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Treasure our trees

URBANIZATION DESTROYING LOCAL GREEN SPACE

of the remaining wooded areas are being attacked.

Dear Editor:

In response to your editorial May 2, High cost of
parks, the Salop Road allowance and parcels M and N
comprise a strip of wocds bordering the west side of
the Upper Levels Highway known as ‘‘the cut.’’ This
greenbelt screens and buffers the sight, noise and air
pollution produced by the highway.

The paths are well used and maintained by local
residents and require no costly park upkeep. [ invite
you and readers not familiar with the area to come

and walk our woods.

As a resident of North Vancouver for 40 years, I
have waiched residential developments gradually

couver

trees.

Global environmental problems must be addressed
in many smali ways and we must now say ‘‘enough”’
to overdevelopment. If we are to save North Van-
from becoming another
nightmare we must retain and treasure our groves of

urban = sprawl

As for your comments that home buyers will have
to consider shared residences,
authorities would be well advised to encourage legal

1 agree. District

suites in single family residences with legal standards

replace our forests. Normal growth is expected and

necessary as North Vancouver is still a desirable place
to live. Only now are the alarm bells ringing as many

Learn adoption facts first

Dear Editor:

Recently your newspaper has
given a lot of print to Monik
Leclerc, who travelled te Romania
to adopt a baby daughter and now

wants to separate other people

from their money for the same.
But there are more facts to be con-
sidered in order to present the
whole story.

That she was successful in bring-
ing her baby home was due as
much to her bending the immigra-
tion rules by presenting herself at
Customs in Toronto without prior
Clearance, as it was to her own
footwork.

- My wife and I became active in
the Romanian Orphan’s Support
Group, and grew to admire and
appreciate the devotion and sacri-

Municipal
staffs thanked

Dear Editor:

We would like to thank those
who work to beautify and upgrade
the North Shore boulevards,
borders and the special event and
seasonal gardens.

Thanks also to those with the
arduous task of building and-
repairing stairs, fences, bridges
and safety signs in the Lynn Can-
yon area.

As long-time residents who fre-
quently walk, we. appreciate the
ongoing attention given to preserv-
ing the area for so many to enjoy.
M.B. and H.J. Unger
North Vancouver

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fice that organizer Sonya Patterson
put into the task. Her primary
focus has not been ‘‘adoptions for
cash,’ but the distribution of ac-
curate information to others, and
the aid of these children in their
own country.

Ms. Leclerc was invited to join
the fact-finding team to pursue the
above goal, but when in Romania,
she left the group to seek out her

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May 23 - 27, 1990

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applied. Housing then might become affordable for
famities who double up and share the cost.

own “‘fortune.””

While I do not wish to cast a
shadow on her good fortune,
potential adoptive parents con-
sidering parting with $1,000 to let
Ms. Leclerc arrange a Romanian
adoption should learn all the facts
irst.

Donald J. Noble
Langley

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