Our drivers
not so bad

Dear Editor:

Re: Shaun Conlin's
Nov. 1 Signals column,

Having just returned
from a short trip to
Chicago, I feel somewhat
smug in our driving habits
on the North Shore in par-
ticular and in the Lower
Mainland in general. At
first, in Chicago, | thought
it was just the cabbies who
drove in an “organic”
manner (ie. veering from
lane to lane without the
slightest interest in| who
was in either; running red
lights as though they did-
n’t exist). Then | discov-
ered that. everyone
appeared to drive this way!

Sure, we have the
“rocket brigades” here in
North Van from time to
time, and rush-hour com-
muters tend to travel at
somewhat increased speeds
but I sei! think that our
pace is sedate and con-
trolled, when compared
with Chicago.
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Attack

Dear Editor:

A letter that was printed in
your (Oct 23) paper, allegedly
written by a Ms. Victoria
Smith, was brought to my
attention, and [ found it dis-
turbing for several reasons.

Firstly, because it made no
sense. Traccused our Lions Bay
mayor, Brenda Broughton, of
opportunism simply because
she declared herself candidate
in the last provincial election.

According to this “logic,”
we could never have a prime
minister because he would first
have to run fora local office,
then provincial, then national,
all of which are political no-
no’s according to the “wis-
dom” of Ms. Sinith.

So it follows that all of our
public servants above the local
level must be tarred with the

-same brush — they sinned by

failing to stay in their place.

The second thing that
bothered me, and many others
here, was the vicious tone of
this letter. That's torally out of
character with the residents of
this community,

We pride ourselves on our

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friendliness and fairness, and
such a mean-spirited atrack
simply isn't tolerated in Lions
Bay, Because of these things, |
began to suspect that this fetter
was nothing more than politi-
cal dirty tricks, so FT called
Mayor Broughton, who told
me that she had tried to reach
this mysterious Ms, Smith to
determine what was really
behind this attack.

Predictably, there was no
listing of this “long-time resi-
dent of Lions Bay" in the vil-
lage, and no one had ever seen
or heard of her.

Upon checking with the
North Shore News, it was
found that yeu had no tele-
phone number for her, either,
and [ suspect that if there was
an address on the letter, it will
turn out to be a vacant fot.

All of the residents that I
have heard from are appalled
by this display of bad manners
and cowardice. It not only
uniairly maligns a person who
has given of herself generously
to this community, but by
reflection, it casts aspersions on
all of us who tive here.

It seems apparent that the

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Lions Bay

Editor’s note:

Sunday, November 10, 1996 — North Shore News - 9

mean spirited’

Tn our Oct. 23, 1996, issue,
we published a letter to the edi-
tor signed by Victoria Smith.
Contrary to our usual practice,
it appears that we did not tele-
plone to confirm the authorship
of the letter and its authenticity.
The letter criticized the current
mayor of Lions Bay because,
during her term, she ran for
provincial office.

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