S anyone else bothered by today’s North Vancouver District pur- chase of a private property adja- cent to the northeast corner of the Dollarton Bridge? The lot is needed to accommodate the approach to a new two-lane bridge the district is planning to build paraliel to the existing bridge. The pian will allow cars from Seymour to travel directly westward without get- ting caught in the lineup of traffic backed up from the Second Narrows Bridge. The cost? Six million doilars, including property purchase. District engineers say the extra west-bound lane should reduce 20% of the traffic lineup. Some Seymour residents say the figure is lower. Three district counciliors have opposed the $6 million-solution on the grounds ‘mailbox _ Ball agrim reminder of mountain dangers Dear Editor: north shore news VIEWPOINT that it is nat the preferred solution to Seymour’s traffic bottleneck. When council debated the topic publicly, the bridge was approved in principle with councillors Ernie Crist, Pat Munroe and Lisa Muri opposed. However, council also directed staff to prepare a referendum qucs- tion for the public in November that would ask for financing approval. So, on the one hand council will ask for public approval to borrow and/or spend $6 million on a partial traffic solution that will not be built in time to help alleviate the heavier Second Narrows lineups that work on the Lions Gate Bridge wil! bring. On the other hand, the one behind the back, some of council has already voted to spend $460,000 of the moncy the public is supposed to approve. Tranquil. UNTIE ME AND I°LI. TEAR THE COUNTRY APART! beutits I am calm. Serene. Quiet. Placid. GOOD NEWS, GLEN! WITA A LITTLE MORE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, WE MIGHT Be ABLE To FIND You A JOB AS A WAITER | teadily forgives their naughtiness. Not that all Canadians are furious about this travesty. For instance, Henry Cho must be delighted. Mr. Cho, a Victoria restaurateur, was Second thoughts on summer snow. “Tt was a ‘recent glorious hot weekend in July chat seemed long overdue in Vancouver, Dressed for the sun and lathered “in sunscreen’ we headed into the local mountains. We soon found the local hills buried under last winter's over abundance of snow. This made for great views of wonderful snow-covered peaks and the city far below-us.°: ‘The fresh mountain air and the Strong smell of cedar ues _ dryin in the sun beckoned ts on. BH ae we had climbed ‘up and down over a number of ridges ped on some smooth warm rocks to reward ourselves ‘second course of lunch. It was grear to luxuriate in the. - * sun’ On’ the next ridge we saw a:couple approaching, also the rich, simmer day. They began to descend the “ snow slope towards us ... then-one of. them temporarily lost : their footing and started to slide. >: Tc was not the frst time I’ve secn someone slip on an inno- ‘snow. slope and start to slide. And I’m also sure that it is not the last time I will sce somene slide. I too slipped on the weekend, ‘as ‘one’ occasionally dees on snow, and slid cursing 4 short slo ppe: T T got up quicd ly, with my hand still sting- * ing from the col “Most’ of these: slips will fade quick! from my memory. * Howeve! ip.on the weekend not. ft will remain etched in'my vain forever. With the hot sin.peacefillly lulling - On the rocks; the slide we observed quickly became serious. ‘ The snow’slope * tumed into’a long «Whe fall jotte f'a couple hundred fect. he ‘can change, quickly. And that an innincent stip paickly, h White’ died after a july 1k fall on Mt. Seymout . July:14. Nor: Shore News) - John Herts Shore tgs. founded in 1969 as an * “unter Schedule 111, Parepraph 111 of the “Entice Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, c=, Ftichgg and Sunday by North Shore Froe Press . LU. and distnbuted to every door on the North + a: Misrk Fancher Creative Services Director f : 908-2131 (127) 81,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Rows Is: peblis’ 26d. by Horth Shore Fres Press Ltd., Publisher Peter Speck; Distribution Mare 906-1537 (126) . arid that seemingly innocent slide’ -” fat fll dred ~ the ‘serenity out of the day as we raced: to Te was a potent feminder that, the appearance of summer © ‘setious, without the means to stop Yes, Reader — sv accustomed are you to my calm, reasoned analy- ses and meditations in this corner of the award- winning North Shore News that you would scarcely recognize the red-eyed revolutionary released by this latest Ottawobble. over the 123 rusty-hulk Chinese “immigrants” now being fed, housed and stroked _at public expense. John Réynolds, Reform Party irami- gration czitic and MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, had a bigger response within two days te his invitation to hear frv-w citizens about this travesty than to any isine he’s been involved with since entering politics in 1972. Ottawa has now rewarded off-shore crooks, san gs anid their high-paying cus- tomers with the guarantecd entry into Canada that the “cruise” promises. And. naturally immigration lawyers like Phil Rankin are defending the policies that intercept unnamed people-smuggling hulks, carefull {at ieast one:of whom paid rear! = $60,000 for her trip) to warm, dry quar- ters, and then mother them through a tender bureaucratic system through whose sieve-like holes they.can joyously escape into the U.S. — or maybe grate-_ fully stay in such a kindly country that so PETER SPECK : Publisher ~ 68-2131 (101) Photography Manager _. SBS-213% (160) Seana onssenotoneneennecasssarerenarcocoerseces ly shepherd their passengers - Vateda Siseinenes Classified Manager Entire contends © 1909 North Stiore Free Press Ud, Alt fights reserved. ftom 1438 Lansdate Aveaus Na: awakened last week by immigration officials placing what might be a record-breaking take- out order — 144 lunches for the tourists, delivered to the Esquimatt barracks where they were sched- uled to arrive. Why 144? In case some of the 123 were espe- cially hungry. Hey, Pve- been a steady customer . of Ken's on Bellevue in West Van for.15 - ears — and Pd never expect the charm- ing Ken to be so’ stupid as to throw in free extra chow mein on the possibility that our family might be unusually hun, - gry. (It usually is.) ot thar’s Canada, which didn’t coldly point the old feces-littered hulk back toward China and tell its crew to push off” — which apparently is Australia’s policy. .: Instead Canada paid Mr. Cho to feed its passengers sauteed chicken, steamed Vege etables and rice. Revised motto. Canada: We Stand on’ vhs Guard For Thee! And —- We Deliver! ‘ But I see it as my duty to correct firi-- ous oper:-line callers and others about. what's really going on. it is not insanity, stupidity, towering’: governmental idiocy. I belicve it is far more serious than that, and least of all numb thoughtlessness. Jean Chretien, his governnient, the: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WA ECONOMIC SECURITY Moe's BRAND New To WORK Feds to Canadians: get stuffed permanent government of the Higher Bureaucracy, know exactly what they are doing. They are contempruously sacrific- ing “ordinary” Canadians and their crip-. pling taxes — Chretien coincidentally” made a misleading comparison of: - Canadian and U-S. taxes last week —- to curry global favour and maintain < . Canada’s reputation as the world’s No.-1 country by the dubious measure of a United Nations study. Chretien and the state’s servants swa all over the world in the glow of this rep uration, living on the bog’s higher flanks ~. as they visit Geneva, Brussels; UN head- quarters, and the road shows ‘of pula- - tion-cortrol, environmental, la francopio- “nie, , poverty-licking and myriad other |’. - largely phony conferences attended by - the new international elite, for whom: Canada is a beacon. of th social cngi- : neers’ globalized future.” - ; . The rulers’ scorn for, thus endlessly milkable . ever more, nominal’ ‘democracy ‘ Antoinette said. Ban roughly translated oils down to:.“Let them get stuffed. aa BOO... mighaly Monday wi nei; hborhood divs “ing pedestrian wade: Blantly, sto b has thrived on this site in may 15 ~ Lervers 10 THE EDITOR Letters must include your rams, Mil address & telephons umber. 93-0511 (317)