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NEWS VIEWPOINT
_ Prepare for quake

remier Mike Harcourt has’ got it dead

wrong when he says we're as prepared
oas.we'll ever be for the big earthquake

that experts. say is overdue for the B.C. coast.
‘ Monday’ 3L.A, shake brought heme a pre-
“carious reality’ coastal British Columbians
ith daily:. we can expect a massive
rihquake, afvany time. Seismic hazard
researchers examining the local quake record
‘are puzzled by the lack of quakes off the west’

eoast of Vancouver Island.

oy They cal it'a seismic gap. Immense pres:
“-“sures.are building underneath the Pacific as.
he-Juan de: Fuca oceanic plate squeezes the |

; northwest ‘coast,

“The plate face between: the continental |
“slope and the outer continental shelf is

: Hecked.

‘Sooner or. r later something will snap. When’

Richter scale.

it does, we’re in for a subduction quake in
the order of magnitude of 8.0 to 9.5 on the -

‘Do. not look to politicians for help on this
one. We must look after ourselves. The North
and West Vancouver Emergency program is
at work helping North Shore residents work
to prepare themselves.

While governmental agencies will play
‘their part in responding to disaster, the hard .
truth of the matier is that we must collective-
ly adopt a survivalist attitude in planning for,
the impending upheaval.

The emergency response: planners advise ;
that we must be prepared to be self-sufficient .
in the wake of a major quake. -

_On Feb. 12 North Shore Emergency Sorta

Services is holding a volunteer orientation

seminar, Call 987- 3086 to register.

"LETTER OF THE DAY
ter trash limits needed j in W V

Dear Editor: ;
~ “As a resident of Bowen Island, |

cam ‘appalled that, West Vancouver -
~has only just imposed a limit on the.

“number of garbage ‘cans per house-

* hold per week’ and that. ‘the limit is

“three, «
‘ Residents on Bowen Istand had
‘a limit of two cans per houschold
’ for. many ‘years up until last year
“when we switched to a user pay per
__ean system.
We now have to pay $35 for'an
“annual permit. for the first can and

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Publisher :
Managing Editor .
‘Associate Editor

Peter Speck
.. Timothy Renshaw
Noel Wright

$75 for every can after that.
+ As.a result, most households put
out only one can per week.

+ What do we do if we occasional-

_ly exceed the limits of our one can?

We can buy a one-time- -only permit

for $2.50 for each extra can or we .

can take it to the transfer station
and pay there.

- Many families of three or more
frequently put out less than one full

~ can per week. They do this by recy-

cling, composting, evaluating their

purchases in terms of amounts of

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packaging and recyelability of™

materials and using their own bags
at the checkout stand.» -. /
While [applaud putting a limit
on the numbers of cans, three
seems excessive. Perhaps a system

similar to ours where people have .

to pay specifically for each can of

_ garbage will make them more
responsible toward the amcunts of’

garbage they are creating.

Sheila Haggersfone
Bowen [sland

986-1337

contains

985-3227. §
pal recycled libre +

Two crossings

for t

DON’T RUSH to swallow
the large red herring served
up by Victoria’s environmen-
tal consultants on the Lions
Gate Bridge problem.

Acres International Lid: are pro-
noting a new five-lane bridge — a
Proposil already aired by their
client, the government itself —- as
though it were a done deat. It ain't.

The Community Focus
Committee chaired by sports
tycoon Arthur Griffiths and other
study groups are still working on
all 10 or so options before making

recommendations to'the Highways - ;

Minister.

The simplest option being to fix
the bridge’s rotting deck, put
cyclist and pedestrian sidewalks
outside the cables and hope that the
lowers — certified as “sound” —.
will last another half century,

With work done at night it
would mean no daytime hold-ups
for commuters, no new savaging of
Stanley Park, a modest $85 million
bill and the preservation of
Vancouver's most famous land-
mark.

A Cadillac-style upgrade costing
up to $240 million would see the
towers heightened fora cable-,
‘stayed Structure like the Alex
‘Fraser Bridge, carrying four lanes

and possibly double-decked. That

/ would make commuters a tittle hap-

pier and everyone cise LESS
happy. . ;
* Environmentalists would fight
the needed widening of the Stanley
Park causeway and heritage buffs

. would bewail the change in the > ©

bridge’s appearance, Ditto when we
move upscile into the $320-$360
niillion estimate bracket for a NEW
four or five-lane bridge adjacent to
the existing one, which would
eveniually be tom down. -

Finally, there are the tunnel
options, ranging in price from $360
million to $1 billion, all environ-
mentally suspect but at least avoid-
ing any disruption for commuters
during construction.

The most attractive comes from’

‘the engincers for the George.

Massey Tunnel in Delta, Hans

* Bentzen and Kurt Hellin — one

key reason being money. -

The price tags for all the other
main proposals mean tolls would
likely be inevitable. But the : ”
Bentzen-Hellin tunnel plan would

“use fill excavated from the seabed

to crenie a 100-acre island in Coal.
Harbour, with sale of the resultant
real estate paying fcr. virtually the’

solution to growing cro:

e price_
of fixing one? —

HITHER AND. YON .

whole $l billion cost of the project.
“So'if Messicurs Bentzen and

Hellin can guarantee their math,

why not go for'a twin solution?” -
Fix the Lions Gate Bridge deck,

and stay optimistic about its towers. .

At the same time build the tunnel as
a long-term — and cost-free —

Inlet tral
fic. *. 4
» -By the year 2000 we'd have
over (wice the capacity ofa new’ -

five-lane. bridge, with minimal ,
inconvenience meanwhile to com-
muters, and all for a paltry $85 mil
lion with probably no tolls, .

Can anyone fi gure outa better

. deal, Arthur? fe moos

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SCRATCHPAD: Latin and jive

ballroom dancing sessions run from’

today until March 9 at West Van.
Ree Centre — phone 926-3266 for
i ‘Neighbourhood House.

’ Craft Circle (next meeting Friday,

Jan 21; 1-3.p.m.) needs volunteer
insiructors and supplies — call
987-8138 if you can help ... Learn
the how-to of technical writing. i
Cap Coliege’s Communication

250 program, Tuesday. évening:
. Jan. 18 to April 19.—— for info.-con

tact 986-1991; local 2585 or. 25%

.. Tomorrow, Jan.:28, wish happ
birinday to Hoilywood’ s indestruc-
tible George Burns at 98°-:. Ditto.
to the NDP’s Grey Eminen ‘¢ Bo
Williams who's 61,2. And ye!
again to 63-year-old former.Socred
fi inance minister Mei Couvelier:

jawbone of in ass is just as ‘danger-
ous a a weapon today.a as i in : Samson’ s

Sales & Marketing Director Linda Siewart
Comptroller Doug Foot

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38 ONCE OF WORTH AND WERT WANE DUE

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