~ Wednesday, July 31, 1996 — North Shore News The North Skove fenws is published by Wurth Shore Free Press Ltd., Pabliekar Peter Speck, froza 1139 Lonsdale Avenue Worth Vancouver, B.C., V7 24 PETER SPECK Publisher 985-2131 (101) “”* Salas & Masteting Director . 988-0517 (319) _ Classified Manager ° 986-8222 (202) : ~ LETTERS 10 Tie eoiren : Letters’ must fnciude your nama, full addiess & telephone number. VIA fotamat: trenshaw @ direct.ca COMPUTER owe ties, fed i 159 xan independant ‘sbutan and quatfied und: Schedule 111, Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, it publsted cach Woche Fri tay and Surcay by Non Shove Free Prews Lad ace distnbnaed in every dour on ht Nonh Shine, Canada Post Cenacion ibticaone Mail Sales Prokst ‘Agreement No. (0087238, Miing es avai on rut” viewpo ment ‘income to others. The fight to for that weet smelling. garbage green is. egain on the North Shore. This. batile of the bin is in. North “The company | holds the waste disposal and - pecyelinig contract for West Vancouver and’ six ‘other Lower Mainland municipalities. Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) workers provide garbage pickup ser- ‘yice.in North: Vancouver City and District. - The city: ‘contracted owt waste disposal ser- "vices in 1983 for'a five-year period. -The city eventually returned to in-house waste disposal service after a comparison of an! a NERA DER LS ARG MAA OE ETS HD pet. costs’ and services showed. municipal ‘work, crews could do the job-for abowt“the. same amount of money. A Marktrend survey shows - that 86%: of North Van District homeowners are presently happy with their service. - The North Shore’ Initegrated Solid. Waste Management Plan is recommending an inte-”” : gration of collection services. Implicit is the notion that a move io,a single contractor, would realize cost benefits. In‘a messy bit of political manoeuvering on July 22 North Vancouver District council sup- ported. and then rejected an invitation for pri- . vate sector bids, The issue will likely be. revis- ited in an upcoming ' meeting. The road te an integrated service will be fraught with union versus non-union posturing. Aitiances will be tested. North Shore residents are best served.” with an eye on the bottom line: efficient sere" Balanced | coverage Dear Editor: Re: July 17 North Shore News — “Residents Blast” : Club Noise.” : I would like to take tl opportunity to extend ‘my. thanks for your fair represen- tation of both sides of th ‘above article, The owners ‘and myself . appreciate that you did not.’ take sides and mainly reporte the facts as you heard the Hopefully without mu more controversy we can soo put this problem to rest: . David Strebinger, Manager Dewey, Pardie & Howe: " . Cabaret West Vancouver lament Dear Editor:. ~ La Land ‘deser four * years ©. Democratic Party, NEVER again accuse _ Canadian politicians of “lacking humor after Ontario MPs John Godfrey and Peter . Milliken have had their 15 minutes. of fame. That will come when Parliament resumes this fall and : _ they introduce a private mem- bers’ bill to teach U.S. Senator Jesse Helms about sauce for the goose iind sauce for the gander. “Helms, you may recall, was featured in this col- “umn a couple of weeks ago. He's co-sponsor of the U.S. Helms-Burton Act which allows the US. government and citizens to sue companies and citi- zens of other naticns alleged to be benefiting from the use of former American property in Cuba that had originally been seized by Castro. The law can also bar senior executives of such foreign companies and their families from entering _ the'U.S: — as has already happened with one Canadian confpany. of . The Godfrey-Milliken bill extends Jesse -” ’ Helms’ -neanderthal thinking with delicious logic. It would permit descendants of the some 80,000 - United Empire Loyalists who fled the U.S. after the 1776 American Revolution to reclaim property 7 a “ illegally confiscated by the American government and citi- ‘zens of that day. Pending satis-. faction, officers of U.S. com- panies still benefiting from such 220-year-old seizures, along with their families, would be barred from entering Canada. . Legally, moreover, Messieurs Godfrey and Milliken are apparentiy on solid ground. The 1783 Treaty of Paris between Britain and the new United States — duly ratified by the U.S. Congress — provided for the restitution of all confiscated estates, rights and - properties. But the U.S. and state governments simply reneged on that commitment. Retorting i in kind to blustering Senator Helms’ law is good clean fun for these summer Dog Days. And after all, 220-year-old Loyalist claims against the U.S. are surely no less valid than the latter's 37-year-old Cuban claims against Canadians? But what else hither and yon does the Godfrey-Milliken bill tell us about fester- ing “claims” sores around the globe? What of the IRA's blood-soaked claim, dating back over 300 years, to recover Protestant-domi- nated Ulster for Ireland? Will Rwanda’s Hutus and Tutsis — or Sri Lanka's Tamils and Sinhalese — ever bury the hatchet? Could Welsh and Scots still sue France for all the damage inflicted on them by vices local contro! and dollar value.: : ‘Normandy’ s William the Conqueror an And close to home, what hope is there of ever, resolving millennia-old aboriginal clainis tc: 110%: of B.C.'s land mass on that impossible basis? So i uspect the real.aim of the Ontario MPs’ ton; in-cheek bill may be the very reverse of i ing—that its trie message to the world i was then, this is now — so let's chill out in flogging dead horses? How many ‘decade centuries can 2 destructive, exhausting, no-win game drag on before the game-over whistle bl What does it take boih'sides ‘to cease a fruitless feud and get on with their lives? Q SALUTE 50-year North Van residents Bill's ani Betty Murdoch who tomorrow, Aug. 1, beco the newest members of the Diamond’ 60th Clu Tomorrow also wish many happy returns of the . day to North Van birthday girl Edna Hundlebiy Birthday greetings Saturday, Aug. 3, to N.’Shore Winter Club veteran Harold Fromme ... And - _Tore of the same that day to North Van's: Emie - Earnshaw. . ag a- i WRIGHT OR WRONG: Even nostaliiia is is no longer like it was way back... ~- The North Shore News believes strongly i in free- dom of speech and the right of all sides in a debat to be heard. The colunnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those views are not necessarily those of the newspaper itself, .