8 - Friday, September 23, 1988 ~ North Share News ® get this SUBVERSIVE THOUGHTS occur concerning Orvitle and Wilbur Wright, who did us no good ai all by inventing powered flight. If they had kept to mending bicycles, we wouldn’t be afflicted with helicopters. Helicopters are a curse, a dam- nation, a bane, an affliction and a pestilence. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to attend a helicopter burning. Why can’t they be banned? Failing that, | hope that every helicopter company goes broke. It is with sincere sympathy, therefore, that I view the struggle machines from dawn to dusk. Protests fall on deaf ears, and only the other day a man who was suffering this torture 1old me he was thinking of bringing in an an- ti-aircraft gun, Oh, the joy of secing those bir- dies Mutter wounded to the ground! As you may have guessed, my yk ’m not saying that helicopters don’t have their uses. What I‘m saying is that I have no use for them. I yearn for winter, when their flying hours will be restricted.’ of those Grand Boulevard residents in North Vancouver who wish to keep the confounded things away. Those who are plotting to bring them in plead the cause of human- ity, seeing that the proposed helipad would be used to get peo- ple to Lions Gate Hospital. But saving 2 life is no excuse for driv- ing law-abiding citizens mad. Besides, if I were at my last gasp and they stuffed me ina helicopter, that would be the end of me. Can’t stand the noise! Increasingly, we are being satu- rated with these flapping, thud- ding, shaking monstrosities. Inno- cent souls cn the lower slopes of West Van, for instance, have to endure the machinations of these ‘A WEST Vancouver Ald. Mark Sager ...in final year of law school. Event cancelled THE PEDAL and picnic event planned for Sunday, Sept. 25 at the Seymour Demonstration Forest has been postponed due to a forecast of rain. The bicycle ride through the forest will be held instead on Sun- day, Oct. 23, beginning at 11 a.m. For more information call 432- Atk FIGHT THE hs LUNG fs) | CRIPPLERS Suppori Your Lung Association feelings on this subject are rather strong. Small wonder. Not only do I have to endure helicopters here. They have spoiled my island for me, too. Some time ago, Helijet Air- ways (whose name be cursed, and which would more properly be called Helfijet) began lying over the other end of the island, vearing passengers between Vancouver and Victoria. This misery took piace every half hour, either one way or the other. The locals kicked up hell and the heli-birds were obliged to change their flight path. Denied passage that way (partly because Pat Carney, the Treasury Board minister has a place in that area, goes the rumor) they prompt- Sager to Court of WEST VANCOUVER Ald. Mark Sager has been selected to serve as a B.C. Court of Appeal law clerk, Sager, who is in his final year of Jaw school at the University of British Columbia, was one of nine clerks chosen: four from UBC, two from Toronto and two from the University of Victoria. His year with the B.C. Court of Appeal will begin in September 1989. ly started flying over our end of the island. In theory, they fly down the middle of the strait at 3,000 feet or more. Which would be bad enough. But in practice they often fly right over us. And if they are at 3,000 feet then | must be only 18 inches tall. When Helijet Inc. put on a TV ad boasting about their 12 flights a day, I became violent and had to go see the doctor. High blood pressure, you know. Helicopter companies always plead that they are doing good, of course. Recently, Mr. Stephen Wright of Vancouver Helicopters had a letter in this newspaper in reply to a complaint that described helicopters as ‘‘pesky buzzing machines’’. According to Wright, his guys earn their living ‘‘conducting sightseeing tours over our beautiful mountains for hundreds of tourists and locals.’’ He did have the grace to admir, though, that that ‘‘may be taking a small degree of tran- quillity from the community’’. Ha! I'm not saying that helicopters don’t have their uses. What I’m saying is that I have no use for them. 1 yearn for winter, when their flying hours will be restricted, Keep up the fight, Grand Bouie- vard and area. | saw you on parade at the recent North Van Ci- ty Council meeting and I’m all for you. One way to ensure that helicopter activity stops would be to place a pad next to the residence of every politician in the district. We would then see some action. As for Lions Gate Hospital, why can’t they have an emergency helicopter pad on the roof or park- ing lot — for use only in the direst circumstances? Does someone want the whole North Shore in hospital? © clerk at Appeal NEWS photo Neli Lucente FLANKED BY Const. Daryn Storey, left, and Const. Larry MacNabb, right, MLA Angus Ree, MP Chuck Cook and North Vancouver Mayor Jack Loucks shared the ribbon cutting honors recently at the opening of the new family housing project at 885 W. [6th St. Housing co-op opens A NEW 38-unit housing project for lower income families was of- ficially opened Sept. 11 in North Vancouver City. Sponsored by the North Shore Housing Co-operative, the project is located at 885 West 16th St. Approved under the 1986 social housing budget, the new facility consists of five one-bedroom units, {8 two-bedroom units, four three-bedroom units, as well as 11 wheelchair accessible units of various sizes. The British Columbia Housing Management Commission will now initiate subsidy payments to the North Shore Housing Co-operative to ensure that tenants of the pro- ject pay no more than 30 per cent of their income as rent. The rents will have to be sub- sidized by an estimated $236,544 per year -— two thirds covered by the federal government and one third by the provincial govern- ment. Sale ends Sept. 30th Sager has also been hired by § Bull, Housser & Tupper, one of ; Vancouver’s most prestigious law firms. He will begin articling with them after graduating next spring. “am very honored and pleased to have received these oppor- tunities,”’ said Sager, who has not yet decided if he will run for a third aldermanic term in the Nov. 19 District of West Vancouver elections. | ~Wetinne ign, & asa _ Invites all Brides-To-Be to attend a Free \‘Budal Party Sunday, October 16th at 2:00 p.m. al the Coach House Inn. 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