Mes. Biidgst has her own ideas about Pavince wide bargaining. ~ Clear solutions vi GREATER Vancouver Regional “District's. (GVRD) water feedback form delivered i in the March 27 North Shore ‘News i is about as clear. as local drink- ing water after‘a heavy rain...) Listing 10 options: for. ‘upgrading Lower “Mainland water quality, the form presents a confusing: array of columns, arrows and check boxes that would do.a federal tax form ‘proud, It presents an exircmely complicated solution to a:relatively simple ‘problem. The hoices listed include spending millions on mbinations. of more chlorine, more filtra- '.tion‘and additions of chloramine, a powerful ‘disinfectant: that combines ‘chlorine and “ammonia. ; ‘But our water quality would benefit from . = less, not: more, human intervention — specifi- @ally Jess'maintenance in our watersheds in - the form of logging. pe a * Watershed logging makes no sense from | ‘ an ecological standpoint and little sense; from a financial standpoint. - vod It neither makes the GVRD much money nor reduces the load on local taxpayers. » /; The net revenue from watershed logging hovers around $1 million annually, for which we are stripping the watershed forest and contaminating the water with run-off/and mud slides. The solution, therefore; is not to spend multi-millions on doping our water up with more chlorine or chloramine. It is to stop logging now, let the watershed soil heal and let.nature take over the major role i in fil-__ tering the water, which is what the watershed — was designated for in the first place. . The GYRD’s water feedback form. may be turbid and complicated; the solution to improving locai water r quality need be nei- ther. - “NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK — “| don’t want to hear that cr: ay anymore.” Larry Smith, bassist/songwriter "for Vancouver R & B band, the : BelAirs, on classic rock and its pro- : “liferation on local radio. (From the March 30 Now Spotlight. ) story.) “My whole neighborhood is ‘hike a powder-keg.” Elaine Senft, on the encroach- Publisher. >. Managing Associate Editor Sales & Marketing «. Comptroller. . 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Display Advertising Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Subscriptions Ciassitied Advertising 1139 Lonsdale Avel o North Vancouver 8.C. North Shore Managed Ernie Crist, on monster hornes. (From a March 30 News story.) “le’s our views. It’s cur part of the city that’s at stake.” _ ” North Vaicouver City resident Harry Coburne, on preserving - neighborhood views and planning ‘ integrity in the city’s Lower Lousdale area. (From a March 30 News story.) 986-1337 988-1337 985-3227 985-2131 980-0511 Distribution 986-6222 Fax 985-2131 Administration vamcovvea ana po tied SDA DIVISION . . 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) ~ Entire contents © 1994 Noth Shore Free Press Ltd. All tights reserved. ie to be reme! Mexico IF YOU’RE WONDERING what — if anything — the assassination of that cundi- date for the Mexican presi- dency may mean for Canadians, meet Cuanhtemoc Cardenas, But first, a littie instant back- ground. For August's presidential elec: tion Luis Donaldo Colosio, killed 10 days ago by a gunman ata ‘Tijuana rally, had been the front- runner handpicked by retiring President Carlos Salinas de Gortaci. Last week the Salinas faction of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has not lost an election since 1929, replaced the martyred Colosio with Yale-cducat- ed economist Ernesto Zedillo, But meanwhile, the campaign momentum has swung to Colosio’s arch-rival, Cardenas — also widely popular, but with a very different - agenda. The son of former dictator- president Lazarro Cardenas,.who | kicked the foreign oil companies - out of Mexico in the 1930s, Cusuhtemoc Cardenas has distinct ‘left-wing leanings. He empathizes » with the Chiapas armed rebellion of 12 weeks ago. He champions the peasants (the 25% of Mexicans liv- ing off the land), environmentalists, feminists and disenfranchised “groups in general. He vows to end government ‘bribery and corruption. He attacks Salinas’ economic policies for fail- ing to produce “trickle-down” ben- ‘efits for the masses. He’d likely seek revisions to NAFTA, in partic- ular the agricultural clauses that put Mexicans, he claims, at a disadvan- . tage vis-a-vis the U.S. and Canada: In short, Cardenas calls for. change with a capital C — the kind of change that could scare the’ pants off the business elite and foreign investors. And the present signs are that he may be riding the crest of a wave since the murder of his main’ . opponent. In the 1988 presidential election he came second to Salinas. But | many believe he actually was - robbed of victory — though there's no firm evidence — by massive’ electoral fraud. Unless Salinas’ new yes-man Zedillo can match the slain Colosio’s popular appeal, which seems doubtful, Cardenas could this time-snatch Mexico’s top ibered i in news nee HITHER AND YON job. 7 if'so, he'll not regard NAFTA i in its present forin as graven in stoné,. The welcome carpet for foreign’. corporations may become some- what narrower and Mexico’s days ~ as a haven of cheap labor for U.S. and Canadian firms could well». begin to be numbered. He stoutly denies that he’s a Mexican Fidel. Castro. Bul he makes it clear‘he’s | not about to be any other nation’s = Joe-Boy either, \ ‘ ‘ Cuauhtemco Cardenas - — not exactly a gringo- lover — is a name’. to remember as the news from , Mexico unfolds this spring and | summer, . my SCRATCHPAD: No longer just: a store chain, Eaton’s became a ~ Canadian institution last month o its 125th birthday — the first pri- vate firm ever to have a Cani Post ‘stamp! issued in its honor, West Van Mayor Mark Sager’ ° receiving the first edition set _ Second of the popular “Music At The Library” series with Rita: + *. “Costanzi, harpist, takés place .: . ednesday, ‘April 6, at West Van- Library, beginning with refresh-"" ments at 10a.m.-— $14 single, tick- ets al the door if seating is available: - 30th reunion of West .Van High: School grads of ’64 is scheduled: : for May 13-14 —~ call.987-8318 or, 980-9771 for full details ... Happy anniversary tomorrow, “April 4,to »: Bob and AnneMarie Graham, and to Brian and Wendy-Hanna — all” of West Van .i: And ditto Tuesday, : April 5, to North Van’s Ernie and: ’ Marilyn Earnshaw. | ~ NEWS photo Pau! McGrath WEST VANCOUVER Mayor Mark Sager receives a first edition stamp set from Canada Post representative Christina Woodroffe and Park Royal Eaton's store manager. Tom. honor. ‘Hamilton. The stamp celebrates Eatons' 125th anniversary and | “is the first private company to have a stamp. issued in {ts