” ® — Friday, Névember 22° 1991 — North Shore’ News SMALL BUSINESS SMALL BUSINESS AFTER THE.G.S.T. NEWS VIEWPOINT Halt logging AYORS Murray Dykeman and Mark Sager of North and West Vancouver districts deserve sp- piause for their attempts to have logging in North Shore watershed areas stopped by the end of this year. Unfortunately that applause was not forthcoming from cther members of the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s water cwamittee, who failed to support their effaxs:; logging in our watersheds will therefore likely continue to the end of 1992, according to ‘the committee’s rec- ommendztion to the GVRD board. The recommendation comes despite in- . creasing public pressure to halt watershed logging now, and appears to be based largely on revenues, specifically lost reve- nues to the GVRD. According to GVRD figures, a halt in logging local watersheds at the end of 1991 would cost the GVRD up to $4 million. But surely the prime concern of the GVRD in its management of local water- sheds is water quality, not logging reve- nues. The arguments for watershed logging — forest disease and insect control and fire prevention — no longer hold much water with the public. The only evidence of the effects of wa- tershed fogging they see comes out of their water taps. And after heavy rains or dur- ing dry periods, that evidence is extremely unsayory: high turbidity and heavy chlo- rine tastes and smelis. Logging local watersheds does not pro- tect local forests or local water quality. It should be stopped and it should be stop- ped now. LETTER OF THE DAY Language instruction not the issue Dear Editor: In reference to your article of Oct. 23 concerning enrolment overload at Dorothy Lynas School I would like to clarify one point. You list other possible options and include “changing the school from dual-stream French/English ... to an English-only school.” Dorothy Lynas School has been designated a dual-track school Publisher Peter Speck since at least 1986. For a consid- erable length of time before that North Vancouver District planners and school officials had been aware of plans for development in the Indian River area. To infer that the dual-track nature of the school is the problem is to mislead in the extreme. The children living in that area have to be educated. The philoso- Display Advertising 980-0511 Distribution phy of School District 44 is to have students attend schools close to their homes. Classroom space is the urgent requirement, whether taught in French or English. The need for permanent struc- tures housing classrooms is the issue. The language of teaching and learning is not. Marsha Unheim North Vancouver 986-1937 North Shore Managing Editor. . . Timothy Renshaw Associates Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director . . .Linda Stewart Comptroller Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualitied under Schedule 111, Paragraph il of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by Notth Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the Narth Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates available on request. .| Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accampanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. Newsroom V7M 2H4 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Subscriptions Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax north:shore: MUNDAY - WEDWASOAY + FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. 986-1337 managed 985-3227 Administration 985-2131 MEMBER iW