MAIL ARRIVES LATE

Post Xmas blues

OPEN LETTER TO
CANADA POST

On Monday, Jan. 11, we receiv-
ed a postal card informing us that
there was a parcel to be picked up
at Boots Pharmacy in Park Royal,
West Vancouver,

Why Boots? We have always
picked up parcels at West Van-
couver Post Office on 17th Street.
J can walk to the West Vancouver
Post Office. Now it means bus fare
over and back or gas in the car.

Canada Post should realize this
causes great inconvenience to the
public, especially senior citizens.

The postal cardi was dated Dec.
23, 1987. How could this be possi-
ble? Nineteen days later!

My husband picked up the
parcel on Tuesday, Jan. 12, The
clerk at Boots told him that the
parcel had been delivered there
Friday, Jan. 8. Why then had we
not been advised to pick up our
parcel at the West Vancouver Post
Office?

Before opening the parcel, |
checked that the mailing date from

Edmonton was Dec. 17. Written
on one side of the package was
22/12/87, on the other side 23/
12/87. Why were we not notified
then that there was a parcel for
us.?

We appreciate the fact that the
letter carrier held the parcel and
tried a second day, obviously
knowing there would be a long
delay before we would receive the
parcel if it once went into the
system.

Then, of course, it cost a long
distance call to our grandchildren
to thank them for a Christmas
present that should have been ac-
knowledged long before. Pwenty-
one days after the parcel arrived in
West Vancouver, we obtained it,
when under the old system we
would have had it for Christmas.
This is fudicrous! Lam furious!

We expect Canada Post to re-
establish the good, fast service we
have always had from the West
Vancouver Post Office.

Irene M. Chapman
West Vancouver

Dr. Ruth ‘sullies’ paper

Dear Editor:

I would like to commend you on
a very well put-together North
Shore newspaper.

Tread it from cover to cover and
enjoy it immensely — especially
the new, more- wholesome exam-
ples of the Sunshine Girl.

It is most unfortunate that you

have allowed your image to be
sullied with the Dr. Ruth column,
{t borders on pornography and re-
ally lowers the esteem with which
your paper is held in this com-
munity.

Linwood Trask
North Vancouver

Feb: 27th.

Cates high rises

OPEN LETTER TO
NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

The proposal to build two high-
rise towers on the waterfront next
to Cates Park is beyond com-
prehension.

We have a unique opportunity
to seclaim industrial-zoned land in
a prime recreation arca and to cx-
pand Cates Park to keep pace with
the rapid population growth; or to
create a family-oriented — singie-
family housing or a terraced
townhouse development, which
could include pleasing walks and
improve beach access for the
public and open the view from the
Dollarton Highway for the
pleasure of everyone.

Instead the planners and civic

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politicians come along with a
high-rise development = with a
private marina for the exclusive
usc of the strata’ residents. To
build a high rise would:

* Create a high-density complex
in an arca of single-family homes.

* increase the load on over-
crowded schools and recreation
facilities.

© Create more traffic and con-
gestion on the Dollarton and the
Second Narrows Bridge.

“Further tax an
transit system.

* Block the

inadequate

view from the

thanked

Dear Editor:

Thank you for your whole-
hearted coverage of the seasonal
Burn Unit fund-raiser display at
my home.

Many thanks also to the
numerous friends and neighbors
whose volunteer efforts made this
task easier, not to mention a whole
lot of spirited fun.

However, it was the North Shore
News whose photographs and arti-
cles made so many North Shore
residents aware of this community
event that success was assured.

So hats off to the true heart of
the community — you never miss a
beat!

Guy Carscadden
North Vancouver

siammed

Dollarton.

If our politicians can, in all good
conscicrice, vote for such a pro-
posal then they are certainly not
tepresenting the views of the resi-
dents in this area.

When will you listen? Does
anyone, besides the developers,
support high rises on the water-
from? Why not impose a district
bylaw that makes it impossible to
propose such devclopments and by
doing so represent us, the
residents?

Clive Walton
North Vancouver

Park Royal South, West Van.
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2326 W. 4th Ave., Van.
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