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Keep strollers off WV seawall

Dear Editor:

Because the weather is
turning nicer as it did today,
my husband and f like to go
out and walk along the sea-
wall. Today was no exception
and being seniors we tend to
walk a litle slower then oth-
ers.

However, again today as
twice in the past, my husband
was clipped in the ankles by
one of Those large-sized dou-
ble child’s stroller being

pushed by the mother. This
accident really hurt the ten-
dons of my husband's ankle
and we had to return home. I
am sure his leg will bruise.
The seawall is for walking
and not for baby strollers,
especially those very large
double ones. We find that
more and more of those “vehi-
cles” are‘ appearing on our
sidewalks and causing many
difficulties for pedestrians.
The West Vancouver council

has banned skateboarding,
bicycles, and skating on the
seawall and we think that the
council should review this as
another unsate obstacle, These
strollers are much too large for
our sidewalks and should be
banned or regulated by a spe-
cial licence fee!

Maybe then our walks will
return to a much safer activity
for all to enjoy.

Mr. and Mrs. Sean Allan
West Vancouver

Wondering about bridge widths

Dear Editor:

We now know that the
government will reconstruct
and rehabilitate the Lions
Gatc Bridge and the causeway
for $99.8 million. The project
will include a. new deck,
widened lanes for vehicles,
peopic and bicycles. /

Tragically the government

failed to convince the
Vancouver Park Board that
their idiotic stance on the
arks environment was fool-
hardy.

Imagine: the bridge will
have three 5.9-metre-wide
Janes totalling 58.12 feet. The
causeway will have three 3.0-
metre-wide lanes totalling

Now you can own
a Nokia 918

29.52 feet. Think of the tun-
nel effect as you come off the
peak of the span and see
58.12 fect narrowing into
29.52 feet.

Now coming home from
Vancouver it could be quite
pleasant.

Daniel Jarvis, MLA
North Vancouver-Seymour

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Dear Editor:

Hana Mercer's April, 30
column (Teaching right: trom
wrong) asks for an answer to
the recent youth killings in
Littleton and new Tabor.
Unfortunately, her answer lies
close to home.

I's true that “our moral
and intellectual refativism,”
and “lack of moral absolutes is
offensive” because it is subject
to change, and it provides no
definition of right and wrong

The answer is close to
home. In 1977, psychologists
S. Yochelson and S. Samenow
published their 17-year study
The Criminal Personality and

concluded that the cause of

crime couldn't be traced to
environmental factors such as
poverty or oppression, but
rather wrong moral choices.
The answer, they said, is a con-
version of the wrong-doer toa
nore responsible — lifestyle.
Principle one: responsibility
for one’s actions.

In 1987, criminologists J.
Wilson and R. Hernstein con-
cluded in their Crime and
Human Nature study that the
cause of crime
proper moral training, and
development of conscience

during the formative ycars of

one through six. Principle
two: moral training and devel-
opment.

From = my profession and
training as a language
teacher/linguist, it is remark:
able that the same years a
child’s moral conscience is

was a lack of

being formed, his/her lan-
guage ability is likewise form-
ing.

ff a chit does receive
the necessary language stimu-
lus, the child will never devel-
op a socially acceptable lan-
guage. Thus, vou have a feral
or wild child who is linguisti-
cally incorrigible. Theretore,
just as children need language
input to receive the gitt of han:
uuave, likewise children need
the input of moral values to
torm the gilt of conscience
without which they will never
be socially acceptable.

Perhaps then, like the feral
child incapable of speech, the

child without the stimulus of

right and wrong is incapable
of drawing moral distinctions
— or controlling their pas-
sions and impulses.

So where does
begin?

In the living roca. At
home. When parents do not
spend time with their children,

crime

and model for them morality
and character, you have the
beginnings of social misbehav-
Tour.

Maybe the child will never
#o On 3 shooting rampage, but
other equally evil acts can be
donc in fess public places than
a school,

Pavehiatrist, S20 Fratburg
states that when there is a lack
of parent-child relationship,
there can be ne consciene.
Furthermore, psychologist: R.
Hernstein says shallow emo-
tional attachments are the
cause of much of the random
violence by adolescents.

The solution to crime is
not in Ottawa, nor in the cor-
rectional institutes they create,
and surely not in our political-
ly correct educational institu-
dons, but at home with the
security of the family and the
modelling of respect, love and
dignity that is nurtured there.
Doug Johnstone
North Vancouver

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