Dear Editor:

I was both aigry and

appalled to read in your
August 27 edition that West
Vancouver City council is
considering “rezoning
Panorama Studios to uses
other than film production.”
I would like to point ont
that the studio has been
there a good many years
longer than the residents or
condominiums of Panorama
Village. Lf this same group of
people had moved next to a
school, would they then
have tried to have it closed
down? Several pictures were
in production during the
months when those buildings
were first occupied; it is not
as if they didn’t realize the
studio would be used. It can
be compared to moving in
next door to a police station,
firehall or hospital — they
chose to move next to it —
let them live with their

Monar

Dear Editor:
“Hands off the Queen’,
Mailbox, August 27, ex-

presses a view which has
never failed to amaze me.
Canada should have _ rid
herself of the anachronistic
Brush monarchy eons ago.
The very concept of
hereditary privilege is alicn
to a democracy, where the
Head of State ts elected, or
as in some countries, such as
Ireland, appointed. But, if
we are going to continue to
have a hereditary head of
State, then why not be
consistent and have a
hereditary Prime Minister as
well. Or follow this
mediaevel, feudal system to
the letter and have every
occupation a hereditary one.
Dad’s a butcher, so his son
must follow in his footsteps,
etc. Isn't this precisely the
type of class system that so
many of our = ancestors
immigrated to this country,
m order to escape. The
British crown ts a symbol of
colonial oppression, as many
former colomes, such as
India, will attest to. How
long will Canadians allow
themselves and their country
to be demeaned by ths type
of foreign imperialism?
There scems to be a belicf,
albeu unfounded, that the
Queen somchow kecps us
sale from being taken over.
enther by a dictator, be he
communist or fascist, or by
the United States Well. this
Aine of thought. as any
reasonably intelhgent permon
can sec, ts ulter nonsense In
the cvent of such oa
catastrophe, what could a
foreign Queen some 4,000

decision Ge: move’ out! |

I ‘am’ a West Vancouver
resident who has had the
privilege of being employed
on many productions at the
studio, and I heard no ob-
jections raised when I was
working on “The
Changeling,’’ around
Christmas two years ago, nor
during the subsequent
filming of “Strange Com-
panions,” or the television
series. “Huckleberry Finn
and his Friends,” or last
Christmas the production of
“Patman.”

‘Perhaps many people in
this community aren’t even
aware that up until two years
ago Panorama Studios had
the largest sound stage in all
of Canada. Perhaps they
don’t realize that over fifty
million dollars .was spent by
film companies in British
Columbia in nineteen
seventy-nine.

miles away do to prevent it?
Send over the British army?
The very idea is degrading.
Canada, I am, sure is quite
well equipped to take care of
herself without the  in-
terference of foreign troops,
who would, of course, stick

around for decades af-
terwards, as a
“peacekeeping force”
(shades of Ulster)!

' Hence, behind its facade
of omnipotent strength, the
British Monarchy is in fact
an impotent, totally wor-
thless institution. However,
it should not, on the other
hand be dismissed as being a
harmless. quaint old
tradition. It is not, as Mr.
Trudeau found out when he
had to go to England, cap in
hand, to ask permission to
change the Canadian
Constitution and then to add
insult to injury was warned
by a couple of obscure
Labour M P.s_ that the
British government would

block any attempts to
change our constitution
without their complete
approval

The Bnush Monarchy ts
one of the of the major
bones of contention, in
relation to the Province of
Quebec Dangled insolenatly
by the Anglos, it has done
more to cause dissension in

Canada than any other
factor, be w language or
rehgion It endows the

British in this country, with
special status. which ts
unavondable After all, if the
Swedish head of State was
also head of State in Canada,
wouldn't the Swedes
supenor

also

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Our. studio was a major
reason why some of those
films were made here.
Communities would love to
have this facility where such
talent would come and work
at such an_ interesting
business. This whole uproar
is making a laughing stock
out of this city, already the
Vancouver Sun has had a
story on it called, “Only in
West Vancouver...”

I'm not particularly
thrilled that a game show is
to take up one half of the
sound stages for such a long
period of time either, but it
is all part of a business that
this province and district can
only gain from, not just in
direct money from the film
companies, but from the
tourism, generated by the
“on location” scenery. And
don't forget all those hungry
contestants on “Let’s Make a
Deal” who could spend

y ‘worthless’

here? Or the Dutch, or
Chinese, or any other
nation, for that matter?

Last, but by no means
least, it makes mé@ physically
sick to see one human being
bow down and grovel before

‘another, addressing them as

Royal Highness, Majesty,
etc. Free minded people
everywhere must surely feel
a similar revulsion when
witnessing this type of
nauseating scenario. In this
day and age when everyone's
undeniable right to be equal
is taken for granted, to deify
one human being, setting
them above all others as
being the next thing to God
(She actually is Head of the
Church of England) is
nothing short of a grotesque
and direct contradiction of
democracy.

M. Garland
North Vancouver

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personal experience film
company vehicles often fuel
at West Van. gas pumps and
supplies are frequently
bought from local North
Shore shops.

Obviously I have reason to
be more concerned than
most residents in that a good
portion of my pay cheques
have come from work in
Panorama studios — but I’m
sure there are other people
in this community who can
see the value of this unique
production facility in West
Vancouver. Please let your
views be known to the
council and this paper! And
as for the British Properties

WY should welcome PanorumaStudio

Home-owners’ Association
involvement in this ambush,
(I once went out and sold
memberships for you) all I
can say is please reread your
own statement — you claim
to be in favour of
‘‘Development which
provides a service to West
Vancouver and enhances the
standard of living.” What
other industry offers so
much cash flow in such a
small area, with such
prestige and with so little
pollution? It is bad enough
to look a gift horse in the
mouth, but to boot it in the
behind is disgraceful.

Forrest Taylor
West Vancouver

Bureaucratic
nightmare over

Dear Editor:

Over the last 1% years our
family have had, hanging
over our heads, the threat of
a bureaucratic nightmare —
the possibility of our future
son-in-law being sent back to
Switzerland, leaving our
daughter Judy and their two-
year-old daughter Eliza, to
fend for themselves.

Now, thanks to the loyalty
of our friends, who have
bombarded the office of the
Minister of Immigration in
Ottawa with letters of ap-

peal, the expulsion order has
been stayed. A Minister’s
Permit for Hans to stay in
Canada was issued last week.
Our very special thanks
however, go out to Gwen
Skakum, secretary to our
Conservative Member of
Parhamrent, the Honorable
Ron Huntingdon. Without
the quiet perserverance of
Gwen all of our efforts
would have been fruitless.

Mary and Michael Norbury
West Vancouver

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Dear Editor:

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and an animal lover I issue
this warning to the general
public. If you are seeking a
new home for your dog
(particularly of the larger
breeds) and have advertised
in accordance, please,
please, under no cir-
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over to interested party
without first very carefully
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North Vancouver

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