eae ae A7 - Sunday News, December 7, 1980 GE mailto x Public footpath — or private beach? Dear Editor: | have always understood that public grounds, public amenities- and public beaches were for a wide use of all the general public, and not restricted to the private, personal use of a few people only. Very many couver West Van- residents regularly and happily use and enjoy the beautiful Centennial Sea Walk, with extra pleasure now afforded all of us by the Why destroy t Dear Editor: On page 9 of the *sovember 30 edition of the North Shore News there is a photograph of a home on Hendry Dr. in North Vancouver being destroyed by practising firefighters. I've never been inside this home but have walked past it a good many times wishing | might be so for- tunate as to hve there. It was a charming middle-aged home, beautifuly designed and beautifuly situated on a magnificent lot. It featured lovely wood-sashed multi- paned windows and french doors which opened on to well-kept pmvate gardens mch in a large vanety of shrubs and flowenng trees. My first reaction to seeing it in flames was that it was a ternble pity and that the unfortunate owners must be However, until I finish, this is all that you'll see of me, so look for me in the future, All of Me. I’m not Marilyn Monroe yet, only a grandmother who wants to be herself and will love being called “Skinny Minnte’’. nc. SLIM & TRIM recent completion of the pew section between 19th and 18th Streets. On Sep- tember [5, 1980, council approved an amount for the purpose of the creation of a beach footpath between 18th Street and John Lawson Park (17th Street) to © slightly lengthen this walk. However. il appears that certain owners are so strongly against the public walking along the beach between (18th and = 17th distraught at such a calamity ... but on discovering that it was deliberate. I was sickened! It would be very gratifying to discover who saw fit to condemn this attractive home, and why? Can my taste be so perverted as to see this houSe as so desirable which another can con- demn, in all sincerity, as derelict? No doubt a couple of badly designed jerry-built “subdivision specials” or amorphous West Coast Design uglhies will shortly be erected where this beautiful house once stood. A very progressive step, I must say, and very much m keeping with the trend on the North Shore to destroy anything that might have any real aesthetic value. If other than purely “?’M NOT MARILYN MONROE...” “" BUT, JUST WAITW” When I'm finished my cellulite treatments here at N.G. Slim & Trim, I will be back down to m only 8 treatments, I have lost 1 and trimmed off 7 Ibs. All this in just over 2 weeks. original weight. So far after inches (5 off my waist alone) Streets that they have taken legal steps. The public can only walk here if some of the logs and debris on the beach are removed to make this proposed footpath. The removal of some logs etc., and I stress the word “some”, allowing a footpath to be built, will not affect the des up to the existing tide marks and thus the houses. If itis said that houses will be water-damaged, then ob- viously the houses are too is love greedy, self-interested motives are behind this destruction, I should like to know them and put my suspicions to rest. I wish, therefore, to challenge the North Shore News to look tmto this particular instance of appalling waste and to report its findings in a spirit of pubhc minded concem for the future of outstanding older homes in our com- DINING LOUNGE | eT s*~