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Dear Editor:

In your editorial of Dec,
8, you very prudently cau-
tion the citizens of the North
Shore to ‘‘not shoot the
pianist... he’s still striving to
play your tune,’’? as you
argue support for municipal
councils raising our taxes.
Argument is made in your
column that indeed much of
the reason for the increase is
beyond councils’ control,
including factors such as in-
flation and cuts from senior
government grants. Coun-
cils, you propose ‘therefore,
have the need to increase our

taxes without asking our
opinion through referenda,
because they have been faced
with financial realities, and
political responsibilities.

Such. advice, it seems to
me, is logically sound and
responsible. Does that logic
not apply to our school
system as well? Similar to
our municipalities, fixed
costs have also increased for
our schools. In addition,
government support has
significantly decreased, and
our enrolment has stabilized.
Does it not, therefore,
follow that school district

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trustees should also be sup-
in asking, for in-
creases in funding?

Trustees must also look
after the ‘physical assets’’
of the community. Those
physical assets are not just
buildings, but they are our
young people. Trustees,
therefore, should be allowed
to raise revenue if they deem
it necessary. Similar to their
council colleagues, they
should have that right
without referenda, and they
should have the respect from
the community when they
seek it from us,-or from the
provincial government.

orld hunger is a

year-round problem

Dear Editor:

It is generous of the News
to donate an advertisement
for the cause of the North
Van Christmas Bureau and
the West Van Santa Claus
Fund. The call for food or a
cheque to either charity to
assist ‘‘over 1,700 North
Shore families who will go
without Christmas this year
unless we help’’ will surely
be answered by those of us
who take a full table for

Count
your

| blessings

"Dear Editor: |

Christmas is here and it
should serve to remind us of
all the blessings we in
Canada should be grateful
and thankful for. If we
could only. see the conditions
in many other countries of
our world, we would be bet-
ter able to measure the ex-
tent of our blessings.

What better way to dem-
onstrate love than to make it
possible for a blind person
to see. For a $25 donation to

Operation Eyesight Univer- f

sal, this miracle can be ac-
complished,
Eyesight is a very small Ca-
nadian charity involved in
sight restoration and blind-
ness prevention ‘projects in
17 countries of the Develop-
ing World.

In addition you will expe-
rience great joy when you
are the recipient of a patient
identification card, showing
you the name, age, sex and
address of the person to
whom you have given this
priceless gift of sight. You
will also receive a receipt for
income tax purposes.

Thousands are waiting
and hoping for cataract
surgery. Your $25 donation
will pay for surgery, drugs,
hospitalization, food, glasses
and follow-up care for a pa-
tient. Please help at least one
of these needy people return
to a useful self-supporting
life.

Donations may be sent to
Operation Eyesight Univer-
sal, P.O. Box 123, Station
“M", Calgary, Alberta T2P
2H6.

Alta R. McCauley
Calgary, Alberta

Operation §

granted.

In answering the call for
help we must ask how the
poor survive the other 364
days a year. Why is it that
Christmas appeals and food
bank line ups are our answer
to the needy? B.C. still has
40,000 fewer jobs than in
198! and welfare rates have
not been increased for three
years. Hunger hurts as much

in January as it does on Dec.
25. .

Rather than being the
means for surviving one
more day, Christmas appeals
should be a bonus for “the
needy'’, We should’ expect
and we must demand that
our government ‘ eliminate
the need to beg for food.
David Schreck
North Vancouver

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we really playing?
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