70 - Sunday, July 11, 1999 — North Shore News

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Thanks
for bike
race help

Dear Editor:

Asa coach and volunteer, |
would like to send a special
thank you to Grouse
Mountain and _ its employees
for their support of this
B.C. High School Mountain
Bike championships, held May
29 at the Lov Seymour
Conservation Reserve. Due to
the unexpected large snowpack
the event was moved from its
original planned location at
Grouse = Mountain. — This
required a major relocation of
fencing, supplies and peoph .

¢ Greater Vancouver
Regional District and the con-
servation reserve should also
be commended for allowing
the event to be held in the
reserve on such short notice.

Finally, the assistance given
by local bike shops throughout
the spring helped to make this
one of the most successfll rac
ing seasons ever. Sam Scorda of
Argyle and Manon Aubert of
Handsworth should be con-
gratulated for their efforts in
organizing such an outstand-
ing championship for several
hundred young athletes. The
racing was excellent but more
importantly, it was great to sce
so many young athletes partic-
ipating in healthy competition.
John Crowley
Sentinel secondary school
West Vancouver

editors: time to wake up

Dear Editor:

Is anyone editing the
North Shore News these
days?

In addition to one-track
political, policy and one-
dimensional columnists, we
are now treated to gems like
the following (July 4):

Writing about a projected
junket to China by district
councillors, Brady
Fotheringham informs v
“trip to Dalian...at a tay

this statement? By the way,

this same correspondent, in

past offerings in the News,

displayed a singular

to — distinguish

between “affect” and
“effect.”

In an interview with
Diamond Almas of the Seven
Seas restaurant, that gentie-
man is quoted as having said:
~.thar’s why we “fayed”
down certain expectations.”
Really?

in *News of the Weird”
we are told about a chap who
fell on a chops another
with his finger caught in a
condom machine and a third

payer cost of $23,000, as
well as the president of the
North Vancouver Chamber
of Commerce.”

What are we to make of

How far wili you walk in
any ar% aw: oS

on un? > use

story about a missing kidney.
All of them very interesting
items — but all of them had
already appeared in recent
issues of the News.

We have long since given
up any hope of ever seeing a
dissenting opinion on the
pages of the News; now, it
appears we must reconcile
ourselves to shattered syntax,
incorrect spelling and sloppy
editing.

{f you are winning news-
paper awards, one can only
wonder at the quality of the
competition.

Jerry Szach
North Vancouver

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