A7-Wednesday, March 12, 1980 - North Shore News

Dear Editor:

We have nearly all been
aware, I am sure, of the fight
put up by two of our North
Shore lawyers to advertise
their fees. I wonder if we
realize that their victory can
be a tremendous advantage
to the average citizen. We
are living in such a complex
society that most of us will
have an occasion when we
would like legal help but the
nature of the problem
doesn’t warrant searching
out a lawyer and engaging
him to take care of it for us.

My husband and I have
had two personal instances

in the past few years when,
with the help of the self-
counsel series of books, and
a brief conversation with a
lawyer, we were able to put
our minds at rest for a very
small fee.

We were interested in
investing in R.R.S.P. a few
years ago and a little unsure
of which route to take. I was

quite impressed with what a

well known Income Tax
Consultant and publisher of
a book’on Income Tax*had
to say when he was quest on
a on a radio talk-in show.
Unfortunately, we did not
read his book or we may

_with our approval.

have heeded his warning not
to consult an individual with
a vested interest in his ad-
vice. As it happened, we
made an appointment with
just this type of individual.
There we were, green as
grass, putting al] our trust
into someone who bought
stocks for us that we had
never heard of, to a greater
amount then we could invest
in R.R.S.P. and supposedly
For-
tunately we woke up before
we signed anything. We
phoned a lawyer friend and
he gave us permission to use
his name and assured us that
we were within our legal

School probe biased?

Dear Editor:

I refer to the recent article
in the North Shore News
entitled ‘Team set to
evaluate North Vancouver
Community Schools’.

It must be emphasized
that the terms of reference
of this evaluation. do not
include a determination of
whether the community
school system is necessary or
desirable in North Van-
couver. That issue has
already been decided for us
by the School Board, ably
assisted by the apathetic
general public and a few
dedicated fanatics.

With all due respect to the
chosen evaluation team, I

question the impartiality of
its selection which was made
by the School Board, most of
whom are valid supporters of
the Community School
System.

The extent to which this
team, both of them are
teachers and employees of
the School District, can
afford to the impartial and
objective is questionable. It
is evident that an adverse
report by them would reflect
poorly on their colleagues,
and could conceivably result
in some teachers’ positions,
notably the Community
School co-ordinators, being
placed in jeopardy. And
really, how could this team

Protest the
‘ghastly’ hunt.

Dear Editor:

A week or two ago you
reminded us that the ghastly
baby seal massacre would
soon be upon us. Now that it
has begun,
readers will deluge

Minister of Fisheries (Hon.
Rumes Le Blanc, House of
Commons, Ottawa)
protest.

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servationists and Humane
groups the world over are
horrified by the attitude of
the Canadian Government.
A survey made by Weekend
Magazine in 1978 showed
that the majority of
Canadians agree with them.
But still it goes on. Why?
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do that to fellow members of '

the B.C.
Federation?

An impartial report can
only result from an
evaluation that is un-
dertaken in its entirety by an
agency that has no direct
interest in the results.

This evaluation exercise
will obviously be self-serving
to the community school
Proponents in general, and
the school co-ordinators in
particular and is no doubt a
prelude to a plan for the

Teachers

vertising saved them money

rights to back down on the
purchases.

More recently we have
gone through the process of
registering ourselves as a
small business. We visited
the Law Shopped and
purchased some of their
books (I believe they are also
available at the library). We
still felt as though we would
like to have someone pnt it
all together for us. We made
a half-hour appointment
with lawyer Jack James to
ask some specific questions

and are now registered at
very little cost.

Quite often I hear people,
completely bewildered and
who need legal advice,
phone up a. radio station
asking what to do about a
Situation they have got
themselves into.

I think these lawyers are
doing us a favor by ad-
vertising that some legal
advice doesn’t have to be a
financial set-back.

Iris Duncan
West Vancouver

Pub should

Dear Editor:
Regarding the _ recent
application of the Queen's

Cross Pub to extend the
hours to 1 a.m., that would
then make it a bar and not a
neighbourhood pub. A
neighbourhood pub is for the
neighbourhood and should
close at 9 or 10 p.m. I might
add it should not even have a
parking lot, let alone have
patrons who live all over the
Lower Mainland.

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hard to take. Unfortunately
we were settled residents
long before the pub was
built.

They say they want to take
a poll of the residents in the
area on their opinion, but if
it went the same way as the
last poll, we say “so long” to
our peace and quiet (we
really don’t have much right
now!) I'm sorry my other
letter was never answered or
published. It ay have
helped othery voice their
discontent. *-

(Mrs.) Carole Kormendy
North Vancouver

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