10 - North Shore News — Wednesday, June 14. 2000 West Vancouver rec centre issues cl Dear Editor: There is still, great contusion surrounding the proposed Western recreation centre — much of it needless. The Gleneagles Area Ratepayers” Association (GARA) was at the foretront in 1994 when recommenda: tions were made to West Vancouver Council that the BC Rail lands, then being Motivational column Dear Editor: The May 3! Graham Hookey column, entitled, “New texts not the answer for math failures,” is excellent and very pertinent. All the observations out- lined by Mr. Hookey are clear- ly strated, and well worth the read by all the families where such challenges exist. An additional viewpoint | would add as a very much human aspect to any learning is a magic work call imetiva- tion. According to the wighly respected and hopefully much used Random House — Webster’s Dictionary, — the word — motivation, is “to provide with a motive.” To farther clarify the meaning of “motive” — (4) “prompting into action.” The magic ingredient 1s very often the teacher, who has to have basically three impor- tant qualities: thoroughly love teaching, love the subject he or she teaches and because of the above-mentioned qualities, the teacher will motivate the stu- dent inzo becoming interested in the subjecr — in this case math, and succeed in it. I believe Mr. Hookey’s arti- cle has reached a lot of hearts. Congratulations and hopefully his ideas will motivate would- be math experts into action! Gloria G. Dax-Kullak North Vancouver Ashes to garbage letter to District of est Vancouver: I note, on the garbage collection schedule delivered _ With this year’s tax bill, that“... ashes (untess distinguished and placed in separate container within: garbage” are “NOT . acceptable in the garbage sys- “tem.” Which leads me to pon- _ der: what are the criterion by -...Whish the: municipality deter- ~ mines ashes to be distinguished - ‘enough for garbage collection, should one chouse to be interred in a landfill site follow- ing cremation? Jane J. Srivastava West Vancouver jsrivast@sfu.ca 7) EY Correction Notice In our 5-3 We've Got What's Hot for Dad flyer, Ralph Lauren extra thick bath mats on page 34 are regular $53.99 on sale for $39.99. Sorry for any inconvenienve this may have caused MAIL Box: offered for sale, be acquired for a future Western recreation centre. Four vears later, the West Von parks department propos- al had turned the enure pre- ject upside down, and council was poised to build the centre on the Gleneagles golf course instead. This was unaccepiable to residents, and West) Van Council was shocked to hear the strength of community opposition, The proponents — were understandably upset by the resulting change of plan and have ever since declared that GARA does not want the cen- tre to be built at ail. Totally untrue! We simply want. realistic. orderly planning ard consulta- ten. Now to the oresent situa- von. In November 1999, coun- cil released the Roger Hughes Report. ft recommended relo- cating over hal? a mile of Marine Drive, thus placing the new cere dircetly alongside the golf course. Then in April 2000 the West Vancouver planning department issued the Gleneagles Corridor Proposed Land Use Strategy to which GARA strongly objects. It includes: 1) Relocating Marine Drive as the primary objective; 2) Planning of che centre not to siartundl Marine Drive has been moved; 3) Recovering road relocation costs by building houses and/or condos on the golf course; +) Two separate references to the possibilicy that the reere- ation centre may not be built on the former BC Rail lands after all. When GARA's strongly worded, but factually accurate, brochure was distributed, Gleneagles residents were shocked by the strategy’s pro- posals and 300 residents voted overwhelmingly to feave Marine Drive and the golf course untouched, If Marine Drive is rtocat- ed, as proposed, it will forever destroy a) beautiful environ Ment, cause Massive tree removal, ugly, permanent blasting/construction — scar: and yet put the recreation cen- tre nearer to the goif course. by the width of present Marine Drive, than necessary. Finally we are not con- vineed thar any realistic cost- ing is being done. Note that the estimate for renovating the aquatic centre at 22nd Street has risen from $2.4 million to $5.6 million in mere months, much af if, admittedly, because some people are demanding expensive extras. However, we are all over- burdened taxpayers. Keith Bower West Vancouver Column on immigration applauded Dear Editor: With reference to Timothy Renshaw’s excellent Ripping Yarns column of May 25, I would like to say that several members of our organization of — volunteers attended Lucienne Robillard’s Feb. 28, 1998, immigration hearing at Vancouver's Waterfront Centre Hotel and presented 4 brief. Ours was the only atten- dant group that was “armed with Campbell’s insights” and has been challenging Ottrawa’s disastrous immigration/ refugee policies for the past 10 years. We deplored the fact chat, although he was present, Mr. Campbell was denied an opportunity to speak out. 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