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Library open on
Sundays supported

Dear Editor: ,

I was pleased to read your Dec.
30 editorial calling for an extension
of the public library service
available to North Shore residents
on Sundays.

However, perhaps I may be
permitted a minor correction: the
West Vancouver Memorial Library
offers service on Sundays from
mid-October until the end of April

: (rather than the end of March).

We commenced this service in
the fall of 1984, that is prior to the
municipal referendum which paved
the way for Sunday shopping in
West Vancouver. The library
board was responding. to a
perceived demand at that time and
would like to do so again, cither by
extending the hours of opening
each Sunday (e.g. 10 a.m. to 5
p.m.) or by providing library ser-
vice on Sundays throughout the
year, or both; unfortunately
budget constraints prevent this «:
present.

As for closing one day a week to
provide financing for Sunday
openings, we tried this appraoch
and found that our users were op-
posed to it and never got used to
the fact that the library was now
closed when they thought it should
be open.

It should also be noted that, as
one of the busiest libraries (on a
per capita basis) in North Amcrica,
the memorial library docsn't have
a quiet time that would justify
mid-week closure.

We support the goal of exten-
ding hours on Sunday and will
continue seeking to achieve it when
the financial resources are
available. The demand for library
service in West Vancouver is so
heavy that the memorial library
must be expanded.

R.G. Wyckham,

Chairman,

West Vancouver Memorial
Library Board.

Reader disgusted
at ‘trashy column’

Dear Editor:
‘Good for Arnie Towes, whose
Istter in the North Shore News of
. Nov. 27 I enjoyed reading.

I had already addressed an
envelope to your paper and was
going to voice a strong complaint
about you including that horren-
dously trashy column of Dr. Ruth
in our otherwise splendid com-
munity newspaper.

We are disgusted and dismayed

that you include her column in
your paper.
. Get rid of her! She belongs in
trashy magazines or whatever but
not, please, never ever again in the
North Shore News.

I now scan the paper the minute
it arrives, and tear out her column
and burn it, before even :my hus-
band or my grandchildren see it or

‘Chivalry is

Dear Editor: |.

* May I use your column to ex-
press my thanks and appreciation
for a good deed well done.

(On Tuesday, Oct. 13, I had the

~ | misfortune to ‘have a mechanical

failure in my. car on the Upper
Levels Highway near the Westview
: intersection. Needless to say I was
very distraught at being the cause
of a traffic obstruction during a
period of heavy traffic flow.
While I was waiting for the
return of. my, passenger who had
gone to seek help, I was alone and

have a chance to read her rubbish.
Surely you don’t need the likes of
Dr. Ruth to gain subscriptions.

This is not censorship. Let peo-
ple buy the appropriate magazines
if that’s what they want to read.

And if they need advice in that
area fet them go to a sex therapist
or doctor or counsellor.

What do you want? A cheap
tabloid? Hf so, cancel my subscrip-
tion.

I don’t want that woman in my
house. | heartily agree with Arnie
Toews and laud him for his
courage to voice his opinion. I am
sure 99 per cent of your
subscribers agree, but are too lazy
to write and complain.

I mean it, Ruth stays, 1 quit
your paper.

Marguerite Gilderstceve
West Vancouver —

not dead

feeling very vulnerable when three
capable young men stopped to of-
fer assistance.

The nature of the mechanical
problem was beyond fixing under
the circumstances. However they
remained with me until help arriv-
ed and continued to assist by
pushing the vehicle off the high-
way.

I did not get their names but
they should know how much their

presence reassured me. Chivalry is

notdead.
J. Joyce Webber -
North Vancouver

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