NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

NORTH VANCOUVER City firefighter Bob Allinsen surveys fire damage at North Shore Neigh-
borhood House, 225 East 2nd St. on Friday, June 11. Quick thinking on the part of a roofer is
credited with heiping to prevent extensive damage to a new wing under construction. The
roofer noticed smoke and called the fire department at approximately 2:30 p.m,

Protection of forests imperative

Dear Editor:

The provincial government has
recently enacted legislation to
cover the cleanup of contaminated
sites. ,

Does this include the cleanup of
clearcut operations?

“To my mind there are no sites
more contaminated than the areas
logged, burned and left-to rot by
the forest industry.

I look at huge logs floating in
the river and they remind me of
bloated elephants that have been
shot, killed and ground up for
fertilizer,

I then imagine what these logs
must have looked like when they
were huge trees with fantastic root
systems, covered in leaves and
foliage and working for hundreds
of years to give us fresh air and
water — and we chop them down
and turn them into two-by-fours!

We are presently footing the bill
of millions of dollars for the
cleanup of the Expo lands because
we cannot prove who con-
taminated this area.

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Will this be the same scenario
when the logging companies leave
the province?

_ Recently a tobacco company
was found responsible for the
death of ONE person; what will
the costs be if a company is found
responsible for the deaths of
thousands of peaple due to its
destruction of the trees that give
us life?

| was shocked by a recent
high-altitude movie of the Greater
Vancouver watershed and the
amount of destruction shown.

No amount of moncy spent on

public relations will convince me
that the forest industry has clean-
ed up its act,

Yes, we can sustain a logging
industry in this province, but not
in the destruetive manner that has
occurred in the past.

If we continue to destroy the
forests as we have been doing the
economy of the province will be
the least of our worries.

itis time for all parties involved
to come together and work
together to protect the forests.
Colin W. Sinclaire
Richmond

Why the fancy stone facade?

Dear Editor:

Can anyone provide a ra-
tional answer to the following
question regarding the new
West Vancouver Library ex-
pansion project:

Why is money that should be

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hardware being wasted on a
fancy stone facade when the
bare concrete does exactly the
same job?

Rex Bromfieid

West Vancouver

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