6- Friday, August 2 20, 1993 ~ North Shore News HEY. ARE swinging bats and win- ning local hearts. | They: have brought international -baseball recognition to the North Shore. And most of them are only 12 years old. - Lynn Valley; Little League won the pro- " -vineial Little League title carlier this month ona after downing Whalley 4-1. - .-, he victory marked the first time in 22 years: that a North Shore team had’ won the ; tile and the honor of representing “BC.; pionships. After running: up a 4-1 record in the na- tional championship’s opening round, Lynn ’: Valley finished tied for first overall’ ‘and is ‘scheduled to play today for the| national crovin. co | wart in the Canadian Little. League Cham- Ve. lost all VE Se ain uick get me a politician Regardless of Lynn Valley’s success in the championship game, the team deserves a local standing ovation. And while the team’s athletic successes are: worthy of admiration on their own, those achievements are also. great adver- tisement for what’s right. with local youth ‘—— the majority of whom are bright, posi- tive members of society, loaded with en- thisiasm and potential. The slouching louts who ape the urban losers of. inner-city America are minority bad apples. Three, cheers | for Lynn Valley Little League... ‘ Three cheers for youth: Three cheers for the future. PETES Ta ‘LETTER OF THE DAY Consider byproduct of user-pay system | Dear Editor, We read a very disturbing arti- cle in. the Aug. 4 North Shore " News about ‘the proposed user-pay system at the North Shore trans- fer/dump site...” ‘Currently, . from our. home’ ad-. joining ‘Lynn. .Canyon.. Park in North ‘Vancouver, we. apprehend an average of 10 different people - around of the canyon road in the park. This refuse ranges from loads of demolition - material to kitchen garbage to old mattresses and other cast-off furniture. We. wonder how many of those pecple unwilling to pay the pro- posed dumping fee will be coming places for their garbage. to find’ similar resting: North Shore municipal councils to consider this byproduct of im- plementing a user-pay system. Perhaps small price to pay to keep the gar- bage dump site and away from . your favorite walk in the woods. " Ann and Wilf Wedding North Vancouver that $110,000 West Vancouver pays.each year is a- Could mort ils e underrating other Nature? I DON'T know about you, but by now the Clayoquot Sound controversy has me terminally confused. 1 no longer know whether to hug'a tree, hug Jack Munro or each in turn. There’s much’ too much noise on both sides. Too much emotion and media hoopla. Too many layman's questions only half an- swered, if at all. When I landed on these shores in 1955, the first economics lesson they taught me was that forestry supplied over 50 cents of (‘very B.C. payroll dollar. Is there still any truth in that? If so, how do we replace the missing half of our income in the forseeable future? Raised to respect my elders, | gazed as a newcomer.in awe at that Douglas fir in Stanley Park that was a sapling when William the Conqueror invaded England. Among the ancient giants in Ca- thedral Grove I realized that there, at least, the chainsaw was un- thinkable. They talked glibly 38 years ago about ‘‘perpetual yield’’ and “tree farming’’. Yet the first vast clearcut I encountered on northern Vancouver Island was the most obscene view I'd ever seen. So just to make sure there’s no misun- derstanding, put me down as lik- ing trees. But that still doesn’t answer many of today’s questions. | Like, how old must ‘‘old growth’? forest be to justify heritage-status protection? How big must it be to retain its bio- diversity? How many such areas now qualify in B.C.?' How much loggable forest does that still leave? How many jobs and for. how long? Large clearcuts are obvicusly more profitable to the big forest cornpanies than small, less un- | sightly clearcuts. What is the minimum viable size — below which it’s not worth cutting at all? Meanwhile, what about reforestation? How far are the |. replanting programs keeping pace with current cutting? CAN they: ever keep pace? How does’ second-growth timber quality differ from old-growth? For practical purposes, do any of the differences matter vitally? For the Friends of Clayoquot the only good logging appears to be no more logging at all — any- where. In that case, what would replace wood in the thousands of products that now use it? Plastics? Steel? Concrete? All of them far more destructive of the environ- ment than the permanently biodegradable harvest of the forest. Finally, what about those spot- ted owls and marbled murrelets? Sad though it may be, Mother HITHER AND YON... Natur. herself regularly makes some Species extinct — and substitutes others — as centuries tick by. Just as she’s regularly ; restored the endless square miles: ° of forest laid waste by fire long . before man (and water bombers) arrived here. Could we (just asking!) be underrating that smart, stubborn old girl's ability to manage things : on her own —~ unaided a by us. mortals? © , A SALUTE today to’ two exem- : plary young North Shore citizens ; : — starting with Jennifer Jamieson | : of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1993... *"- recipient of the $3,500 Jack Davis Scholarship for the North Shore’s most outstanding all-round high: - school grad. With grades 8-12:"" first class honors and the Govern: or General’s Academic medal, she a * captained the B.C. Champion *. “S volleyball team, was grad class -.; Valedictorian and represented - North Van at-the Canarfian Yout ~ Parliament — among much «.: . else...Meanwhile, Grade I. Argyle . student Stephea Londow — now ‘: in Japan as goalie with the Cana- dian team competing i in the .- under-17 Junior World Soccer Cup — is one of only four chosen ’ from B.C. for the 20-player team :' and its sole North Van member. ‘ WRIGHT OR WRONG: A. pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good, for fear he'll :: feel worse when he feels better. -. a year dumping refuse at the side We would strongly urge all OR, ed y This newspaper R contains recycled fibre Notth Shore managed Publisher .... Distribution 986-1337 Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Associate Editor .... Noel Wright Sales & Marketing Director. Linda Stewart Compirotler Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph tll of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every doot on the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mai! 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