AT - Sunday, January 30, 1983 - North Shore News

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Sorenson Sad correction
to war dead total

lucky to
have job

Dear Editor:

So Bill Sorenson is
proposing to take a cut in his
aldermanic pay and urges
municipal employees to do
likewise. (“They’re lucky to
have jobs” — Jan 23, 1983)
How magnanimous of him.
He has made no mention of
his salary as a manager with

Dear Editor:

Your issue of January 23
published an excellent letter
from a student of Sutherland
School in which he com-
phmented your paper for its
listing of names of people
convicted of impaired
driving and reporting of
casualties on our roads. He
erred however in making the
following statement: -

“During the six-year

the North Shore Credit
Union which, presumably, is
his main source of

~~ ——~Thivelihood.

On January 9, 1983, you
reported that Mr. Sorenson
is very anxious to see a new
road through the watershed
to Whistler and beyond. I
have read that such a road
would be a very expensive
proposition, considering the
environmental safeguards
which would also be in-
volved.

If having a job is for the
privileged, who must also
take pay cuts and refuse
increases, who does he think
is going to pay for the road?
He obviously believes the
financial wizards who run
this province when they tell
us such megaprojects do not
cost the taxpayer a penny.

(Who was- it who = said,
“There are no free lun-
ches”?)

Mr. Sorenson is indeed

very lucky to have his job.

Maureen Simmonds
North Vancouver

Newcomers’
questions
about WV

Dear Editor

Perhaps newcomers
noice what residents get
used to (or know already).
So two questions, please”

What possessed West
Vancouver to allow high-rise
apartments along the
waterfront? Surely building
closer to the upper levels,
where they would not ob-

scure yet would give
dwellers panoramic views
makes more sense That
seems bad planning tn a

district that appears to care
about appearances

Second, your = special
Snow section, the writer
negicctod advice on good
places to toboggan.
Chnstmas week, took
visitors to Cypress bul there
were only two official
toboggan runs, packed with
unsupervised children
Where clse can adults go”

B Hillman,
West Vancouver

we

1227 Welch, N_V.

period of the Second World

War 17,682 Canadians died.”
That i

sad correction. It omits over

24,000 young - sailors,

soldiers and airmen who also

Next.. unholy
answer to
aging crisis?

Dear Editor:

On reading your front
page secondary headlines of
the Jan. 5 issue: “LGH feels
the pinch of aging N. Shore”,
the unholy thought comes —
will our directors solve this
crisis with the same
philosophy they use _ for
problem pregnancies?

F. Daniel
North Vancouver

died in action. For the of-
ficial figure for the fatal
casualties of all three ser-
vices in World War II was
41,992. That number is
taken from “An Official
Historical Summary”  en-
titled “The Canadian Army,
1939-1945”, published by the
authority of the Minister of
National Defence in 1948.

1 feel 1} should add an
1 ion to the above
book in the words of a
famous Elizabethan:

@ company together agayne
when need is.

One cannot criticize the
student in the _ slightest
degree. He has not been
correctly informed by those
who should be aware of
Canada’s military history.
D.L. Mathieson
West Vancouver

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Make drinkers WALK to pub

Dear Editor:

In your issue of January
23, you rap an excellent
letter of opinion by Irwin
Oostindie.

In the same issue you ran
your regular fist of
drinking/driving  con-
victions. Directly above that
list was a news item of so-
called parking problems at a
proposed neighbourhood
pub.

What we seem to have
here 1s an individual stating
facts of a horrendous death
rate due to drinking drivers
and other = individuals
seeking a land area to ac-

—commodaté more vehicles
that may eventually become
those same instruments of
death. :

To my way of thinking, the
highway carnage may be
reduced if the potential
driver was aware of the lack
of parking facilities and
therefore either walked to
and from his favourite haunt
or sacnficed a couple of

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While we're on the subject
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Statistic of our all too

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North Vancouver

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