8 - Friday, December 8, 1989 —- North Shore News MAILBOX Golf course shouldn't alter fairways Dear Editor: If it is true that people should nat build houses beside golf courses, it is also true that golf courses should not alter and ex- pand fairways if those alterations increase hazards to residents al- ready in the area. Veteran golfers at Gleneagles Course will remember the days when #8 fairway was short and Cartoon Dear Editor: May I suggest that your cartoon on page six, Nov. 10, of the North Shore News is both insulting and inaccurate? Insulting in that it shows loggers as foul-mouthed and quarrelsome, when I know from close contact with the group that they are polite, well-spoken, helpful and, when not involved in their highly-skilled, dirty and dangerous work, are somebody’s son, husband, father or even grandfather just like any- body else. Inaccurate in that the methods and results shown have not been used in the last 25 years. The last fully-rigged high lead operation (shown crudely in the background) was in west Howe Sound in 1966. Modern methods cut the trees almost flush with the ground leav- ing no stumps and the butt end of the log is cut dead square across. Further, no logger with or without a chain saw, would be allowed to work close to an operating line of the yarding operation in progress. Cliff Michael is not far off the mark when he suggests the clear- cut logging sites could be a tourist Caviar sticks in the throat Dear Editor: Shame on you, North Shore News. How can you even consider printing a feature about people who can afford to send to San Francisco for a hairdresser or to Italy for a Lamborghini when in our very own community there are people needing food banks, people hoping their kids will receive toys repaired by the firemen for Christmas and people praying that the next affordable house or apartment demolished won't be theirs? I find it ironic that you would publish the social activities of the affluent in the same issue as the cartoon showing the rain-sodden bag lady telling her companion on the unprotected park bench that things have gotten so bad that she’s living in a dumpster only to have him reply: ‘‘You’re lucky — I’m on the waiting list.”’ “Enjoy Cocktails and Caviar with Joy,”” you say? I’m sorry, | can’t — they stick in my throat. Eugenia Torvick North Vancouver Editor's note: The News regular- ly covers stories on all the concerns listed above. Its mandate as a newspaper is to cover all facets and issues of the North Shore, as the letter writer illustrates when poin- ting out the contrast of the edito- rial cartoon with the Cocktails and Caviar column. Cocktails and Caviar appears in the newspaper's entertainment and fashion sections and chronicles the lives and events of the affluent end of North Shore society. The North Shore's social fabric, like that found in any community, is made up of rich and poor and all degrees in between. A newspaper’s role is to provide coverage of that fabric as a whole, not just its indi- vidual threads. safe, and #9 tee was located well away from private property. Those quiet days ended in 1979 when course alterations lengthened #8 hole, and relocated #9 tee, thereby leaving zero margin for error in this part of the course. In spite of present disagreement between golfers, residents and course managers at Gleneagles, as 16-year residents in the area we ‘insults’ attraction. Over the years I have found the activities of clear-cut logging, which not one B.C. resi- dent in 100 has ever seen, to be highly interesting and educational, and feel sure that laid-on tours to such sites would be very popular. One thing for sure, it would beat playing bridge all the way to Glacier Bay and back. James R. Thomson West Vancouver oo el aes wish to remain friendly. 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