Dear Editor:

In a telephone call to the North
Vancouver District Hall to request
a printed record of their district
meeting, we were taken on by a
spokeswoman in the municipal
clerk’s affice who gave us an edi-
fying lecture about the priorities
of our current mighty rulers.

It seems all residents in the
district. are not created equal
where basic neede are concerned.
This is differesit, of course, when
taxing proygerties. Suddenly it
became clear to us why we receiv-

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NVD ignoring neighborhood needs

ed no answers to our questions
from on high; mayor and
aldermen never give out in-
criminating answers, as this lady
was willing to do.

It went something like this:
When roads cease to be roads and
become just a collection of hard
bumps, very close together, it is
not a reason to repave. The prior-
ity is who lives there. We were
told, ‘‘other people have other
priorities.’

When we suggested
“such as expansions

to her:
and im-

ICBC should focus
on driving habits

Dear Editor:

In response ta Ken Hardie’s
June 2t ICBC column on speeding
drivers, may | suggest that simply
slowing down isn’t necessarily the
solution, Safe driving and an em-
phasis in this direction is more of
a long term solution.

Many highways now have too
slow a speed limit and it should be
taised. Instead of creating more
passing lanes, the department of
highways has changed dotted lines
to solid. The result is that more
risks are taken by drivers and
speed of course is encouraged by
the lack of safer highways,

Instead of the fines on top of
the extra points from speeding in-
fractions, make the penalty a safe
driving course that entails, say,
three two-hour evening courses
sponsored and given by ICBC.

ICBC has those facilities avait-
able in its offices or claims facili-
ties and it would give more
utilization of its buildings for a
constructive purpose.

Use of films of accidents and
the bent and twisted bodies have a
very sobering effect — even on
the young drivers.

B.J.A. Finnie
North Vancouver

Thanks to Spirals’ proprietor

Dear Editor:

Due to a careless oversight, a
wonderful Saturday evening at
Spirals in North Vancouver was
marred by our car being towed,
However, all was not lost due to
the chivalry of restaerant pro-
prictor lan Stabler who took time
away from his busy restaurant to
drive two damsels in distress to
Payless Towing.

Thank heavens for a strong
man in tow when it comes to deal-
ing with Payless Towing.

This is a company that does not
display its business licence or rate
sheet for towing services and

could not produce same. Payless
Towing quoted as fotlows: towing
$50, dolly $15, and GST $4.55,
for a total of $69.55. This is way
out of fine as compared to City
Towing.

However, that is a matter we
will attend to. For now, we want
to thank Jan Stabler for a
wonderful evening at Spirals at 15
Lonsdale Ave. in North Van-
couver. The cooking was wonder-
ful, the service excellent and the
carrot cake the best in the West.

Carmen Houghton
Vancouver

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