Gi mailbox >< Light standards make her see red Dear Editor: Open letter to the mer- chants of Edgemont Village re the new, red light standards. 1 presume it was not the spirit of Christmas which in- spired the use of all that gaudy red paint on the newly- erected light standards. This must have been part of the planning all along, since several stores have used that shade as trimming. However, surely neither the planning committee nor. you mer- chants could have had a color model of the completed renovation to look at before you made the final decision, (I am giving you the benefit of the doubt here) because I cannot believe that if you had seen the effect of that multiplicity of candy-cane- like structures hovering over the streets in all their gaudy, crimson paint you would have chosen to inflict that sort of desecreation on the $1,000,000 plus = renova- tion that has already taken place. Sunday FROM PAGE A6 Eileen Hall on earning her Certified Professional Secretary designation from Professional Secretaries In- ternational — her boss is R.A. Habber-Richard, chair- man of Pacific Pilotage Authonty ... Laughing his way to the bank is B.C Hydro construction worker Mark Dugas, latest) North Van winner of an instant $10,000 in the Match 3 lot- tery West Van Lions past-president Howle Biehi is “Wise men still seek JEWELLERS Pee STORIE TMAT REE PS NOMCT IO VANGCON IVE FF TICAUING AND TAL AING 1598 Lonsdale, NV. 988-4717 Those monuments to bad taste have so over-shadowed the classic new cement work that the Village now looks like a circus area, awaiting only the clowns and sidewalk hawkers and the carnival music to start you up in frenetic business. Was this the effect you were striving for? If so, bring on the clowns! If that was not your intention then please get those light standards _re- painted in a neutral tone, and let the Village return to a modicum of good taste. I don’t want to have to apologize to all the tourists passing through for those of- fensive mistakes. And in- cidentally, I don’t want my tax dollars used in that abrasive fashion. Inconve- nient as it will be, I think Pll do my shopping at Park Royal until you return the look of the Village to one that does not send my blood pressure into orbit every time I see it. Sheila Steed North Vancouver Brunch the proud recipient of a 50-time blood donor pin and ceritificate signed by Governor-General Ed Schreyer ... Which is your Signal to remember the special blood donor clinic sponsored by the West Van Legion Thursday, Dec. 29, from 2 to 8 p.m. at the West Van Rec Centre, 780-22nd Street... * * * WRIGHT ON: My warmest wishes to you and yours for 4 Christmas whose bright, hap py hours will ight your path throughout the coming year. Him” ‘Sellout’ to industry Dear Editor ] want to express my deep disappointment in Noel Wnight’s ‘‘Don’t forget Nov. 19”’ column published Nov. 9, which stated ‘‘Crist, an avowed left-winger, wants to sock industry with higher taxes.”’ I have gone to great lengths to give you the facts about taxes and yet you have consistently ignored them. I believe you know very well that I do not want to sock it to anybody. What | do want and what | have ex- plained a thousand times is to end the huge and unwar- ranted tax discounts which our District council has ex- tended to industry. In other words an end to the scan- dalous sellout at the expense of homeowners in the District of North Vancouver. _ Suffice it to say that Oc- cidental Petroleum, which claimed in 1982 to have paid over a million dollars in taxes to the District, paid only $139,000 while, in other municipalities in the Lower Mainland, they would have paid two, three and three and a half times that much. 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