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Facelift on bridge
is disappointing

Open letter to West Vancouver
Mayor Mark Sager:

As a resident of West Van-
couver iar the past 12 years, I feel
obliged te voice my feclings on
the recent reconstruction of the
bridge over the stream on Es-
quimalt Avenue at 18th Street,
West Vancouver.

Understanding that repairs were
necessary, | gladly diverted my
daily walk to work during the
repair period. Words cannot
describe my feelings when I took
my familiar route to work one
morning and found that a flat
grey concrete bridge with wire
mesh now took its place, the
charming picturesque ravine, the
trees and wooden bridge, gone
forever.

To take away such beauty is to
destroy West Vancouver.

A part of my soul is mourning
the loss of something which had
become a part of my daily life,
for | would stand on that bridge
under the trees each morning and
thank God for such beauty.

Do not tell me that the planners
of our municipality have allowed
their souls to be destroyed for the
sake of ‘short-cuts’ and lack of
imagination, or have our monies
already been spent on brickwalks
and fancy standard street lamps at
the cost of natural beauty spots?

I request an explanation for the
destruction of one of the natural
beauty spots of West Vancouver.
Elizabeth M. Phillips
West Vancouver

Office tower lights
don’t waste energy

Dear Editor:

Shirley Stone’s letter to the edi-
tor in the Feb. 6 issuc of the News
complains about the energy being
wasted by downtown office towers
with their lights blazing 24 hours a

ay.

This complaint pops up regular-
ly, but it seems that there are
plenty of folks who never hear the
explanation.

Modern building air condition-
ing systems are desigtied to take
into account the heat energy
created by lights in the building.
If the lights are turned out then

the heating system has to replace
the lost energy by burning more
gas, oil or electricity with no
significant saving in energy.

You can bet that if there were
savings, building owners would
turn off the lights to improve their
bottom line.

I would rather enjoy the
beautiful downtown light display
than have everything in darkness
with virtually no saving in energy.
Long may the lights burn.

Edward White
North Vancouver

Crist off the mark on autos

Dear Editor:

Alderman Ernie Crist was
elected to serve the people of the
District of North Vancouver, so |
do wish he would not waste his
time telling the mayor of West
Vancouver what to do.

Mr. Crist is simply another pol-
itician who publicly champions the
environmental cause to increase
his vote count. However, let me
advise Mr. Crist that, for a variety
of reasons, cars will be with us for
a long time and probably in ever

increasing numbers.

If new road construction is not
carried out, then there will be two
main results: Long vehicular
line-ups will increase pollution;
and those who dwell on the North
Shore will simply move away to
areas of better road transporta-
tion, thus decreasing the employ-
ment and jobs here,

fs this what Mr. Crist wants?

Gerald Mason
North Vancouver

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you're invited. Call the
Student Society at 984-4953
for more information.

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