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Dear Editor:

We wish to thank the editorial
staff of the North Shore News for
their excellent article Scouting Of-
fers Youths Plenty that appeared
on page !0 of the Sunday, Sept. 4
edition.

A special thanks, too, to Ron
Hopkins, cooperative advertising
manager, for coordinating the
Scout registration information that
appeared on page 12 of the same
issue.

Preliminary registration results

‘ indicate an increase in Scouting on
the North Shore of up to 20 per
cent, with not only increased youth
membership but also increased
adult participation at both the
program (leadership) leve! and the
administrative (group committee)
level.

Adult training will commence
6:30 p.m, on Wednesday, Oct. 12,
at St. Catherine's Anglican
Church, 1058 Ridgewood Dr.,
North Vancouver, with an In-

locally

troduction to Scouting course.
This is a pre-requisite for all fur-
ther adult training courses. For
further information call Katherine
Trueman 988-6744 or Jim Brick
988-8381.

Persons wishing to join Scouting
or who would like further infor-
mation on Scouting groups in their
area should contact one of the fol-
lowing people. In the Seymour
District (Lonsdale east to Deep
Cove), call president Alan Mann,
5986-0084, or commissioner Roger
Eastwood, 980-6140; in the
Capilano District (Lonsdale west
to Capilano River), call president
Steve Barnes, 985-6050, or com-
missioner Gary Skeit, 986-5897;
and in West Vancouver, including
Bowen [sland and Lions Bay, calf
president Des Haigh, 921-9719, or
commissioner Elwood Platt, 987-
4100.

Alan Manns -
President
Boy Scouts, Seymour District

Comment was retracted

Deas Editor:

Concerning your article on Aug.
19 in which you quoted me as call-
ing International Lands ‘‘one of
the villains out there’’ for excessive
blasting in the Caulfeild Plateau, I
wish to point out that I shortly
thereafter retracted the word
“villain” in the West Vancouver
Council meeting.

The devastation that is occurring
there has been principally the work
of another company.

The West Vancouver Council is
in the process of tightening its con-
trols over hillside development,
blasting and oversized housing.
Such controls are necessary if the
municipality is to retain its beauty.

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