has had Cana-
dian retailing up to here.

Oh, and the loudspeaker? 1
repaired the old one!

: Peter Powell

North Vancouver

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