8 - Friday, October 11, 1991 ~ North Shore News

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Socreds ‘inept’ at
handling finances

Dear Editor:

We really have to laugh at the
Socred party’s attempt to portray
itself as the party with business
acumen and the NDP as the party
of fiscal innocents.

Surely nobody has forgotten
that it was the Socreds who gave
away our precious Expo lands, in
a deal fully supported by ‘Rita
Johnston.

It was the Socreds who had that
scandalous, multi-million dollar
overrun on the Coquihalla High-
way,

It’ s the Socreds who have run a
budget deficit every year since
1980-81, and whese current
budget actually werks out to $1.2
billion (a record for this pro-
vince), when you get honest with
the figures and omit their ‘‘budget
stabilization fund,’’ which is
nothing but a gimmick to mislead
people about the true level of
government spending.

The Socreds also fike to boast

Crisis
Services
srateful

Dear Editor:
The North Shore Crisis Services
* Seciety would like to publicly
thank the District of North Van-
couver for providing a grant of
$13,000, the District of West
Vancouver for $10,000 and the
City of North Vancouver for their
grant of $6,000. We gratefully ac-
knowledge this much-needed
ongoing financial support.

Emily Murphy House is the on-
ly transition house on the North
Shore and it has been operating
for 12 years, not only providing
women with a safe refuge,
counselling and support, but also
providing much-needed programs
for their children.

Last year 138 women and 171
children were given temporary
shelter and assistance, and 688
women received outreach counsell-
ing. Attempts were made, with
some success, to find help and
shelter for an additional 461
women and children who were in
need of our help when we had no
room for them at Emily Murphy
House.

The work that we do is vital.
The need for our services grows
and we are very thankful that the
three North Shore municipalities
recognize this and support us.
Carol Ward-Hall
N.S. Crisis Services Society

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about B.C.’s economic well-being,
but they can't take credit for that
either. It’s the flight of Hong
Kong capital to B.C. and the
steady influx into B.C. of people
needing new housing that’s kept
B.C. afloat during the recession.
Even so, we still have unemploy-
ment above 8%; is this the Socred
version of economic prosperity?

The truth is that, besides being
dishonest and immorai, these
people are so inept at handling
money that we can’t afford to
have their fingers in the till for
another five years.

When Mike Harcourt was
mayor of Yancouver he proved
that he can manage a large budget
very well indeed. We need good
sound business heads like his run-
ning our province for a change.
Olive Johnson
Bowen Island

Varley son
knowledgeable

Dear Editor:

{ was very pleased to see that
the Varley Commemorative
Society is working so diligently
in Lynn Valley (Sept. 15).
However, in the photograph,
Mr. Izzard is holding the
“Varley”? book; but 1 failed to
find any mention of the
author, Peter Varley, son of
Fred Varley!

There is no one with more
knowledge of this Group of
Seven painter than his son,
who lives in Nandimo. I hope
this was an oversight and that
the Society is aware of this
valuable source of otherwise
unobtainable information.

Patricia Tieleman
Nanaimo

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