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What price youth?
% outh, playwright Oscar Wilde once penned, is
wasted on the young.

Here in North Vancouver, a request from
youth is wasted on the cify council.

In its wisdom, city council turned down a $300 grant
request to aid in funding a North Shore youth forum,
but only minutes later spent $4,200 on self-promotion.

With all the enthusiasm of youth, council members
both for and against the grant argued their point of
view, but those opposed to the largesse prevailed.

Apparently, the forum’s Lynn Valley location was
sufficient to convince enough council members the
event would benefit only a small number of city
youths.

The $4,200 of taxpayers’ money the city so aptly
spent on self-promotion bought a one-time slick mag-
azine ad. Whereas the $300 grant would have been an
investment in the future, in the community’s youth
who will grow into the community’s leaders.

It is not easy to be a teen, as perhaps some council
members have forgotien. Anything helping our
youngsters to become better adults must be given, and
given earnestly.

Three hundred dollars is a smail price to pay for a
segment of our society that too often gets overleoked.
By providing responsible events for our youth, we are
stimulating their minds and their creativity, which in

58,287 (average. Wednesday

Fraay & Sunday) SOA DIVISION

turn channels their energies into productive activities.
Chiidish squabbles over a few pennies should be left

out on the playground.

READER ‘ASHAMED AND DISGRACED’

Deport Doug to S. Africa

Dear Editor:

In his fatest diatribe in the North Shore News,

Sunday, Feb. 15, Doug Collins has finally gone too
far. His recent.column is a disgrace to a respected
newspaper in a civilized nation.

No reporter should be allowed to insult deliberately
whole peoples with such abusive and profane lan-
guage. I feel persbnally ashamed and degraded as a
Canadian of British origin by this man of similar
background who has no more right to be in this coun-
try than people from india, Africa, South America or
anywhere else.

We are all immigrants to Canada and by what
God-given right does Collins consider himself so su-
perior to lay down the law for others? No wonder that
colored and native peoples have no love for the British
when Collins is an example.

By writing in this manner he demonstrates his ig-
norance, insecurity and inferiority. His language re-

minds me of Hitler railing and gibbering against the
Jews during the 1930s and 40s and I wonder. which
side Collins was really on? ‘The Second World War
was fought against this type of racism and I believe
Canadians must show their revulsion for men of Col-
lins’ ilk,

I personally will not subscribe to the North Shore
News again until you sir, show some decency by re-
jecting the promotion of hatred and prejudice by Col-
lins in your newspaper.

Perhaps the time has come for Canada to show
some real mettle and to deport Collins to his beloved
South Africa (if they would have him, which I doubt)
— the last bastion of so-called white supremacy.
There like Custer he could make his last stand and as
ube British would say ‘‘ good riddance to bad rub-
bish’’.

Colin R. Jones
Vancouver

"GLEAN WHAT IS OF VALUE’

Noel Wright

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QUIET BIRTHDAY is the theme
of the latest pressure group cam-
paign iaunched in West Van,
which celebrates its 75th anniver-
sary this year.

Leading the troops is Sohn
Beltz, chairman of the Society for
Soundscape Awareness and Pro-
tection, who’s up in arms about an
Anniversary Committee proposal
for a performing arts stage in
Ambleside Park. He foresees it
hosting frequent 200-decibel rock
concerts to add to the existing
summer problem of blaring ghet-
to-blasters along the beach. Con-
ceding that the Constitution for-
bids discrimination against such
bands, he’s pressing council to
divert the funds, instead, to a
year-round indoor auditorium
and/or — in the park itself —
some peaceful facility like a dining
terrace. Neighboring residents anx-
ious to defend their eardrums can

Collins sells newspapers

Mr. Editor:

(For ‘‘Dear’’ you are not)

I am replying to Mr. G.D.
Williams’ letter printed in your
Feb. 20 issue. ;

Mr. Williams (the “Mr.” is
presumed), why are you so con-
cerned about Mr. Collins’ Feb. 8
column? Any intelligent person
who reads Mr. Collins’ articles
should be able to glean what is of
value from his statments and opi-
nions.

Understand that the man is a
goad who uses his style as a device
to provide thought, emotion, and
retort if applicable. This he does
very effectively, proven by your,
and my response.

Mr. Wright and Mr. Speck are,
as good capitalists, I’m sure, very
pleased with his performance. It
sells papers. That’s their business,
and like Doug Collins, they’re very
good at it.

- The important -point-is -that. he

forces opinion, whether pro or
con.

Mr. Williams, you sound an
educated, thinking man, and |
agree with your concerns, howev-
er, don’t be sa naive. The North
Shore News is here to sell papers.

‘Period. They want you to respond

to them.

Your frustration helps them. It
sells more papers and so Mr.
Wright prints these letters, and
Mr. Speck sells them, and sails this
boat around the Gulf Islands
weekends.

You are the one who do?s the
research and informs the public.
The whole system works to get the
public involved and_ satisfies
everyone’s inner desire to be
heard.

Good for me, good for you,
good for Doug, Peter and Noel.
We might not all agree but that’s
what makes it work.

Peter Westcott
Vancouver. .

call him at 922-3082.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

HAPPY DAY for Norgate toddlers ... Ald. Murray Dykeman cuts the
ribbon opening expanded accommodation at the Novaco daycare centre,
witt: an assist by centre director Pam Buckman (left) and Carole Ebner,
the centre’s original founder. Looking on (far left) MLA Angus Ree.

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JOHN BELTZ ... a rock-free park

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MEMO PAD: Citizens United for
Safety & Justice are embracing TV
to get their message across. North
Shore CUS] coordinator Noreen
Provost and Diane Jones, working
with Shaw Cable Channei 4,
recently produced six 30-minute
interview programs with police and
court personalities (including col-
orful retired judge Les Bewley) on
“safety and justice today’’. Check
Shaw TV listings or call 985-2151
for local airing dates... At least
one factor in the closure of
formerly popular Bennington’s
Restaurant on Lonsdale Quay was
Expo. Last summer the parking lot
often filled up chock-a-block by 9
a.m. with the .cars of all-day
visitors to the fair, commuting by
SeaBus. Bennington’s lunch
patrons couldn’t find any spot to
hitch their steeds and were forced
to drive on — with disastrous
results for business... And con-
grats to North Van students Irene
Dancause, Tanis Gaitens, Peter
Mark Kyall, Wayne Koll, Peter
McCorquodale, Ruby Negelkerke,
Darren Payne, Michael Stulken,
Anna Hammons, Erika Plettner,
Biran Way and Lynn Wilson — all —
named to the SFU Honor Roll.
For good measure, Peter McCor-
quodale also won a Fessenden-
Trott scholarship. v6. ey

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